The Importance of Emotion in ADHD - Dr Russell Barkley
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2015
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I can't believe that in a presentation with audio and visual components on !ADHD! the camera man is recording the only part that doesn't require seeing
It's crazy to hear this if you have ADHD cause you have always thought there was something wrong with your discipline or attitude but to know the science behind it is a game changer.
This is a shocking revelation for me. Severe adhd, ODD...all of it
Yea. I was completely shocked by the self changing of emotions. I had no clue how people could just angry at (me for example) then act fine talking to someone else the next.
Totally true. Its almost brain frazzlingly true
I look back at my life and part of me feels angry because my parents just used to scream at me "be normal!" But I had no idea what the hell I was doing wrong.
@@WoodyStickman "Don't be so lazy, it takes two minutes to do!!"
To me it could (still can without medication) take two-three hours, even much longer if it's really boring, to get myself to do whatever it was.
I could have 10-15 things laying around on the floor in my room, thrown there in anger over something little silly. All I had to do was pick them up, put them away, that was all. And I sat like a fool on my bed, looking on the stuff on my floor for hours, instead of just throw them into a drawer.
"ADHD isn't an attention disorder. ADHD is an executive disorder."
Dr. Barkley's words. So true.
I wasn't (am not) LAZY, I just couldn't make my brain to order my body to do this ridiculously simple thing. And how the Fxxx!!! would a ten years old kid explain that, and be BELIEVED!? People don't believe me now, in 2021, as an adult, 50 years later.😒
i have adhd and DEFINITELY have the emotional dysregulation component, always have, but it has rarely presented itself as externalized anger. instead i've always been really quick to tears. kids didn't reject me because i was a hothead, but because i was crying all the time. i also was like.... a super well behaved kid most of the time, and was ridiculously hard on myself if i did anything even slightly "wrong". i was hypervigilant about what other people thought of me and felt about me. so it would be good to talk about emotional dysregulation in adhd beyond just typical (and often more masculine) presentation of anger.
I'm exactly the same as you describe yourself. All I've heard my whole life is "oh aren't you sensitive". Chasing a diagnosis now, but not sure how it may help aged 41
me as well
hmm sounds like hsp
You're still masculine even if you cry. Anger isn't the only emotion we feel, especially when we were young boys. I was well behaved after they placed me on ritalin. I was self conscious like you. I was an outcast, I couldn't fit in and just decided not to.
As a child I had dealt with feelings of melancholy and anger. I just didn't fit in, got into a lot of fights because the medication made me appear docile eventhough I had anger issues. I think the anger and depression could be related to the fact that I was being beaten by a guy my mom dated when I was four years old.
Also abandonment issues since my dad left my mom prior to me being born. Hard to say if it's mainly my ADD. It's probably a combination of the aforementioned. I was told that I was high functioning ADD. I can plan things (I actually helped out organizing my wedding), I typically stay on top of bills, etc,...
Although, there are days it's hard for me to function. I have a good relationship with my parents, now in my early 30s. I get frustrated when people use vague or ambiguous terminology instead of saying what "this" or "that" is. I need specifics when I'm in an unfamiliar situation and I'm depending on the person to relay information to me.
wow I'm just like you
This man gives the most accurate descriptions of ADHD ever
I like that he is so clear-eyed about the challenges we face but at the same time I definitely can hear his grief for his brother in how he shades those challenges. We are not all his brother; although ADHD is absolutely a challenge and an impairment many of us have better and less self-destructive coping strategies. I wonder if he and his brother had been born even a decade later if his brother would still be alive.
It's driving me insane that the cameraman isn't letting us see the visuals in the presentation as Russel talks the audience through them, I'm a visual learner and I need that shit
It's driving me insane I didn't notice any untill I read your comment 35 minutes in.
Me too.
Haha yes!
Yes!
I wasn't paying attention when he started about ODD, I have no idea what that means, but it was probably on the projection we couldn't see. I need visuals or I lose focus.
I’m in a relationship with an ADHD person and he found out this year, it’s been a tough journey but I’m here to educate myself. Finding out however, I realized a lot of the reactions I’ve experienced makes sense now. The one thing that matters to us is we love each other a lot, thanks for this session and for this channel!
you're such an amazing partner for doing that
I’m 36 and still looking for someone with as good a heart as you. I hope your still together, he’s a lucky guy!
@@plsarguewithme2665 Aww thanks, it's nice to hear from people that care. =)
@@_SIRENITY_ Thanks so much, we are still together. The latest news is he's gotten on medication and he's regulating his emotions better these days. I totally support finding medication that can work and playing around with the doses helped figure out what works best. There are some bad days here and there but as long as you're honest and communicate with each other about how it affects you or how you feel, there can always be a solution. Don't give up there are good people out there that understand, it's effort but they're out there. The pandemic didn't help but I do hope you find more friends or that special someone. Thanks for the support!
@@kellylujan4687Thank you for being a good partner!
I found out tht i have adhd last year. I told my hubby abt it and he said, "then we both have adhd, because i am worse person than you"(well he is not)..I thank God that he can understand and give strength to me to keep on and stay positive...
I am a psychiatrist. Recently diagnosed with combined type and it is obvious that DSM-IV and DSM-V are not covering it correctly. The emotional aspects of ADHD are very much present in many patients - in me too and it's astounding that that part is not in it. Very interesting talk.
It does sour some milk, about all thes diagnostics.
What tickles me is I'm sure repression again probably causes cancer and hypertension as well as Cusings syndromes...
(something like that)...
What is this healthy model that he the Dr refers to... this "we"...
and in which culture...
30years ago...
people weren't hdhd or autistic...
and in other parts of the world...
-other human environments...
... You won't open/have to open DSM-5/6 in say... Tsumkwe ... would you?
You'll enculturate.
(thinking smiley).
Wonder also about emotions in Austral opetines... it has function. no?!
Good talk though. Like the edges and confinement and progression through the concepts and construckt.
Very well done.
My little granddaughter age 8 has been dealing with ADHD. Not diagnosed yet, but getting there. Her teacher last year and this year concur. Now, when she arrives back home from school, she screams and throws things. Her parents (my daughter) are very concerned. Her dad (narcissistic tendencies) doesn’t parent in a positive way, imo. I’m worried and will not stop until I feel assured that she is getting the help she needs.
Me too - but now I am learning that the emotional regulation issue is more part of the ASD spectrum - and attention is just one colour in the rainbow which is ADHD. Where as with ASD you need to have issues under all of the colours including emotional regulation.
@@pixiegem Can you pls elaborate or explain.
It's kind of ironic that the reason i was denied a diagnose it was because "I was too emotional". The neuro psicologist completely dismised how bad my emotional regulation was.
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ADHD? Struggling to stay focused? Everything too SLOW??? SPEED UP the video! Click on 'Settings' in lower Right corner of video, then click 'Speed.; Higher the number, faster it runs. Get in , get out + on to the next. You're welcome.
1.25X is normal speed, but for better consumption especially in reading books in audible.... go 1.75 and even 2 - and over... and mark up books as you rip through them!
The only problem in the past several years, I've found is that- I am the talking as fast as my consumption of resource content, and then in normal individual pace of conversation, I want to try to speed people up.! ... as they're a bit boring... But then that's always been the case, so you might as well devour the content faster meaning greater volume of consumption outright, and then, pace yourself with patience in talking to people. 😎🤓
@@scottcarter1689 Exactly!
I've been playing this video at 1.5 and had to go back and check if I sped it up when I saw this lol
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I have adult ADHD and have had it my whole life. I'm 42yrs old and this man is a genius and gifted in the way he explains the scientific facts.
Tracy Bowlin right! This is great...me having adhd omy
yes he is. me as well. im just now accepting it. its hard living a normal life
I have ADHD and I was only diagnosed when I was 22, 15 years ago. Originally, it was suggested I had ADHD when I was 13, but it was quickly dismissed. I am British and sadly the condition wasn't thought to exist here in the 90s. As I result I suffered badly.
Hey matt I have had a similar experience, do you mind if I can message you through something to ask you a few questions about your experience?
Hi Jules, you can message me. I would be interested to speak to you.
Before I was diagnosed (and even now, I’m still working on it) I would always be so frustrated with myself because everybody else could hold back tears and rage and I just can’t and I’m so glad I saw this
🤣🤣🤣. Dyslexic and ADHD, 50 years old. I’ve always had outbursts when people agitated me beyond my feelings limit. So I was told I have intermittent explosive disorder, and the dr followed that up with a comment of , everyone has that though, because if you bother someone enough they will explode eventually, so it’s normal, but ADHD makes it worse and more often. So I warn people of the explosion if they don’t stop agitating me, and most people stop or they see the monster. Then when I ask them to stop after they experience the monster, they stop when advised.
I can hold back rage and tears enoth i just feel shit otherwise. And no motivation i dont get why people focus on rage and tears if that is ur main problem u seem super blessed
I think back and I remember a lot more explosive or uncontrollable emotions from when I was a kid. I think as I got older, and from being raised by a narcissistic parent who emotionally abused me, the trauma created this massive disconnect between my logic and emotions, to the point where I either feel nothing, or I feel an extremely intense version of that emotion. It took me some time to figure out I'm not actually feeling nothing, as my behavior will change, I just don't FEEL it until it's overwhelming.
@@hanskraut2018 " i dont get why people focus on rage and tears if that is ur main problem u seem super blessed"
everyone else's problems look easy from the outside. they aren't easy for the people that have them because if they were easy to get rid of, everyone would get rid of their problems. people look at your lack of motivation and think "I wish that was my only problem! I have tons of motivation, but I can't control my emotions! Why is life so hard ?"
This might explain why I gets so red hot when I am emotional. Even if I could suppress my emotion, it would be written all over my body.
I learned to mask my emotions outwardly with a calm and collected demeanor eventhough I may really be upset, it's my coping mechanism. There are times I get really upset, I let it out in private.
I do the exact same thing!
I went so hard on masking that I barely even can let it out when I'm alone. I feel like crying, I'm done, I'm exhausted, but my body just sits there in melancholy, while my brain may remind me of past failures or a thousand possibilities things could a wrong turn.
I've just learned about my ADHD at 34. I agree with everything except driving. Never had an accident. The hyperactivity when driving really lets me see the road from such a wide perspective. I see the faintest details in traffic. Especially at high speeds. Usually when I'm driving I might get someone say "hey watch it there coming over" I say I saw them before they even moved. And it's true. I see things before they happen.
Me to word thought i was buging
Well, do others agree with you? Humans in general and especially ADHD sufferers are known to overestimate their driving skills to a great degree. You might not be such a good driver as you think - at least not until it's confirmed by others too.
On the other hand, suffering from ADHD does not mean that you will drive worse than others do. It just means that you will not drive as good as you would have done had you not had the diagnosis. Some of us simply are born good drivers, and that will compensate for the driving impairment that comes with ADHD.
Others, consciously or subconsciously, compensate for their impairment by driving more carefully and safely than they otherwise would have done. I, myself, am one of these.
So, even when someone with ADHD have great driving skills it doesn't mean that their driving isn't impaired by their ADHD. They would probably have been even better drivers without the ADHD.
@Gods Will are you also a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) according to Elaine Aron's criteria ?
Yeah l don't drive but l navigate mean streets like a shadow, been attacked inside buildings when cornered but never never ever on the worst streets. Some people hate walking with me because l cross and recross roads don't take the shortest route etc and walk as tho they should just fall in step with me! My street situational awareness and proximal sensing is off the charts. Theyre the same rigid people who get into situations all the time because they let themselves get to close, they get snagged by trouble, l ghost trouble, trouble doesn't even know l was there. Did l learn this growing up? No l grew up on an isolated farm! So l believe you about that aspect of your driving. It's innate.
I used to have that before I got me meds. 50% extra working memory is worth it though, and being so hypersensitive was very tiring anyway.
Forgot to mention I grew up ADHD and surrounded by people who had no idea of what was going on with me, ENTIRE LIFE. Today i find myself deeply trying to understand this disorder and this is the only man able to take me to the next level of the answers I'm seeking. It would be of extreme significance to translate it and spread it around the city. Thanks again!
Gabriel, I get what your saying. I'm going to share this video with family members who deal with ADHD. My son has been trying to improve his grades and the suggestions me and my husband have provided, have not ushered in a whole lot of improvement. Now I understand, this is a chronic condition that requires all the tools and tricks to help my son throughout the day. Not just sometimes, but all the time. Had I known what my own ADD was not allowing me to achieve, I would have incorporated the tools I use now to keep me on track. It's not an old folks problem, it's continuous learning on our part, and practicing work and reward strategies for the rest of our lives. Good luck to you and share what you've learned with family and friends.
I agree! I love him! I was diagnosed young but didn't get any treatment...dropped out of highschool etc. Now at 26 I am taking medication and going to therapy, and it is a game changer. Hearing someone explain EXACTLY our struggles growing up and STILL on the daily....it is very validating. Understanding this condition is really helpful, and one of our best tools to learn to cope in a healthy way. If we have a good understanding, maybe, JUST maybe, the next time we run into a situation, we may better know how to react (or at least have that - PAUSE - that we lack before actions or speech.)
Yes my father was strict bad temper angry I always was the so called naughty child too I also was diagnosed by my Fathers Psychiatrist Within 10 mins I was given 2 a day 5mg Dexamphetamine’s I remember sitting under the big tree on the bench seat within in half hour I could breathe properly Great Speaker 🍀
Wow. I just literally had an epiphany while watching this. this lecture really helped me understand my boyfriend’s adhd behavior that has caused so many issues in our relationship, my own problems currently and in childhood, our teenage defiance, as well as both of our difficult past history, my fathers poor parenting style… wow…. This explains so much about my life and his, and it helps me have more compassion for my partner as well as for myself, and my younger self… thank you for this.
So from the perspective of a 50+-year-old who always knew he "would" be diagnosed with ADHD but would never check because he disagreed with the last letter (D for Disability) vehemently (all bias declared)...
When Doctor Barkley discusses the ability to recall an event from memory to cause an emotional shift, I am fascinated by the inefficiency of such an action. I learned I could directly call on a different emotion. Now that I'm actually looking at the research and conclusions of scientists, I'm able to see what "normal" people do and experience.
I do not view ADHD as a "disorder". I view it as a different way of being. "Normal" people learn to stop themselves and remind themselves of what they want to achieve. "Normal" people stop themselves and identify that emotion will have negative outcomes, then recall a memory that will evoke emotions they wish to attain.
I don't do things for the future. I edit my responses, my habits, my perceptions, the meaning I attach to things, and my expectations to refine my day-to-day, moment-to-moment experience of life. In short, I change who I am so that who I am is more effective, more hopeful, more open to possibility. That's how I cope with the situations "normal" people stop and adjust to. This might seem like splitting hairs. Maybe it is, but it's also EVERYTHING.
I view stopping and changing, or faking-till-you-make it as false, as a pretense. I don't judge others for it, but it feels like a lie to me. I'm not going to pretend I like someone so I can get an advantage. I look for ways to appreciate people for who they are. Not just a specific person, all people. I look for ways to interpret things that annoy me. I seek to understand the benefit of things that I would otherwise avoid. This one is significant for me: Everything is potential. I crafted that perspective. If something looks really bad, I look for the good in it. I seek the whole picture. The worst times of my life have prepared me to realize the best. Nothing is inherently negative, it's only how you look at it.
I've never succeeded at dieting and exercise based on a future goal of what I want to achieve. I have succeeded by changing who I am. I became fascinated (our superpower) with how the body burned fat and with that ketosis. I made myself an experiment and started new habits. Not to achieve something 6 months down the road, but to see what would happen tomorrow. My wife would tell me "Stop getting on the scales every day You don't lose weight daily. It takes weeks." But for me, it was daily. And daily WAS required, because why would I wait a week to satisfy my curiosity.
Living in the NOW is a staple of numerous philosophies. So is "follow your passion". I just have to learn to do this while living in harmony with my environment. I do that by changing how I am, not how I get what I want.
When I started exercising, I chased the "burn". I reveled in it the same way people love spicy food. When I work on endurance I'm chasing the runners high, and experimenting with balancing breath control and form to watch the outcomes. I'm in the moment, not the future. When I commit, it's for the experiment, experience, moral imperative. Not for the reward. Every time I've tried to chase the reward, I didn't like the person I became.
We're not disabled. We're different from the majority. What's critical about that fact is this: Common wisdom for others doesn't always work for us. We need to share with each other (of the ADHD tribe) what does work. But NOT because we're "compromised". Thinking that way is to abandon all our strengths in favor of conforming to a norm we don't fit. Conforming is a disability.
"Normal" people don't revel in losing themselves to weeks' worth of laser focus on some interest or question. Normal people don't automatically notice the parallel patterns at play in agile methodologies and evolution. ...or maybe they do? What do I really know about what normal people think and feel? Only by hearing them tell me what I don't.
Please don't interpret these comments as disrespect for Dr. Barkley. I am grateful for his research. I'm fascinated by his observations. The knowledge he offers is of immense value to me. My only disagreement with him is in approaching this as a disability when it clearly has advantages and it clearly survived natural selection for some reason.
The words we use to encapsulate a concept of are immense significance because people use words to think. The nature of a word modifies the options available to our mental processes. The way we measure and the context. Words are an unconscious abstraction of our perception of reality. They literally create the paths of perception available to us.
Disorder implies and contextualizes only one outcome: overcome your debilitating nature. Strive to become as good as normal. Nowhere in the word disorder is implied curiosity, the joy of discovery, the celebration of self, and difference, exploration of strength. All things that are prime movers for ADHD.
That's good you have a wife.
That is so interesting,
I work on mental models all the time they just start up in my brain and l work on them and l was musing why l have zero problems only when l'm gardening, even when it's unpleasant or an overchallenging situation, and l wondered if hunter gatherers with ADHD would be like they had superpowers, overstimulated would be merely hyper atuned to the environment,
So our problem now is being over atuned to a chaotic fragmented and manipulative and profoundly unnatural environment,
it not me, its "it!"
(I'm not diagnosed, but ADHD is the best explanation for me l have ever come across, astonishing!)
Beautifully Spoken ✔️
@@michellegabriel2634 Thank you Gabriel.
@@Blissblizzard Yes, "it" is the environment. But please don't assume "it" is a challenge only for those like us. "it" IS a challenge for the "normal" people as well. The effective ways to cope with it are just different for them than us. This is the subtle but very powerful effect of the word "disability" in framing what is simply our different nature. It's connotation is accepted by our belief structure and thought processes automatically. That word makes people "normal" and "like us" automatically assume the challenge is greater for the "disabled" ... "us". Often, it's actually easier for us than them, but the use of that word "disability" prevents us from discovering it's easier for us. We expect to lose because our nature is supposed prone to lose.
Because of "disabled" we're only looking to mitigate our nature, not explore it's potential.
This is literally the ducks calling the goose ugly.
Your first paragraph is simple, but brilliant. Re-read your own description as a pattern. That is often the very mechanism I have used to overcome over analysis.
I JUST DO.
When I just start "doing" I am caught in the moment, reacting, adjusting, flowing with it. It's pleasant, even sometimes profound. I can lose myself in the effort, have lost myself in the effort for more than a day straight without sleep. I've accomplished volumes of work others find astonishing by doing this.
BUT. So often we don't look for what works for us. We don't approach ourselves with a sense of wonder and exploration at our capabilities, because what we expect is limitations, not strengths. We are "broken" after all, right? We are "disabled". So we keep trying in vain to adopt the techniques that work for normal people, knowing in advance with almost certainty, that we WILL fail. "Disability" has limited our mental options to fix and mitigate, rather than fly.
Imagine if superman were told from the onset that he was broken. That he was prone to destroy things. That his excessive strength was a weakness that would cause him to harm people constantly no matter how hard he tried., but that he must continue to try to overcome this limitation. That he must try to become weak like "normal" people, so maybe someday he could become as productive as they are. When he discovered his laser vision he would horrified by this new capacity to destroy. He'd try to hide it, and look for all manner of ways to stop himself from doing it....instead of learning what he "could" do with it.
It's in the very nature of human kind that the majority interprets the minority as inferior.
In my case, I remember having trouble making friends, but NOT because of anger. I can't put my finger on it, but I remember being a kind child and maybe too eager to be friends. I was very lofty and creative and probably seemed really weird to a lot of people. I was in clouds and bubbles with references to TV shows and other things that only I watched or that weren't popular etc... I'm still like that, but I have had to fight bitterness, cynicism, and self-esteem issues. I am in a good place now because God has helped me figure myself out and heal and change (something I couldn't do alone). Dr Barkley should be the absolute clinical authority on ADHD, he has helped me a lot as well. Love his simplistic breakdown and clarity on the emotional component... I have used his tips to educate family friends and strangers as well.
i relate to you so much. this was so me... i hope you're doing better
jenny tran absolutely! I have lots of friends now. More than I can handle actually haha. But I had to learn a lot about social cues. Once I graduated high school, real life was much kinder to me than stupid angsty teens and kids lol not completely but the other part is personality and unrelated to adhd (but tardiness generally and at work is always a struggle!)
I could relate to you up until you brought the fictional schitzophrenic character from the bible into it.
Andy Mills people believe in God... they have good reasons for it... get over it. You don’t have to agree or understand that. If you can’t value what others have to say just bc if one small mention of a higher being, you won’t get very far in life and will stay incredibly immature. Good luck with that.
@@mrsaskander rubbish , there's no good reason for trying to be a 4 year old when you 30. Dont be silly, we can't justify believing in fictional characters as if they are true; we can in the context of story telling which is of short duration; then we come back to reality.
Where was this in my suggestions five years ago?!!! I am a Romanian adoptee with diagnosed adhd. I didn’t believe I have adhd, I bought into the negative stigma of over diagnosed and misdiagnosed. This is everything I needed. I will get re screened, and likely find a new treatment. This has been the best video for understanding adhd I’ve ever seen period.
so many people are hurt by the hysteria of 'overdiagnosed'
@@Hibore222 yes.. unfortunately, or by people who did not adjust dose or used a different medicine. A lot were completely ignored. As I have. Now finally diagnosed after fuckin' years with only "anxiety and drepression". Yes. ADHD exists. Is actually underdiagnosed. A lot of friends who were always like me also are finally having a glinch of hope for finally being diagnosed AND medicated AND with better skills designed for us. It is part of us but we should have had a better life but underdiagnose was a shitty reality
Hah, funny, in Romania we are FUCKED. Only 1 or 2 medications are available, the therapists are absolute garbage, you are called a drug addict for needing stimulant meds, the whole thing is a joke.
How did you go?
This is more real than a lot of talks and stuff out there that is messaging "adhd is a superpower!" And then in the comments you get people saying things like... "yes I'm so gifted!" "I don't even study I'm a genius because I have adhd!" Well I have it and I definitely don't feel like that. I'm not trying to be negative - I'm very grateful for my life and abilities... I am just hoping I can learn to manage this adhd journey I'm on in a fast past life so I can provide for my family. This video is nice that it's a real breakdown of details we're not used to hearing is a problem, such as emotion, so we can try to learn to deal with the problem head on. Thank you doc
Correct. This is more blanced.
ADHD Is overall more of a curse than a gift for the vast majority of people. It just adds complexity and risk to life. Sure it can be harnessed, but most of the time in most people it isn't.
Biing in a wheelchair makes your arms strong sure, but I would rather not be in a wheelchair. There are other ways to strengthen arms easily but few to get out of the wheelchair..
@@jonathanbowen3640 thank you. I feel seen with these comments. It's devastating.
I'm with you on that and I feel the same but I'm sad that I couldn't find this about myself earlier than at this later stage and yet still I can't give up on myself, I will somehow find the solution and manage this disorder and I believe if you have even lead a simple and honorable life that is sufficient and good enough, its been 2 years since last you commented and I've been late for like 7 years of missed time good luck
@@jarrodjob I see you buddy... it's real and I see you. Keep battling!
@@arjunratnadev I'm 39 and found out I had it about 4 years ago... it was like watching a mystery movie and realizing who the bad guy was... then I looked back at my life and was like - Ohhhh... that's why this and that's why that. At least now I've recognized it in one of my kids and he can at least have a heads up on what's going on. I always thought "ADD" was the crazy hyper kids and thought "that's not me". But the internal 'can't focus on a single damn thing' me has always been jumbled and other people can't see what's going on in your head. People think you're making something up, but, ya know... it's there. It's real. But hey - I think for some reason or anther life is hard for everyone. I won't quit at it.
This man is great at explaining what he knows. It is more than having the knowledge of something. His presentations are far better than any lectures.
Finally a competent person NOT saying that ADHD IS A GIFT.’it sure isn’t!
Must disagree with you ....
16:40 I was class clown in elementary school in the 80's and it got me in trouble with the teachers who used fierce anger to reprimand me and I would instantly break down crying. This really ingrained in me a dull personality that made me a target for bullies in middle school. Not the other hand, I learned from watching my father's negative emotional outbursts that I wasn't going to treat anyone that way because of how hurtful it was to endure. Everyone is different in their own way i guess.
I shared this with my friends with ADHD and we all agree, the good Doctor must have stolen our medical charts.
Richard Wilson
DITTO!!! I thought exactly the same thing!!! He's a genius. Wish he was my doctor!
Richard Wilson agreed
Completely agree!
lol
Hahaha! Right?!?!
male adult, age 34 and diagnosed at the age of 29-30. Here in Brazil most knowledge about ADHD is based on studies about children. And not so many people in my city (specially the ADHD GROUP I am in) speak enough english to hear those blessed words like I do. I want to know if anyone can help me in how to put portuguese subtitles in this video? THousands of people in my city MUST hear all Dr. Russel has said so far. Thank you.
Gabriel Ortiz Machado , I speak some Portuguese and I have ADHD I wish I could help!
I am from Brazil too, I am not fluent in english but I can understand 70 per cent of what he says. I think I have ADHD because I have a lot of problems to keep paying attention in everything, its really hard to me study because everything that's is boring I just can't do. Well I really need help because this is bringing me a lot of problems at my life. I don't know where should I go look for help.
If you have a Twitter account, ask and see if you do a hash tag Portuguese subtitles... and see what comes up... You Tube may also have tutorials on this. Check Dr. Brown also, on ADHD - he also has some WONDERFUL videos ib this... Good luck 😊
I am from US, so can understand everything. i speak continental Portuguese but I can help you as well. Note: The English subtitles on you tube videos are very bad. It misses a lot of words or mixes words. I think the subtitles are generated by speech recognition which if you have ever had messages transcribed through speech recognition software...it isn't correct. So don't rely on the english subtitles for the entire talk. I wish there was a way to correct the english subtitles....as I get annoyed that they aren't correct or conversely I can't turn them off as they get to be distracting.
My husband presents emotional dysregulation with laughing. Everything is a joke even serious things. Literally laughs at everything. It’s very difficult to work through life and have a reciprocal relationship when someone is laughing all the time followed by lack of attention to the issues which eventually leads to ignoring of the issues then a denial that anything is wrong and everyone else is ‘crazy’. Those without these issues can only conclude emotionally that these behaviors are narcissistic and abusive.
If you know you have adhd/add please listen and take seriously any feedback you get even if you don’t understand it initially. It’ll save you and your relationships a lot of grief. ❤️
God, I relate so hard to this.
Ima try and not do this anymore but yeah I have add and would do this
This is my son - I have to let him know not to make a joke if everything. Quite hard as he us very funny 😄
Yea it is exhausting when there's no empathy. I don't know if I have the emotional endurance to live in a relationship where I'm doing the emotional labour for 2 ... what I can't wrap my head around is whether this is truly involuntary. Can they really not pause, reflect, and consider? If they want to? I still imagine that there is some element of volition there. I'm trying to understand this in a new way.
@@theaniccaif you feel that way please get away from anyone in your life with adhd. period.
I love Russell's concise means of conveying the studies across to us, the audience.
I was recently diagnosed at 40 a few months ago. I’ve always thought I was broken, lazy and just overall destined to be depressed for the rest of my life. I’m incredibly smart and bright and somehow have managed to hold down a great career. I’ve had such imposter syndrome wondering how I’ve never been fired or why anyone would like me as an employee. I also have never been able to keep a relationship longer than 3 years. Since becoming diagnosed and medicated my entire life has changed. I’m finally starting to be the person I always knew I could be. I’ve been completely hyper focusing on learning everything about ADHD and this has been so informative. I’m realizing the flaws I’ve always thought was my character is not that but my disability. I’m also been replaying all the blow outs I’ve been in over my lifetime over and over again but now with the perspective that I have ADHD and emotional disregulation and am realizing that I was much more of the issue than I once thought. I made amends to a lot of people when I stopped drinking 8 years ago and feel like I probably need to do so again to clean up my side of the street. I’m realizing my hot temper to jump to anger made fights that shouldn’t have lasted more than a week last years
Aren't you a bit angry or sad discovering this so late? I was sad. I have been struggeling with my "flaws" for ages. Only to discover that it is a mental "handicap" that can be treated to get better qulaity if life.
The camera guy most have Adhd too. Lol
Agreed
Now that I've listened to this talk, I find it insane how my previous therapist, who diagnosed my ADHD, did NEVER ask for a parent to follow up on possible symptoms that I might have swept under the rug unintentionally
That was bloody amazing. Even more insightful than my knowing i had adhd in the first place.
Only got told at 42 by a parent that I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. So much torture and struggle could have been averted. Life could have been so different.
6 years on - why is this STILL not on the latest dsm?!!
Diagnosed 18 months ago, this explains my emotional disregulation so well.
I wish it was 'officially' acknowledged cos it's hard enough trying to raise awareness of what adhd actually is and dispel incorrect assumptions - without half of the real information not yet being medically/scientifically available!
Side note - I find now that 1000s of videos/tik toks etc. are hugely valid and important - but the downside is
, ALL of that valid and credible knowledge gained from sharing our lived experiences, is in danger of being dismissed and belittled because of the predictable amount of misguided/incorrect information that also will appear amongst it.
So that's why it needs corroborating by the medical/scientific field!
6 years, seriously wtf???
I totally agree! If this guy “gets it” 6 years ago why is it not more “got” by now? So frustrating!!
I have ADHD but don't have ODD. I had good parents and always did as I was told, but I did have trouble controlling my emotions. This manifested most often in crying due to being bullied and made fun of (which was cyclical), not just by other children but also by teachers. As a result I am very self aware. I hate to say this, but the mistreatment I received as a child actually helped me to be more aware of my actions.
No, you are a very adaptive person and you adapted to mistreatment. Mistreatment did nothing to you. YOU responded because YOU are adaptive and have that goft
@@tyrozinehappykitchen some people respond better to negative reinforcement rather than positive reinforcement
@@natenatenate10 I think you deserve to be negatively reinforced for forgetting that humans are involved here and not animals
@@natenatenate10 and from experience, the negative reinforcement has worse long term affects that cancel out anything you can argue you got from it. You become scared weak unconfident obedient and pathetic. You can't make decisions.
I'm 35 and I was recently diagnosed with ADHD for the first time. These videos are so comforting to me. They help me understand that so much of the behavior in my life, especially in childhood, was beyond my control. I was polite and was generally good at asking others how they were doing, etc. I was an extrovert that enjoyed the typical boy things, and I always had a good amount of friends, but I would consistently get incredibly upset if I felt like my friends weren't giving me enough attention. I remember other boys' moms telling my mom that I couldn't come over to their houses anymore because I was creating too much of a scene. I'm pretty mellow nowadays, but I am still trying to get better at motivation and staying organized. It's good to know that I'm not alone.
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY INFORMATION DENSE! He just described to many of my past and persistent problems in all parts f my life....Very harsh but it needs to be heard
Generally, health personal do not know enough about ADHD and specially ADD. They know a little bit about ADHD in children. Adult with problems caused by ADHD/ADD are diagnosed with depression while I think depression and specially Anxiety disorder have their roots in ADHD/ADD.
Spot on.
I agree
This is why I'm a macho "man's man" type and still tear up every time I get a greeting card. ;)
I AM 55 AND every time I HAVE LOOKED AT SOMETHING ABOUT ADHD AND IT IS A PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF MY LIFE FROM A TODDLER TO NOW, MY HOME IS A MESS, MY LIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MESS, ALL OVER MY HOME IS OBSETIONS
It's not too late to get help
I'm 55 & took a year to get diagnosed, with lock downs, meds do work, all to play for 👍, you 56 now 🙏hope all s well.
I realize how much we didn’t know growing up wow.
This explains ME! How I ever managed to do all the paper work required as special education teacher...No wonder all of my evaluations dealing with this was always an "improvement needed" goal from my supervisors which I didn't react to "normally". I could not supress my emotions, which didn't help how they perceived my "lack of professionalism. My teaching, and my ability to intract with my students always received high scores! Thankfully! As a retiree, and having to be a boss to me, remains to be a daily struggle. Emotional disregulation has always been my constant companion, and still is. Dr. Barkley gives me hope for legitimate change in the "doing" part of my life!
A true master of his domain this gentleman is. One of the most impressive lectures I've ever seen.
Great insights but I don't trust him because of the way Big Pharma has corrupted the medical profession.
Read the book "the woman who changed her brain". Neural plasticity is so very powerful but he talks like drugs are the only hope.
If this disorder is real or even just an artefact of the mismatch between culture and some neuro diverse but normal behavior, then why can't it resolve with skilled parenting?
If it's a disorder, why has it persisted in the genome to the extent that it displays in the prevalence we see?
Evolution doesn't often make mistakes like this. It must confer A Darwinian advantage or it wouldn't exist.
Therefore, it's really just a mismatch between our genes and modernity.
What% home school kids are ADHD?
My husband has ADHD, his inability to make friends and keep them was due to his “quirks”, not his aggressiveness, as he haas always been more submissive that aggressive.
Same!
That sounds more like an issue with the people he was trying to make friends with. Quirks should be loved and cherished. People are quick to “other” each other and quirks just make it easier for p.o.s. people to do that. Judgmental folks should have no place in your life anyway.
@@ilikemyrealname Let's be realistic. Those "quirks" sometimes impact interpersonal relationships. Those "quirks" sometimes mean poor expression of connection or empathetic comprehension. It's not always a judgemental asshole who struggles to keep friends with a person with ADHD. It's the nice ones too.
@@adaharrisonn I wonder who it is you’re trying to convince here, me…or you? In this context of the video and specifically this comment “more submissive than aggressive” when talking about those struggling with mental illness, I stand by what I said.
What’s telling is your reply is about “empathetic comprehension” to my comment which was about being empathetic to those struggling. It’s like you’re so concerned about YOU being validated that you missed the point about being empathetic towards others who are mentally struggling. No one is saying be BFF, just don’t walk away specifically from a submissive person because their illness means you might not always receive empathy like you would from those who don’t have these struggles. We all have friends we keep at different lengths. Some relationships, especially with someone struggling with illness, is just not gonna always feel “fair” and it’s up to us who do not have those struggles to be mature enough to rise above our egos.
listening to these talks and lectures for a few minutes are closer to seeing myself than looking in a mirror all day ,
as i can not tell you how many times i have , for example, start eating a meal and not finish my food or go to grocery store and forget to put ALL food that needs to go i fridge. , ETC .....
THANK YOU Dr Barkley!!
I've tried to watch it all the way to the end... for five times now. Acutally, I'm commenting while it's playing but I should be listening :/
Try to doodle while listening. It gives a mindless stimulant. My sidelines of my notebooks are full of doodles!
Really enjoyed this lecture. This doctor has nailed adhd . I've had it all my life , along with anxiety and the emotional problems that come with it , and that remain into adulthood. I have been to psychiatrists who told me i had not got it, as i would not have been able to complete schooling. Unbelievable :). But if nothing else , i am determined to get some sort of treatment for this. It is an ongoing battle ......
Hit up a adhd specialist
I don't see why people with ADHD don't see at as a gift.
Just pick any carrier that values manipulation of the physical environment solving problems on the fly in real time. You will dominate in it. Leave everything else to you accountant .
I've hedonisticly with no guilt . What others think of you is none of your business mate . 🤷
@@avancalledrupert5130 Thank you for your comment! I struggle like everyone else with ADD but manipulating my physical environment and solving problems is my superpower. Thank you for the reminder!
@@tammyczigan1864 What do you guys mean with manipulation of the physical environment?
Was recently diagnosed with ADHD over focus, it was not until I turned 62, better late then never!
Good lecture on emotions and ADHD, I like how he described bipolar and depression versus ADHD reasons for emotions.
Jon Cornia I was also diagnosed late in life 63 (2019) good to know I am one of many in this age group, one of two at least😊
Never to late...
This man is a genius and very gifted in the way he explains scientific methods.
I agree! The ease with which he explains concepts reminds me of Richard Feynman's lectures in physics!
Seems as though a lot of females go un-diagnosed. Does he do a video on differences in boys vs. girls?
This is an amazing video. As someone who has ADHD and had a parent with it as well undiagnosed. I was physically abused as punishment and I could swear my mother used to black out as she lined us up in our kitchen and hit us with her favorite tool of choice. The wooden spoon. She was relentless. Not just one or two smacks. She would go in on us. Until we were cowering in a corner screaming bloody murder. The CPTSD I have from years of that has only created even more emotional dysregulation. I’m just now in my early thirties starting to do self help through RUclips. It has helped tremendously by putting names to feelings that I’m feeling when I’m triggered. It’s really hard to have had all that happen to you in your childhood, and when you bring it up later in life being told “that never happened. You deserved all of it. You didn’t have any broken bones or bruises. Its a privilege I’m granted as a parent to discipline you.” Ill never get the closure of that, the admittance from her. In the last few months, I have completely cut contact from my family and siblings. Who still seem to be under the codependency of my mother. It’s truly sad when you’re now the scapegoat for calling out the abuser.
Omgeee, @Retro Adam, I'm so sorry to hear about the horrific abuse you endured from your mother as a child, and can imagine the kitchen line-up for domestic abuse was beyond traumatic for you as a child.
NO child, no matter what the infraction, deserves that level of abuse.
I cannot imagine how unsafe you and your siblings felt on a daily basis being at home, and the devastating effects that it's had on you since then.
Children NEED a nurturing, loving environment to become healthy, loving, high-functioning adults.
Good for you for learning how to heal and recover by at least watching YT videos; if you could find a good therapist you trust, or group to connect with and share experiences, that would probably help as well.
Your feelings are valid and understandable.
Your mother's treatment of you has more to do with her shortcomings than anything you did as a child.
Smart move to cut off contact; find healthier connections for love, support and growth.
5:10 years ago I had a favorite sticker that read "ever stop to think & forget to start again". Now I know why it was so relatable.
When it comes to emotional regulation.... YHE STUDIES NEED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT FITNESSSSSSS.
That’s something that has absurdly helped me control my emotions.
So has perspective, but mostly fitness and endurance.
Difficulty in controlling emotions is really the most distressing and depressing aspect of having ADHD, for me feeling nothing is like my safe space free of the struggle of self control .
I went to my first doctor at 30 for life long anxiety and left adhd. My entire life went from a black and white existence I didnt want to one of vivid color due to medication. Medication saved my life
BrainDamage Very glad. How are you now?
@@luke2193 he died from the medication. So sad ..
@@d-buck how u know
"The two don't even begin to agree with each other until you're in your 30s" That hurt on a existential level. I just turned 35 and things have only just started to really change dramatically.
I have Bipolar Type II and just got diagnosed with ADHD as well. I'm so much more honest with myself now and I think it's because I can see what I'm doing, I couldn't articulate or focus on how I truly treat and look after myself.
You go, man! The 24:30 part made me realise my 31 year old symptoms or shortcomings didn’t get worse with age like I thought, I just got more painfully aware of them. But self-awareness is required for growth, so I enjoy these growing pains somewhat!
It it was called Emotional Dysfunctional Deficit Disorder I would have diagnosed myself in primary school. If only I was hyperactive in class. Thank you for the best explanation of what I went through and now my son.
Thank you. I’m one of those untreated kids who is a successful adult. But, I suffer a lot of comorbidity issues. I’m a huge advocate for kids who have parents that don’t think this is real.
@doperification awesome words. I hear too many parents say they will grow out of it. I’m a survivor, but only by grace. How many suffer because we refuse to believe we are different. I heard an interesting discussion on meds and by treating the symptoms early, the brain can develop skills that improve long term characteristics. Like braces in teeth or assistive devices, it calms the brain to learn what it’s like to develop and not deal with a life of struggles or regrets because we did something stupid without even realizing it. Who knows where I’d be had i been treated early, but I do know what the struggle is and how much ground I lost because of it. I feel bad for those kids who really do need help.
I heard an interesting discussion on this. As a young child your brain is incredibly plastic and developing strategies to cope and learn. Meds early on allow the brain to develop healthy skills without all the criticisms, scolding for talking out of place or breaking stuff because you always want to touch stuff. You develop a framework without having to create defensive mechanisms or frustration which allows you to move forward in a healthy way. I can’t tell you how awful it is to this day being afraid of doing something wrong or not being able to simply learn or read books easily - and I’m 60. People will argue all they want, but we give kids meds all the time to compensate, even if it’s vitamins.
I'm SO lucky, my parents were amazing. Diagnosed with 40: Such a shame, wished I had known earlier!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm glad the slides are available on google docs. Otherwise, it would be very frustrating to listen to the presentation without being able to see the slides.
I just got back my ADHD medication and I feel so much better, I'm also Bipolar and I moved from Florida to New York so my new psychiatrist had to get my bipolar disorder first and now I finally got my ADHD medication. Meditation makes a world of difference.
how is this possible do you have 2 limbic systems xp :)
Bipolar and ADHD do not go toghether.
Is your ADHD med a stimulant? Do you have bipolar 1 or 2? I can imagine how risky stimulants would be for someone with bipolar 1. Even SSRIs can trigger manic episodes in people with bipolar disorder.
This is absolutely the best explanation I have heard. Just wish there was a way to get off meds all together . Thank you so much for explaining my brain and why it is this way. Not easy that’s for sure
What a researcher. Hats off to his research and dedication to this field.
I have learned that if I act like myself, I get taken advantage of, I have to formulate a way to make sure that people don't take advantage, or disrespect.
I am studying Adhd for a paper... so exciting to find out about the ODD similarities... thanks for sharing your research!
Thank you for sharing the slides. Such a big help.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for providing the slides. Much appreciated.
At 52 and a passing glance at Tik Tok I have discovered my missing instruction booklet. The only trait missing is the sleep problems. I know everyone is jumping on the bandwagon but the fit is artisan level. My whole life explained and I never even considered it was anything other than personality failure. I have to say I've always been proud of my ODD. I'm am hot headed and go 0-10 in a split second but it's directed at bullies and dictatorial authority figures. I will almost learn a new language to defeat them, with abnormal levels of concentration and absorption of data. Yet in everyday life I struggle to read the instruction booklet for a new lightswitch.
In India, ADHD is unheard of. I struggled to get through high school and college. I always thought of myself as a loser who procrastinates, lacks discipline and is lazy. I got to know about adhd when I was 25. I told my parents to help me seek treatment but they said that I am crazy and that im a loser. So I gave up and did not take adhd seriously. Now I am 27 and still at the same place. However, I am taking adhd seriously now.
I have appointment with psychiatrist and hope he prescribes me stimulants.
How did it go?
This lecture was very insightful! Thank You for posting this! It was extremely helpful
Not even 10 minutes into this and i already gained a new dimension of understanding for why i act the way i do
Been watching many of Dr. Barkley’s videos. He can’t speak to every ADHD persons exact condition but he is on the money in a macro sense. There is enough in the talk(s) to get valuable insight into the struggle. A transcript and slides would super. Get well, stay well. Ty
Excellent explanation on how emotion is an important component of ADHD.
Ever notice that there is no "Hypoactivity Disorder?" Or "Excessive Compliance Disorder?" Kinda tells you something, doesn't it? They'll never invent "Excessive Compliance Disorder!" Compliance is what it's all about. They're trying to dampen anyone with the energy or motivation to try and challenge the authorities. So "Hypoactivity Disorder" is also out. Their drugs try to INDUCE "hypoactivity!" The more inertia, the better the "treatment" is judged to be! It makes me wonder if people like Barkley, Faraone, Thomas E Brown, Biederman, Ned Hallowell, William Dodson, et al hate kids and have some vendetta against them, or are getting revenge against kids by proxy because they were bullied as children either in the neighborhood, in school or by an older sibling and they can't take it out of that person so they are taking it out of kids, they hated themselves as kids, or they are just control freaks or are motivated by money or all those factors of course! I am guessing that they have serious unresolved childhood trauma issues, and they need to "snuff out" anyone else's issues that remind them of their own pain.
Which MIGHT cause me to feel some compassion, but only when they stop passing on the pain to their so-called "patients!" Pity they themselves didn't seek help long ago for it. All the above and many many more for me are seriously damaged and screwed up individuals. Advocating labelling and drugging kids for being kids is not normal human behavior is it? Neither is taking pharma money and lying about drugs.
Alan Berkeley actually, the guy in this lecture has also written about SCT, which is “sluggish cognitive tempo” (he advocates changing the name). Symptoms include sluggishness, lethargy, slow movements. So part of that is literally hypoactivity.
The clue is in the name “moniker”, don’t fall for trolls. There’s no reasoning nor arguing, as the fair ground such exchange is commonly based upon ain’t just revoked but denied in a slapdash judgemental manner aimed at provocation, not actual
Disagree. I believe we perceive much more than others, exactly because we are always stimulated by everything and many things we notice most people don't even pay attention. This is our issue, never turn off.
You're always stimulated by everything? Impossible. Plenty of things are wholly unstimulating and it is not possible to perceive everything if you're interpreting 50 sources of stimulus at the same time. The brain cannot handle all that and some, in this case a LOT of things, have to be filtered out.
Agree with you @Arthur. I can hear grass growing as well
This is incredible. So many things I haven’t heard anywhere else. Like the link between developing oppositional defiant behavior due to the compounding effects of having an adhd parent…!
Dr Russell Barkley, I am learning so much with your videos. I am eternally grateful...
This is pretty helpful and clearly explained to an non psychologist!
How do you get real help from someone as knowledgeable and passionate as him?
Paperwork. I have to psych myself up to even attempt it. I’m in tears before it even begins due to the anxiety I know is going to happen once someone (kids, husband, phone call, pets, etc.) distracts me and I won’t be able to remember what I’ve just completed and where I need to re-engage.
Absolutely invaluable stuff. As the significant other of a person with ADHD and ASC, this is so SO helpful. Thank you for sharing 💚👏
8:07
DSM Obsession Disorder
they should add this disorder to the manual! ^^
I can relate to that for sure. Like I'd get fixated. I think for me some of that might come from that interest based sparked but not all because some of it just became overly obsessive.
It's like watching someone describe my whole life
I need to meet this amazing person who I found this week and has helped me more than anything over the past year! My son and I will be better because of this man
So us adhd people have less ability to BS ourselves into false emotional states or be “fake”... i wonder if this has an effect on our ability to perceive “fake ness” in others.. I have this thing where i can’t stand social media stars and such who are obviously very fake nearly plastic people and scratch my head at the fact that so many people don’t see through it
Yes. This is true.
Working memory sounds dead on. I just been referring everything as been distracted. Go out to the car to get charge and come back either forgetting what i went out for or go out and come back with something and forgetting what i went for.
Japp. You`ll always find something apart from the thing you were looking for. That`s the good thing. ;-)
@@jcmangan Not understanding the good part of wht you are talking about. Because if IM looking fir something but find something else that dont Help me! Lol
And I assume the typical:
1)Need milk and maybe a few other things from the store
2)Write a shopping list
3)Forget shopping list at home
4)That's ok, I got this, I remember what I needed
5)Forgets milk
@@Turtletoots3 I keep forgetting to buy a can opener...
@@nakor3294 Understandable :D
I love Dr. Barkley, he brings so much light to the world of adhd!
Best description of this EVER!
From one of his books, you have a fam like this?
Over time both parents and child figure out that the more quickly they get enraged and threatening, the more quickly they get what they want-the parents get obedience or the child gets a reprieve from a command. When this process goes unchecked over many months, it can lead to confrontations that end in parents physically abusing their children or the children destroying property, attacking the parents, holding their breath until blue, banging their head against a floor or wall, or hurting themselves in other ways. This is how “No!” escalates into violence in some families.”
Russell A. Barkley, Your Defiant Child, Second Edition: Eight Steps to Better Behavior
Wait, does this have to do with ADD? So what's the solution? My nieces and nephew/parents are like that.
1:00:50 - "So we have to be careful with stimulants, because if you puch the dose too high, you can get blunting of emotions.."
Alan Berkeley
2 months ago
If you know the medical, ACTUAL facts that the drug companies are hiding from people on purpose, you also understand why these drugs should never, ever prescribed to anyone, especially to children. Countless clinical studies have shown over and over again, how these ADHD and ADD-meds are directly comparable to harmful stimulant street drugs such as amphetamine and cocaine. These psychiatric stimulant drugs are as equally addictive, damaging and dangerous as those street drugs.
Prescription drugs are the 3rd highest cause of death in the western world. Pharmaceutical companies want as many people on these neurotoxins, as they possibly can. They come up with new, pseudo-scientific diagnoses all the time, so that they could manufacture more toxic drugs for people to consume. I suggest that you folks do your research on things, educate yourselves and stay the hell away from Barkley and his sort, who have taken money from the drug companies to promote their poisonous products. They are liars, and deceivers and total frauds.
Open your eyes! Do you want your children to be addicted to brain damaging stimulants? Do not as a parent allow these people to interfere with your lives, and destroy them. They rely on your ignorance, their careers depends on it. Let`s blow off the lid from their lies, and keep exposing them. They are not your friend, nor do they have your best interest in mind. These people are pure money-greedy scum. They seek to profit from your misery, this is a form of organized crime.
This man and like many others, has taken money from drug companies to promote neurotoxins as safe medicine, even for children. This has been proven. If I didn't know more about this man, I'd be astounded at the lies falling out of his mouth about these drugs. There are volumes of proof on the damage they cause, and no scientific data proving they do anything but damage the brain. And he promotes this for children! Astounding and completely immoral. The amount of children this man has damaged by lying about these drugs in collusion with their manufactures constitutes removal of his medical credentials in my opinion. Anyone who willfully poisons children for profit should not be allowed near them.
46 y/o male and found out last week. I thought something was wrong but everyone, including professionals" led me down paths to solutions that led nowhere.
I was diagnosed at 6 didn't know. And then again last week. I thought it was normal to have 6 different lucrative careers and get fired or quit.
Or have 5 meaningful relationships end without warning and wondering what the hell is wrong with me?
It's been a very informative week. Too bad I didn't figure it out before I lost the last girlfriend. I really like her and thought for sure we would get married.
The ODD part explains a lot about my life, my mother and stepfather probably both have undiagnosed ADHD. I remember always thinking they got me the ODD diagnosis without taking in the context that they themselves were disruptive and explosive.
Sadly we have to contact today because of how bad things went, it just goes to show you how important early intervention is or else it can ruin your whole family.
EXCELLENT
THANK YOU DR BARKLEY!!! YOU HAVE HELPED SO MANY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This man is amazing
thank you for this has helped me feel so much more understood
Thank you for a excellently detailed and systematic overview...really helps, ...peace & Love Peeps :-)
It may seem a minor point, but Barkley is wrong about Streep being a Method actor -- a mistake a number of writers and others have made. She has stated her resistance to it and works differently, as do many great actors from England, including Jeremy Irons (whom Barkley also erroneously mentions), Maggie Smith, and the late Laurence Olivier, all of whom are more classically trained. There are other ways to access emotions than to have to think of a situation from your own life.
In re Streep, from a biography of her early life and career:
"Streep distinguished herself in various ways: a willingness to make herself ugly for roles, to disappear completely into character, and an inventiveness born from her resistance to method acting, then very much in vogue. 'She was skeptical about the concept of mining her own pain, believing that misery was irrelevant to artistry,' writes [biographer] Schulman of Streep’s Yale years. 'What her instructors saw as laziness or evasion was a growing intellectual revolt against the orthodoxy of method acting, which had shaped the previous generation of actors.' Streep, Schulman asserts, 'preferred imagination.'” -- from Vogue magazine review of the biography _Her Again_. See www.vogue.com/article/her-again-michael-schulman-review
LMAO so basically she's too proud to admit to what she does. Poor thing sounds very insecure.
My ADHD symptoms were not present “from the start.” For the first 6-7 years of my life, I was a very high achiever in school and life. Even my bedroom was always tidy. Then our home life disintegrated rapidly into hellish chaos. It was during THIS period that my ADHD symptoms began to emerge and grow gradually worse throughout my adolescence, which remained always uncertain, miserable, unfair and painful-just only hell, that’s all I knew-and by adulthood I had lost that little girl, and without even realizing it.
This is not inborn. And frankly, I feel betrayed by this society.
Thank you so much for all this knowledge and information. Will help me to change and improve my life.
He's NOT a genius. He's an extremely clever man who's studied and is a very good speaker.
Ok?
What were you trying to achieve with this comment Sarah?
I believe geniuses come round once in a lifetime, and as much as I respect Dr Berkeley's work, I don't believe he's a GENIUS.
I wasn't trying to achieve anything 😊
@@donatello9482 she had to write it, impulsive disregulation