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Question, I was diagnosed with AuDHD a year after I had graduated college. Meaning that my entire left I had gone unnoticed and undiagnosed (I come from a brown Family). I have no academic records from primary or middle school, just high school and college reports. My biggest concern is that I had better grades than most people in my class (both secondary and college) and my gpa is pretty competitive. This was because my proffs gave us 2-3 hours for a 70 question exam, so my ADHD never really posed a problem ( I had enough time to hyper fixate, get distracted,walk around for 20 min (really a bathroom break), repeat). I can't do that on the mcat, obviously. Any way I can possible get accommodations under these conditions, or should I not try and just get prescribed meds and hope for the best?

hey!! thank you for your videos, I noticed you have not post any recently hopefully because you are bussy on medschool, I am an IMG struggling to pass MCCQE1 and have failed twice, I have ADHD and severe test anxiety I would like to contact you if you can help me, I never requested for accommodations before but I think is time, I hope you are doing good and thanks again.

Just to clarify, you didn’t read any content review books but instead only used the Kaplan quick sheets and Anki for content review?

I have an appointment next week. I hope I’m finally able to get some help

Mate what adhd med are you currently taking and what dose

Did your evaluator give you the WAIS test before applying for Accommodations?

i will try these tips n tricks thank you! i shall update you

thank you for making this, it really popped up in my recommended at the right time :>

Working on my application for accommodations now & it is so overwhelming. I really feel this process is discriminatory in & of itself.. like how are you going to justify placing additional barriers for people with disabilities trying to get the accommodations they are legally entitled to??? It's insane to me that people with disabilities have to go through this incredibly detailed application process on top of studying for the MCAT & applying to medical school. You did a great job on this video! Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you so much for making this!

What motivates me is taking just one step, sometimes literally, eg to go running, as motivation follows action. With ADHD meds I have energy so I use this to take any first action I can and which will contribute to the task I wanna get done. If it’s cleaning my action is to go into the area that needs cleaned and stand there with a brush or whatever, forcing myself to take in the mess. After a while somewhere from the depths comes a first swipe of the brush … then a second, etc, etc. Before long the job is done and I let me ADHD brain go do whatever it wants for a while. It doesn’t need any motivation to sit for hundreds (literally!) of hours on RUclips. If only I were able to direct that focus and energy! With a few hints and tips and meds, it’s just a little easier! Keep trying folks, find what works for you! 💪

For some reason you sound like how I imagine Jordan Peterson sounded when he was young.

would these three things work without meds? I think I have adhd but have not gone for a check up

If you are new to the channel and seeking tips for ADHD, feel free to use the chapters to skip my intro! Hope my video helps. Leave a comment if there are other strategies that help you I didn’t mention!

Do you find excercise stimulates you more? I find I struggle to switch off after

Thanks for the info on your experiences

diet and exercise are crucial to my lifestyle and honestly, when I was living in dorms, I had the shittiest diet (basically frozen supermarket made food) and I was so foggy most of the time it's unreal. Now I am very careful with what I eat (mostly low carb diet) and I also try to at the very least take walks outside (I luckily live in a country where it's not freezing outside that much during the winter) and i have more good days than bad days, which means i don't have that many obstacles if i want to be productive.

hello i am from Mongolia. Nice to see you on youtube.

Great video! Studying for the mcat now!

been trying to watch this video for three days

Biomedical communications... exists? What, that's so cool! I've always loved art, writing, and science. Had no idea one field combined all three. What are job prospects like?

I was diagnosed last year in my mid fifties with combined type ADHD. Great that you were diagnosed so early. Your art is brilliant and looks like you're doing well in college. All the best to you. REALLY helpful videos, too. You're gonna help a lot of people. 🙂 👏👏

My setup is: two monitors (monitor and laptop). On laptop (on right side) i put first google calendar with 3 days optin to show, and Pomofocus half screen, and second halft notepad with big font to write something if needed. On calendar you can mark some basic things every day that you do, like wake up, go to bed, and then when to eat, so you know in any moment what to do and what you didn't done, and in the end when you need to go somewhere and similar. It is also good feature to enable showing lighter color on events that is passed (in settigns you can select that). When it's time for dinner let's say, you click on dinner event in calendar and it popups, and there you can wrote something like "do some exercises, then eat" and every day when you click on it you will know what to do. So for me google calendar is first thing to check, and when I click on event it will popup and say something like "turn on Pomofocus, drink wather, study". That really helps a lot. On main monitor I can work, but on right side laptop's screen is where I see what to do and only thing that I need to focus every day is to check google calendar and be sure I put pomofocus and notepad, and everything that is in my events that is written what to do when you popu the event. In Pomofocus I put about 8 block /task with / 1h per block (2x30 mintues) and tryting to work at last 1 hour before break. I don't write what to do in pomo because everything is in calendar, I just count how many hours I spend focused (that includes following google calendar, not just learning but also habits like if you click on event and it's said "exercises then learn", so it's not 100% learning), tasks are named like "Block 1 (first hour active), Block 2 (second hour active).. ). Without pomo if you see it's 2PM and you didn't done anything you think it's too late to do now anything and skip all day, but with pomo you focus on how many hours did you cont in pomo app, not what time is it. Last thing, most of the times I can't work If I hear people walking or talking, so I put my headphons and play some focus music with very low volum, I put it in my google calendar to remind me. Notifications and alarms to do something didn't work for me. Also I don't use any medication. If you are interested to test this method too, let me know, I could provide you more details. But for me this is the only option to focus and get thigns done, and I did tried many things.

"I didn't have my assignment, so I showed my teacher a picture of someone wearing a Santa hat" Aww I found that so adorable and funny 😂 I was that type of kid too, trying my best to be organized, pay attention, etc, but always a step behind everybody else 🙁 My brother got all the attention cause he had the, well, more typical presentation of a young boy with ADHD 😅

Fabulous video 📸 thanks for sharing bro 😉

Thanks for sharing <3 And makes me wonder why and when you switched to Vyvanse. And I got diagnosed pretty early (with 10) as well and am a girl. My emotional dysregulation, RSD and impulsivity were so much through the roof the school I attended that time recommended for me to go to a psych ward. As a kid, I had no idea what that meant and why they'd do that to me, but in the end, yeah, it was good ol' ADHD. Here in Germany, some institutes etc. still seemed to know about the emotional dysregulation DSM-3 part, so that probably saved me from a misdiagnosis with bipolar and/or borderline. - Also didn't help that seemingly everyone in my family has ADHD, so we all thought all this stuff was normal and it was apparent all our lives that we struggles way more for some reason (that, again, we thought was just normal). I got Medikinet at first (our Concerta here, kind of) and it helped a ton, but the comedown (and I didn't get a booster) and appetite suppression and weight loss was so bad it got critical for me x-x So we stopped it, thought I'd grow out of it by 18 (why was obv. not the case as most know nowadays) and then we forgot about the ADHD. - I got diagnosed with around 10, like I said and am 28 now and want to find a psychiatrist and starts meds again (hopefully Vyvanse) x-x I never worked, never really did anything with my life, have issues with my impulsivity, severe executive dysfunction nowadays, still cry easily and am not the gifted kid anymore I was back then and have been somewhat depressed (worse than ever) for years now. Hope getting o meds again around 18 years later will help me out a great deal :D

Hey Brendan, can you PLEASEEE create a video explaining the excel sheet in depth? I have been struggling with the MCAT for 3 years now, and will be retaking it again in the next few months. I have been recently diagnosed with ADHD not over two months ago, even though I knew I always had it. You are literally the first person to give me hope and insight on how I can improve on myself. I really felt alone in this whole process without anyone ever understanding me, so really thank you for doing all of this!

I was procrastinating, and I was thinking about looking for a video to help me find motivation whith ADHD, and how it was kinda dumb for me because I perfectly know that even if the video is great, I'll watch the video, and I will absolutely not stop procrastinating, as usual... and then I find your video right when I open RUclips 😂

Love the video! It's very helpful as i was just diagnosed in september with autism and adhd, these videos are great guidance for me since I'm only 20 years old

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Thank you for the video! I was wondering if you would be able to share your excel spreadsheet for tracking hours?

If you have ADHD, what was your story? How were you diagnosed? Are you waiting to get diagnosed? Leave a comment! 😃

I’d be interested in more ADHD stuff. You prolly already figured that out, though.

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Brendan!! The "Tracking hours" tip has helped me sooo much. I specifically found turning on a timer for about 30/40 minutes and preventing myself from looking up from my books was rewarding. Thanks for posting!

Here from Reddit!! Great video!

Im saving this video, thx

I just got my answer back from AAMC & they didn't give me any extra time even though I had a really, really great & detailed personal statement that had exactly what they were saying to put in it plus what I researched & an ADHD diagnosis, all my providers' notes, a letter from my therapist, and a letter from my university about my accommodations, but they told me that I didn't have "enough evidence" it would take me longer?? So now I'm not sure what to do. I tried to take a full length test with normal time and I just ended up having a panic attack so now that I've trauma dumped... help plz lol. If you have ANY tips PLEASEEEE let me know

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You're a stinky doctor man. Probably not the fastest gun in the west either. Fresh prince of bel-air s4 ep 24.

!! Notes and Corrections !! Disclaimer: I am from Canada aiming for Canadian Med schools so my experience differs from those in the US. Canada requires very competitive MCAT scores, or at least a high CARS score. Corrections: At 17:28, I mentioned that your evaluation must be current, and said that means 6 months. This is for psychiatric disabilities. For ADHD and learning disabilities, it is actually 3 years.This is according to the document, "What Does my Evaluator Need to Do?" (students-residents.aamc.org/media/8461/download). Sorry for any confusion. Make sure to reference as many resources as you can when doing your evaluation!

Hey man just fyi tons of people with adhd, diagnosed and not, are scoring a 516 or better. Also I wouldn’t boast that when schools are denying students for any mental health reason they can

Hey there! You did not get into a medical school this last cycle?? Did I hear that correctly, apologies

I am making videos related to medicine, the MCAT, and ADHD so be sure to subscribe! This video is certainly not my best, so please check out others, particularly from my best videos playlist! Check out my latest MCAT video, How to Get MCAT Accommodations: ruclips.net/video/6dEtVLin4XY/видео.html Disclaimer: I am from Canada and only applied last cycle for two Canadian medical schools. Canadian medical schools are notoriously difficult to get in and require very good ECs on top of good MCAT scores and GPA. I believe I did not get in because my ECs need strengthening and/or I need to write the application better. I will be reapplying this year and next if needed, while doing a masters in Toronto to improve my application. I will make videos following my journey so be sure to like and subscribe! Good luck and I wish anyone success in your journey to becoming a medical doctor!! 😊

Subscribed, thank you so much for sharing and making this content. Unfortunately I was only approved for stop the clock breaks (60 min flexible, like yours) but was not given any additional testing time (originally requested +50%). I may consider doing an appeal but that was pretty discouraging. Better than nothing though! Is there perhaps anyway you could give me some guidance on this?

Finally!!! MCAT advice and strategies for people with ADHD! I've found strategies from neurotypical people were often not helpful for me because I approach testing so differently with having ADHD (especially with poor working memory and impulsive responding issues). I'm retaking my MCAT after getting a 502. This time around I was interested in getting a tutor because staying organized is such a challenge for me. What was the tutoring company you used? Also, besides Anki, do you have any more specific strategies that helped you with the Bio and Chem sections? Thank you for the video!!

another health major! Congratulations on the score. I'm about 2 months out and scoring 507-508. Hopefully I'll be up there with you!

its keegan do u mind if i share it around its freaking amazing

Only 16 years old. So young and so talented.