Why School Is So Challenging With ADHD | Body Language
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2019
- With a sense of humour and an unshakable resilience, a woman spends much of her life trying to figure out what exactly it is about her that makes school so immensely challenging.
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Featuring Laura Frances Allen
Director & Photographer Sindha Agha
Producer Paulette Caletti
Executive Producer Juliette Larthe
Illustrator Avalon Nuovo
Animator Louise Miller
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when you’re watching this as you’re simultaneously stressed and procrastinating an essay you’re supposed to be writing...
SIS SAME
This is what I'm doing right now. I have also not started reading the book yet
Oh jeez. That's what I'm actually doing...
Essays are nightmares for people with ADHD.
Mines due in 4 days 😢😢
"I couldn't even cry because I was too numb."
This is soooo true.
This reminds me of the day my grandfather died.
I didn't cry that day... not the following day... not the following week... but after a month, I had symptoms of PTSD.
The *right* diagnosis makes all the difference.
Absolutely. Unfortunately it's such an under diagnosed condition with long waiting lists for assessment.
@@DoctorElliottCarthy yeah talk about it
Mental Health with Dr Elliott it’s also one of those things everybody thinks they have, and more often than not the people who genuinely have it aren’t acknowledged or don’t know they have it
@@judemarino8914 how is that possible tho?
doctors can think diagnosises will just stress you out..
but honestly getting the right diagnosis makes you feel so at ease and explained. it’s very relieving
This is so true! Even if it's something you can't do anything about, just knowing will calm most people down, making them settle down with the diagnosis and themselves.
Have u tried it I also want to do please help me
The worst thing for me is forgetting things while I'm thinking about it, forgetting what question I asked when someone gives the answer.
Wimsem - Tekenen & Knutselen YO I get that *all the time*, my friends have started to tease me about it
100% my memory has always been horrible. but docs love to say it's the weed. when i couldn't learn how to add little action figures up as a 6 yr old, yup, the weed of course.... when my family all pitched in to help me from age 5-9 learn basic math concepts and finish homework. totally the weed.
“I got really good at pretending to function. Like I was living a lie, to myself as well as everyone else.”
Recently got this diagnosis. I've suffered with depression since 12, (I'm now 19), been on 6-7 different medications, always stopped working after a while. After being on my ADHD meds, my whole life has changed. I feel I'm a person, not just a husk.
Everyone told me there's no use for a diagnosis, but this diagnosis gave me my life back.
ADHD makes me, me. I don't resent it. I'm quirky, funny, creative and smart, and now with the medication I can fully harness those traits within myself.
I have it. It sucks. People say that “its easy to focus”
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Or when people think it's a result of bad parenting. Like no, it doesn't matter how strict your parents are.
I have ADHD on both hyperactivity and concentration problems. My parents don't want me to tell the teachers I have it because they don't want me to be put in special ed, because they put kids with ADHD, Autism, OCD, PTSD in special ed. But schools don't realize that ADHD doesn't change your intelligence, creativity or your personality, they just want you to focus even though it's difficult, they want you to stay seated from 8:00 to 12:30...the most difficult thing is that they don't know I have it and they tell me to focus or else I'm getting an Email home. School system is really weird.
Getting the correct diagnosis is amazing. Yes, it means that you might be seen as different, but it also means that you know what is best for you and what treatments you should get.
Absolutely right. I just wish the waiting lists for assessments and a diagnosis weren't so long!
“I didn’t learn anything at school other than how to hate myself” most relatable quote I’ve ever heard
I have adhd and I always hated myself and acted like others. I wanted to be normal. But It's made everything even worse. Now I can see I can't help myself this way. I need medicine.
It’s crazy how once you’ve had it yourself you can pick up on who else has it going on. About 5 seconds in to the audio I was like yep, you definitely are on the same wavelength as me😂
I know exactly how you feel about getting a diagnosis. I have ADD, mild Tourette's Syndrome, Anxiety, OCD, and several others, but every time I went to a doctor or a phycologist they would deny what I was feeling because it wasn't an exact description of what they had on their clipboard. Mental and physical disorders and illnesses can be very spread out and I wish that some doctors would pay more attention to what their patients are describing.
I have add and learning support don't seem to care about people with ADD/ADHD because there's a lot of people with it but it's so hard to do anything without help
I have ADD, and I have to take pills because of it, cause I have the difficulty of learning/focusing. *Attention deficit disorder* (ADD) is a neurological disorder that causes a range of behavior problems such as difficulty attending to instruction, focusing on schoolwork, keeping up with assignments, following instructions, completing tasks and social interaction. And I hate it, because every time I take the pill, I feel like I’m taking this because I’m dumb. And I hate, HATE it...the feeling of being not smart, useless, won’t be able to get into college and stuff, it’s just the guilt and overwhelming, and as well the overthinking going on, of what will happen to me.
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I loved this, it made me feel not as alone
ADHD has caused me so much shit in my life, but it’s a blessing. Anything involving adrenaline I excel at. But psychiatrists are a nightmare they tend to jump to conclusions. No one understands how bad psychiatrists are until you have to deal with one
Never will I take my life for granted again! 😣 I had such a different experience with ADHD 😥 I have lived a fulfilling life. We do see the world differently. Being different worked out for me because I was fortunate enough to meet people along the way who loved how different I was & that really allowed me to be myself 💛 Over time I also gained self control & haven’t needed medicine in years 🙅♀️ I feel so blessed right now for the life I have 🌻👽🦄🙊☘️✨🤡 ............. “ADHD does not define me. I define ADHD.”
I need to move to learn. Last year my history teacher put all the notes on the wall and got us to walk around writing them down and it worked so so well. It was just a really great learning environment for me but I'm not first year anymore and my GCSE'S are in a few years and everyone says that you need to sit down, be quiet and revise but that just makes it harder.
So for the last two years, I came with the insight that I might have ADHD-PI. I couldn't focus no matter what at school, everything about school just bore me besides the people of it. I tried pushing myself to concentrate but my mind just never listened. Because of my poor concentration it also mean't I had a very bad working memory, which made learning concepts much more difficult for me. It also never helped that I was so engrossed on my phone and laptop which was 10000000000 times more immersive than just looking at a piece of paper/book and trying to absorb the information in my head. I also procrastinated a lot. Im also a pretty quiet kid, which could of confused others that I was just spacy. Last year, I got diagnosed by a psychiatrist who thought I didn't have ADHD, like I said before because I was such a quiet kid I had trouble communicating and my mind was extremely cluttered, I thought my speech was disorganized most likely because of ADHD. When I got results back, I felt terrible, I knew there was something wrong with me, I felt like a failure like always, I just wanted to have a normal life. But it just so happened I was born like this. I'm typing this down the day before I come back to school. I just feel anxious & hopeless like always, I hate the idea of going to school, the fact that my value was determined because of a piece of paper. Anyways if you took time to read this, Thank you. I'm trying to get diagnosed this year and I don't feel like hiding anything.
I even have a whole bunch of notes about my symptoms etc. If anybody wants them?
Were you surrounded by people you thought as "much smarter" than you?
@@Luso1221 yeah
As I’m a secondary school student with ADHD I have had the same feelings. Feelings of trying to fit in to be liked. But it sort of worked. I have started to begin to not like myself and making myself someone I’m not. It just isn’t good. This has also led to me having self harmed myself at the start of year 10 and I’ve never felt right since. I’ve felt like doing nothing. Not even leaving my bed room. Trying to act normal at school around my friends but I get home and just lie there, in bed with to many bad thoughts. Just flying around my head. Feeling paranoid and feeling like nobody even likes me. Like all my friends fake being my friends. I don’t even really talk to people in the house. All I do is go out my room for food or the toilet, the rest of the time in my room. I try to take my mind of it by listening to or making music but it just doesn’t help drown out the bad voices in my head. Even my dad has said to me over the past couple years he thinks I’ve not been right or feeling down. The smiles I do are fake to make other people happy. Like a mask hiding all my feelings underneath. I feel worthless. I feel like I’m nothing. There is no point to life.
I relate so much to this video and the story within it. I too struggled with etiquette at school. I also lived of fear in embarrassing myself, and it made me withdrawn and selectively mute. I was not diagnosed with ADHD until five years ago when I was 33.
I also have had to fight to get diagnosed and recognised. My Borderline Personality Disorder traits and Cyclothymic Disorder (mini Bipolar) symptoms were dismissed by the psychiatrist. I am struggling to get diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder aka Anxious Personality Disorder.
I believe my GAD (Generalised Anxiety Disorder) diagnosis was an under-diagnosis. I still suffer anxiety attacks despite having taken medication for anxiety and had talking therapy six times. I need intensive therapy for the anxiety which is ingrained within my personality.
I love that she ends the video on the positive. Those of us with ADHD have a lot to give this world. I'm proud to be a part of this tribe.
As someone who have an ADHD I can relate to this :)
I was diagnosed ADHD when I was 6 y.o. And I was lucky enough because my parents decided to get me an occupation theraphy for 3 years 😊
ADHD teneeager from Spain here. You wont believe it me but i speak English automaticly thanks to this. We do and succesed in whatever we want but we need more time than the others, but the help it isnt bad, worst of all is that they dont know what we have so they put togheter two things :
1. That we cant concetrate without medicine and that is not true, i have a friend who learn to concentrate alone without medicines and that is something that makes believe that our system of education is horrible, but learn that this is an research imcomplete for the profesionals, so imagine.
2. what happen to her almost could happen to me, but was worst, thanks to medication experimental that they gave me i suffer depression, it is over, but it was horrible, but i learn that can happen two things: Or you stay with the medicine all your life or you learn to life and concentrate yourself.
Thank you for your attention and sorry if i couldnt express myself.
good try my friend keep practicing
I'm on epilepsy medicine. Yes I'm "normal" now in the sense that I don't have seizures often anymore (and I'm extremely grateful for that), but man medicine side effects are the worst thing imaginable. I'd do anything to be seizure free without medicine
Unfortunately in the USA, Kaiser won't do ADHD evaluations for adults who smoke weed. I've had hyperactive type my entire life. It's so bad now my knees are going out because of dancing and... I just never stop... if I'm not walking to the store, I'm at the beach or cleaning my house non-stop. I've never gained weight. Couldn't learn math as a kid; I was always bad; and impulsive. I've drank and smoked weed since age 15 for my hyperactivity/lack of understanding in class/faking it/ and not having real friends because I was annoying. I ran away with friends, stole at age 7 candy from stores, and was the "bad kid." Never had any other symptoms like depression or anything but anxiety over my failure to be 'normal."
I tried a Vavaince once and thought I'd drank 40 cups of coffee + a heart attack, but half an Adderall completely cured my symptoms and made me sit and actually think as well as planning ahead when doing a task. I'd do anything to go back in time and get the treatment I NEEDED in class when I couldn't add up the little bears at age 6. I could have been a scientist. But I'm pretty much screwed. Like many many women who were not treated. It's like its a conspiracy to make sure the boys with a lot of energy can focus and get a great career but the girls can go untreated and just have a ton of kids; with that type of energy.
The correct diagnosis is so liberating and life changing. That doctor ought to be ashamed.
Parents basically threatened me to get good grades. Ended up finishing with a D in math every year. Hadn’t discovered it until the age of 20. Now I’m F*cked
I found myself i have adhd but my doctor gave me depression pills cause i used to be sad, but since i'd taken pills i got so high even couldn't sleep with taking 2 sleeping pills i wanted to quit me but i was so fucking upset i think everyone has problem but people don't understand what they don't experience so i always was hiding from the fake one, it's also me always living in lie and kept thinking i am bad at it it's shitty life whenever i talk with people i talked too much and i checked around i still talk much habitually feel i'm alien but i accept it and like that. I wanted to find something to do for the surviving i found it. So i'm happy now and thank you for laura always look for someone who believe me.
I have ADHD I'm super hyper after I eat candy I play alot I'm physical hyper I half to keep moving meds didn't work for me in school they would take me to the track so I can run it out
Lmao just be normal then
@@ethanmallard5942 nobody is Normal I don't just have ADHD I have other problems too
@@iamamanda88 lol just stop having problems then
@@ethanmallard5942 tell my brain that that what happen from falling off the couch at 4 months
@@iamamanda88 lol just have a normal brain xd
This gave me hope
Getting the wrong diagnosis sucks as well... i hate that ADHD is a disorder, i am diagnosed with ADHD, i dont feel anything, im medication free, no one notices that i have ADHD. But i can not get rid of the diagnose, which bothers me. The ONLY problem i have with being diagnosed with ADHD, is that i get bullied for having it, even though i do not. I can’t relate to anything in this video. My grades has gone up a huge amount after i stopped using my medication...
i just started thinking about something for 3 mins straight and forgot i was watching this
Wow. I was diagnosed at 17 to Bipolar, had depakote, questioning myself why it didn’t really work, and come to different psychiatrist, turns out, I have ADHD.
Now I feel pretty normal with my ADHD medication. Indeed , right diagnosis is very important. I’m feel less guilty and not as confused as I am before.
this gives me shivers
I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was about 7 o 8 years old and have never taken any medication. Every time I start to think I might have been misdiagnosed I start to move a lot a again (tapping feet, air drumming) and can barely pay attention or remember anything that I should remember.
It’s sort of frustrating because I don’t really know what’s going on and I’m not in a position to actually make a difference.
School is more challenging when u know your wasting your time in this hellhole but can't do anything about it!
I’ll forget to pay attention when someone shows me something or is talking to me and even if they know I have ADHD they still get mad at me and tell me not to make it an excuse and it bothers me so much
Her saying she hates herself makes me feel so sad, 2 of my sons have adhd I hope they never feel like this :(
I know i have adhd, everyone sais i dont. And im horrible at school, unless its hands on stuff or history, i just cant do it and nobody beleives me and everybody thinks im lazy and unwilling to work when i just CANT do school
I tap and shake my foot n i can’t stay still when I’m sitting down n it’s hard to focus
Nice animation
I think I have adhd but I’m too scared to tell my parents because they probably won’t believe me
I have ADHD, unfortunately i grew up in the system, and if you don't know what that is, its basically this program(don't remember the name) where they adjusts things for you to make it easier. Basically, social skills every morning, temper development, speech development. I was pulled from my classes every morning as a kid, and i was even bullied for being too energetic, too talkative,too "crazy". I watched other students that were like me in a way scream and cry and be put into a room with padding on the walls and floor. Might be a little screwed up, but it had a purpose being so they don't run out in the middle of the school and start hurting others and themselves. I grew up from that just knowing i was "different", i was treated like a freak because i didn't understand the concept of a conversation. No i don't want pity. No im not looking for attention. I've just finally found a place where i can share my story like so many others. ADHD is something that is either easy or hard to deal with. What makes it worse is how others treat you because you're "different". However it taught me to never be like those kids, to treat others with kindness, and to stop being a dick. So many go through so much, and we don't even know, you might go boo hoo another sob story, but in the end we've all had something horrible or awful done to us. We can either grow from it or we can let it destroy us. Different meds for ADHD have so many different effects, like how i can't even have a simple kickstart otherwise i literally shake and sometimes lay on the floor waiting for it to stop(i have only had a kickstart twice, first time to try, second to test if things would be different). So lets just be kind to eachother and supportive, because im here for you whoever is reading this.
I had the same from beginning to 0:38 but when I got to another school I got friends and since then I didn't have that anymore
I still have soo mutch energy but I turn it into something positive and I use that energy for good things
I’ve just been diagnosed i know how primary feels. I’m going on a medication named rhitellin.
Liam Clark69 same
I learned to hate myself to I’m always alert when I’m in class because of this one kid traumatized my life since I was 11 I’m 13 now and every time I see her she freaks me out weeks on end and I can’t explain it’s hard to explain
Depakote is a hell drug, I was put on it when I was 5 (for a multitude of reasons) and it screwed me up so bad
I see many teachers when they put me in a category of “dumb spastic violent and annoying” but it’s so funny to see their faces when you break the stereotype of them thinking you will scream and not stop talking and assault other children, disrupt the class but when you start just sitting down having a normal conversation, being calm and intelligent, they can’t believe it, funniest shit for me and other friends with adhd
Guys, if you are in high school get a diagnosis for ADHD!! I got extra time on the ACT and it helped Soooooo much!! You get extra time for tests that will effect your for the rest of your life! I know it’s hard but we can make it through.
Hi ! Do you think i should go to the doctor if I really think i have ADHD ? My life is just a mess because if it, and it's worse because of High school. I can't be sure that i have it, but being diagnosed can really help ?
Problem is when you get told off, it drives you into getting depression.
Infinity Playz do you mean getting told of by other people?
I feel special because yea I have adhd but I have something that 11% of people have and I can experience this but I just want to be normal at the same time can anyone agree
Has anyone got any advice about getting a diagnosis in the u.k.?
Mindullness.. Always said no but wow when you try itttt
nobody ever talks about the anxiety that comes with adhd. like "did I do that? I dont know....i dont know.....is that real memory or one I made up myself??? is this thing a non sequitur, or does it apply? will they laugh at me if i say it? do people really like me, or am i too oblivious to notice that they actuallt hate me???"
My adhd is Soo diff but I got diagnosed at 4 different ( Im not very hyper but I am hyper cuz I have a symptom cause adhd which is CHRONIC BOREDOM which makes me really bored all the time )
is it me when I cant stop moving my legs in lesson most of the time it help me to concentrate.
Same with autism in girls, diagnosed at 33 🌷
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Choose to not be normal 👍🏿
Problem is, if you know you have ADHD but none of the medication is helping.
Same
PVC for survival situations, let’s check it out!
ADHD ANDY LULW
My life story explained in 3 minutes 54 seconds
My brother takes that and I have ADHD
Currently getting a diagnosis is a few days idk what’s going to happen
Hope it goes well! Getting an assessment myself in two weeks.
Matthew Barber did the ADos test pike four months ago it takes ages
Matthew Barber gl my guy
How do yo get an appointment with a psychiatrist?
In canada, you meet with a psychologist (either a private one or one from your school or university) then if they suspect you have something they'll recommend you to a psychiatrist.
Good luck
Lucy Whitehead in the UK, you go to see a GP but the waiting time is over a year, if ur in school and ur symptoms are pretty bad they will usually send you to the school psychologist (that’s how I got diagnosed) The system is awful, try and go privately if you have the money x
Through your GP in the UK. Unfortunately ADHD services are few and far between with reeeeally long waiting lists.
I didn't have adha . Disability that's not my fault either 😞💔
Adhd sucks, i Dont know what i have, like aside from adhd, i can't describe my feelings and thought, let alone anything at all, i can't speak properly, i feel like i have a weird perspective of life and everything im doing. I dont know how to explain myself to a doctor and i just can't handle it, i feel like i want to die but at the same time i dont care to actually do it. I dont know if the only thing stopping me from killing myself is my past with anxiety, where i had this fucked way of thinking that everyone and everything wasn't permanent and we whould all be gone soon, and that this life is all i had and thats it. Yknow i remember sitting in my bed when i was young, shaking, scared of death and what was to come, and wanted to try to pray to god or something, yeah didn't work. Well after a while the doctor had gotten rid of my anxiety, a long with all emotions accept anger. That might also be one of the reasons why i cant end me, i dont feel that much, i think again not really sure how i feel, but i can't recognize or feel so much emotion, if that makes sense, i dont know. And i just realise that i've just spat out a bunch of bullshit out here so whatever
How are you now?
NHS be like
My brother was adhd but when he has medecin hes add
that's weird. i was suffering from anxiety and without anti depressants it was impossible for me to concentrate. there are many mental illnesses that can cause an inability to concentrate
Empathy
You should do a video like this about gender dysphoria.
Please?
Hang on. So she loved the medication, but she didn’t like the medication?? This narration is so confusing
Thats not ADHD
Well, sir, I, as an aspiring psychiatrist, am thrilled to follow in your footsteps of four years of majoring in pre-med in college, four years of medical school, and an additional three years of psychiatric residency. You are such a diagnostic inspiration.
Anyettie Strow this is one of the best replies I’ve ever seen
Can't choose to be not be a degenerate.
Is she hot tho?
Stfu
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