My son is adhd help you

One of the best videos for adhd and mindfulness

In Australia we can’t get diagnosed as psychiatrists are booked out years in advance and it costs a fortune. I’d have to find someone who knew me aged under 11 or school records from Africa over 60 years ago to get cheaper meds. At 73 my memory, motivation, executive function and word finding abilities are plummeting and I fear it’s a combination of undiagnosed ADHD and MCI. To add insult to injury, articles and tests are centred on children with adults sometimes mentioned as an afterthought. Other people just think we’re lazy, procrastinating, undisciplined, messy people. My high IQ combined with low practical ability left my potential unrealised and I never understood why. The lifelong stigma and loss of friends and support networks leaves us lonely and depressed. I have to constantly fight the feeling that there’s no point in anything.

Have you met a person with ADHD? I have spent years trying to force meditation. It never worked. I either fall asleep, or I was aware and battling my own head in a grandiose paranoia negative spiral. Guided meditation was worse. It made me feel uncomfortable and creepy. Such gladness when it ends. “How was my experience, you ask? , (officially) I feel refreshed.” 😅 Anyway, I finally said to myself why keep forcing myself to meditate when it never worked? So I stopped banging my head against the wall.

The treatment that needs to be explored asap is yoga and occupational therapy. This is the only diagnosis I've ever found that actually fits me. I've had providers be insulting and therapists say I'm asking for reparenting, for what amounts to a learning disability. I sorta randomly fell into yoga in my early 20s and it totally changed my ability to focus. One thing about the DSM, do other types of doctors have to go by a single book of diagnoses? If someone's leg is strained do we have to have a double blind placebo controlled study to prove that physical therapy should probably help? We know more than enough about neuroscience to knit what to do to help. We know yoga and meditation increase the ability to focus and reduce default mode network activity. I've had a lifetime of being treated like a slacker including by medical professionals. And I've also had periods where I got to do lots of focus practice like yoga or exercise in general and things like playing an instrument and performed at a very high level. If I had gotta more direct help and/or gotten to do those things for longer without bad jobs and abusive people fighting against me doing what I need to do I think it would have become much more durable and permanent as well. I don't think we need any more research to start implementing common sense treatments. Not that more research is bad but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what to do.

This therapist’s recommendations will not work if there is poor or no communication between the couple over time, no diagnosis, and no willingness from the ADHD partner to get assessed and get help. You cannot help someone who doesn’t want help.

Many points you went over makes sense, yes to many

I was hoping this was a video for me helping me to deal with my ADD husband! There’s not many videos for that. Do you have any suggestions

I'm 36, and I realized I had ADHD last year. I'm not a mother but your advices are really precious to me, especially to organise my house and my life in general. Thank you

thing is, personally i have always had trouble staying awake normally and i think its something like getting flooded with too much of sleep pressure adenosine even literally feeling it having also autism and it literally just feels like your brain builds up pressure and also it makes you often like super comfortable and drowsy and even lowkey sleepy euphoric kinda lulling you to sleep just like you experience trying to stay awake too long but this happens even sleeping 10 hours or even the whole day if i dont get caffeine coz sleeping repeatedly so much is making your brain feel like you were run over by a truck having such huge headache.

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What do you do when you live in a rural area with no resources and no help? I listen to this and there’s no team, no services, and resources. I dont understand how this episode is helpful for people who are actually dealing with this.

Such an amazing lecture.. I learned some very helpful tips here ❤

ok hold on a second. ART does need to meet standards! Saying you don't have to strive for perfection is excusing bad technique! c'mon, that's a serious disservice to arts as a whole!

i am very happy to learn that CHADD is not funded by big pharma

Very interesting and affirming presentation. I oscillate multiple times a day, every day, since the early 1980s, between feeling a fleeting glimmer of self worth, and sudden, intense plummets into The Hole. Years ago just a slight dip *hurt* a lot, physically and emotionally. Nowadays it’s just how I am, and I’ve had to accept it. It hurts longer and deeper and more pervasively, but the physical aspect is blunted. (Except for flare ups of chronic sciatica and digestive issues from chronic stress.)

Thank you for your work!

My fiance is finally diagnosed with adhd severe ocd as well I am happy he finally got diagnosed he is scared of the medication but is starting it. He snaps he easily get very angry impulsive and his ocd is here no patience yet ha a good man n person. I don t want to give up on him after 16 years I love him n I see the pain his going through. But im struggling myself. I want him to try help himself also. He isn’t working n needs to work n help me too. I’m scared my mental health wil go down hill. Plz give me hope. The meds will help n his new diet im helping him with

i’m a musician with very heavy adhd and marijuana helps me slow down and turns off the pace and lets me really work on details for my music. let’s get on a podcast episode and dive into it!

I am medicated, he is undiagnosed. This video has given me so much peace.

I certainly have CDS. I don’t meet criteria for ADHD… not even close! Yet I have attention issues. I have all the symptoms of CDS. I also have autism. Another odd thing is that I am sleepy and fatigued all the time despite getting excellent sleep and being an above average athlete. I have a reputation with my track and cross country teams for never knowing what we are doing for a workout. My teammates always have to tell me what’s going on.

She needs to lose some weight. Smart enough to get a PhD but not to stay in healthy

As a husband with adhd and a daughter with it as well I've found way too mange it and teach my daughter to comes too terms with her condition i explain to her that there nothing to be ashamed about her brain just works differently and she needs to work and handling it lucky i have a wonderful wife who been loving and supportive

The label still sucks. We already suffer from the stigma of appearing to be slow and incompetent. People think we are making a conscious choice to work slowly. Also the constant references to children leaves us adults feeling abandoned.

Excellent, thank you so much

god i love how much $ i seem to need to have to be an adhd mom, LOL i'm a single mom, this advice is for rich people, but thanks for trying i guess

Being ADHD myself, imo it maybe best if an ADHD person partners with another ADHD person or remains single as there’s a chasm between the Neuro-typical and Neuro-divergent behaviors and unless there is boundless love, understanding and empathy on both sides it’s bound to be a conflicted relationship. This divergence is not only problematic in romantic relationships but also in families and schools where Neuro-divergent people are forced to conform to a Neurotypical world. The ADHD brain is now being studied, researched bringing better understanding to both ADHD and non-ADHD alike; so we can learn to balance each other out.

1: medication 2: know your preferences vs your limits 3: meet weekly to plan practical things 4: make time for fun 5: good sex matters

My partner goes into a negative spiral over the silliest things. Yesterday there was a baseball game and we were both watching it and all was going well and the team partner likes was ahead and then in the last inning the manager did something -changed pitchers or something and partner's fav team lost by one point. Partner immediately had a tantrum. He started saying oh that manager he’s such an a hole and F him and he needs to leave or he should be fired and he was just going on and on. I kept saying “regulate regulate your emotions!”He continued on so I said is this useful ? is this helping you to repeat this over and over again about what an ahole The Team manager is? So it was almost 730 at night and I said I’m going to bed. I’m not gonna listen to this so I went in the bathroom and took a bath and he went in his room - we sleep apart-- and went to sleep. I thought how immature and ridiculous and I went to bed, about 830 and I slept OK but I woke up thinking about it. This morning partner was over it but how stupid to get so upset over a ball game and to carry on like a child! I feel so sad and hopeless. I want him to see his doctor but how many family doctors understand ADHD?

do you have specific help for adults working as a nurse? I am struggling with time management at work with getting charting and assessments done on time

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This is excellent information, and presented in a very organized manner. Thank you!

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And who cares about us, the spouses who live with an ADHD adult ?

It’s so funny that the reverse is almost always true. Most adult ADHD people have borderline and narcissistic personality disordered traits and characteristics. They overlap so much that it becomes a huge issue for where to draw the boundary between the ADHD and a personality disorder.

covert narcs are far more dangerous for mental health

I was diagnosed with ADHD in my fifties and realized that I'd been struggling with it all my life. Getting on medication for it was a blessing! Then my psychiatrist took me off of the medication (amphetamines) because she said it could lead to Alzheimers and I was in my early sixties. I"m 70 now and I really miss that medication! Does anyone know of some holistic medicines that would help?

If you feel like you cannot be sure of your memories, decisions, or opinions, then you are more susceptible to a don’t rock the boat bias, or to blindly trusting in the authority or knowledge if someone else, and you end up spending so much energy on dealing with that uncertainty that you cannot make plans that will potentially help you, especially if those plans are difficult, require courage, are risky, or if you are unsure of facts pertaining to those plans. So, for example, you don’t need to turn some one’s family against them if you can convince them they their family has abandoned them or are a threat. Also if you make someone constantly focus on external problems of exaggerated proportions or tgat are wholly fictitious, they have no ne tap energy or time to deal with the fact that you are in fact the real problem.

I tried many ADD medications and they worked its just that the come down was the worst thing ever for me so I had to stop. Id give anything to not have ADD or autism. Just let me keep my logical thinking. I feel like I dont belong anywhere.

The last time I tried to kill myself, my family wouldn't even see me in the hospital. In fact no one did, I had to cut off all communication via phones, because I realized they cared more about getting sleep for work than visiting me. F**** this worldl

Ong this is an amazing video. I have so much to learn n relate. love you forever.

For Perfectionists, it's a tragic self-fulfilling prophecy: By worrying about failure, our worry causes us to underperform. Whereas, if we were more carefree and had more confidence, our performance would better align with the high standards we set for ourselves.

I want to enroll as adha coach. Please suggest any site/online recognized institution

Amazing work

I ve been through it all. Next week bye bye 😂😂😂

Can you make this into some shorts. Its so boring I can't bear it

Yes the narcissistic/ toxic person most definitely weaponises your ADHD, mental health or vulnerability against you such as your memory etc. F.O.G = Fear, obligation, guilt

Is it possible to receive the presentation on my email?

Parenting with AHDH is so hard, especially when you're not diagnosed or newly diagnosed. When you start to understand how AHDH impacts you and your parenting style you begin to have a bit more compassion for yourself and learn methods and tips that work for you instead of trying things that don't work for someone with a unique brain ❤😊