rj zander I have ADHD and I find him easier to understand than most lecturers because of his mannerism and cadence. It’s at a pace that doesn’t allow me to move off quickly, has a rhythm that is easy to follow, and his diction choices don’t require me to go look up a word. So... it may not be for you, but as someone with severe ADHD, he’s a lot more engaging than most, if not all, of my lecturers in school and college.
Yup. I was "high functioning". Ugh. Medication gave me the ability to "hold a thought in my mind and move it around." Having a mental back pocket has absolutely been the number one thing to set me up for a more manageable life. Instead of a life built up with coping mechanisms.
I just got diagnosed this Monday. I had built up what I didn't understand to be coping mechanisms, so I hear you. That's the one thing I've always had trouble with; manipulating things in my mind - specifically when it comes to data management and filling/filing paperwork. What a nightmare. My gf and I have never understood my inability. I had a funny feeling it was ADHD when I was younger, but never sought help. Wish I had, but at least I know now, eh?
@@b1_ferg I have only been on medicine for a couple years now, but I learn so much more easily now, and Am even slowly becoming more organized now that I have more mental bandwidth. Good things are coming man! One pattern I have noticed with late diagnosed Add people is that because they have been "fighting" their whole lives, once they are given the proper tools and a level playing field, they really excell because that stubbornness they used as a coping mechanism can now be transfer to Motivation and drive.
@@justanothervote Really appreciate the positive message, my friend. I feel like I've been mentally caged and I feel the need to catch up on all the things I've missed out on because I've been in my own head for so long. I'm sure the medication will help propel me through doing just that. I found a new family GP and am close to getting started. Looking forward to being able to sit down and focus.
@@b1_ferg yes, exactly! Just be patient. I had to try a couple till I found the one that worked for me. So it may take you a while till you find the right med, and the right dose. But when you find it you'll instantly know. For me it was like a veil of fog lifted and I could finally think clearly. My ability to memorize things has gone up drastically as well. Anyways, I'm excited for you to be on this part of your journey where you are finally getting the help hou need. Your life will be forever better!
Thank you for this - it's as relevant today as 7 years ago. In fact, in my country it's positively forward thinking! Finally diagnosed in my late 40's after a life on anti depressants. Better late than never 😀. Thank you from the UK.
I always looked down on the ADD theory and medical treatment until I myself developed symptoms that impair life. This Dr. Barkley is a great scholar. I deeply respect his work and wish I knew earlier about it. Listen to his speeches. Its wise stuff.
Yup! Drug Rep! Actress! Post it note Queen! So MANY many issues that apply! Trauma brought all of my coping SKILLS to a screeching halt and terrible ADHD return, destroying a highly functioning, successful life! Thank God for Dr who CARES but was next to impossible to find! If not for finding compassionate Psychiatrist, my life felt like it was over! Steer clear of Narcissist! You’re BLESSED to find a highly structured, compassionate mate! Capricorns are great for this! 💕🙏
I've always felt like I was just lazier than everybody else and that I just didn't have the discipline they did to control myself and do homework or sit still in my chair or not spend way more time doing other things when I had stuff to do that day. I'm messy, unorganized, and if you asked my friends what word describes me best they'd all probably say impulsive. I'm starting to realize it might be a disorder rather than a character flaw. My parents have been thinking it as well for a while and I'm going to try and get a specialist to assess me and see if I do actually have ADHD. It would be nice to know that I'm not just bad at being a grown up
I've done a lot of research over the years, on my ADHD and the meds my dr. and I have tried (vyvanse, adderall, ritalin) and Dr. Barkly's vid is teaching me so much I never knew about both
My brother was recently diagnosed with ADHD and he suggested I get tested as I also display symptoms, even looking back at my 40+ years I can see how it makes a lot of sense. But, here I am completely capable of reading and contributing to the comments but with no focus to watch the video itself, I've restarted it 5 times already 😒
Best explanation on innatentiveness the way people view innatentiveness made me doubt if I have adhd cz I was not having attention problem in each and every thing I do.. This is the best way to explain it... Ppl who say that they can't concentrate on anything made me doubt if I had adhd
I keep trying to start calendars, notebooks, and other organizational coping strategies. However, I either lose motivation or forget to keep up with it entirely. I think I need to try doing more notifications via my phone.
It's definitely tough, ADHD makes it easy to pick up new ideas but hard to stick with things long term. For me it helped to 1) keep it super simple, and 2) think of changes in terms of habits. The ONLY way a change is going to stick is by making it easy and automatic to do. What I do right now is keep everything on my digital calendar, even obvious things, and make a habit of checking it throughout the day whenever I'm thinking about what to do. I have my work hours and other weekly commitments on it, which helps visualize my time for planning one-off events. I also put my small to-do's (like calling to make an appointment, or going to the store to buy milk, or doing laundry) on the calendar so that I can't make the excuse of "waiting for the right time" or "when I feel like it". I'm not perfect with it, but overall it's made a huge difference. After a while of using my calendar regularly, I also started color-coding it to make planning things easier. My repeating commitments are one color, regular events are another color, and to-do's are another.
Over and over I've decided - I will put reminders and notes in my phone. I kept making that a goal - I said I will do that. And dozens of times I started........ you can guess the rest.
damn i discovered that I had adhd as an adult,,, changed like 7 jobs in the last 10 years..... every time i got depressed due do the repetition of tasks, stressed me out to have every day the same schedule...... started my own business im kinda happy, because my brain has every day time to think about every aspect. Tbh Im the guy thats optimistic, starts new projects, but i have problem pushing trough to the end. so I realized i need someone on my side to help me. someone whos calm and a bit more reliable. But damn when i look back, I used to always do multiple things at the same time... did 2 years additional education on evenings for my diploma worked 100% and started my business at the same time and i felt good as well, because I had no time to let my brain "chill". But that will come with a cost...
one thing that puzzles me about my ADHD, when I first was diagnosed at 17, in highschool, I started on Adderall XR and it worked perfectly, over the years I've gone off and on again... and after 3 or so years without insurance, I finally got on medicaid and saw a dr. and got back on meds. however, as a 28 year old adult, the meds don't seem to work like they once did, I've tried all sorts of various drugs, doses, separate smaller doses taken at different times a day.... is there something wrong here? can the nature of my mental illness change as such, as an older adult with ADHD??
You might have your self esteem so much affected that it creates automatic thoughts that sabotage your efforts..or you might have a comorbid depression which also effects organisation and thinking and memory etc all of which ADHD also affects
It’s true your body builds a tolerance to them and they stop working the hope is that by then you’ve developed enough scaffolding and strategies to cope so that the medication becomes unnecessary
I'm so confused by the thumbnail. I thought it was from ages ago or something, but when I actually opened the video Dr Barkley looks as he always has over the past 10 years -- so it must be fairly recent...
I was reading a book about the rock group Queen the other day and it said that the traits of their late frontman Freddie Mercury included limited attention span, nervous energy, brain 19 times to the dozen, brain ahead of what he was saying, mind constantly racing, brain doing overtime, always scribbling. He left school without any academic qualifications and do you know what I thought he had when I read it..... He was a very creative person who had talents and abilities outside the classroom.
And? I'm an artist, I paint. I'm absolutely sure I'd be way better and further with my art and achievement if I didn't need to deal with my adhd daily. What you do is ignorant and condescending to people who are struggling, sometimes all their life, trying to find a way out of this.
Pretty bad that his mother as a child psychologist didn't even catch it in him. And then once she found out about it, she still didn't tell him his diagnosis!
With my husband being severely ADHD, and undiagnosed most of his life, I KNOW a LOT, if not ALL of his issues came from his uncaring, mentally unbalanced mother. She damaged ALL of her children, then blamed them for having problems/addictions/and relationship problems.
No. It sounds like you are not willing or able to go to a doctor for a prescription. Not only do you need proper meds but you will need them long term. This is not the sort of thing you can do by bumming meds off your friends.
I NEED RIALIN TO NHELP MY FTBROMYALGA AND LUND DISEASE ,PACING AND MUCH MORE ,BUT DOCTOR SAID HE CAN SUPPLYIT I HAVE TO HEAD TEACHER AND SEE IF I HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS TO SEE HIM WTF IM DIEING AND THE THING THAT FOUDD HELP TAKE 8 TABLETS EVERY DAY
Barkley denies his own research that shows stimulants to make essentially no difference in children's academic performance. There have been other reviews by Swanson et. al. in 1993 and by Oregon State University in 2001 or so that showed the same thing. The OSU study showed no advantage in ANY long-term outcome for "treated" vs. "untreated" kids diagnosed with ADHD, including no difference in test scores, graduation rates, college enrollment, drug use, teen pregnancy rates, delinquency rates, employer satisfaction, social skills or even self esteem. This same result has been consistent for decades. Yet most people are completely unaware of this information, because the psychiatric profession finds it inconvenient. Other studies supporting this finding are the Raine study in Australia, the Quebec ADHD study, the Finish/USA comparison study, and the long-term results from the US MTA study. It is utterly delusional at this point to maintain that stimulants are critical for kids' success in school, yet Barkley and others make lots of money off this idea and continue to promote that stimulants are essential and that parents who fail to "treat" their "ADHD" kids with stimulants are being neglectful.
Here are some quotes Barkley made in 2016 Adults with ADHD are 2-3 times more likely to be dead by age 46 from accidental injuries, many of which involve driving. About one third of adults with ADHD exhibit antisocial behavior and may even get involved with crime" and " Most adults with ADHD, 80-90%, need medication as part of the treatment package". Then he claims "my twin brother died. He had ADHD, and I know that it indirectly contributed to his death. He was driving 40 miles per hour on a country road in the Adirondacks. He never wore a seatbelt, and he had a habit of going too fast and drinking while driving. He ran off the road and was killed. I put the book aside while I was grieving him. Not long after my sister, who had physical disabilities, also died. And about three years after that, my deceased brother’s son, who also had ADHD, hanged himself". Then he says "ADHD is genetic in about two thirds of all cases; in about one third it is acquired either prenatally or after birth because of head trauma or environmental conditions that affect the brain’s frontal lobe development." His brother's ADHD must have been caused prenatally or after birth then. He claims you are likely to be dead by age 46 from accidents. His father Donald Stuart Barkley died in 1999 aged 83. His mother died aged 93 in 2008. So it didn't come from them. Unless of course Barkley's talking complete and utter bullshit and is dancing to his pharma paymaster's tune once again. Guess what the smart money is on. blog.apabooks.org/2016/10/31/a-conversation-with-russell-a-barkley-phd-about-adult-adhd/
Lmao look at this genetic scientist here. Fuck off moron. Next up : you actually dont need wheelchairs if you lost a leg! They are big pharma creations!
Have you ever heard of statistics Alan? My grandma smoked 2packets of cigarettes a day and lived till 94, so clearly cigarettes are fine. You are talking rubbish all over these videos.
Fifteen percent of youngsters in the United States-three times the consensus estimate-are getting diagnosed with ADHD. That’s millions of extra kids being told they have something wrong with their brains, with most of them then placed on serious medications. The rate among boys nationwide is a stunning 20 percent. In southern states such as Mississippi, South Carolina, and Arkansas, it’s 30 percent of all boys, almost one in three. (Boys tend to be more hyperactive and impulsive than girls, whose ADHD can manifest itself more as an inability to concentrate.) Some Louisiana counties are approaching half-half-of boys in third through fifth grades taking ADHD medications. And people wonder why I'm skeptical about ADHD existing. Barkley is one of those trying to turn a generation of kids into drug addicts. Remember he says once diagnosed there is no reason why you should not be medicated.
When I have criticized Psychiatry and big pharma on You Tube I've had this comment "When did you get a degree in medicine" or "How long have you been a Psychiatrist". Ok. So when people criticize politicians, do people ask "So how long have you been a politician then?". When people condemn pedophiles or serial killers or rapists do people ask "How long have you been a paedophile, serial killer or rapist?". Or if I condemn a Cocaine or Heroin hustler, do peopel ask "How long you been a drug pusher". Or I condemn big pharma "How long have you worked for big pharma?". Or if I condemn a business for appalling service or performance "How long have you had your own business". Nobody ever says to music critics "How long have you been able to sing". It's stupid and illogical isn't it, as well as flawed. Besides, Psychiatry isn't a science or a Profession. It is a con and a fraud largely.
I agree that credential fallacy is garbage. I also hold big pharma in contempt. However, Doctor Barkley has a clear and deep understanding of ADHD, both with regard to neurology, as well as various treatments and interventions that include but are not limited to medication. He does maintain that medication is the "most effective" treatment. But spends a great deal of time in other videos explaining many more things beyond that. Your skepticism is justified in that there is a lot of garbage information and ADHD is poorly understood both by clinicians (especially those who diagnose in 15 minutes based exclusively on the self reporting of their patients) and the public at large. With that said, you not having the condition yourself, you are not likely to be able to relate to the experience of it, nor to the effect that medication has on it. There are a great many misdiagnoses, and there are many adverse side effects from the medication when taken recreationally, or by people who are misdiagnosed. And although you may not be referring to these situations exclusively, you too are cherry picking to ignore the documented improvements in executive function by those who are accurately diagnosed and treated in a way that is effective for them individually, as effectiveness of various treatments will vary widely from person to person. My own experience will inform my decisions with regard to what treatments and interventions I seek. But your blanket accusations that this man doesn't understand a condition that you yourself have never experienced are absurd. I have tried several medications with various effects personally. As well as being completely off medication for years after trying it, and never being medicated before I was 20. Ritalin had absolutely no effect on me that I could observe. Others, however did have effects to different degrees that were measurable and observable in my ability to function at work and at home. I stopped using it because I hated the idea of being dependent on medication. Your accusations discourage many from seeking what MAY provide significant benefit to their ability to function and their overall quality of life. I have no hope that this will persuade you of anything, since as you do not personally experience the condition, all you have to go on is the statements and research of others. But I hope that anybody else reading this will determine for themselves what is effective and not throw away a very significant potential for vastly improving their lives based on the cynical accusations of those like yourself, who while probably well-intentioned lack sufficient experience to provide a useful opinion to those who are seeking help but are afraid because of rumors, myths, and other misinformation they have been exposed to their whole lives.
There are no two equal ADHDers. Treatment is unique for each case. All people are different So why does Barkley insist once a person is diagnosed there is no reason why they should not be medicated? It's like something out of Nazi Germany or North Korea
If such a high proportion of US children and young adults need medication to pass as normal like Barkley says does that not suggest that normal has lost any meaning? Instead a false pattern of 'model behavior' has been instituted and chemically reinforced and as the years go by if this continues normal will become more progressively artificial and require more medical maintenance. Barkley rants about the science. "Science" once told you that smoking cigarettes was good for you. And "science" also peddled the lie that DDT was a harmless fly killer.
It is a fallacy to say that because 3 people claim to be following science and 2 of them were demonstrably wrong (cigarettes and DDT) that the third must also be wrong. Sharing a single trait does not imply that all traits are shared. This fact, by itself, also does not support Doctor Barkley's claims. As just because something isn't proven false by an argument does NOT therefore prove it to be true. However, comparing cherry-picked failures who all claimed to be "science" definitely does not prove anything here to be false. If it did, we could also say that germs aren't real simply because "science" says they are, and we have examples proving that "science" has been wrong. (Of interesting note, is that germs themselves were originally disputed when first theorized and eventually proven. Which in this case illustrates that both sides of the argument at the time were "claiming to follow science". All this does is illustrate the uselessness of the claim. Actual science (regardless of whether it is claimed) is not guaranteed to arrive at false conclusions. Again the arguments I have made are not supportive of any claims made either. I'm simply illustrating the fallacies applied in a failed attempt to disprove those claims. I have not sought to present proof for them or supporting evidence in anything I've said in this comment.
Hang on a minute Barkley, you and many others have said "ADHD" is highly heritable. You claim your twin brother died in a car crash with it. So he must have inherited it from his parents. Your mom was 93 when she died. Your dad was 83. Right. You keep saying that people with ADHD die in car crashes, die prematurely due to accidents, have teenage pregnancies. Ron was 23 when he married. How many kids did he have? What you are saying doesn't add up. In all honestly, you are lying.
Complete nonsense. "Highly Heritable" does not in any way imply that it is exclusively inherited. The statistics are that 50% of the children of a parent with ADHD will also have the condition. And only 80% of people with it will have parents who also had it. Do not comment about things of which you know nothing.
It's funny how trends and averages work. Statistical probability does not mean that individuals, aka, anecdotes that don't follow suit, won't occur. The rule is that those with adhd are more likely to have car accidents, but of course, there are some exceptions to that rule. Wow, that wasn't hard to understand, wasn't it!? 😂
Barkley is also a total hypocrite. His own research back in 1978 showed that "ADHD" kids did not learn more on stimulants. Yet he made his career claiming that not "medicating" "ADHD" kids was tantamount to child abuse. To promote something that you know could be harmful when you know it doesn't really improve outcomes and make money off of it - sounds pretty sociopathic to me.
Cite the study, for starters. But most importantly, a study posted in 1978 is likely to be misleading today. The questionnaires and other outcome measures used back then are not as specific or sensitive to ADHD symptomology as they are today.... moreover, the DSM-3 wasn't even a thing back then. And lastly, that's the beauty of scientific research, it's a self-correcting and ongoing process of learning. But hey, if you feel like cherry picking outdated research from nearly half a century ago helps you sleep at night, by all means mate, you do you. 😅
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Its very cool that he talks in a way so that is easier for people with adhd to understand him.
Not only that, but his cadence and mannerism is engaging.
rj zander I have ADHD and I find him easier to understand than most lecturers because of his mannerism and cadence. It’s at a pace that doesn’t allow me to move off quickly, has a rhythm that is easy to follow, and his diction choices don’t require me to go look up a word. So... it may not be for you, but as someone with severe ADHD, he’s a lot more engaging than most, if not all, of my lecturers in school and college.
He has adhs
@@coraliewright3978 No he dont, but his brother had that.
Yup. I was "high functioning". Ugh. Medication gave me the ability to "hold a thought in my mind and move it around." Having a mental back pocket has absolutely been the number one thing to set me up for a more manageable life. Instead of a life built up with coping mechanisms.
I just got diagnosed this Monday. I had built up what I didn't understand to be coping mechanisms, so I hear you. That's the one thing I've always had trouble with; manipulating things in my mind - specifically when it comes to data management and filling/filing paperwork. What a nightmare. My gf and I have never understood my inability.
I had a funny feeling it was ADHD when I was younger, but never sought help. Wish I had, but at least I know now, eh?
@@b1_ferg haha, yep, my experience exactly!
@@b1_ferg I have only been on medicine for a couple years now, but I learn so much more easily now, and Am even slowly becoming more organized now that I have more mental bandwidth. Good things are coming man! One pattern I have noticed with late diagnosed Add people is that because they have been "fighting" their whole lives, once they are given the proper tools and a level playing field, they really excell because that stubbornness they used as a coping mechanism can now be transfer to Motivation and drive.
@@justanothervote Really appreciate the positive message, my friend. I feel like I've been mentally caged and I feel the need to catch up on all the things I've missed out on because I've been in my own head for so long. I'm sure the medication will help propel me through doing just that.
I found a new family GP and am close to getting started. Looking forward to being able to sit down and focus.
@@b1_ferg yes, exactly! Just be patient. I had to try a couple till I found the one that worked for me. So it may take you a while till you find the right med, and the right dose. But when you find it you'll instantly know. For me it was like a veil of fog lifted and I could finally think clearly. My ability to memorize things has gone up drastically as well. Anyways, I'm excited for you to be on this part of your journey where you are finally getting the help hou need. Your life will be forever better!
Thank you for this - it's as relevant today as 7 years ago. In fact, in my country it's positively forward thinking! Finally diagnosed in my late 40's after a life on anti depressants. Better late than never 😀. Thank you from the UK.
Just been diagnosed. It was a relief , getting that explanation of why I struggled
I always looked down on the ADD theory and medical treatment until I myself developed symptoms that impair life. This Dr. Barkley is a great scholar. I deeply respect his work and wish I knew earlier about it. Listen to his speeches. Its wise stuff.
When he's quoting Biederman that ruins his credibility
@@alanberkeley7282 why is that so? It’s a genuine question, I’ve never heard of the person Dr Barkely is quoting.
Who else got distracted while watching the video, just thinking about random shit? Lmao
No, this is captivating.
Yup! Drug Rep! Actress! Post it note Queen! So MANY many issues that apply! Trauma brought all of my coping SKILLS to a screeching halt and terrible ADHD return, destroying a highly functioning, successful life! Thank God for Dr who CARES but was next to impossible to find! If not for finding compassionate Psychiatrist, my life felt like it was over! Steer clear of Narcissist! You’re BLESSED to find a highly structured, compassionate mate! Capricorns are great for this! 💕🙏
I've always felt like I was just lazier than everybody else and that I just didn't have the discipline they did to control myself and do homework or sit still in my chair or not spend way more time doing other things when I had stuff to do that day. I'm messy, unorganized, and if you asked my friends what word describes me best they'd all probably say impulsive. I'm starting to realize it might be a disorder rather than a character flaw. My parents have been thinking it as well for a while and I'm going to try and get a specialist to assess me and see if I do actually have ADHD. It would be nice to know that I'm not just bad at being a grown up
I've done a lot of research over the years, on my ADHD and the meds my dr. and I have tried (vyvanse, adderall, ritalin) and Dr. Barkly's vid is teaching me so much I never knew about both
My brother was recently diagnosed with ADHD and he suggested I get tested as I also display symptoms, even looking back at my 40+ years I can see how it makes a lot of sense. But, here I am completely capable of reading and contributing to the comments but with no focus to watch the video itself, I've restarted it 5 times already 😒
Video just cuts off in the middle of Ty telling his story... 😕
Best explanation on innatentiveness the way people view innatentiveness made me doubt if I have adhd cz I was not having attention problem in each and every thing I do.. This is the best way to explain it... Ppl who say that they can't concentrate on anything made me doubt if I had adhd
It cuts off in the middle of Ty's story... Where's the rest if the episode?
This is a good Question! Whats up with the ending?
Just gettin good!
Hi, can you include Ty Pennington's entire story? It gets cut off in the video.
I keep trying to start calendars, notebooks, and other organizational coping strategies. However, I either lose motivation or forget to keep up with it entirely. I think I need to try doing more notifications via my phone.
I highly recommend that you watch this other video of Doctor Barkley:
ruclips.net/video/_tpB-B8BXk0/видео.html
It's definitely tough, ADHD makes it easy to pick up new ideas but hard to stick with things long term. For me it helped to 1) keep it super simple, and 2) think of changes in terms of habits. The ONLY way a change is going to stick is by making it easy and automatic to do. What I do right now is keep everything on my digital calendar, even obvious things, and make a habit of checking it throughout the day whenever I'm thinking about what to do. I have my work hours and other weekly commitments on it, which helps visualize my time for planning one-off events. I also put my small to-do's (like calling to make an appointment, or going to the store to buy milk, or doing laundry) on the calendar so that I can't make the excuse of "waiting for the right time" or "when I feel like it".
I'm not perfect with it, but overall it's made a huge difference. After a while of using my calendar regularly, I also started color-coding it to make planning things easier. My repeating commitments are one color, regular events are another color, and to-do's are another.
Over and over I've decided - I will put reminders and notes in my phone. I kept making that a goal - I said I will do that. And dozens of times I started........ you can guess the rest.
damn i discovered that I had adhd as an adult,,, changed like 7 jobs in the last 10 years..... every time i got depressed due do the repetition of tasks, stressed me out to have every day the same schedule...... started my own business im kinda happy, because my brain has every day time to think about every aspect.
Tbh Im the guy thats optimistic, starts new projects, but i have problem pushing trough to the end. so I realized i need someone on my side to help me. someone whos calm and a bit more reliable.
But damn when i look back, I used to always do multiple things at the same time... did 2 years additional education on evenings for my diploma worked 100% and started my business at the same time and i felt good as well, because I had no time to let my brain "chill". But that will come with a cost...
Where's the REST of the Ty interview? Crap. Would love to seethe rest.
I was interested in Ty's story, why was it cut short?
@@Kevinasp PIss off, bellend.
Sugar should be sipped, not gulped in form of a drink. A person with ADHD needs it when the tank is empty.
He told us during a lecture
"Sipped not gulped" ***
@@bjugler I'm not native English. Thank you
one thing that puzzles me about my ADHD, when I first was diagnosed at 17, in highschool, I started on Adderall XR and it worked perfectly, over the years I've gone off and on again... and after 3 or so years without insurance, I finally got on medicaid and saw a dr. and got back on meds. however, as a 28 year old adult, the meds don't seem to work like they once did, I've tried all sorts of various drugs, doses, separate smaller doses taken at different times a day.... is there something wrong here? can the nature of my mental illness change as such, as an older adult with ADHD??
You might have your self esteem so much affected that it creates automatic thoughts that sabotage your efforts..or you might have a comorbid depression which also effects organisation and thinking and memory etc all of which ADHD also affects
It’s true your body builds a tolerance to them and they stop working the hope is that by then you’ve developed enough scaffolding and strategies to cope so that the medication becomes unnecessary
where there any people in the clinical control group that ended up having ADHD?
Always interesting to hear Dr. Barkley, but isn't this just a Vyvanse infomercial?
3:02 Can't read the number. What percentage is written here?
65% in the center.
4.4% in the bottom right area.
@@bjugler Thank you. And thanks for replying
This vid was a wakeup call
I'm so confused by the thumbnail. I thought it was from ages ago or something, but when I actually opened the video Dr Barkley looks as he always has over the past 10 years -- so it must be fairly recent...
Same here
He’s actually a time traveler. He’s bringing us information from the future.
I was reading a book about the rock group Queen the other day and it said that the traits of their late frontman Freddie Mercury included limited attention span, nervous energy, brain 19 times to the dozen, brain ahead of what he was saying, mind constantly racing, brain doing overtime, always scribbling. He left school without any academic qualifications and do you know what I thought he had when I read it.....
He was a very creative person who had talents and abilities outside the classroom.
And? I'm an artist, I paint. I'm absolutely sure I'd be way better and further with my art and achievement if I didn't need to deal with my adhd daily. What you do is ignorant and condescending to people who are struggling, sometimes all their life, trying to find a way out of this.
Oh I can definitely see it and look how creatively fabulous he was
Pretty bad that his mother as a child psychologist didn't even catch it in him. And then once she found out about it, she still didn't tell him his diagnosis!
Packed with information, some relevant to me (a 62yo man). Shame about the exclusion of older people in you stats.
David Ramplin Listen from minute 7:25 ...
My best fitting job with this Dx is Peer Support
With my husband being severely ADHD, and undiagnosed most of his life, I KNOW a LOT, if not ALL of his issues came from his uncaring, mentally unbalanced mother. She damaged ALL of her children, then blamed them for having problems/addictions/and relationship problems.
So he had CPTSD and not ADHD? I had the same kind of parent
Yes, but could also be both…
instead of adhd meds, would anti anxiety meds work?
ADHD - ADHD MEDS
ANXIETY DISORDER - ANXIETY MEDS
and so on...
No. It sounds like you are not willing or able to go to a doctor for a prescription. Not only do you need proper meds but you will need them long term. This is not the sort of thing you can do by bumming meds off your friends.
Not unless you have anxiety, and then it will only help the anxiety, not the underlying ADHD.
bxcinderella no, dumbass!
Possibly, if you are comorbid.
Gosh he is very interesting but am struggling to hold focus on all he saying 🙈
I NEED RIALIN TO NHELP MY FTBROMYALGA AND LUND DISEASE ,PACING AND MUCH MORE ,BUT DOCTOR SAID HE CAN SUPPLYIT I HAVE TO HEAD TEACHER AND SEE IF I HAVE ENOUGH CREDITS TO SEE HIM WTF IM DIEING AND THE THING THAT FOUDD HELP TAKE 8 TABLETS EVERY DAY
If you REALLY have this - This video is not something you will be able to watch..
This one, especially.
This lecturer at the beginning section is definitely on modafinil. Nobody talks like that.
Great but dear lord give them more time to speak😅
Barkley denies his own research that shows stimulants to make essentially no difference in children's academic performance. There have been other reviews by Swanson et. al. in 1993 and by Oregon State University in 2001 or so that showed the same thing. The OSU study showed no advantage in ANY long-term outcome for "treated" vs. "untreated" kids diagnosed with ADHD, including no difference in test scores, graduation rates, college enrollment, drug use, teen pregnancy rates, delinquency rates, employer satisfaction, social skills or even self esteem. This same result has been consistent for decades. Yet most people are completely unaware of this information, because the psychiatric profession finds it inconvenient. Other studies supporting this finding are the Raine study in Australia, the Quebec ADHD study, the Finish/USA comparison study, and the long-term results from the US MTA study. It is utterly delusional at this point to maintain that stimulants are critical for kids' success in school, yet Barkley and others make lots of money off this idea and continue to promote that stimulants are essential and that parents who fail to "treat" their "ADHD" kids with stimulants are being neglectful.
Pills don't teach skills.
The medication allows us to focus, learn, and try harder.
interesting and documented commentary
Please cite the source you're referring to, or shut up, it's that simple.
Here are some quotes Barkley made in 2016 Adults with ADHD are 2-3 times more likely to be dead by age 46 from accidental injuries, many of which involve driving. About one third of adults with ADHD exhibit antisocial behavior and may even get involved with crime" and " Most adults with ADHD, 80-90%, need medication as part of the treatment package". Then he claims "my twin brother died. He had ADHD, and I know that it indirectly contributed to his death. He was driving 40 miles per hour on a country road in the Adirondacks. He never wore a seatbelt, and he had a habit of going too fast and drinking while driving. He ran off the road and was killed. I put the book aside while I was grieving him. Not long after my sister, who had physical disabilities, also died. And about three years after that, my deceased brother’s son, who also had ADHD, hanged himself".
Then he says "ADHD is genetic in about two thirds of all cases; in about one third it is acquired either prenatally or after birth because of head trauma or environmental conditions that affect the brain’s frontal lobe development."
His brother's ADHD must have been caused prenatally or after birth then. He claims you are likely to be dead by age 46 from accidents. His father Donald Stuart Barkley died in 1999 aged 83. His mother died aged 93 in 2008. So it didn't come from them.
Unless of course Barkley's talking complete and utter bullshit and is dancing to his pharma paymaster's tune once again.
Guess what the smart money is on.
blog.apabooks.org/2016/10/31/a-conversation-with-russell-a-barkley-phd-about-adult-adhd/
Lmao look at this genetic scientist here. Fuck off moron. Next up : you actually dont need wheelchairs if you lost a leg! They are big pharma creations!
Have you ever heard of statistics Alan? My grandma smoked 2packets of cigarettes a day and lived till 94, so clearly cigarettes are fine. You are talking rubbish all over these videos.
Fifteen percent of youngsters in the United States-three times the consensus estimate-are getting diagnosed with ADHD. That’s millions of extra kids being told they have something wrong with their brains, with most of them then placed on serious medications. The rate among boys nationwide is a stunning 20 percent. In southern states such as Mississippi, South Carolina, and Arkansas, it’s 30 percent of all boys, almost one in three. (Boys tend to be more hyperactive and impulsive than girls, whose ADHD can manifest itself more as an inability to concentrate.) Some Louisiana counties are approaching half-half-of boys in third through fifth grades taking ADHD medications.
And people wonder why I'm skeptical about ADHD existing. Barkley is one of those trying to turn a generation of kids into drug addicts. Remember he says once diagnosed there is no reason why you should not be medicated.
When I have criticized Psychiatry and big pharma on You Tube I've had this comment "When did you get a degree in medicine" or "How long have you been a Psychiatrist".
Ok. So when people criticize politicians, do people ask "So how long have you been a politician then?". When people condemn pedophiles or serial killers or rapists do people ask "How long have you been a paedophile, serial killer or rapist?". Or if I condemn a Cocaine or Heroin hustler, do peopel ask "How long you been a drug pusher". Or I condemn big pharma "How long have you worked for big pharma?". Or if I condemn a business for appalling service or performance "How long have you had your own business". Nobody ever says to music critics "How long have you been able to sing".
It's stupid and illogical isn't it, as well as flawed.
Besides, Psychiatry isn't a science or a Profession. It is a con and a fraud largely.
Alan Berkeley You might be right up to a certain extent BUT although I hate the fact that I have to take my meds I also know that I need them.
I agree that credential fallacy is garbage. I also hold big pharma in contempt.
However, Doctor Barkley has a clear and deep understanding of ADHD, both with regard to neurology, as well as various treatments and interventions that include but are not limited to medication. He does maintain that medication is the "most effective" treatment. But spends a great deal of time in other videos explaining many more things beyond that. Your skepticism is justified in that there is a lot of garbage information and ADHD is poorly understood both by clinicians (especially those who diagnose in 15 minutes based exclusively on the self reporting of their patients) and the public at large.
With that said, you not having the condition yourself, you are not likely to be able to relate to the experience of it, nor to the effect that medication has on it.
There are a great many misdiagnoses, and there are many adverse side effects from the medication when taken recreationally, or by people who are misdiagnosed. And although you may not be referring to these situations exclusively, you too are cherry picking to ignore the documented improvements in executive function by those who are accurately diagnosed and treated in a way that is effective for them individually, as effectiveness of various treatments will vary widely from person to person.
My own experience will inform my decisions with regard to what treatments and interventions I seek. But your blanket accusations that this man doesn't understand a condition that you yourself have never experienced are absurd.
I have tried several medications with various effects personally. As well as being completely off medication for years after trying it, and never being medicated before I was 20. Ritalin had absolutely no effect on me that I could observe. Others, however did have effects to different degrees that were measurable and observable in my ability to function at work and at home. I stopped using it because I hated the idea of being dependent on medication.
Your accusations discourage many from seeking what MAY provide significant benefit to their ability to function and their overall quality of life.
I have no hope that this will persuade you of anything, since as you do not personally experience the condition, all you have to go on is the statements and research of others.
But I hope that anybody else reading this will determine for themselves what is effective and not throw away a very significant potential for vastly improving their lives based on the cynical accusations of those like yourself, who while probably well-intentioned lack sufficient experience to provide a useful opinion to those who are seeking help but are afraid because of rumors, myths, and other misinformation they have been exposed to their whole lives.
There are no two equal ADHDers.
Treatment is unique for each case. All people are different
So why does Barkley insist once a person is diagnosed there is no reason why they should not be medicated? It's like something out of Nazi Germany or North Korea
Does he say that all should be having the same medication, same amount of it, same combination???
Remember this is just Barkley's opinion and we all know what they are. Everybody has one and....
Yeh, YOU'RE an arsehole.
Why are you so angry at this man ? The real problem ...
Your comment exemplifies itself much more so than the video.
If such a high proportion of US children and young adults need medication to pass as normal like Barkley says does that not suggest that normal has lost any meaning? Instead a false pattern of 'model behavior' has been instituted and chemically reinforced and as the years go by if this continues normal will become more progressively artificial and require more medical maintenance. Barkley rants about the science.
"Science" once told you that smoking cigarettes was good for you.
And "science" also peddled the lie that DDT was a harmless fly killer.
9 out of 10 people definitely don't have it. I'm pretty sure that the meaning of "normal" is not endangered by this minority of people.
It is a fallacy to say that because 3 people claim to be following science and 2 of them were demonstrably wrong (cigarettes and DDT) that the third must also be wrong. Sharing a single trait does not imply that all traits are shared.
This fact, by itself, also does not support Doctor Barkley's claims. As just because something isn't proven false by an argument does NOT therefore prove it to be true. However, comparing cherry-picked failures who all claimed to be "science" definitely does not prove anything here to be false.
If it did, we could also say that germs aren't real simply because "science" says they are, and we have examples proving that "science" has been wrong.
(Of interesting note, is that germs themselves were originally disputed when first theorized and eventually proven. Which in this case illustrates that both sides of the argument at the time were "claiming to follow science". All this does is illustrate the uselessness of the claim. Actual science (regardless of whether it is claimed) is not guaranteed to arrive at false conclusions.
Again the arguments I have made are not supportive of any claims made either. I'm simply illustrating the fallacies applied in a failed attempt to disprove those claims. I have not sought to present proof for them or supporting evidence in anything I've said in this comment.
if it looks like a quack, and sounds like a quack.... it's probably a quack.
You're starting to look like a duck
Mr. Merve go back to your parent's basement.
@@driver8M3 Im coming to yours your mom needs me.
@@kingpin1199 My mom is dead...asshole. You should ask for a refund from your shrink...it's not working.
Hang on a minute Barkley, you and many others have said "ADHD" is highly heritable. You claim your twin brother died in a car crash with it. So he must have inherited it from his parents. Your mom was 93 when she died. Your dad was 83. Right. You keep saying that people with ADHD die in car crashes, die prematurely due to accidents, have teenage pregnancies. Ron was 23 when he married. How many kids did he have? What you are saying doesn't add up. In all honestly, you are lying.
Complete nonsense. "Highly Heritable" does not in any way imply that it is exclusively inherited. The statistics are that 50% of the children of a parent with ADHD will also have the condition. And only 80% of people with it will have parents who also had it.
Do not comment about things of which you know nothing.
It's funny how trends and averages work. Statistical probability does not mean that individuals, aka, anecdotes that don't follow suit, won't occur. The rule is that those with adhd are more likely to have car accidents, but of course, there are some exceptions to that rule.
Wow, that wasn't hard to understand, wasn't it!? 😂
Boring
Barkley is also a total hypocrite. His own research back in 1978 showed that "ADHD" kids did not learn more on stimulants. Yet he made his career claiming that not "medicating" "ADHD" kids was tantamount to child abuse. To promote something that you know could be harmful when you know it doesn't really improve outcomes and make money off of it - sounds pretty sociopathic to me.
Cite the study, for starters. But most importantly, a study posted in 1978 is likely to be misleading today. The questionnaires and other outcome measures used back then are not as specific or sensitive to ADHD symptomology as they are today.... moreover, the DSM-3 wasn't even a thing back then.
And lastly, that's the beauty of scientific research, it's a self-correcting and ongoing process of learning.
But hey, if you feel like cherry picking outdated research from nearly half a century ago helps you sleep at night, by all means mate, you do you. 😅