The TRUTH About Treating ADHD - Dr. Stephen Humphries

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• KA

  @Kasey-y7e · 4 years ago

  Is anyone else always late to work & every event because they procrastinate till the last minute?

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• WU

  @wutdafeezy · 5 years ago

  I’m crying inside. I’m thinking back to the young me trying so hard to “be better” at life and “be motivated”. <br>I would have lists and lists of things to do from shopping, household chores to short-term and long-term life goals. I tried so hard and when I failed to stay on track I would hate myself so much and turn everything off to play a video game or read books straight through. I felt like I was such a disgusting, lazy and mentally WEAK person.I just want treatment now. I want to know how normal people feel, think and function!

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• SL

  @SlickVicRM · 5 years ago

  ADHD means adding this to Watch Later instead of watching it now :P

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• JC

  @JC-ok4yx · 4 years ago (edited)

  What&apos;s frustrating to me is that I learned a lot of coping mechanisms and how to get things done because I had great parents who held me responsible while also encouraging me to do what I needed to do. School and work were a game to me and I could get away with doing a fraction of the effort with a much higher return. Now that I&apos;m an adult with a lot of the similar experience as others with ADD no one believes that I actually have it. In my graduate counseling program, after taking the test for it my instructor was shocked and questioned if I was honestly answering the questions on it. They said that they were surprised I do so well academically but I explained to them it was all a game to me. I didn&apos;t study for exams in one place, I would &quot;study&quot; for hours, 10 minutes outside in a park, 10 minutes in the library, 5 minutes in the student center. I would pace in my room, talking out loud. Type out things as though I was sending it in a message to other people .I would study in a group with one or two people, just listening and trying to come up with some joke or creative approach to catch them off guard.<br>Now here I am, working in academia and seemingly unable to get anything really done. I come up with so many ideas, in meetings I can engage and do things. When my director gives me projects I will have them done in my mind, but can&apos;t actually bring myself to write them out. As I type this I have a report with spreadsheets of data, an example of the structure how I want the report formatted, and all I need to do to finish it it move the graph over and type out a narrative. It&apos;s not a fun game anymore. No challenge, no grades, no scores. When I went to get help several years ago, as mentioned in other places they wanted to treat me with depression. I&apos;ve taken depression medicine before, it didn&apos;t help me with my intrinsic motivation, it just made me less anxious about it. So much so I stopped caring about numerous other things. <br>All that to say, it&apos;s beyond frustrating. This &quot;disorder&quot; is more a cognition in conflict with culture in my opinion. We are pathologizing a powerful approach that people with ADD have by not giving them meaningful work. Non-ADD people (who come off as quite dull) try to force fit others into their systems and structures instead of teaching them how to use it like a skill.

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  @1979Namenlos · 5 years ago

  self help: turning on cc and setting the speed to 1,5x 😅

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• RY

  @rytisbertulis3325 · 5 years ago

  I cannot believe that I find this info while I am 35 years old. That explains so much... I finally have a clue on what&apos;s actually different about me. Thank you!

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• KA

  @Kaibigan39 · 4 years ago

  Who else is here in the comments while watching?

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• DE

  @Deepestofoceanicblue · 5 years ago

  The all-nighter pulled just before the deadline for certain modules is very much a thing I have done throughout my life. Yeah.

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• CL

  @clarebutler990 · 2 years ago

  Thank goodness for these British videos, it&apos;s ironic that it&apos;s really hard to concentrate on the frequently irritating and distracting American ones.

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• LA

  @laner.845 · 4 years ago

  When I finish exercise, I feel VERY ANGRY because I hate it so much that the longer I have to do it in a period, the more time I feel I&apos;m wasting and the less comfortable I am and therefore the more angry I am.

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• BR

  @BrianHealy666 · 11 months ago

  Daily exercise , daily meditating, &nbsp;journalling

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• DR

  @druwk · 5 years ago

  I have unwittingly designed my life on crisis, adrenaline, physical activities, and caffeine to cope, do better, build a life. At 54, this has had other consequences as a result.<br>My son got diagnosed with ADHD four years ago, and I have been researching the disorder to better support him. What has become more apparent as I learn more, and look back at my life experiences, is that I LIKELY have ADHD as well? <br>I need to be accurately evaluated, and should seek some kind of treatment for myself.

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