Why Use Psychosocial Treatments for Managing ADHD?

[@robertdelfavero6552]

Another subgroup with lack of skills: late-diagnosed adults raised by undiagnosed parents. I have a lifetime of ineffective strategies to unlearn and looking at an effective strategy set helps me replace bad strategies with ones that are more effective for living my best life.

[@jhmstagg9104]

😂 The struggle continues even if you know it. Yes you are right,... A lifetime.....

[@ASpaceOstrich]

That's a mood. My parents didn't teach me anything due to being too busy and that coupled with severe and untreated ADHD is a brutal combination.

[@didi1406]

Same. I too would love a recommendation for adults on what treatments

[@Authentistic-ism]

I love it when you include advice for adults with a late diagnosis or trying to treat a diagnosis from childhood without parental support anymore

[@gloverantonio1074]

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My recovery journey from adhd was aided by the constant use of psilocybin.

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[@aybikeanacali8414]

Thank you Dr Barkley. Can you please also make a video about the self-loathing and severe shame that most late dx adults have? Because medication doesn't help much with those. This self-loathing and shame is not about having ADHD, it is about the traits we have and believing we have them because we are just a bad humanbeing. Since we didn't know why we are the way we are, we identify as lazy, selfish and irresponsible for 20+ years. And that creates a cruel inner-voice that also affects executive functioning. Eg: I have performance anxiety secondary to untreated ADHD. Because I knew I would probably fail, probably be late again and again by experience. It is hard to get rid of self-loathing and shame when you spend 30 years hating yourself. Especially for those of us with high IQ because everybody(including ourselves) think that a person that smart would accomplish if they wanted to hence they are just lazy.

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[@maxierose564]

I'm a therapist in public health in Canada (and have ADHD myself). The medication was a NECESSITY for me, but I also had to start using skills to self-regulate. I have my planner, and everything goes in it, and I had to learn how to study and start exercising. CBT for Adult ADHD has been super helpful for me, but so is medication! I also follow an "episode of care" model where we follow a protocol, and then the client has to go use those skills in the world. It doesn't make clinical sense for people to stay in therapy forever, no different for ADHD. Thank you for this great video, and the previous one too!

[@gloverantonio1074]

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[@harioandluigi4569]

You're doing so much good for the wold. Thank you so much.

[@jessicafawcett1597]

Could you do a video about what psychosocial treatment is and what types are have the greatest evidence base? Also, who provides it

[@SimoneEppler]

He mentiones them at 3:08

[@lunette9]

Love this, like most of your work. One last quick though, therapy with an ADHD informed clinician can support medicaiton compliance. They can develop awareness of the disorder, self-awareness and other awareness, and track patterns or stuck places around getting or keeping medical/ psychiatric services. That plus all the other things you mention...

[@gloverantonio1074]

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[@garthenar]

What I hate is all the hoops I have to go through every month to get my medicine. A good routine is one of the strongest weapons I have to manage my adhd. Trying set up an appointment, attend an appointment, deal with insurance and the pharmacy, going to the pharmacy that will actually fill my prescription - all at some arbitrary time in a 30-55 day period - is anathema to me. It is a living hell.

[@garthenar]

If I could have an appointment at the same time every month to get my prescription, and pick up my prescription. With the same doctor so I don't have to do yet another urinalysis after going over all of my symptoms again! It would just make my life so much easier.

[@ThatADHDKid]

Mindfulness exercises have been one of the most helpful things for me and my ADHD apart from my medication. The things I learn in mindfulness meditation means more because I came to the conclusion myself. I take input from everything and reflect on it myself and then form an opinion and it makes things stick

[@gloverantonio1074]

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@drcremini

[@zensukai]

Thanks Dr Barkley, this is a good topic. I have glaucoma and cannot take stimulants, but also have negative effects (increase in IOP) with non-stimulants such as Intuniv and Strattera. So using other modalities to manage symptoms is good. The challenge now is finding someone qualified. Yes, you can find any run of the mill counsellor/therapist, but where they have experience with ADHD is another story. Just my experience.

[@trewdat361]

Great discussion as always. Have you seen many studies showing a relationship between ADHD and back pain (or general muscle pain).

[@claralopez2010]

I'd be interested in this, too! And/or the relationship between ADHD and hypermobility...which often leads to back and overall body pain.

[@abdul-ghanial-ahmar5973]

Thank you Dr Russell

[@MD-ok2oo]

Thank you for everything that you do Dr B!

[@gabriellawaldi]

My meds also do not neutralize every single symptom, so I had to learn to cope with the rest....

[@larazawacki1718]

Thanks again Dr. Barkley!

[@krowhenkvothe]

very interesting video

[@DrShawnHorn]

Thank you!

[@gloverantonio1074]

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[@GreenSharpieScience]

As always, thanks for spreading good information on adhd! You mentioned using mindfulness as a treatment for adhd, which may work really well for some but I wonder if you know of any research that looks at the overlap of child abuse adhd and mindfulness. People with dissociative problems can often have bad reactions to mindfulness and given the higher incidence of child abuse for adhd kids it seems like mindfulness should be entered into cautiously with adhd patients but I never hear this mentioned when it’s talked about. Again thanks.

[@LionKingSimba84]

Look into the vast variety of trauma therapy modalities. Mindfulness is a tool to train your executive functions, but if your body & emotions prevent you, they do so for a good reason and you should find out about it and work on healing instead of overpowering them using executive functions.

[@BrothireStrangLuve]

You called an adhd kid a crap person. You are so smart about child abuse.

[@GreenSharpieScience]

@@BrothireStrangLuve ? I called out a troll comment for being crappy, big difference. No knowledge of any kid with adhd was involved. This is just made up by you as far as I can tell. Take care.

[@BrothireStrangLuve]

@@GreenSharpieScience so it's ok to call the person crap in they are an adult with adhd? Or are you saying I made up adhd as well?

[@littlebumgorf]

I watched the video but I’m still a bit confused as to what psychosocial treatments are

[@terapia.desenredada]

CBT therapy adhd informed, meditation, physical exercise, accommodations in school and work, coaching for adhd.

[@gloverantonio1074]

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@drcremini

[@KnarfMetmohn]

Thank you

[@leonoraalonso8334]

Dr. Russel, could you talk about ADHD and menopause. It seems to be ADHD is worst for women and all the gain in life is gone.😢

[@russellbarkleyphd2023]

See my earlier video on female hormones and ADHD. It summarizes what little is known. Be well.

[@Deviliza]

Stine one should look across boarders floor how schools best manage this. The US way is not the only way.

[@shinpad]

Personally, I can’t adhere to medication for the same reason I’m bad at building any other habit. I feel as though ADHD is one of the most preventative disorders in regards to maintaining medication-taking habits

[@gloverantonio1074]

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[@gloverantonio1074]

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@drcremini

[@Runningwritingreading]

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[@LionKingSimba84]

Therapy and self development are the things that really and sustainably promote growth and healing. Medications have some benefit, particularly in behavior control, but I am simply not willing to take them for life and the inevitable crash when trying to stop taking is not pretty. Medications can certainly avert acute crises and support development by improving executive functioning. But if just taken thoughtlessly, they also enable you to just not do the actual work and waste your time. This of course is just my personal conclusion based on my own journey and talking to quite a number other sufferers.

[@alysonhenrique2924]

Really? That seems to be not at all the case to me. Ritalin doesn't really feel like a drug I'm hooked to, even after taking it every day for the last year. It's more like wearing glasses to me. Will I die or physically suffer if I forget to put on my glasses a day? No. But it will be a much harder day to deal with. I've tried cutting off the stimulant abruptly on purpose just to see if I was "addicted" to it, and it definitely doesn't seem to be the case

[@LionKingSimba84]

Im not talking about addiction. Its just suddenly being back to square one in so many areas of life which is massively frustrating. To me that’s different from wearing glasses as being able to work on what I set out to do (without self sabotage) is much more essential to my sense of self (efficacy) than merely seeing things farther away more clearly.

[@lunette9]

@@LionKingSimba84 I don’t believe they allow people to not work and waste their time. They address neurobiological deficits in the brain with chemical intervention. I’d encourage you to watch more of Dr. Barkley’s videos about the biological processes involved with ADHD. Therapy alone has not been shown to be effective in treating ADHD. Medication has. Medicaiton isn’t always an option, usually it is but not always. Also many drop out of treatment, in my opinion, due to being unaware of their actual symptoms and day to day functioning. the problem is that too many folks with ADHD don’t understand their disorder fully, they lack the scientific informaiton and also the self-awareness often to know how huge of an impact untreated ADHD is making on their lives. There are many relevant issues that can be helped with appropriate psychotherapy, but therapy alone will not change your frontal lobe functioning or dopamine levels.

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