You are awesome 👌, my focus view is in the far far future for solutions, is so so hard for me to communicate with literally anyone's close range view an stay focused without get detracted from there boring dangerous movements threw there location view in time. I can't change my mind to there timeline I will die due to laws of attraction i have to keep what I was gifted with. Lol im only in the middle of this video so ya your amazing work is so still needed, im so behind but not for long thankyou for your curiosity 😅
This is the most important lecture i have ever listened to. 48 years old and only now understand why i am the way i am. Found ways to to hide it over the years and to work around it but still need the pressure of a looming and imminent deadline to focus the mind enough to stay on task. For all the praise and rewards i get for my work, i've always felt i could be even better if i did not drown in too much time. I'm in tears.
OMG me too. And I’m 60. Sitting at home, unemployed, assuming I’m totally useless. And then, I nearly didn’t click on this because I thought ADHD was ‘just’ kid hyperactivity. And now I’m in tears too. I’ve dragged myself through an entire career and life and family and only treacherous deadlines have FORCED me to execute. WTF??
I’m 50 and same. Haven’t achieved nearly as much as I know I’m potentially capable of. My main problems are fatigue, poor sleep and emotional disregulation. Which don’t sound like adhd issues but after watching many of these videos, I have learnt they are. Without the fatigue I think I could have found ways to overcome the emotional disregulation, lack of motivation & time blindness. But the regular fatigue is so hard to overcome. I often think high energy levels is the true meaning of wealth.
@@universaltruth2025 I use mainserin to combat poor sleep, but I only take 30mg no more than twice a week, usually weekends or when I know I can just relax the next day
I honestly wish that every adult who got diagnosed got a chance to see when his lectures or at least like a 15-second clip where he says this part of the brain and this part of the brain don't connect so the ADHD person knows what to do but they can't do it. It's not going to happen quit trying. So validating!!!!
As someone who has just started the long journey to try and get my life back on track again after diagnosed but untreated ADHD left me almost non-functional in *all* areas of my life, I have to say I appreciate finding this lecture. For the first time, every single symptom, deficit, or characteristic fit together to make a three-dimensional picture instead of just a short, semi-relevant list of the same vague symptoms. I had gotten quite disheartened when researching the subject earlier because I saw so many people in 2014 blaming the person with ADHD for what usually amounted to being "flawed," "bad" or "lazy." You provided more than enough insight and evidence, however, to encourage me that this is what I need to disclose to my treatment team so that I can rejoin life, regardless of what other opinions may be.
As someone that was "diagnosed" and had "treatment" (drugs/therapy/after school classes) I have confidence in saying the "treatment" did nothing but hold me back.. As a kid my imagination was wild and wandering..the prescribed "meth" they gave me stopped that.. Once my mom saw that I wasn't the same kid she asked me if I wanted to keep taking the pills.. I said no.. They made me a zombie.. My grades fell.. I acted out more extreme if I was on edge. When Highschool came around I was finally off the pills. That was when I started to feel like myself again and it really helped me.. I tried smoking weed in grade 9.. And since then I've been way happier and felt more comfortable in my skin. Not sayin weed is a better alternative, but I am saying prescription drugs suck and they barely ever work as intended. ADD/ADHD is a chemical imbalance for the most part.. But also somewhat mechanical. For instance.. When I was in grade 7 I was allowed to walk around the class while the teacher asked questions.. Because for me physical movement helps my brain flow.. I'm too creative to answer simple questions lol
@@codyblair8996 Glad you said this!! I got the impression from him that prescribing and taking ADHD meds is as easy and logical as taking vitamins. I wonder what he'd have to say about your experience with the meds?
@@napoleonsparis2058 I'd love too know.. My younger sisters think I should see a psychiatrist or something.. But I would run circles around them.. I trust my closest friends too "listen /hear me out" as I can trust them. And they already know me.
How is it humanly possible to have so much smart information and obtain it,,,,,,then deliver it to a huge crowd, without stumbling or stuttering on ONE word!!! Amazing! this man, speaks .......way faster than my mind works. He lost me on the first 15 min!! wow....i need help. I thought all this time(45 years) that i was just dumb,slow,retartded. as i was called my whole life....but now i know!!! I got to go to therapy and meds,asap!!
This was so enlightening. Some of the symptoms sounded like he knew me and followed my life. I'm 55 and still have a lot of the problems described. I've never been tested. When I went to school the teachers said I was a daydreamer.
The teachings and investigations of Dr. Russell Barkley should be compulsory teaching not only for Pyquiatrists but physicians in general. Since 1986, Psychiatrists are telling me that ADHD disappeared after I was 12 years old. At 58 years old, my life had been much easier if I had gotten the proper medication and guide that Dr. Barkley has given to humanity.
The guy mowing his lawn example is great example. I would always get distracted at work when people asked me a question, asked for help or simply interacted with me. I would end up helping them at their work and answering their questions, but would always get in trouble because I could not finish my work. It made me seem lazy, disorganized and irresponsible slacker.
Mr Dr Barkley! THANK YOU, this video changed my life, from this video I realized I am extremely Temporally Myopic!! Ive known I have been ADHD and was taking 20 mg twice a day for long time and I could only really see a week ahead or less even! Looking back I realized it affected EVERY one of my decisions in life!!! OMG so I tried higher dose and WOW omg I actually was not taking enough and thought I was just failing at everything and like had trouble with EVERY one of those executive function levels you explained. The thing is I actually had a injury as a baby almost where I had stitches above my eyebrow and so like its obvious my frontal lobe is going to be affected. The can't do what you know is so right I realize now! I realize that when I like actually needed to remember to do something I would not remember when I needed it. Things are so much clearer. I wouldn't of tried higher dose without this video and your explanation of executive function!!!!! THANK YOU MAN Life CHANGED! Please upvote this so he sees it!! and other adhdr's!
This is the greatest lecture, ever. The passion, knowledge, maturity and words resonate to whomever is lucky enough to be able to understand how a cognitive anomaly can impact a person and others. Most of us are barely hanging on and so hearing the struggles of another can only help the pain we or others may feel in the future. Or present do to being unaware. Honesty and Knowledge rule!
I never had suicidal thoughts, but I am becoming disappointed with the outcome of my efforts. I always end up getting the short end of my own stick! And when I please others trough my behavior, they cannot help but try to exploit me! I always had a very complicated lifestyle, that now that I am 38 I just want the less amount of problems. But I am feeling guilty that I cannot put to good use this beautiful mind of mine(that can Hyperfocus).
It's like when we have little things that we should put in their place and we don't do it, like a jacket or shoes and after a week it has accumulated so much that we get overwhelmed and it just keeps accumulating, it's same with all other areas of our lives. You have one small task that we don't do because we cannot get ourselves to do it , then other things / accumulates on it till it becomes continuously overwhelming till we feel completely helpless and overwhelmed that we just let everything pile and our whole life feels out of control and we feel depressed and frustrated , if we lucky, an hyperfocus episodes comes up and we attack it all with invigorating energy only to repeat the same patten again. Or if not our whole life just falls apart and we depressed and dropped out from school🥺.
Story of my life! I've just found out few hours ago what I've struggled with whole my life and I've been through therapies and changed a few psychiatrics over the decade, talking about these exact symptoms over and over again and I was diagnosed with anxiety and then given antidepressants which made my life even worse (I wasn't only still unable to finish or even start anything but I even stopped worry about it). I also attended some group therapy until I was told by therapist that she wouldn't tolerate me being late any more (even though she knew that was one of my reasons to be there at first place and I also wasn't late every single time and when I was it was for about 10 minutes). She told me it was me seeking attention!!
I'm literally in the exact same situation ..I'm even watching videos trying to figure out why Im a hoarder because my boyfriend is ready to break up with me over all the Clutter that I can't get control over.. but what's resonating even more about the Clutter then possibly being a hoarder is maybe that the issue is that I have ADHD that is untreated and if this is really how my brain works then maybe I need to start trying to work with it instead of against it.. and if I started implementing some of these tactics that were talked in this talk maybe I can get some benefits from that..
I love your lectures. I'm learning so much about why my brain functions how it does. I wish we could see the overhead as well or they were attached in the description.
This is such good info. I just take issue with one bit at the very end. When he says the prefrontal cortex needs blood sugar he is spot on, but then he recommends sipping Gatorade or lemonade or some sugary drink. I think he does this because it’s logical. However, as soon as that sugar drink hits the bloodstream insulin is released and calls every bit of sugar out of the blood and makes you crash. So it does the exact opposite, it pulls all the sugar out of your brain and will make you flunk the test. Best to have plenty of fat and protein on board, and in my personal case be in the state of ketosis which by far gives me the most brain power of all.
You only crash from sugar if you take a lot of it, a small amount will help you become alert, he already said that “ don’t gulp it just take a few sips”. I swear the guy is a genius he doesn’t miss anything!!
Man you are right! My life is totally turning in a new and positive direction after Dr Barkley lectures and explanations, I will add this: Ive been on low carb keto almost 1.5 year now, I can work focusing 30min max, after my brain get fatigue, I need rest or close my eyes, rest thoughts, glucose is essential for me, better from berries or half banana, same here, if I take refined sugar or any high sugar drink or food, after 20min..crash,..same...but i cant be calm or concentrate if i go ketosis, what makes me sleep less, restless, go for another pleasure experiences...before sex, bike, exercises for longer, loosing focus...I removed many stressors from my life, ex-girlfriend, family toxic members, friends, toxic and loaded information environment, phone, instagram, internet (essentials only), or anything that was depleting my dopamine levels or reducing my serotonin...so...I am on my way on recovery, they said dopamine normal levels can take from 3 months to 12 months to get back to normal, If I go ketosis, nervous system shake and I feel wrong..if I go back to carbs, crash and laziness, procrastination, emotional dominance, weakness...etc...so...i think is better to say each person can try everything on finding your own balance...better fine tuned brain chemistry and emotional regulation...in my case..living alone..isolate and sacrifice my old self..in order to clean the field on grown daily my new one...we are all in the same thing...and see the Dr's Work and comments like yours make me feel connected to something bigger than what i can understand...take care man love and peace...hope everybody can heal and recovery...being in low dopamine ADHD experiencing life is not worth..lets get back up 🙏🏼👍🏼
I had an elderly 5th grade teacher who was an old school elitist and she would say I made “careless mistakes”, and by that time I was already diagnosed with ADHD. She made me feel like crap. part of me wants to talk to her today and get closure, and let her know how much she affected me. I don’t know what to do with these feelings.
He does explain it well. As an ADHD / DYSLEXIC person or 50 years old, my life has been very unstable. It never gets easier and know it all people become unbearable. 🥰🥰🥰🥰. But somehow I get through it. The longest I’ve kept a job is 5 years. I know. That crazy.
Over the last month or two I’ve realised I have ADHD - and I’m dyslexic too and I am now over 60. It’s interesting to read your longest time in work is 5 years - mine is 18months to 2 years! As for Dr Berkeley’s idea about sticky notes - (which I have tried) I notice them but with the dyslexia I don’t ‘see’ them! Also, I listened to all this video but so much I miss because my mind has wondered off so I’ve missed certain concepts - and that’s with hyper fixation. All so frustrating!!
@@cindyholton7234 I'll bet if you could somehow find a way to disconnect the nervous energy that has built up over your lifetime and redirect your metal energy toward finding creative ways to get what you want. As an older adult autistic I've finally discovered that SELF ACCEPTANCE has helped me to redirect and find my own way of getting what I want. Don't give up.
Dr. Barkley explanation makes more sense or mimics my situation more so than anything else i have read or heard regarding ADHD. Also, why do people laugh when he gives examples .... its odd that individuals find .... situations we are dealing with funny....kind of shows how ignorant people are regarding disabilities.
People laugh when they can relate. It is either themselves or someone they know that he is describing, and they find humor in being able to relate. I don't believe their laughter is to mock or make fun of others. Good comedians always make people laugh at what they can relate to.
People tend to laugh over what makes them feel somewhat anxious. Maybe they are reacting to the fear of how they would feel if they were ADHD or maybe they are ADHD and are remembering unhappy experiences.
The slides are available at the link in the description. You have to navigate to ADHD and LD resources, Burnett Lectures, and then find Dr. Barkley's lecture toward the bottom of the list. That page has a link back to these vids as well as the slides.
I have been using these lectures and similar to become my 12 year old son's doctor whilst awaiting official diagnosis. I have to be prepped for school meetings, just to be able to show them how they punish him for symptomatic behaviours 😔 let the battle commence...
😂😂😂 bi bio odgovor na komentar... A ako smijem pitati, imaš li dijagnozu i terapiju? Ako da, živiš li u BiH ili si vani negdje? Ja sam godinama išla psihijatrima, promijenila ih nekoliko, žalila se na ove simptome, a da nisam imala pojma o ovom problemu i sve što sam dobila su antidepresivi, koji su me dotukli (dodatno), a dijagnoza je anksioznost!
hej ćao! imam dijagnozu godinama, nije me zaobišla ni depresija ni anksioznost. samu terapiju mogu dobiti jedino u bg-u, jer makar ovdje u bl ne daju lijekove za adhd.
@@monikavikic nema problema! Imam concertu, međutim rijetko je koristim. pomaže nevjerovatno mnogo, međutim pošto nemam baš lak pristup lijeku čuvam dok mi baš ne zatreba. njegovi opisi efekata su 100% za mene.
I would really like to see the slides. I followed the links provided in Part 1, but, they were not the correct slides. Is there another link to see the correct ones?
this guy is fantastic. I learned and able to explain to those that previously didnt understand so much more and am able to do it much clearer than ever before thanks to him. So well done. Quick point: Didnt Richard Dawkins first come up with and elucidate the idea and book called the extended phenotype? (about 28:00) He never gave him credit and kind of took it himself if I remember. Kinda weird thats all.Thanks
Explains why 1. I leave the fruits and veg where I can see them. In the drawer, out of sight, out of mind. 2. Clocks everywhere 3. I'm shot after 230 in the afternoon. Bright In the early dawn. 4. Lists, dopamine hit witb scratching out. 5. The time management class i took freshman year at university was infinitely helpful.
I noticed that Dr. Barkley towards the end of the first lecture mentioned as "a friend" someone picking him up with 60 sticky notes at the dashboard within his car, notes that also served to hide the speedometer, unfortunately, apart from representing an example in accordence with the doctors advice to keep external reminders. Important, I think, is yet no lesser such examples of the "not unthinkable", so to speak, of friendships between those (some of us) rarely if ever reaching higher university degrees or simular, and those who may. His serving as a protester against unneccessary division with this, as such, where weaker parties will at worst serve one their "you can not" as also unneccessary confirmation of what one so unwillingly served to prove oneself within a life that indeed may be in danger by being or by becoming not to a tiny degree lonely, even while the lesser visible or at worst severely hidden qualities may be both many and important, still, like acting as someones friend examplifies, of cause.
something he said at 18:57 struck me... the ability to describe things in mind... ive always had trouble together putting together complicated effects or programming projects... EXCEPT when I use diagrams that display how i think then i can do it...but now i see why... SMH
Hmm so the "wall" that is need in executive function (as used by the Robinson Crusoe example), signifies a lack of boundaries between self and other people? This is very good for me to know! I am on a trial run of Concerta XL but am still having problems with boundaries between myself and others. I blamed myself thinking it was a willpower thing as the medication should be fixing that stuff right? Turns out I was wrong and I am very grateful to this video as I can take this example to the specialist next week and perhaps get the therapy treatment a little quicker as a higher priority. Thank you very much :)
@@paddlefar9175 what's most important in this lecture on ADHD is what is shared about humans. He is behind the science with animal intelligence, attention to themselves, etc... But that doesn't take away from the great info on we humans dealing w ADHD👍🏼😊
Slides: learningcenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/330/2013/01/ADHD-2-Theory-of-EF-and-SR-shortened-1-hour-version.pptx not the full 2 hour version :(
Well why are the slides not showing ? means you can’t see what the doc is referring too in the ADHD section so frustrating!!confused about glucose / sugar being recommended but most of these kids are hyperactive and sugar surely exasperates this condition!!
Does my Adhd close friend even realize that he's stopped calling me daily, and now it's only weekly if that? that my calls to him are far more often because he doesn't call me? Did he find a shiny new person to call and talk to? Does he even remember we have a connection? Starting to wonder if he remembers I exist
Bottom of this page, might have to override the safety for downloading/viewing a pptx (power point) file: addfreesources.net/this-is-how-you-treat-adhd-with-russell-barkley-ph-d/
Slides: learningcenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/330/2013/01/ADHD-2-Theory-of-EF-and-SR-shortened-1-hour-version.pptx not the full 2 hour version tho'...
I had a succesful cardiac ablation for intermittent af 6 mo ago. My psych NP (doctorate) will not treat my adult adhd w ANY medication. What do you think? I am a retired psych PA.
I think you need to find a psych NP who will actually treat your condition, since your current one won't. Don't let dogmatic docs practice bad medicine on you.
ruclips.net/video/_tpB-B8BXk0/видео.html sent her this one only 13min long of the same lecture... All the info needed there..and said to her "this desc u exactly"
Lol and I sent to my dad not sure either if he will either, I'm already labelled in my family and friendship groups and I'm 35, damage is done and I'm just too tired of being the F*ck up. Feel useless.
LEARN< LEARN< LEARN!! I almost gave up. Seriously!! I armed myself with KNOWLEDGE It is the Most Powerful weapon in your arsenal!! Don't give up. You have to do the hard work to LEARN everything you can about this. So, you can recognize it and teach those closest to you what you learn. The people that you surround yourself with HAVE to know and understand the Nature of the Beast! Or, you'll just push them away, mainly because they don't know or understand what is going on. .
Did anyone besides me question why that guy's buddy in the story let him leave his car running and the gas tank empty at the Shell mart WHEN they went fishing and drinking for 4 hours? I understand that the guy in the story had adhd, but what about his friend who let him leave the car running! LMAO!
Yes, both (Toxo an ADHD) effect EF's...cause they're both brain damage...in most cases though ADHD doesn't reduce your IQ and Toxo does. It doesn't reduce IQ or cause EF damage in women though...so it has more specific damage to the amygdala, women lose their fear of rape or murder from men. Also you can get a blood test to test for Toxoplamosis. Also culturally ADHD seems more severe , here's a analogy, (I might be wrong)...a nation of Toxo infected persons is called Serbia...a nation of severe ADHD'ers is called a state prison. But I wonder did the higher likelihood of lowered IQ in addition to the EF deficits abet the slaughter that occurred in the former Yugoslavia? (stupidity and aggresivity, without understanding future consequences)
Glad I’m not alone. I also have Aphantasia-and neither do I have a “mind’s” voice, test, touch, etc. In my early twenties. Lucky enough to be perceptive enough of people’s subtle differences, that’s why I know I am different from the “norm”. Aphantasia does suck. Makes you wonder how all of these neurological problems are actually interconnected. I also have a sinking suspicion I have autism (I can’t adequately read other people’s emotions because I can’t relate to shallow emotions, and I am logical most of the time. I also equittable and treat everyone fairly-so I “disrepect” authority. And I also am unfettered by human-made societal constructs.)
Pretty recognisable aside from the emotions, I'm quite skilled at reading them.A bit too much and because there is no off switch i often need to remove myself physically from a conversation or situation where there are a lot of negative emotions or just prolongued. I feel like a..idk, a radio receiver just picking up all the emotions and it really adds to the sensory overload @@__rikaisuru
Speaking of BLINDNESS, WHY WEREN’T any of the DIAGRAMS he was SHOWING part of of THIS VIDEO?? If you really want to help adhd people, it’s PDF (pretty damn frustrating) that NONE of the DIAGRAMS he DISCUSSED were SHOWN here. This might as well have been an audio presentation only. It was only halfway helpful, like having adhd is being able to DO things only halfway as well as other people do, at times. So thanks a lot for the HALFWAY helpful information provided here.
Hmm. Im thinking of how a person with ADHD (such as myself) can use these tools, as Dr Barkley says, to conform to western values. Sure. But DO I WANT TO? I may live in western culture BUT is it healthy?? Who naturally has a culture that mirrors what we call ADHD? Native cultures of North America. Scottish culture too. And if I had ANY choice I would prefer to live in a Native culture. And sugar, no. thats bullshit. I am on the edge of ACTUAL Diabetes and there is no way in FKK im going to sip lemonade. Some interesting information here--but problematic conclusions.
The only proven method is to dig a pit, and place sharpened sticks at the bottom. For added function, take thin branches and cover the pit to camouflage it from the ADHD. The ADHD will be distracted and fall in the pit.
Get back up there and watch the video guys! You can read the comments afterwards 😅
thanks for your comment, I needed someone to stop me scrolling 😂
🤣 I feel so attacked ❤
@@thevonslasher welcome 🤣
You are awesome 👌, my focus view is in the far far future for solutions, is so so hard for me to communicate with literally anyone's close range view an stay focused without get detracted from there boring dangerous movements threw there location view in time. I can't change my mind to there timeline I will die due to laws of attraction i have to keep what I was gifted with. Lol im only in the middle of this video so ya your amazing work is so still needed, im so behind but not for long thankyou for your curiosity 😅
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This is the most important lecture i have ever listened to. 48 years old and only now understand why i am the way i am. Found ways to to hide it over the years and to work around it but still need the pressure of a looming and imminent deadline to focus the mind enough to stay on task. For all the praise and rewards i get for my work, i've always felt i could be even better if i did not drown in too much time. I'm in tears.
OMG me too. And I’m 60. Sitting at home, unemployed, assuming I’m totally useless. And then, I nearly didn’t click on this because I thought ADHD was ‘just’ kid hyperactivity. And now I’m in tears too. I’ve dragged myself through an entire career and life and family and only treacherous deadlines have FORCED me to execute. WTF??
Same
I’m 50, SAME!!
I’m 50 and same. Haven’t achieved nearly as much as I know I’m potentially capable of. My main problems are fatigue, poor sleep and emotional disregulation. Which don’t sound like adhd issues but after watching many of these videos, I have learnt they are. Without the fatigue I think I could have found ways to overcome the emotional disregulation, lack of motivation & time blindness. But the regular fatigue is so hard to overcome. I often think high energy levels is the true meaning of wealth.
@@universaltruth2025 I use mainserin to combat poor sleep, but I only take 30mg no more than twice a week, usually weekends or when I know I can just relax the next day
This man is a guru for those of us with ADHD !!
AMEN!!!
I honestly wish that every adult who got diagnosed got a chance to see when his lectures or at least like a 15-second clip where he says this part of the brain and this part of the brain don't connect so the ADHD person knows what to do but they can't do it. It's not going to happen quit trying.
So validating!!!!
I think his ideas cross over to dyslexia and ASD.
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Right r
42:12 I love the myopic "time blindness" metaphor for adhd. It is so spot on I couldnt agree and relate to it more.
This is incredible. What a blessing to be able to hear this wisdom. I’m very grateful.
As someone who has just started the long journey to try and get my life back on track again after diagnosed but untreated ADHD left me almost non-functional in *all* areas of my life, I have to say I appreciate finding this lecture. For the first time, every single symptom, deficit, or characteristic fit together to make a three-dimensional picture instead of just a short, semi-relevant list of the same vague symptoms.
I had gotten quite disheartened when researching the subject earlier because I saw so many people in 2014 blaming the person with ADHD for what usually amounted to being "flawed," "bad" or "lazy." You provided more than enough insight and evidence, however, to encourage me that this is what I need to disclose to my treatment team so that I can rejoin life, regardless of what other opinions may be.
@Nishant adhd symptoms are a spectrum, while I am completely lost without an calculator my spouse has no issues even with her adhd
Don't quit regardless of limitations. We can enjoy the journey to recovery. May you have pure love in your life. It is medicine tonthe soul.
As someone that was "diagnosed" and had "treatment" (drugs/therapy/after school classes) I have confidence in saying the "treatment" did nothing but hold me back.. As a kid my imagination was wild and wandering..the prescribed "meth" they gave me stopped that.. Once my mom saw that I wasn't the same kid she asked me if I wanted to keep taking the pills.. I said no.. They made me a zombie.. My grades fell.. I acted out more extreme if I was on edge. When Highschool came around I was finally off the pills. That was when I started to feel like myself again and it really helped me.. I tried smoking weed in grade 9.. And since then I've been way happier and felt more comfortable in my skin. Not sayin weed is a better alternative, but I am saying prescription drugs suck and they barely ever work as intended. ADD/ADHD is a chemical imbalance for the most part.. But also somewhat mechanical. For instance.. When I was in grade 7 I was allowed to walk around the class while the teacher asked questions.. Because for me physical movement helps my brain flow.. I'm too creative to answer simple questions lol
@@codyblair8996 Glad you said this!! I got the impression from him that prescribing and taking ADHD meds is as easy and logical as taking vitamins. I wonder what he'd have to say about your experience with the meds?
@@napoleonsparis2058 I'd love too know.. My younger sisters think I should see a psychiatrist or something.. But I would run circles around them.. I trust my closest friends too "listen /hear me out" as I can trust them. And they already know me.
How is it humanly possible to have so much smart information and obtain it,,,,,,then deliver it to a huge crowd, without stumbling or stuttering on ONE word!!! Amazing!
this man, speaks .......way faster than my mind works. He lost me on the first 15 min!! wow....i need help. I thought all this time(45 years) that i was just dumb,slow,retartded. as i was called my whole life....but now i know!!! I got to go to therapy and meds,asap!!
46:35 "The only way to deal with executive deficits is to reengineer the environment around them to help them show what they know"
This was so enlightening. Some of the symptoms sounded like he knew me and followed my life. I'm 55 and still have a lot of the problems described. I've never been tested. When I went to school the teachers said I was a daydreamer.
Got an exam on executive function coming up. This guy has saved me.
The teachings and investigations of Dr. Russell Barkley should be compulsory teaching not only for Pyquiatrists but physicians in general. Since 1986, Psychiatrists are telling me that ADHD disappeared after I was 12 years old. At 58 years old, my life had been much easier if I had gotten the proper medication and guide that Dr. Barkley has given to humanity.
If you don't mind me asking, what medication ended up working for you?
The guy mowing his lawn example is great example. I would always get distracted at work when people asked me a question, asked for help or simply interacted with me. I would end up helping them at their work and answering their questions, but would always get in trouble because I could not finish my work. It made me seem lazy, disorganized and irresponsible slacker.
Mr Dr Barkley! THANK YOU, this video changed my life, from this video I realized I am extremely Temporally Myopic!! Ive known I have been ADHD and was taking 20 mg twice a day for long time and I could only really see a week ahead or less even! Looking back I realized it affected EVERY one of my decisions in life!!! OMG so I tried higher dose and WOW omg I actually was not taking enough and thought I was just failing at everything and like had trouble with EVERY one of those executive function levels you explained. The thing is I actually had a injury as a baby almost where I had stitches above my eyebrow and so like its obvious my frontal lobe is going to be affected. The can't do what you know is so right I realize now! I realize that when I like actually needed to remember to do something I would not remember when I needed it. Things are so much clearer. I wouldn't of tried higher dose without this video and your explanation of executive function!!!!! THANK YOU MAN
Life CHANGED! Please upvote this so he sees it!! and other adhdr's!
@@TheDudesRug Ritalin xl
I can't stand him myself
This is the greatest lecture, ever.
The passion, knowledge, maturity and words resonate to whomever is lucky enough to be able to understand how a cognitive anomaly can impact a person and others.
Most of us are barely hanging on and so hearing the struggles of another can only help the pain we or others may feel in the future. Or present do to being unaware.
Honesty and Knowledge rule!
One of the greatest adhd lectures
I had to take notes, and go back and re-listen a piece at a time throughout, but wow! So worth it.
I have never heard my life explained so well
I never had suicidal thoughts, but I am becoming disappointed with the outcome of my efforts. I always end up getting the short end of my own stick! And when I please others trough my behavior, they cannot help but try to exploit me! I always had a very complicated lifestyle, that now that I am 38 I just want the less amount of problems. But I am feeling guilty that I cannot put to good use this beautiful mind of mine(that can Hyperfocus).
Wow. I wish I had found this information years ago!
It's like when we have little things that we should put in their place and we don't do it, like a jacket or shoes and after a week it has accumulated so much that we get overwhelmed and it just keeps accumulating, it's same with all other areas of our lives. You have one small task that we don't do because we cannot get ourselves to do it , then other things / accumulates on it till it becomes continuously overwhelming till we feel completely helpless and overwhelmed that we just let everything pile and our whole life feels out of control and we feel depressed and frustrated , if we lucky, an hyperfocus episodes comes up and we attack it all with invigorating energy only to repeat the same patten again. Or if not our whole life just falls apart and we depressed and dropped out from school🥺.
Story of my life! I've just found out few hours ago what I've struggled with whole my life and I've been through therapies and changed a few psychiatrics over the decade, talking about these exact symptoms over and over again and I was diagnosed with anxiety and then given antidepressants which made my life even worse (I wasn't only still unable to finish or even start anything but I even stopped worry about it). I also attended some group therapy until I was told by therapist that she wouldn't tolerate me being late any more (even though she knew that was one of my reasons to be there at first place and I also wasn't late every single time and when I was it was for about 10 minutes). She told me it was me seeking attention!!
I'm literally in the exact same situation ..I'm even watching videos trying to figure out why Im a hoarder because my boyfriend is ready to break up with me over all the Clutter that I can't get control over.. but what's resonating even more about the Clutter then possibly being a hoarder is maybe that the issue is that I have ADHD that is untreated and if this is really how my brain works then maybe I need to start trying to work with it instead of against it.. and if I started implementing some of these tactics that were talked in this talk maybe I can get some benefits from that..
This guy is an absolute genius!
I love your lectures. I'm learning so much about why my brain functions how it does. I wish we could see the overhead as well or they were attached in the description.
This is brilliant
It totally explains on which level of executive functioning I am and what level of executive functioning my work demands from me
Finally. I unerstand more and more of my behaviour unless i already have read so much 🤯
This is such good info. I just take issue with one bit at the very end. When he says the prefrontal cortex needs blood sugar he is spot on, but then he recommends sipping Gatorade or lemonade or some sugary drink. I think he does this because it’s logical. However, as soon as that sugar drink hits the bloodstream insulin is released and calls every bit of sugar out of the blood and makes you crash. So it does the exact opposite, it pulls all the sugar out of your brain and will make you flunk the test. Best to have plenty of fat and protein on board, and in my personal case be in the state of ketosis which by far gives me the most brain power of all.
You only crash from sugar if you take a lot of it, a small amount will help you become alert, he already said that “ don’t gulp it just take a few sips”.
I swear the guy is a genius he doesn’t miss anything!!
Man you are right! My life is totally turning in a new and positive direction after Dr Barkley lectures and explanations, I will add this: Ive been on low carb keto almost 1.5 year now, I can work focusing 30min max, after my brain get fatigue, I need rest or close my eyes, rest thoughts, glucose is essential for me, better from berries or half banana, same here, if I take refined sugar or any high sugar drink or food, after 20min..crash,..same...but i cant be calm or concentrate if i go ketosis, what makes me sleep less, restless, go for another pleasure experiences...before sex, bike, exercises for longer, loosing focus...I removed many stressors from my life, ex-girlfriend, family toxic members, friends, toxic and loaded information environment, phone, instagram, internet (essentials only), or anything that was depleting my dopamine levels or reducing my serotonin...so...I am on my way on recovery, they said dopamine normal levels can take from 3 months to 12 months to get back to normal, If I go ketosis, nervous system shake and I feel wrong..if I go back to carbs, crash and laziness, procrastination, emotional dominance, weakness...etc...so...i think is better to say each person can try everything on finding your own balance...better fine tuned brain chemistry and emotional regulation...in my case..living alone..isolate and sacrifice my old self..in order to clean the field on grown daily my new one...we are all in the same thing...and see the Dr's Work and comments like yours make me feel connected to something bigger than what i can understand...take care man love and peace...hope everybody can heal and recovery...being in low dopamine ADHD experiencing life is not worth..lets get back up 🙏🏼👍🏼
Totally agree, sugary drink as a last resort quick fix, very short window
I had an elderly 5th grade teacher who was an old school elitist and she would say I made “careless mistakes”, and by that time I was already diagnosed with ADHD. She made me feel like crap. part of me wants to talk to her today and get closure, and let her know how much she affected me. I don’t know what to do with these feelings.
He does explain it well. As an ADHD / DYSLEXIC person or 50 years old, my life has been very unstable. It never gets easier and know it all people become unbearable. 🥰🥰🥰🥰. But somehow I get through it. The longest I’ve kept a job is 5 years. I know. That crazy.
Over the last month or two I’ve realised I have ADHD - and I’m dyslexic too and I am now over 60. It’s interesting to read your longest time in work is 5 years - mine is 18months to 2 years!
As for Dr Berkeley’s idea about sticky notes - (which I have tried) I notice them but with the dyslexia I don’t ‘see’ them!
Also, I listened to all this video but so much I miss because my mind has wondered off so I’ve missed certain concepts - and that’s with hyper fixation. All so frustrating!!
@@cindyholton7234 I'll bet if you could somehow find a way to disconnect the nervous energy that has built up over your lifetime and redirect your metal energy toward finding creative ways to get what you want. As an older adult autistic I've finally discovered that SELF ACCEPTANCE has helped me to redirect and find my own
way of getting what I want. Don't give up.
Dr. Barkley explanation makes more sense or mimics my situation more so than anything else i have read or heard regarding ADHD. Also, why do people laugh when he gives examples .... its odd that individuals find .... situations we are dealing with funny....kind of shows how ignorant people are regarding disabilities.
People laugh when they can relate. It is either themselves or someone they know that he is describing, and they find humor in being able to relate. I don't believe their laughter is to mock or make fun of others. Good comedians always make people laugh at what they can relate to.
People tend to laugh over what makes them feel somewhat anxious. Maybe they are reacting to the fear of how they would feel if they were ADHD or maybe they are ADHD and are remembering unhappy experiences.
This is fascinating and will change the way i teach - but i really wish we had access to those slides!
Try his website! There's a lot of helpful resources there.
The slides are available at the link in the description. You have to navigate to ADHD and LD resources, Burnett Lectures, and then find Dr. Barkley's lecture toward the bottom of the list. That page has a link back to these vids as well as the slides.
We do, in the description.
Slides: learningcenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/330/2013/01/ADHD-2-Theory-of-EF-and-SR-shortened-1-hour-version.pptx
Thank you!!
not the actual slides tho'... "shortened-1-hour -version", quite confusing until i figured it out
Thanks
@@Dm3qXY Yeah, lots of things are missing, unfortunately.
I have been using these lectures and similar to become my 12 year old son's doctor whilst awaiting official diagnosis. I have to be prepped for school meetings, just to be able to show them how they punish him for symptomatic behaviours 😔 let the battle commence...
Wow this is fascinating lecture
This video is pure gold!!
it's a guy literally telling me stuff I already know I love this man
😂😂😂 bi bio odgovor na komentar... A ako smijem pitati, imaš li dijagnozu i terapiju? Ako da, živiš li u BiH ili si vani negdje? Ja sam godinama išla psihijatrima, promijenila ih nekoliko, žalila se na ove simptome, a da nisam imala pojma o ovom problemu i sve što sam dobila su antidepresivi, koji su me dotukli (dodatno), a dijagnoza je anksioznost!
hej ćao! imam dijagnozu godinama, nije me zaobišla ni depresija ni anksioznost. samu terapiju mogu dobiti jedino u bg-u, jer makar ovdje u bl ne daju lijekove za adhd.
@@pretor92 Pa i ja sam u BL i očito ne daju ni dijagnozu... Ako smijem još, koju terapiju dobijaš i pomaže li? Hvala ti, puno!
@@monikavikic nema problema! Imam concertu, međutim rijetko je koristim. pomaže nevjerovatno mnogo, međutim pošto nemam baš lak pristup lijeku čuvam dok mi baš ne zatreba. njegovi opisi efekata su 100% za mene.
@@pretor92 Hvala još jednom!
I would really like to see the slides. I followed the links provided in Part 1, but, they were not the correct slides. Is there another link to see the correct ones?
this guy is fantastic. I learned and able to explain to those that previously didnt understand so much more and am able to do it much clearer than ever before thanks to him. So well done. Quick point: Didnt Richard Dawkins first come up with and elucidate the idea and book called the extended phenotype? (about 28:00) He never gave him credit and kind of took it himself if I remember. Kinda weird thats all.Thanks
I feel like its easier to make yourself mad/sad than it is to make yourself happy
Explains why 1. I leave the fruits and veg where I can see them. In the drawer, out of sight, out of mind. 2. Clocks everywhere 3. I'm shot after 230 in the afternoon. Bright In the early dawn. 4. Lists, dopamine hit witb scratching out. 5. The time management class i took freshman year at university was infinitely helpful.
I noticed that Dr. Barkley towards the end of the first lecture mentioned as "a friend" someone picking him up with 60 sticky notes at the dashboard within his car, notes that also served to hide the speedometer, unfortunately, apart from representing an example in accordence with the doctors advice to keep external reminders. Important, I think, is yet no lesser such examples of the "not unthinkable", so to speak, of friendships between those (some of us) rarely if ever reaching higher university degrees or simular, and those who may. His serving as a protester against unneccessary division with this, as such, where weaker parties will at worst serve one their "you can not" as also unneccessary confirmation of what one so unwillingly served to prove oneself within a life that indeed may be in danger by being or by becoming not to a tiny degree lonely, even while the lesser visible or at worst severely hidden qualities may be both many and important, still, like acting as someones friend examplifies, of cause.
You are genius, thank you for being born
I had no idea...,the lights turned on,I got a map and a bag of tools.
I just wish I had this 20 years ago.
@@raymeester7883 I wish I had this more than 30 years ago
something he said at 18:57 struck me... the ability to describe things in mind... ive always had trouble together putting together complicated effects or programming projects... EXCEPT when I use diagrams that display how i think then i can do it...but now i see why...
SMH
The guy did not mention that sometimes people have friends just to communicate and they don't expect any exchange either than communication
Hmm so the "wall" that is need in executive function (as used by the Robinson Crusoe example), signifies a lack of boundaries between self and other people? This is very good for me to know! I am on a trial run of Concerta XL but am still having problems with boundaries between myself and others. I blamed myself thinking it was a willpower thing as the medication should be fixing that stuff right? Turns out I was wrong and I am very grateful to this video as I can take this example to the specialist next week and perhaps get the therapy treatment a little quicker as a higher priority. Thank you very much :)
Great lecture! He's a little off with information regarding other (than human) species, though. The rest is awesome!
Give me an example, if you have the time, please?
@@paddlefar9175 what's most important in this lecture on ADHD is what is shared about humans.
He is behind the science with animal intelligence, attention to themselves, etc... But that doesn't take away from the great info on we humans dealing w ADHD👍🏼😊
@@tdhawk167 Oh, like in the cases of Gorilla, Chimps and certain Whales like the Sperm Whale?
Amazing thank you very much.
Thank you for this.
The last 20min I’m speechless
Wish this was split screen with the slides.
Wow mesmerising
Like a sports car with no wheels.
Are there updated slides for his presentation?
I am Cixelsyd and my AD is in HD. I hear someone whispering "right" in between his sentences sometimes
Too bad we can’t see the diagrams, but fascinating!
Slides: learningcenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/330/2013/01/ADHD-2-Theory-of-EF-and-SR-shortened-1-hour-version.pptx
not the full 2 hour version :(
Then why do people with adhd have the most imagination but the poorest exitive function?
Because they are great at global thinking not at natural linear thinking
Well why are the slides not showing ? means you can’t see what the doc is referring too in the ADHD section so frustrating!!confused about glucose / sugar being recommended but most of these kids are hyperactive and sugar surely exasperates this condition!!
Sugar doesn't make you hyper
This is a myth that we no longer believe to be true, as he mentions in part 1
Where are the slides?
Does my Adhd close friend even realize that he's stopped calling me daily, and now it's only weekly if that? that my calls to him are far more often because he doesn't call me? Did he find a shiny new person to call and talk to? Does he even remember we have a connection? Starting to wonder if he remembers I exist
Gotta keep blood glucose up in the brain for ADHD but keep it down for Type 2 Diabetes
Crled at 44:57. 😶😯💚
I drive very carefully because I am afraid to damage my car which would ruin me, does this mean I can't have severe ADHD?
Um, no. I'm not a medical professional, but that's not really what ADHD is. Also, you're just mentioning one example, and ADHD is a spectrum
And the questions?
Theater in the mind
Where are these slides?
I already forgot!!! Slides please!
Bottom of this page, might have to override the safety for downloading/viewing a pptx (power point) file: addfreesources.net/this-is-how-you-treat-adhd-with-russell-barkley-ph-d/
@@Stormcrow_JE Thanks!!
Slides: learningcenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/330/2013/01/ADHD-2-Theory-of-EF-and-SR-shortened-1-hour-version.pptx
not the full 2 hour version tho'...
We know we all came for 45:00 and onwards.
Link to Part 1? Can’t see it in the description box…
I don't have time for this!
I had a succesful cardiac ablation for intermittent af 6 mo ago. My psych NP (doctorate) will not treat my adult adhd w ANY medication. What do you think? I am a retired psych PA.
I think you need to find a psych NP who will actually treat your condition, since your current one won't. Don't let dogmatic docs practice bad medicine on you.
is every person with shitty life looking for diagnosis?
I sent this to my daughter with ADHD...but she'll never listen to it. 😣
ruclips.net/video/_tpB-B8BXk0/видео.html sent her this one only 13min long of the same lecture... All the info needed there..and said to her "this desc u exactly"
Lol and I sent to my dad not sure either if he will either, I'm already labelled in my family and friendship groups and I'm 35, damage is done and I'm just too tired of being the F*ck up. Feel useless.
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How am I supposed to function in life then?
LEARN< LEARN< LEARN!! I almost gave up. Seriously!! I armed myself with KNOWLEDGE It is the Most Powerful weapon in your arsenal!! Don't give up. You have to do the hard work to LEARN everything you can about this. So, you can recognize it and teach those closest to you what you learn. The people that you surround yourself with HAVE to know and understand the Nature of the Beast! Or, you'll just push them away, mainly because they don't know or understand what is going on. .
Meds
@@IBCHARLALALA so which med u take
Did anyone besides me question why that guy's buddy in the story let him leave his car running and the gas tank empty at the Shell mart WHEN they went fishing and drinking for 4 hours?
I understand that the guy in the story had adhd, but what about his friend who let him leave the car running! LMAO!
ADD impairments EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DISORDERS. TIME IMPAIRED ETC
Liams 14
Wittgenstein just got demolished imo
Couldn't EFs be altered by Toxiplasmus Gondii?
Yes, both (Toxo an ADHD) effect EF's...cause they're both brain damage...in most cases though ADHD doesn't reduce your IQ and Toxo does. It doesn't reduce IQ or cause EF damage in women though...so it has more specific damage to the amygdala, women lose their fear of rape or murder from men.
Also you can get a blood test to test for Toxoplamosis.
Also culturally ADHD seems more severe , here's a analogy, (I might be wrong)...a nation of Toxo infected persons is called Serbia...a nation of severe ADHD'ers is called a state prison.
But I wonder did the higher likelihood of lowered IQ in addition to the EF deficits abet the slaughter that occurred in the former Yugoslavia? (stupidity and aggresivity, without understanding future consequences)
All I gotta say is…damn it
49:00
Amen
21:50 heard earrape, laughed, cant focus no more.
21:54 is that a fart?
Lol omg 😂😂👏👏 you're silly ❤❤
12:42 hurts. As an aphantasiac with all senses blindness, this is just not correct for me. I wonder how much aphantasia worsens adhd
Glad I’m not alone. I also have Aphantasia-and neither do I have a “mind’s” voice, test, touch, etc. In my early twenties. Lucky enough to be perceptive enough of people’s subtle differences, that’s why I know I am different from the “norm”.
Aphantasia does suck. Makes you wonder how all of these neurological problems are actually interconnected.
I also have a sinking suspicion I have autism (I can’t adequately read other people’s emotions because I can’t relate to shallow emotions, and I am logical most of the time. I also equittable and treat everyone fairly-so I “disrepect” authority. And I also am unfettered by human-made societal constructs.)
Pretty recognisable aside from the emotions, I'm quite skilled at reading them.A bit too much and because there is no off switch i often need to remove myself physically from a conversation or situation where there are a lot of negative emotions or just prolongued. I feel like a..idk, a radio receiver just picking up all the emotions and it really adds to the sensory overload
@@__rikaisuru
Speaking of BLINDNESS, WHY WEREN’T any of the DIAGRAMS he was SHOWING part of of THIS VIDEO?? If you really want to help adhd people, it’s PDF (pretty damn frustrating) that NONE of the DIAGRAMS he DISCUSSED were SHOWN here.
This might as well have been an audio presentation only.
It was only halfway helpful, like having adhd is being able to DO things only halfway as well as other people do, at times.
So thanks a lot for the HALFWAY helpful information provided here.
39:56
45:56 Intervention
Timestamps for you
48:48 steps to fix it
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I hope Jesus had intercours with you 🙏 amin
I get the sense he really doesn't like the test battery for this. ;)
Hmm. Im thinking of how a person with ADHD (such as myself) can use these tools, as Dr Barkley says, to conform to western values. Sure. But DO I WANT TO? I may live in western culture BUT is it healthy?? Who naturally has a culture that mirrors what we call ADHD? Native cultures of North America. Scottish culture too. And if I had ANY choice I would prefer to live in a Native culture. And sugar, no. thats bullshit. I am on the edge of ACTUAL Diabetes and there is no way in FKK im going to sip lemonade. Some interesting information here--but problematic conclusions.
is this behaviorism?
How do you catch ADHD?
The only proven method is to dig a pit, and place sharpened sticks at the bottom.
For added function, take thin branches and cover the pit to camouflage it from the ADHD.
The ADHD will be distracted and fall in the pit.
Mosquitoes
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