Sorry no-one picked up on it earlier, and did anything about it, that is a common theme in adults from a certain age group where this wasn't noted as an issue.
@@anitanapp6759 I had the same experience growing up. Heavy punishment in form of physical and psychological to the point of actual abuse. Didn't change my behaviour, though it did teach me not to be a little pansy snowflake and how not to raise future children of my own.
Taking 80 minutes to watch a 40 minute video because I'm reading comments, replying and replaying bits at 2 A.M. And meanwhile being on edge because I can't sleep and have an appointment early tomorrow for my ADHD. The struggle is real.
Im the same im 52 im seeing my drs about adhd...from i was 5 iv just been a troubled life friends being nasty to me i dont trust people i have good days and bad days i can be nasty sometimes when someone does something years ago i can go on about it for years i carnt get over things is adhd a disability?
I'm 42 years old and for the first time in my life I am actually taking my ADHD seriously and seeking treatment. I have an appointment tomorrow as a matter of fact with a psychiatrist for the first time. I'm concerned that it will not go well, but I'm ready to give it my all. I was originally diagnosed at 5 years old and my life has been plagued by the adversity of this condition. It is only now for the first time that I have been able to come to grips with the havoc ADHD has had on my life and am taking action.
I know what you mean, i have had ADHD all my life, had a hard time in school, so i was in special ed, i still have problems till this day and i am only 31, i take a medication for it, till this day i still rely on my mom to help me, i am on SSI and my mom is my payee, it's a hard mental disorder too deal with.
how did you find a dr? ive spent a lot of my adult life getting looked at sidewise because i am an adult. and i know ritalin works for me. the dr's i run into again are hesitant or wont at all because i am adult. i feel i get labeled as a druggie. i am 40. ive been fired from so many jobs. my impulsiveness is killing me. i spend money on stupid shit and then i am short on my rent. but because people see me as a nice person, and i'm a great bullshit artists, i am able to mitigate the consequences. but it does nothing to fix my challenges. on top of this i deal with ptsd (i'm an iraqi war vet, honorably discharged after 7 years) and depression. sorry for the rant i just hope someone who reads this can help me. i am at wits end. i will never give up, and i successfully keep the "really bad thoughts " at bay. i love what i do for a living (i work as an emt), mainly because making people feel better helps me legitimize all the shit i deal with. i mean when i have psych patients that are adhd, suicidal, or are severely depressed, i can look them in the eye and say "brother, sister, i've an idea what you are dealing with" and thus i connect with them better than any therapist can. but i make 11.33 an hour and cant get my shit together to advance. my personal life is a mess. so how did you find a dr that helped you?
Quique Feroz oh my God it's like you are telling my life. I have ADHD symptoms which has made my entire life hell no friendships or steady jobs. My son was diagnosed with ADHD and I am the same. I told my Dr about this and he just said yeah and started talking about something else. I am barely getting by as a mom also. I am constantly bored and zone out at work. Doctors won't even acknowledge that I might have ADHD. Well I am going to have good insurance next year and I'm hoping for the best. Don't give up either you are an unsung hero!
Almost the same for me. Diagnosed at 4. Had a lot of thing's forced on me. Hit 16 and put my foot down no more. Now 36 and have to accept i can't deal with people and my anger and impatience is destroying my life. Go in next for my first appointment
@@QuiqueFeroz they think you are drug seeking is why. And well i have it and have hundreds of things i can point at to prove it. There is a trail of wreckage behind me. But skip medical doctors and go see a psychiatrist
Dr. Brown is seriously brilliant and CLEAR! I'm 63. Although I've been casually aware of some symptoms throughout my life, I thought they were somehow normal. Dr. Brown brings clarity to a priorly fuzzy topic. I now can see the/my situation, and am working on options/methods to function better. Thanks so much!
I'm a college student with ADHD, taking notes about the reading I'm doing on a separate paper is very helpful for me actually processing the information
This man is fascinating, I have ADHD that was untreated when i was an adolescent, while i did smoke weed it wasnt my favorite and did nothing for my ADHD, i got addicted to meth, it at first seemed to be the best thing ever and i was able to focus and do the things I couldn't before. It almost killed me. I got sober 21 years ago and I'm on the proper meds for my ADHD and my life is so much better, I can function with my daily tasks and pay my bills. It's not perfect but better than not being on medication
I am a 5th year medical student with adhd from Greece and I study in an english program of a university in Bulgaria , all I have to say is that adhd is against you till the moment you know how to use it for you. All those people with adhd need 1st of all to learn how their mind works and how to use it because what I've learned through my years studying something difficult like medicine in a country that people don't have the best accent or the best teaching skills is that every day was a bit of a challenge for me to understant and keep and finally organise all these information witch were provided to me in a very difficult way and at the same time maintain a good social and personal life, and all these challenges were keeping my mind alerted and that helped to move on even in the most dificult times when the distractions were many. My point here is that people with adhd shouldn't be putted in a bubble made of special treatment and medications .. people with adhd should go more often out of their comfort zone and do what challenges them...adhd brain is the "hunters" brain and it must be challenged to feel good , satisfied and complete...Find your superpowers and seek the challenge....that way you will learn how to increase your dopamine levels naturally and you will form a good reward system . USE YOUR ADHD !!
The "hunters brain" analogy would explain why I always feel a need to play first person shooters before I can even think about doing something else after a prolonged period of forced attention at work... Do you have any sources or other reading material that delves deeper into this concept? Would very much enjoy that read.
I'm 41, had always struggled in school. Looking back it was from since first few years of school that i can see the behaviours & learning difficulties. Have never read a book in my life, have wanted to, have bought books over the years but no they don't get read... I can read stuff on google that interests me, i can hear talks on you tube that are of interest. I first decided to hear about ADD/ADHD a couple of years ago from Gabor Mate & now come across this Man Thomas. Very interesting & happy to hear someone talking about myself & who actually gets me... 🙏 👏👏👏 Love from WA 🇦🇺
I'm 30 and my son was diagnosed with ADHD he's a chip off the ol block. I went to see a psychiatrist and she wouldn't even acknowledge that I might have ADHD I'm so frustrated because I might lose my job I don't know what to do because the psychiatrist thought that I was just trying to score drugs or something. I am struggling everyday just to make it to work on time and do basic tasks. I have a new baby and I can barely cope I know that I could be a better mom and worker if I could get some help but I'm so discouraged I don't want people to think I'm just some junkie.
Katie Kennedy I don't know but every time I brought it up she just change the subject and ask me if I was depressed. She wound up the prescribing me an antihistamine and said if it didn't work that she will give me an antidepressant but she does those were the only options.
Michelle Espino I was diagnosed 12 years ago and it's taken me this long and I've lost everything and I'm on disability for 10 years! They misdiagnosed me with so many different things and now that I got my medication back again I'm me again. In the meantime I went through tons of horrible medications, divorce,homelessness,depression, ptsd,anxiety and high blood pressure and medication allergies and four different doctors before I found this one and three different states so it's not as easy as it seems and I have a very severe case. If you really do have it it's going to take a lot to get it unless you change doctors and keep trying to find someone who will understand. I had to go through 10 months of testing and two months after that before trying multiple years and even getting the diagnosis but then they want to treat the other stuff that goes away and I stopped taking medication for because they weren't treating the cause
Michelle Espino You're struggling with your job but it seems to me that it's your psychiatrist that is a failure at doing her job....clearly she's not helping you and she should be made aware of that!
@@cjusa4115 this has been very similar to my experience, and it's the biggest problem with undiagnosed adults. After years of different diagnoses & medications, depression & anxiety getting worse & nothing really helping, a natural tendency is to self medicate as well, so I got into a habit of drinking heavily, and most medical people hear that & then hear nothing else, just tell you to stop drinking & get rid of you, no matter how long it goes on, and how many times you tell them the drinking is a symptom, not the cause, I didn't used to drink as a teenager when I first started having problems. But the thing with ADHD is your life is a mess, so people just dismiss you as a mess up, and all the things that go wrong are the things that people judge you and look down on you for, so the depression & anxiety get worse, you drink more .... and on, and on it goes. Thank god I found a good psych 5 years ago, and just now I'm finally stabilising, & the meds are the right combination after nearly 30 years of misery. Unfortunately, the older you get, the more entrenched the bad habits are, so it takes longer to break them, & I'm still struggling with normal routine and hours & self discipline, but I'm doing a million times better with it than any time before, & I'm getting close to finishing a PhD. To think I'd ever be doing a PhD even 6 years ago would have sounded crazy & me & everyone else would have laughed. I've spent most of the time extremely anxious & never sure I'd be able to finish it, but now I'm actually starting to believe I will get there. So there is hope, unfortunately it can be hard to find the right doctor, & it took me a long time. But it's worth persevering. It's sad that it should be so difficult & there's so much stigma, it can literally be life or death. If I'd still been with my last psych I'd probably have just spent the past 5 years rotting in bed on lithium & seroquel or something. Now I have hope. There are good ones out there though, finding them is the most important thing of all.
I've always thought i'm just stupid because people read things once and that's enough for them but i have to read it couple of times and then forget it only to remember everything the next week. Never getting anything done before it's almost too late to do it. Going into a 2 hour long lecture and realizing that i've only actually heard like couple of sentences. Not bc i didn't listen but my brain was too busy planning the dinner, what to listen on my way to home, who to talk after class, how to organize my bag... I just can't stop drifting off. I've wasted 2 years of my life and failed a lot in uni trying to learn how to study. It's wy too hard for me to know what is important and determine the key words.
I frequently suffer with very low self esteem. Took me 5 years to do a 3 year university degree. I wish I was normal, so much. I'm so awkward socially. I'm 44 now but the things said about me in school still really hurt... it moulded me...the weird kid. I frequently consider doing myself in - not everyday but often enough. ,I really wish I wasn't this way. I live in Germany but I struggle with the language even after 12 years....the idea of trying to describe what I go through everyday to a doctor, in a language which is unforgiving fills me with dread. I really hate living this way
Every single thing he said about going to College....is so try for me. I’m in the process of getting diagnosed with ADD. Yes, there’s a possibility I don’t have it...but my doctor and counselor believe I have it and I relate to 85% of these symptoms. It effects my life drastically 😰
@@paulie.walnuts2838 too true - 'knowing you have it hasn't been much better for me.' There was a relief, but then it's like... wow, so many things would be different, with every aspect of life, if people actually understood (and if *I* had understood) what ADHD was.
People motivated to work for a long time without a reward make perfect employees for abusive employers who delay salaries for a long time and then not pay them. Also great workers for governments who like to let people work hard under a promise of getting a good pension in old age and then decades later the goverment embezzles the money says treasury is out of money need a reform do a reform and slash those pensions to a pittance which is not enough to live above the poverty line.
I always felt that it's very cruel to write off these problems as an issue of "willpower", as my teachers and parents tended to do, although I'm pretty sure at least my dad also had ADD and my mom might have it too somewhat. I'm 34 and I think my mother now finally understands that the reason I can't finish assignments has nothing to do with willpower but with being unable to manage my own time.
It's also an issue of the education system. I'm training to become a high school teacher and I'm stunned at how much of both the coursework for the trainee teachers and the coursework that I give my students is designed around whatever the opposite of ADD is. It's all tedious filling in forms and busywork for me, and long essays for students who probably aren't ready for that. No wonder the education system has so little empathy for this condition, teachers tend to be "goody two-shoes" types that just cannot understand someone whose mind does not work like that, unless they're specifically made aware of what ADD is.
He's describing me to a fn T! Time to seek help. I've always scored 99 and 100 on tests and I'm in the top 1 percent in the IQ department, but I just can't keep focus on things that dont interest me. Does anyone know what it's like to run out of ritalin after using it for a while? I'm generally not one to use substances, but for me it might be necessary.
In the last few months I read and listened alot to some of those ADHD videos or texts. I was diagnosted with ADHD at the age of 14. What I learned in the last time is incredible but the most catching things were said by Dr. Thomas E Brown. He was so much ahead of the time 10 years ago. Alot of people still don't understand ADHD and say it is not real or like other said a issue with the own willpower. Those who are diagnosed with it stay strong and try your best to utilize ADHD with all its benefits!
I miss him every day, he is 41 years old and he is most of the time I have spoke with him hungry. I always wondered if I could have done More to help him. He says he is happy one time and others he seems like he is not! I can only pray!
It is so relatable... And i understand my struggle.. But every test just gives me a 50/50 chance of getting the diagnosis. Just yesterday i've made a really nice test and was excited and happy and paid the 2$ for it and remembered afterwards, that i initially didn't want to give away money for that. Sure, the test was funny and cute and even had animated smilies, but i still got a 56% score out of it. Well duhhh, i've developed some methods, but i wasn't even sure, if i should have calculated my working methods in or out in terms of finding the most accurate results. Well and it's also a cliché, that i was hyper bored that morning and couldn't find a damn thing to do within the lesson until i'll stuck in researches about adhd until 45min after the lesson ended and just noticed, that i was alone in this room for a while.
Im like watching this and every problem that he says i have it idn how dude im basicly a couch patato but because im too tired and restless to do anything and dont have any motivation to do anything and its rly hard to make my self do anything that im not interested in and i allsow feal empty inside so yea (i have adhd and dyslexia and i didnt know that if you cant writhe your ideas on paper that its a nother like condition i tought it was allredy one of the dyslexia simptoms but oky)
Oh wow, I'm in high school and taking concerta and it never even occurred to me to take something short acting on the afternoon to help with homework, I just did most of it at school before my class cause I just took "my meds wear off and I can't do work in the evening" as a fact of life.
An essay is my worst nightmare i just cant there is no way for me to explain how hard it is for me to do it by myself and thats why my mom wrote it for me so i coud show it to my teacher and bruh this is now when im 15 almost 16 im prety sure i shoud be taking some sort of medication because im just dead i cant do it anymore i dont feal anything for school i dont whant to do it i know that i have to go because of the job after i finish school but damn i just cant make my self do it
Lol i've got my mom to do all the book and presentation stuff for me that time too. I know how hard it was and is, because i was risky and went to the university. A simple evaluation of a team-project, about 4 pages long. That was the goal. And i failed completely by doing about 11 pages whereas i wrote about over 20 in that night and couldn't even erase all my unnecessary thoughts from it. Well, i got something like a C for it and passed, but it was horrible!
My best dose was and is 2 ×56 mg Concerta and 3- 4 tabs 10 mg ritalin and if needed 10 mg diazepam if I can't sleep. But I'm 48 and work in construction
Unfortunately, there are absolutely doctors who will take that much care of their patients. You get 5 rushed minutes at best with any provider and these days you can't just pick up the phone to let them know the med's not working and you never hear of a Dr calling you back to make sure you're doing OK on your meds. Maybe overseas, but not in the US.
Freedom USA this couldn’t have been more true! my doctors takes on way too many patient, he has 3 clinics currently open between him and one other doctors as well(2 doctors for 3 clinics that are all open every weekday!) it’s incredibly difficult to get into see him and if you’re able to survive the usual 5-6 hours of waiting, you just might be able to get 5-6 minutes with the doctor. it’s really frustrating because sometimes you just get stuck with an urgent medication issue, or a mental health concern, or just a signature for a referral that would take less than 2 seconds from the doctor. it just really limits how long i might have to wait to fix or inquire about an issue(most of the time, it takes an eternity) and it keeps me from seeking treatment for other various mental health issues since the clinic has a, “only 1 issue per visit,” rule. like bruh.
In my country students very rarely buy books because they are just too expensive for an average unemployed student. We have libraries. But you can't use a highlighter on a library book - the library will ban you for that. I too had an issue with uninteresting topics. I just couldn't learn by heart anything that did not interest me. So, the only way out was to pretend that it is interesting, to find anything at least amusing. I had no problem with math and literature, but I really disliked history. Not sure, why.
I have had a poor ability to focus all my life. I have rarely been interested in much all my life. I get bored really easily...unless it's watching Breaking Bad ! I'm certainly not stupid, but am I simply lazy. The odd thing is, that I'm seriously good at quizzes. I don't practice, or try to learn general knowledge and I'm not even in any quiz league. I just seem to know so many answers. My wife is alway saying go on a quiz show and win money. I'd hate to be on tv.
Dr. Brown, I am 75 & I don't think that I have ever been properly diagnosed with this illness. Nor has anyone ever given consideration to associated Mental Health conditions such as PTSD , TBI, and partial deafness. In my opinion, these factors weigh heavily upon the primary? condition of ADHD. Thank you for your presentation, I really felt you were talking not only about me but to me. I related significantly to much of your presentation and style.
I am 73 and got diagnosed at 70. Life has been a struggle. Also have hearing impairment. Sounds are loud enough but aren't processed correctly in my brain--- auditory processing disorder plus dislexia and other issues. I was not offered meds for ADD so am still struggling. Can't self medicate because of failing heart. Otherwise I would take Primatene. Now I know why Primatene gave me great focus when I had to take it for asthma. J. Thomas .. if anything helped you, that is, and safe for heart OTC meds, any safe herbs, any reading material or videos, pls comment to me. I hope you're coping better. Thx !
I did much better in college because I attended at night after the air force. I think this was because I was only taking one class at a time and could concentrate on it. Also, improved computers massively helped ne at my job. What will I do while waiting for a program to compile? Even worse, was back when I had to send out coding sheets to be key punched and then sent to the compiler and the results sent to a line printer. I didn't usually have something I could switch to.
When my ADHD seems to be out of bounds I find that when I masturbate, my brain seems to be "normal" for a several hours. I am not joking, I am not being nasty. I am sharing a factual relationship of body over mind. As a result, I sometimes masturbate too often, but the relief from stress caused by my ADHD is perhaps a great medicine for me. I am not suggesting people with ADHD masturbate when their condition seems to get out of control. I am thinking chemicals are being released when I do this and they actually normalize my brain chemistry for a few hours. Finally, having sex with my girlfriend does NOT provide the same relief, so I guess maybe the act of serving just myself has something to do with the chemicals involved in making my brain and mind act more normal. Just for the record, I have 170 IQ tested at University but many people think I am somewhat dumb or "air headed". I sometimes have trouble speaking because my brain wants my mouth to talk faster than it is capable.
Also.. OCD is nearby in terms of getting things organized, clean, etc. It starts with some perfectionism and ends up in bad thoughts or compulsions like my self-monitoring and subtle fears about being misunderstood, lol
I'm 70 years old and it still I still have it bad but now because of my age no one wants to prescribe medications for me !! I feel like I'm back in a prison again . Sometimes knowing the difference I feel like I might as well be dead. Maybe I should be.
You need to find a good psychiatrist, who will listen to you, your insurance is likely the issue most insurances dont like to cover it as there is still a stigma of it being a childhood issue and it doesnt affect adults. You may have to pay out of pocket for the meds. Dont give up
I WAS DISCLOSED A FEW MONTHS AGO I HAVE HIGH BLOOD PREACHER SO CANT HAVE TMEM TILL IT GOES DOWN ONLY TAKE THEM AS MY EMOTIONS AND ANGER ARE UNPRETICTERBULL AND MY MIND WANDERS FROM ONE THING TO THE NEXT ILIKE TO LEARN ABOUT THE CONDITION WHICH I ENJOY BUT I WISH I COULD OD KNOWN SOONER AND NOT 52 YEARS AFTER.
Dr. Thomas E Brown my question: how do u feel about relativity or relationship to blood type & personality, believed pertenant in some cultures. #2 I am a pieces sign(yin&yang) no middle gr ound (pain or pleasure)re: dopamine levels. Do U see genius correlation too. I have the universal blood I can save anyone(no antigens) but can only save myself.worldly now, 43 people in 49 yrs existing as of 2014. (I am 47). ,😉🙃🙂
I don't know what is wrong with me, I never read a book i am 63 , School was hard for me i couldn't learn anything, I never read a news paper, I start things and don't finish them, I started taking adderall at 53 and i have read a million words and learn how to spell and type not great at spelling or typing but the words like school beautiful family simply wordi can now spell i would like to talk to anyone who can understand what i am trying to say , i can now run a tablet and a pc before i couldn't turn one on , Google has helped me no teacher could teach me anything i don't know why Google can where so many other teachers have fail my mom took me to doctors and teachers done could help me Google is the only one to get through to my head need good advice please anyone who cares.
MR. Zag zagata I understand completely! 59yrs old, been medicated since 49. Had a hard time in school, faked it till I made it! Google is my best friend! It’s great way to learn! Sounds like you did just fine! Keep shining!!
@@anitanapp6759 Thank you for your answer and respect , You are a Google man , One day i might be a Google man , I am not as good as Google maybe someday .
I'm struggling to find help with my ADHD, I was diagnosed as a child and my parents split up and then my social mom split up and we moved 5 hours away to the other side of Kentucky. Now I go in and tell them that and they want to know who diagnosed me but my social mom (aunt) could care less and won't even respond to me about it because she's Soo lazy she sits on the couch all day thank God I don't live with her anymore as I'm an adult now. So what am I to do? I seem to a druggie to pennyroyal even when I ball my eyes out infront of them they act like I just want to get high and tell me almost all kids grow out of ADHD and I'm so fed up I could go do something stupid! I feel like I could ram my head through a wall!
Lol Michael, you can do the moonwalk 👣 here, & why not here, here & here? 😅 Because I don't really really like doing it. My dad makes me do it that's why I only come up with an album once every 10 years🤘😏
My child was born like this and I knew there was something wrong and took him to a doctor Ritalin made him feel like killing himself. It was a roughy teen age years I did my best to deal with him and the school and lies and the apparent feeling thy he could bot u de esta situación my de tío s t times when he did bot do good t school because he was not working sufficient bed he was distracted with other things that was not important, I can to recognized thesame symptoms in his dad, they both were driving the family of four crazy, I do bot Es t to remember those days. At the-same time I feel sorry because at times I was harsh with him but I did bot know how to ha die him at times. Today he lived far from me he went to school when he was 17 and never wanted to come back home again. He does not call he does not seem to have much feeling for his family
The teachers and college profesors should all watch this, it should r mandatory. Many of them has no idea abıout ADD. They add fire into the hell by judging the student and not accomodating any flexibility, even for students who has approved accomodations.
In what part of the brain resides the concentration and motivation..? What hormones in the brain got to be in level to it..? Does the gut bacteria also has a relationship with it..?
Mh I heared that a diet with no sugar and low carbs is helping adhd brains. Long sleeping etc. But Gut Bacteria play a role in autism, but I don't know if it also the case for ADHD
wait... they wanted him to get out of bed and be showering. he was showering. they didnt say he has to be showering awake. some people just cannot stop nitpicking. you can never satisfy them.
Just reading a book by ADHD Guru Thomas E Brown Smart but Stuck. He describes... In this book you will meet and get to know 11 teens and adults including: • Sue, who earned high grades until middle school, then lost motivation for schoolwork and became disorganized and oppositional in 9th grade, frustrating teachers and family while losing hope for herself. • Mike, a college student who was put on academic probation. His dad always told him he’s smart but just lazy, and now he’s starting to believe it. • Steve, a computer programmer whose ADHD struggles have led to him losing his job-and his wife. He’s good at programming computers, but not at programming himself. • Sarah, who’s had trouble keeping track of things and getting work done since she hit menopause. She’s puzzled, since she never had such a hard time when she was younger. It seems they have little to nothing in common with each other. There is certainly zero evidence presented that these people have ANYTHING wrong with their brains, let alone all having the same "diagnosis!" He's pathologizing normal basically to make money for himself and his career and 101 reasons could account for their behavior. Sue again sounds like Louise my oldest kid. Sarah, who’s had trouble keeping track of things and getting work done since she hit menopause. Exactly. That is the answer
4:27 You couldn't tell if i had gotten high and you wouldn't be able to tell that i have had ADHD my whole life because of it. I have already proven this so bashing cannabis and making up scenarios to do this is pointless because i know the truth doc. My life used to be completely unmanageable and know i have some semblance stability now that i am away from you psychiatrists and deadly drug pushers. Let's talk about depakote, risperidone, haloperidol and hydrocodone. All detrimental to your liver ,kidneys, pancreas and prostate. Cannabis doesn't do any of that and increases the neural process. My used to have frequent gandmal seizures, 25 of them in one week to maybe one a month. I can concentrate much more than i could before and can even help others understand themselves more than your lectures.
Interesting & informative, but also irresponsible and one-sided. Not a single word mentioned about the dangers and risks inherent in taking "Schedule 2 drugs" (Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, etc), which happen to be in the same category as cocaine and morphine. The DEA clearly warns: "these drugs are highly addictive, can lead to severe psychological dependence and are considered dangerous." Yes, the drugs work (at least in the short term)! Nobody questions that. However if you're going to push medication as a primary treatment option, at least give folks the full story. Truth is there are MANY serious risks associated with these drugs. According to the FDA, these are the top ten side effects: drug ineffective (!); insomnia; headache; aggression; anxiety; nausea; decreased appetite; abnormal behaviour; depression; and suicidal ideation. Do you really want to swap your attention issue for depression, insomnia or "abnormal behaviour" (whatever that may be)?? I'm not suggesting ADHD drugs have no place in the discussion of treatment options. However before you walk that road, I ask you to consider two things. Number one, do you really know what the potential risks are? Have you done your research? (bear in mind, most "pseudo" research these days is funded by Big-Pharma). And number two: have you truly looked at other treatment options for yourself (or your child)? Or maybe you're looking for a "quick fix" cause that's the culture we live in today (everyone wants a solution NOW... TODAY). We no longer have the patience to look at a child's behaviour (or our own behaviour) from a broader perspective. Truth is we're living in a world that wasn't designed for the ADHD (hunter-gatherer) brain. So the solution is to "drug" your child so they "fit in" to the square box called education? NO! That's not the solution. The solution is to find an environment (or a career) which matches your strengths as an ADHDer. You don't need to be "fixed" (you're perfect the way you are)... the system needs to be fixed! Let me wrap up by saying, I have ADHD myself. I've just learnt to live with it (and love it), without the need for drugs to dampen my spirit and energy! All I say is.... BE CAREFUL with the drug option. Do your own research and choose wisely. Best wishes!!
oh shut the fuck up, yes the system needs to be fixed but that is a large institution that needs to change which just won't change and it definitely wont change over night. what worked for you wont work for everyone.
It's funny, but at school in the 50's and early 60's, no one had dyslexia that I knew of. We were all taught to read and write, and read out loud in front of class. Everyone could read. Discipline was fairly strict, and therein lies a clue to today's youth. No obesity either. No ADHT now I come to think of it. I didn't know anyone with an allergy either. I still don't. I think that a lot of these 'syndromes' are excuses for attention seeking and shirking.
@@roblange1445 Really? It's just my opinion based on experience. BTW a perfect example of ignorance, is you disagreeing with me and being insulting because my views are different from yours.
john adams no offence intended John. I guess our experiences differ a lot. I got assessed a few years ago for a head injury only to get told I have adhd. I’m in my 50s and after hearing that and doing some research it was like light going on...... I’ve been absolutely astounded and feel I finally know myself🤷♂️
@@johnadams-wp2yb Can I just chime in and say that these disorders really shouldn't be subjected to anyone's opinion? Let's just disregard ADHD for a moment and consider allergies? Someone having an allergy is not at all an "opinion" or a "view". It's an actual biological reaction, and just because you didn't have any experience with a person with an allergy, doesn't take away from the fact that allergies exist or mean that it is somehow subjected to a lack of discipline or tolerance as you imply. It's almost saying that heart attacks aren't real because I haven't seen someone having one. Same goes for ADHD, dyslexia, autism etc. Most of them can be hidden, but that doesn't make them any less valid or that they are somehow "made up" disorders. I also understand that this may be the reason why you've never seen someone with a neurodevelopmental or any other such "hidden" disorder. Then again, that doesn't make them any less valid. To say that they are not real simply because you haven't come across with anyone those disorders in your lifetime can unfortunately perpetuate the stigmas that surround those disorders already. Yeah, of course there are people who use these disorders as "excuses" but that is on them and not the disorder itself. Also, I don't have any malice whatsoever towards you or anth.
It's like I'm listening to a lecture about myself. How have I existed for almost 40 years and nobody has picked up on this. I don't understand.
Same! I still have no idea how I made it this far.
Sorry no-one picked up on it earlier, and did anything about it, that is a common theme in adults from a certain age group where this wasn't noted as an issue.
My father tried to beat it out of me! lol didn’t work!
@@anitanapp6759 I had the same experience growing up. Heavy punishment in form of physical and psychological to the point of actual abuse. Didn't change my behaviour, though it did teach me not to be a little pansy snowflake and how not to raise future children of my own.
35yo, here. Only elderly great-aunts left as a support system. Poverty and hardship ahead.
Dr. Brown, you are seriously the best.
Taking 80 minutes to watch a 40 minute video because I'm reading comments, replying and replaying bits at 2 A.M. And meanwhile being on edge because I can't sleep and have an appointment early tomorrow for my ADHD.
The struggle is real.
Really like the down to earth style of the doctor
And he takes money from big pharma and looks like Papa Smurf
I wish I had known about my ADHD before the age of 52. Mostly I am fine but other days I feel I have been robbed of vital life skills.
Im the same im 52 im seeing my drs about adhd...from i was 5 iv just been a troubled life friends being nasty to me i dont trust people i have good days and bad days i can be nasty sometimes when someone does something years ago i can go on about it for years i carnt get over things is adhd a disability?
I didn't come here to listen to you describe all my flaws and excuses!
But I'm impressed and grateful.
I'm 42 years old and for the first time in my life I am actually taking my ADHD seriously and seeking treatment. I have an appointment tomorrow as a matter of fact with a psychiatrist for the first time. I'm concerned that it will not go well, but I'm ready to give it my all. I was originally diagnosed at 5 years old and my life has been plagued by the adversity of this condition. It is only now for the first time that I have been able to come to grips with the havoc ADHD has had on my life and am taking action.
I know what you mean, i have had ADHD all my life, had a hard time in school, so i was in special ed, i still have problems till this day and i am only 31, i take a medication for it, till this day i still rely on my mom to help me, i am on SSI and my mom is my payee, it's a hard mental disorder too deal with.
how did you find a dr? ive spent a lot of my adult life getting looked at sidewise because i am an adult. and i know ritalin works for me. the dr's i run into again are hesitant or wont at all because i am adult. i feel i get labeled as a druggie.
i am 40. ive been fired from so many jobs. my impulsiveness is killing me. i spend money on stupid shit and then i am short on my rent.
but because people see me as a nice person, and i'm a great bullshit artists, i am able to mitigate the consequences. but it does nothing to fix my challenges.
on top of this i deal with ptsd (i'm an iraqi war vet, honorably discharged after 7 years) and depression.
sorry for the rant i just hope someone who reads this can help me. i am at wits end. i will never give up, and i successfully keep the "really bad thoughts " at bay. i love what i do for a living (i work as an emt), mainly because making people feel better helps me legitimize all the shit i deal with. i mean when i have psych patients that are adhd, suicidal, or are severely depressed, i can look them in the eye and say "brother, sister, i've an idea what you are dealing with" and thus i connect with them better than any therapist can. but i make 11.33 an hour and cant get my shit together to advance. my personal life is a mess.
so how did you find a dr that helped you?
Quique Feroz oh my God it's like you are telling my life. I have ADHD symptoms which has made my entire life hell no friendships or steady jobs. My son was diagnosed with ADHD and I am the same. I told my Dr about this and he just said yeah and started talking about something else. I am barely getting by as a mom also. I am constantly bored and zone out at work. Doctors won't even acknowledge that I might have ADHD. Well I am going to have good insurance next year and I'm hoping for the best. Don't give up either you are an unsung hero!
Almost the same for me. Diagnosed at 4. Had a lot of thing's forced on me. Hit 16 and put my foot down no more. Now 36 and have to accept i can't deal with people and my anger and impatience is destroying my life. Go in next for my first appointment
@@QuiqueFeroz they think you are drug seeking is why. And well i have it and have hundreds of things i can point at to prove it. There is a trail of wreckage behind me. But skip medical doctors and go see a psychiatrist
lol listening to this ad 2 am while playing video games
Me right now
Same tho
Same lmao
At 1.5x
bruh 3:32 AM rn i feel related to u
Dr. Brown is seriously brilliant and CLEAR! I'm 63. Although I've been casually aware of some symptoms throughout my life, I thought they were somehow normal. Dr. Brown brings clarity to a priorly fuzzy topic. I now can see the/my situation, and am working on options/methods to function better.
Thanks so much!
He really knows what he’s talking about.
I'm a college student with ADHD, taking notes about the reading I'm doing on a separate paper is very helpful for me actually processing the information
I have to do this too and use diffrent colored highlighters
I want to cry. This has been my life. This stupid struggle in my head and not understanding it.
Same here.
I am 47. Diagnosed two days ago. I’ve been crying.
39 and diagnoses couple weeks ago, trying to gather as much knowledge as possible ever since.
I wish this guy was my teacher and also my professor, even if he is not the best. As long as he can understand treat students sanely
Substitute him for my teachers any day
He and william dodson are the best that I know of.
This is really strange how much I relate to this
This man is fascinating, I have ADHD that was untreated when i was an adolescent, while i did smoke weed it wasnt my favorite and did nothing for my ADHD, i got addicted to meth, it at first seemed to be the best thing ever and i was able to focus and do the things I couldn't before. It almost killed me. I got sober 21 years ago and I'm on the proper meds for my ADHD and my life is so much better, I can function with my daily tasks and pay my bills. It's not perfect but better than not being on medication
I am a 5th year medical student with adhd from Greece and I study in an english program of a university in Bulgaria , all I have to say is that adhd is against you till the moment you know how to use it for you. All those people with adhd need 1st of all to learn how their mind works and how to use it because what I've learned through my years studying something difficult like medicine in a country that people don't have the best accent or the best teaching skills is that every day was a bit of a challenge for me to understant and keep and finally organise all these information witch were provided to me in a very difficult way and at the same time maintain a good social and personal life, and all these challenges were keeping my mind alerted and that helped to move on even in the most dificult times when the distractions were many.
My point here is that people with adhd shouldn't be putted in a bubble made of special treatment and medications .. people with adhd should go more often out of their comfort zone and do what challenges them...adhd brain is the "hunters" brain and it must be challenged to feel good , satisfied and complete...Find your superpowers and seek the challenge....that way you will learn how to increase your dopamine levels naturally and you will form a good reward system . USE YOUR ADHD !!
The "hunters brain" analogy would explain why I always feel a need to play first person shooters before I can even think about doing something else after a prolonged period of forced attention at work... Do you have any sources or other reading material that delves deeper into this concept? Would very much enjoy that read.
That may be right for you and your ADHD,but not for everyone.
ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer’s World
by Thom Hartmann
I'm 41, had always struggled in school. Looking back it was from since first few years of school that i can see the behaviours & learning difficulties. Have never read a book in my life, have wanted to, have bought books over the years but no they don't get read... I can read stuff on google that interests me, i can hear talks on you tube that are of interest.
I first decided to hear about ADD/ADHD a couple of years ago from Gabor Mate & now come across this Man Thomas.
Very interesting & happy to hear someone talking about myself & who actually gets me... 🙏 👏👏👏
Love from WA 🇦🇺
I'm 30 and my son was diagnosed with ADHD he's a chip off the ol block. I went to see a psychiatrist and she wouldn't even acknowledge that I might have ADHD I'm so frustrated because I might lose my job I don't know what to do because the psychiatrist thought that I was just trying to score drugs or something. I am struggling everyday just to make it to work on time and do basic tasks. I have a new baby and I can barely cope I know that I could be a better mom and worker if I could get some help but I'm so discouraged I don't want people to think I'm just some junkie.
Why won't your doctor consider the possibility of ADHD?
Katie Kennedy I don't know but every time I brought it up she just change the subject and ask me if I was depressed. She wound up the prescribing me an antihistamine and said if it didn't work that she will give me an antidepressant but she does those were the only options.
Michelle Espino I was diagnosed 12 years ago and it's taken me this long and I've lost everything and I'm on disability for 10 years! They misdiagnosed me with so many different things and now that I got my medication back again I'm me again. In the meantime I went through tons of horrible medications, divorce,homelessness,depression, ptsd,anxiety and high blood pressure and medication allergies and four different doctors before I found this one and three different states so it's not as easy as it seems and I have a very severe case. If you really do have it it's going to take a lot to get it unless you change doctors and keep trying to find someone who will understand. I had to go through 10 months of testing and two months after that before trying multiple years and even getting the diagnosis but then they want to treat the other stuff that goes away and I stopped taking medication for because they weren't treating the cause
Michelle Espino You're struggling with your job but it seems to me that it's your psychiatrist that is a failure at doing her job....clearly she's not helping you and she should be made aware of that!
@@cjusa4115 this has been very similar to my experience, and it's the biggest problem with undiagnosed adults. After years of different diagnoses & medications, depression & anxiety getting worse & nothing really helping, a natural tendency is to self medicate as well, so I got into a habit of drinking heavily, and most medical people hear that & then hear nothing else, just tell you to stop drinking & get rid of you, no matter how long it goes on, and how many times you tell them the drinking is a symptom, not the cause, I didn't used to drink as a teenager when I first started having problems. But the thing with ADHD is your life is a mess, so people just dismiss you as a mess up, and all the things that go wrong are the things that people judge you and look down on you for, so the depression & anxiety get worse, you drink more .... and on, and on it goes. Thank god I found a good psych 5 years ago, and just now I'm finally stabilising, & the meds are the right combination after nearly 30 years of misery. Unfortunately, the older you get, the more entrenched the bad habits are, so it takes longer to break them, & I'm still struggling with normal routine and hours & self discipline, but I'm doing a million times better with it than any time before, & I'm getting close to finishing a PhD. To think I'd ever be doing a PhD even 6 years ago would have sounded crazy & me & everyone else would have laughed. I've spent most of the time extremely anxious & never sure I'd be able to finish it, but now I'm actually starting to believe I will get there. So there is hope, unfortunately it can be hard to find the right doctor, & it took me a long time. But it's worth persevering. It's sad that it should be so difficult & there's so much stigma, it can literally be life or death. If I'd still been with my last psych I'd probably have just spent the past 5 years rotting in bed on lithium & seroquel or something. Now I have hope. There are good ones out there though, finding them is the most important thing of all.
I've always thought i'm just stupid because people read things once and that's enough for them but i have to read it couple of times and then forget it only to remember everything the next week. Never getting anything done before it's almost too late to do it. Going into a 2 hour long lecture and realizing that i've only actually heard like couple of sentences. Not bc i didn't listen but my brain was too busy planning the dinner, what to listen on my way to home, who to talk after class, how to organize my bag... I just can't stop drifting off. I've wasted 2 years of my life and failed a lot in uni trying to learn how to study. It's wy too hard for me to know what is important and determine the key words.
I frequently suffer with very low self esteem. Took me 5 years to do a 3 year university degree. I wish I was normal, so much. I'm so awkward socially. I'm 44 now but the things said about me in school still really hurt... it moulded me...the weird kid. I frequently consider doing myself in - not everyday but often enough. ,I really wish I wasn't this way. I live in Germany but I struggle with the language even after 12 years....the idea of trying to describe what I go through everyday to a doctor, in a language which is unforgiving fills me with dread. I really hate living this way
why are you living in germany
Every single thing he said about going to College....is so try for me. I’m in the process of getting diagnosed with ADD. Yes, there’s a possibility I don’t have it...but my doctor and counselor believe I have it and I relate to 85% of these symptoms. It effects my life drastically 😰
Michelle Eriksen that possibility eats away at you doesnt it , but knowing you have it hasnt been much better for me . i hope you get your answers
You're cute.
@@paulie.walnuts2838 too true - 'knowing you have it hasn't been much better for me.' There was a relief, but then it's like... wow, so many things would be different, with every aspect of life, if people actually understood (and if *I* had understood) what ADHD was.
Do you take any medicine
People motivated to work for a long time without a reward make perfect employees for abusive employers who delay salaries for a long time and then not pay them. Also great workers for governments who like to let people work hard under a promise of getting a good pension in old age and then decades later the goverment embezzles the money says treasury is out of money need a reform do a reform and slash those pensions to a pittance which is not enough to live above the poverty line.
Well spotted
I always felt that it's very cruel to write off these problems as an issue of "willpower", as my teachers and parents tended to do, although I'm pretty sure at least my dad also had ADD and my mom might have it too somewhat. I'm 34 and I think my mother now finally understands that the reason I can't finish assignments has nothing to do with willpower but with being unable to manage my own time.
It's also an issue of the education system. I'm training to become a high school teacher and I'm stunned at how much of both the coursework for the trainee teachers and the coursework that I give my students is designed around whatever the opposite of ADD is. It's all tedious filling in forms and busywork for me, and long essays for students who probably aren't ready for that. No wonder the education system has so little empathy for this condition, teachers tend to be "goody two-shoes" types that just cannot understand someone whose mind does not work like that, unless they're specifically made aware of what ADD is.
He's describing me to a fn T!
Time to seek help. I've always scored 99 and 100 on tests and I'm in the top 1 percent in the IQ department, but I just can't keep focus on things that dont interest me. Does anyone know what it's like to run out of ritalin after using it for a while? I'm generally not one to use substances, but for me it might be necessary.
one dislike... mate control your compulsive behavior...
Thank you,👍
this guy is amazing
the glasses example was spot on
In the last few months I read and listened alot to some of those ADHD videos or texts. I was diagnosted with ADHD at the age of 14. What I learned in the last time is incredible but the most catching things were said by Dr. Thomas E Brown. He was so much ahead of the time 10 years ago. Alot of people still don't understand ADHD and say it is not real or like other said a issue with the own willpower. Those who are diagnosed with it stay strong and try your best to utilize ADHD with all its benefits!
the last 10 minutes are usefull!!!!!!!! finally a ahdh video that is usefull at a spot!!!!!!
I miss him every day, he is 41 years old and he is most of the time I have spoke with him hungry. I always wondered if I could have done
More to help him. He says he is happy one time and others he seems like he is not! I can only pray!
Angry
It is so relatable... And i understand my struggle..
But every test just gives me a 50/50 chance of getting the diagnosis.
Just yesterday i've made a really nice test and was excited and happy and paid the 2$ for it and remembered afterwards, that i initially didn't want to give away money for that. Sure, the test was funny and cute and even had animated smilies, but i still got a 56% score out of it. Well duhhh, i've developed some methods, but i wasn't even sure, if i should have calculated my working methods in or out in terms of finding the most accurate results.
Well and it's also a cliché, that i was hyper bored that morning and couldn't find a damn thing to do within the lesson until i'll stuck in researches about adhd until 45min after the lesson ended and just noticed, that i was alone in this room for a while.
That story at 21:06 i have the exact same problem with sleeping exact same im actualy doing it right now by watching this video
Dr brown you know what your talking about the expert of this
Im like watching this and every problem that he says i have it idn how dude im basicly a couch patato but because im too tired and restless to do anything and dont have any motivation to do anything and its rly hard to make my self do anything that im not interested in and i allsow feal empty inside so yea (i have adhd and dyslexia and i didnt know that if you cant writhe your ideas on paper that its a nother like condition i tought it was allredy one of the dyslexia simptoms but oky)
Sorry ho eu
Oh wow, I'm in high school and taking concerta and it never even occurred to me to take something short acting on the afternoon to help with homework, I just did most of it at school before my class cause I just took "my meds wear off and I can't do work in the evening" as a fact of life.
An essay is my worst nightmare i just cant there is no way for me to explain how hard it is for me to do it by myself and thats why my mom wrote it for me so i coud show it to my teacher and bruh this is now when im 15 almost 16 im prety sure i shoud be taking some sort of medication because im just dead i cant do it anymore i dont feal anything for school i dont whant to do it i know that i have to go because of the job after i finish school but damn i just cant make my self do it
Lol i've got my mom to do all the book and presentation stuff for me that time too.
I know how hard it was and is, because i was risky and went to the university.
A simple evaluation of a team-project, about 4 pages long. That was the goal. And i failed completely by doing about 11 pages whereas i wrote about over 20 in that night and couldn't even erase all my unnecessary thoughts from it. Well, i got something like a C for it and passed, but it was horrible!
My best dose was and is 2 ×56 mg Concerta and 3- 4 tabs 10 mg ritalin and if needed 10 mg diazepam if I can't sleep. But I'm 48 and work in construction
Unfortunately, there are absolutely doctors who will take that much care of their patients. You get 5 rushed minutes at best with any provider and these days you can't just pick up the phone to let them know the med's not working and you never hear of a Dr calling you back to make sure you're doing OK on your meds. Maybe overseas, but not in the US.
Freedom USA this couldn’t have been more true! my doctors takes on way too many patient, he has 3 clinics currently open between him and one other doctors as well(2 doctors for 3 clinics that are all open every weekday!) it’s incredibly difficult to get into see him and if you’re able to survive the usual 5-6 hours of waiting, you just might be able to get 5-6 minutes with the doctor. it’s really frustrating because sometimes you just get stuck with an urgent medication issue, or a mental health concern, or just a signature for a referral that would take less than 2 seconds from the doctor. it just really limits how long i might have to wait to fix or inquire about an issue(most of the time, it takes an eternity) and it keeps me from seeking treatment for other various mental health issues since the clinic has a, “only 1 issue per visit,” rule. like bruh.
Ive been reading the same 6-7 books for 3 years now.. :( And only 1/3 of them or at best 2/3. I know several chapters almost by heart at this point..
PERFECT EVALUATION OF ADHD
There is no ADHD
@@alanberkeley7282 Thankfully there is AC/DC though.
@@fifthof1795 Ha ha ha
Tragically we've got drug pushers like Pappa Smurf Tommy
In my country students very rarely buy books because they are just too expensive for an average unemployed student. We have libraries. But you can't use a highlighter on a library book - the library will ban you for that.
I too had an issue with uninteresting topics. I just couldn't learn by heart anything that did not interest me. So, the only way out was to pretend that it is interesting, to find anything at least amusing. I had no problem with math and literature, but I really disliked history. Not sure, why.
I have had a poor ability to focus all my life. I have rarely been interested in much all my life. I get bored really easily...unless it's watching Breaking Bad ! I'm certainly not stupid, but am I simply lazy. The odd thing is, that I'm seriously good at quizzes. I don't practice, or try to learn general knowledge and I'm not even in any quiz league. I just seem to know so many answers. My wife is alway saying go on a quiz show and win money. I'd hate to be on tv.
Dr. Brown, I am 75 & I don't think that I have ever been properly diagnosed with this illness. Nor has anyone ever given consideration to associated Mental Health conditions such as PTSD , TBI, and partial deafness. In my opinion, these factors weigh heavily upon the primary? condition of ADHD. Thank you for your presentation, I really felt you were talking not only about me but to me. I related significantly to much of your presentation and style.
I am 73 and got diagnosed at 70. Life has been a struggle. Also have hearing impairment. Sounds are loud enough but aren't processed correctly in my brain--- auditory processing disorder plus dislexia and other issues. I was not offered meds for ADD so am still struggling. Can't self medicate because of failing heart. Otherwise I would take Primatene. Now I know why Primatene gave me great focus when I had to take it for asthma. J. Thomas
.. if anything helped you, that is, and safe for heart OTC meds, any safe herbs, any reading material or videos, pls comment to me. I hope you're coping better. Thx !
I did much better in college because I attended at night after the air force. I think this was because I was only taking one class at a time and could concentrate on it.
Also, improved computers massively helped ne at my job. What will I do while waiting for a program to compile? Even worse, was back when I had to send out coding sheets to be key punched and then sent to the compiler and the results sent to a line printer. I didn't usually have something I could switch to.
When my ADHD seems to be out of bounds I find that when I masturbate, my brain seems to be "normal" for a several hours. I am not joking, I am not being nasty. I am sharing a factual relationship of body over mind. As a result, I sometimes masturbate too often, but the relief from stress caused by my ADHD is perhaps a great medicine for me. I am not suggesting people with ADHD masturbate when their condition seems to get out of control. I am thinking chemicals are being released when I do this and they actually normalize my brain chemistry for a few hours. Finally, having sex with my girlfriend does NOT provide the same relief, so I guess maybe the act of serving just myself has something to do with the chemicals involved in making my brain and mind act more normal. Just for the record, I have 170 IQ tested at University but many people think I am somewhat dumb or "air headed". I sometimes have trouble speaking because my brain wants my mouth to talk faster than it is capable.
Many of these characteristics overlap with autism. They can be co-diagnosed..but it does make one wonder.
Also.. OCD is nearby in terms of getting things organized, clean, etc. It starts with some perfectionism and ends up in bad thoughts or compulsions like my self-monitoring and subtle fears about being misunderstood, lol
I'm 70 years old and it still I still have it bad but now because of my age no one wants to prescribe medications for me !!
I feel like I'm back in a prison again . Sometimes knowing the difference I feel like I might as well be dead.
Maybe I should be.
The example of the glasses use for bad sight was great. I know very well how you feel. Never been on medication but I know how badly I need it🤦🏽♀️
You need to find a good psychiatrist, who will listen to you, your insurance is likely the issue most insurances dont like to cover it as there is still a stigma of it being a childhood issue and it doesnt affect adults. You may have to pay out of pocket for the meds. Dont give up
how are you now
I have ADHD and it feels like I'm in hell
that is why there is a healing master , his name is Jesus . no decease He can not cure. try Him
Or not
@@laptopm1113 Shut the fuck up with the Jesus bullshit. No one asked. Until you have a tangible way to help someone, stay off the keyboard.
You make the world we are in,it may never go away but it can be worked on and eventually easily handled.
Have you taken blood pressure readings of people that can't sleep at night and can't wake up in the morning?
I WAS DISCLOSED A FEW MONTHS AGO I HAVE HIGH BLOOD PREACHER SO CANT HAVE TMEM TILL IT GOES DOWN ONLY TAKE THEM AS MY EMOTIONS AND ANGER ARE UNPRETICTERBULL AND MY MIND WANDERS FROM ONE THING TO THE NEXT ILIKE TO LEARN ABOUT THE CONDITION WHICH I ENJOY BUT I WISH I COULD OD KNOWN SOONER AND NOT 52 YEARS AFTER.
It`s a monster. Sometimes fighting it seems pretty hopeless.
That's funny, I played WoW for nearly an entire year every day. I wasn't even that good at it, but it provided enjoyment.
Lol and I’m the girl addicted to her boyfriend tbh
Dr. Thomas E Brown my question: how do u feel about relativity or relationship to blood type & personality, believed pertenant in some cultures. #2 I am a pieces sign(yin&yang) no middle gr ound (pain or pleasure)re: dopamine levels. Do U see genius correlation too. I have the universal blood I can save anyone(no antigens) but can only save myself.worldly now, 43 people in 49 yrs existing as of 2014.
(I am 47). ,😉🙃🙂
I don't know what is wrong with me, I never read a book i am 63 , School was hard for me i couldn't learn anything, I never read a news paper, I start things and don't finish them, I started taking adderall at 53 and i have read a million words and learn how to spell and type not great at spelling or typing but the words like school beautiful family simply wordi can now spell i would like to talk to anyone who can understand what i am trying to say , i can now run a tablet and a pc before i couldn't turn one on , Google has helped me no teacher could teach me anything i don't know why Google can where so many other teachers have fail my mom took me to doctors and teachers done could help me Google is the only one to get through to my head need good advice please anyone who cares.
MR. Zag zagata I understand completely! 59yrs old, been medicated since 49. Had a hard time in school, faked it till I made it! Google is my best friend! It’s great way to learn! Sounds like you did just fine! Keep shining!!
@@anitanapp6759 Thank you for your answer and respect ,
You are a Google man , One day i might be a Google man ,
I am not as good as Google maybe someday .
Where does the adult part begin?
I live with a adult woman with ADHD, And a 13 yr old son with Asperger's syndrome. Help! 😎🙏
I'm struggling to find help with my ADHD, I was diagnosed as a child and my parents split up and then my social mom split up and we moved 5 hours away to the other side of Kentucky. Now I go in and tell them that and they want to know who diagnosed me but my social mom (aunt) could care less and won't even respond to me about it because she's Soo lazy she sits on the couch all day thank God I don't live with her anymore as I'm an adult now. So what am I to do? I seem to a druggie to pennyroyal even when I ball my eyes out infront of them they act like I just want to get high and tell me almost all kids grow out of ADHD and I'm so fed up I could go do something stupid! I feel like I could ram my head through a wall!
Those moments where you feel nothing you say or do can change a thing so you almost go into a ballistic panic mode. In a way
Lol Michael, you can do the moonwalk 👣 here, & why not here, here & here? 😅 Because I don't really really like doing it. My dad makes me do it that's why I only come up with an album once every 10 years🤘😏
My child was born like this and I knew there was something wrong and took him to a doctor Ritalin made him feel like killing himself. It was a roughy teen age years I did my best to deal with him and the school and lies and the apparent feeling thy he could bot u de esta situación my de tío s t times when he did bot do good t school because he was not working sufficient bed he was distracted with other things that was not important, I can to recognized thesame symptoms in his dad, they both were driving the family of four crazy, I do bot
Es t to remember those days. At the-same time I feel sorry because at times I was harsh with him but I did bot know how to ha die him at times. Today he lived far from me he went to school when he was 17 and never wanted to come back home again. He does not call he does not seem to have much feeling for his family
What about thc and alcohol with moderation......??????
Well i have realy bad working memory
The teachers and college profesors should all watch this, it should r mandatory. Many of them has no idea abıout ADD. They add fire into the hell by judging the student and not accomodating any flexibility, even for students who has approved accomodations.
What is the cause? No one tries to find the cause ( mineral or sth ... ) to revert it
Science says that kids who are punished for exploring things when they are young develop ADHD and simmilar problems
We know the cause, it's genetic, but there's nothing we can do to directly change that short of Eugenics
Can you say something about inattentive add
I thought add was no more only adhd?
There wasn’t too much about adult ADHD in here. Maybe change the title.
Not one mention of diet....hmmmm.....
@@cat-le1hfDear Mr Stupid as Fuck ....have there been any studies as to whether diet does have any affect ? Until there is, how would we know?
people with adhd have been on this ride far to long
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Listening to this as I roll a joint fuck
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In what part of the brain resides the concentration and motivation..? What hormones in the brain got to be in level to it..? Does the gut bacteria also has a relationship with it..?
Mh I heared that a diet with no sugar and low carbs is helping adhd brains. Long sleeping etc. But Gut Bacteria play a role in autism, but I don't know if it also the case for ADHD
the 21:53 part has been me multiple times as a teenager , i would let warm water run over me so that it felt like a blanket
I am not nocturnal. I am a strong early bird. I go to sleep 18 hours earlier and wake up 18 hours earlier than most people.
what
That’s what the old secretary was doing before just the key worlds and remember after or imagination almost the same lol 😂
Hahaha, reading.
this sounds like i suffer from ADHD
Really ?
Or not
you called me out with the drinking and smoking to sleep
Halo
So this is why I work 3rd shift... as a janitor. Id at least like to work on that second fact.
Instead of pill 👍
wow ive got adhd now i can act like a twat and get away with it cos im a victim.
Sticking it to the mentally ill . Lets goooooo /s
Not sure it's a good idea to make fun of your students....paint tgàt in your notes
wait... they wanted him to get out of bed and be showering. he was showering. they didnt say he has to be showering awake. some people just cannot stop nitpicking. you can never satisfy them.
Just reading a book by ADHD Guru Thomas E Brown Smart but Stuck. He describes...
In this book you will meet and get to know 11 teens and adults including:
• Sue, who earned high grades until middle school, then lost motivation for schoolwork and became disorganized and oppositional in 9th grade, frustrating teachers and family while losing hope for herself.
• Mike, a college student who was put on academic probation. His dad always told him he’s smart but just lazy, and now he’s starting to believe it.
• Steve, a computer programmer whose ADHD struggles have led to him losing his job-and his wife. He’s good at programming computers, but not at programming himself.
• Sarah, who’s had trouble keeping track of things and getting work done since she hit menopause. She’s puzzled, since she never had such a hard time when she was younger.
It seems they have little to nothing in common with each other. There is certainly zero evidence presented that these people have ANYTHING wrong with their brains, let alone all having the same "diagnosis!"
He's pathologizing normal basically to make money for himself and his career and 101 reasons could account for their behavior. Sue again sounds like Louise my oldest kid. Sarah, who’s had trouble keeping track of things and getting work done since she hit menopause. Exactly. That is the answer
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4:27 You couldn't tell if i had gotten high and you wouldn't be able to tell that i have had ADHD my whole life because of it. I have already proven this so bashing cannabis and making up scenarios to do this is pointless because i know the truth doc. My life used to be completely unmanageable and know i have some semblance stability now that i am away from you psychiatrists and deadly drug pushers. Let's talk about depakote, risperidone, haloperidol and hydrocodone. All detrimental to your liver ,kidneys, pancreas and prostate. Cannabis doesn't do any of that and increases the neural process. My used to have frequent gandmal seizures, 25 of them in one week to maybe one a month. I can concentrate much more than i could before and can even help others understand themselves more than your lectures.
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Interesting & informative, but also irresponsible and one-sided. Not a single word mentioned about the dangers and risks inherent in taking "Schedule 2 drugs" (Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, etc), which happen to be in the same category as cocaine and morphine. The DEA clearly warns: "these drugs are highly addictive, can lead to severe psychological dependence and are considered dangerous." Yes, the drugs work (at least in the short term)! Nobody questions that. However if you're going to push medication as a primary treatment option, at least give folks the full story. Truth is there are MANY serious risks associated with these drugs. According to the FDA, these are the top ten side effects: drug ineffective (!); insomnia; headache; aggression; anxiety; nausea; decreased appetite; abnormal behaviour; depression; and suicidal ideation. Do you really want to swap your attention issue for depression, insomnia or "abnormal behaviour" (whatever that may be)?? I'm not suggesting ADHD drugs have no place in the discussion of treatment options. However before you walk that road, I ask you to consider two things. Number one, do you really know what the potential risks are? Have you done your research? (bear in mind, most "pseudo" research these days is funded by Big-Pharma). And number two: have you truly looked at other treatment options for yourself (or your child)? Or maybe you're looking for a "quick fix" cause that's the culture we live in today (everyone wants a solution NOW... TODAY). We no longer have the patience to look at a child's behaviour (or our own behaviour) from a broader perspective. Truth is we're living in a world that wasn't designed for the ADHD (hunter-gatherer) brain. So the solution is to "drug" your child so they "fit in" to the square box called education? NO! That's not the solution. The solution is to find an environment (or a career) which matches your strengths as an ADHDer. You don't need to be "fixed" (you're perfect the way you are)... the system needs to be fixed! Let me wrap up by saying, I have ADHD myself. I've just learnt to live with it (and love it), without the need for drugs to dampen my spirit and energy! All I say is.... BE CAREFUL with the drug option. Do your own research and choose wisely. Best wishes!!
oh shut the fuck up, yes the system needs to be fixed but that is a large institution that needs to change which just won't change and it definitely wont change over night. what worked for you wont work for everyone.
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What on earth was that gibberish ?!
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It's funny, but at school in the 50's and early 60's, no one had dyslexia that I knew of. We were all taught to read and write, and read out loud in front of class. Everyone could read. Discipline was fairly strict, and therein lies a clue to today's youth. No obesity either. No ADHT now I come to think of it. I didn't know anyone with an allergy either. I still don't. I think that a lot of these 'syndromes' are excuses for attention seeking and shirking.
oh wow...
....and that’s a perfect example of ignorance
@@roblange1445 Really? It's just my opinion based on experience. BTW a perfect example of ignorance, is you disagreeing with me and being insulting because my views are different from yours.
john adams no offence intended John. I guess our experiences differ a lot. I got assessed a few years ago for a head injury only to get told I have adhd. I’m in my 50s and after hearing that and doing some research it was like light going on...... I’ve been absolutely astounded and feel I finally know myself🤷♂️
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Can I just chime in and say that these disorders really shouldn't be subjected to anyone's opinion? Let's just disregard ADHD for a moment and consider allergies? Someone having an allergy is not at all an "opinion" or a "view". It's an actual biological reaction, and just because you didn't have any experience with a person with an allergy, doesn't take away from the fact that allergies exist or mean that it is somehow subjected to a lack of discipline or tolerance as you imply. It's almost saying that heart attacks aren't real because I haven't seen someone having one.
Same goes for ADHD, dyslexia, autism etc. Most of them can be hidden, but that doesn't make them any less valid or that they are somehow "made up" disorders. I also understand that this may be the reason why you've never seen someone with a neurodevelopmental or any other such "hidden" disorder. Then again, that doesn't make them any less valid.
To say that they are not real simply because you haven't come across with anyone those disorders in your lifetime can unfortunately perpetuate the stigmas that surround those disorders already.
Yeah, of course there are people who use these disorders as "excuses" but that is on them and not the disorder itself.
Also, I don't have any malice whatsoever towards you or anth.