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I'm a guy who was diagnosed as inattentive type as an adult after barely scraping through high school. Family didn't agree, and a lot of comparisons were made to someone they knew as evidence, but they had a different subtype. I try not to dwell on who I'd be if it was caught early - I wish there were dedicated systems checking for early problems for kids. It's unfair to expect parents and teachers to be able to spot these problems armed with just anecdotal information. I love your videos, I'd buy you a beer just to hear your thoughts on anything! ^_^
Ah I actually have ADHD(like legit got diagnosed when i was 8) And have extreme trouble getting the medication i need to function. It's great that so many people without actual ADHD are eating the stuff I need :(
A lot of the medication shortages were created by intentional design at least in America the FDA did it on purpose, creating confusing and limiting constraints on drug manufacturers because of concerns about over prescription.
One thing to keep in mind when we come across stats or graphs suggesting that, "diagnoses of X disorder have been increasing rapidly (oh no!!!11)" is to consider whether people are actually developing such disorder more often or whether the disorder is simply being better understood. The criteria for many psychological conditions has drastically changed in the last few decades alone.
Possibly but we have to remember, if everyone has a disorder… then no one has a disorder. The test for ADHD is a questionnaire and students commonly talked about getting diagnosed just to get the drug when I was in college. I know many people who claim ADHD and I almost always am suspicious because I see how in control of their life they are in comparison. I never hear them mention anything other than difficulty focusing in conversation
@@wowwhyisthistakenthere’s a big difference between people saying they have ADHD and actually being diagnosed. Also I think going to a therapist or getting help is not looked down upon as it used to be, so people get diagnosed more often.
@@wowwhyisthistaken My diagnosis in later adulthood was informed by school assessments report I had found from much earlier in life that indicated dyspraxia and various issues in the school environment. I'm not an extroverted person so the issues are internalised with an over active thought process too much of the time which inhibits my ability to relate to others and cope with the overstimulation of the built up environment. It took me a long time to build up a tolerance to the medication, only accepting the very lowest dosage, although it greatly helps me with my occupational and self care activities, there are mood swings to manage and I worry about becoming too over reliant on them given intermittent supply. It's frustrating that some people consider it recreational, it's a serious nuro stimulant and is not trivial to manage. I never got hooked on illicit narcotics I've been exposed too earlier in life, my reaction was generally bad and I developed I apprehension against things that alter my mental state which is why it took me so long to build a tolerance to just the lowest dose of adhd medication they would offer. Taken a couple of years, and this was after many many years of being on the waiting list twice because I kind of just forgot I had the appointment by midday first time... It has in moderation though, been very beneficial to helping me even out my state of being now getting into my late 30s, all the little occupational interests I developed before and day to day good habits are really starting to fall into place much better.
What a roundabout way of saying “maybe they’re just manipulating the criteria.” 😂 Here, you can even say it’s “more inclusive” and that “it’s actually a good thing!” It’s 2024, if you’re going to use journalist copy pasta maybe don’t use such cliché maxims 🙄
If there's one thing you know about ADHD, it should probably be this: yes, everyone experiences the symptoms, but people start to seek serious help when these smyptoms interfere with their lives. You can forget things and not have ADHD, you can have trouble focusing and not have ADHD. But when someone constantly forgets things and have so much trouble focusing that they can't even finish a school that is otherwise not difficult for them, then they need some extra help.
THIS! Anytime i hear someone say "we're all a little autistic" or something I wanna tell them this. Yes, many people do have the traits of autism, the issue is: do those traits IMPAIR your life & functioning?
As a neurodivergent person and PhD researcher in the identification of ADHD, it has been so nice to see the breadth and depth of research you've put into this and how well you've presented your research- its so important, thank you
I hate it when people think that because I've been to therapy & used tools to mitigate some of my behaviors that I should be "cured" by now. Just yesterday my boss was like "still having memory issues? I thought you would've worked that out by now" & I had to be like "duh dude, that's why its called a DISORDER"
Well some people apparently do 'lose' the label of ADHD, but simply cause they learned, and got tools, to cope. Put simply though, if an adhder experiences working memory issues or rsd, no amount of organisation and discipline will discount it from actually happening. The severity of it though, that can be dealt with.
This is so true .. It's actually especially damaging when this mentality is internalized. It's the cognitive dissonance of trying not to let the diagnosis contribute to developing "learned helplessness" whilst also not developing self hate and constant criticism in giving yourself kindness and genuinely being ok with giving yourself realistic standards and expectations. It's especially hard when we live in a world saturated with husstle culture, to the point it's so ingrained in us abd our values that we're not even aware of it or how destructive it is... That's something I've been really struggling with for a long time. It really hit me the other day when I was opening up about how much I was struggling and I was trying to verbalize how I need to be kinder to myself and be realistic about how hard abd debilitating dealing with ADHD can be, but afterwards I had this deeply uncomfortable feeling of disgust and cognitive dissonance that I've felt manny times, but this time it hit me just how deeply ingrained I still subconsciously had the thought that I SHOULD just be able to "do it" and meet stereotypical standards of being "disciplined" ... Despite me genuinely putting in so much mental energy to do this that I'm now chronically burnt out and can hardly, let alone consistently, take on my own daily maintenance let alone other task and commitments...
As someone who was clinically diagnosed at 7 but didn't get recognition and treatment for it till I nearly died as a teenager, the whole contemporary framing of ADHD as both endemic and unprecedented is so nerve-searingly frustrating. While Tiktok has watered down genuine terminology to pop psych buzzwords, people are suffering (and ADHD *does* make you suffer) without access to treatment and, crucially, self-knowledge. The simple fact of knowing what is happening, why you struggle with the things you do, can completely change your self worth. I was not lazy, or sloppy, or stupid. I was floundering. I'm getting my PhD now, and while there's plenty to be critiqued about the conflation of traditional life progression with healing/progress, that's an avenue that would never have been available to me without treatment.
Same boat here! Diagnosed at 9 but received zero supports or treatments growing up. Now, 30 years later, thanks to the spread of ADHD education from Dr. Russell Barkley's channel and HealthyGamerGG (whom also references Dr. Barkley), I found out how bad ADHD actually affects my life. I knew I struggled a lot, but I didn't realize that was the cause as it wasn't explained to me as a child. Now I am able to reach out to physicians for support for the first time! I've had an AMAZING past 2 years of my life in HUGE part to working on my mental health with help from others! Congrats on getting your PhD!!!
@@the_luminous_raven I was being intentionally vague, because I have a right to privacy. But to hopefully get you to think a little more about your comment, I’ll clarify. My ADHD diagnosis was withheld from me. My untreated symptoms led to me being told I was a disappointment and a failure and a waste of time by those who were supposed to protect and care for me. Because I didn’t have any other explanation for why I was like this, I internalized those messages. Ultimately, feeling guilty for the burden I placed on those around me and sure that it was who I inherently was as a person, I tried to kill myself and would have succeeded if not for the intervention of a cop. It was horrific and traumatic and I’m still healing from it now. To get back to your comment-ADHD can kill you, the mechanisms behind it are just a little more complicated than something like pneumonia. My story isn’t unique, nor is it the only deadly avenue. People with ADHD are more likely to be unhoused, more likely to have a substance use disorder, and more likely to deal with unemployment. None of those things are safe or healthy under capitalism. Our life expectancy is 7-20 years shorter than our neurotypical peers, depending on the studies you use.
I am part of this statistic. A female diagnosed in her late thirties with inattentive type. I've always had adhd and I've been searching for an answer for what was "wrong" with me my entire life. I was treated for anxiety and depression with little success. I was missed because I was quiet and intelligent so I didn't struggle in school until college. Getting diagnosed changed my life though. My anxiety and depression were actually just symptoms of adhd and now that I have told for that they've mostly cleared up too. I think the reason why suddenly "everyone" has adhd is cause this population that was missed is now telling everyone because they don't want other people to stay missed. It's still just 5-9% of people though even with the increase in diagnosis. It's not everyone.
The story I'm living right now. It's really nice to finally understand why my brain works the way it does, and not that there is just something 'wrong' with me.
i was always told i have ever-worsening anxiety.... i even told the doc, i'm literally NOT worried about anxiety. but as a kid i was always the weirdo, i was in the gifted and talented kids program but struggling to understand what was happening around me at school, all my friends tended to be neurodivergent and i just.. had no clue. I was diagnosed at 33..combined type, apparently... and autistic traits to boot. I have to be grateful for social media, ironically, coz during the pandemic it became apparent my "clearly life is busy and i just don't have time, that's why" issues were more than just that, and i started seeing posts about adhd and realised other people had had my experiences throughout their lives--especially through school. The moment the psychiatrist saw my school reports, she laughed that she'd never seen such a textbook PERFECT report for an ADHD gifted kid. but the question mark parts were better explained by autism. You're right about the 5-9% feeling like a lot.. i think if combined with autism, it could be up to 20% of the population (that is, autistics and adhders combined.. i search for combined figures as i do seem to have both). When lefthanders were first allowed to exist without being smacked out of it, the numbers increased and people panicked that "suddenly EVERYONE is lefthanded!" but that number grew to about 10% and ... that's it. that's all it is. So for people, 10% of the population feels like "everybody" which i find interesting now, with ADHD and ASD. "ohh everyone has it".. well, if it is about 20% total, YEAH it should feel like double the population should have it lol
Are you me?! I likely still have underlying anxiety, but I know the two are often comorbid. Docs have me on meds for both, but the ADHD meds have made more of a difference.
I always thought my mom had bipolar disorder. Granted, I was a kid and didn’t know the details of the disorder, but that’s what it really seemed like to me growing up. After I got diagnosed with ADHD and really started researching it, I realized that a lot of it is what I saw in my mom, too. I wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m also a statistic 😊), so I am fairly open and vocal about having ADHD and how that affects me. I want people to understand that it’s a real thing that isn’t just something describing a 10-year-old boy that can’t sit still and study for 8 hours straight. I creates very real obstacles in life.
as a person who has had severe adhd symptoms since child to the point of not being able to attend normal school, but also not being able to recieve a diagnosis I'm really glad you went the mature route of analyzing medical data and not just the "it's the tiktoks and the phones!"
It sucks that TikTok shortened attention spans have led people to lump us with them. But I think the difference is TikTok addicts can still do things in other areas of their life. If you have ADHD, your whole life is a mess.
@@irenicrose studies have shown that attention spans have not actually been affected by tiktok or social media. It's made kids more unable to stand things they don't find fun, that's the problem.
Adult with inattentive ADHD here (male) It took me years to get diagnosed - I went to the doctor concerned about every symptom individually, and I was wrongly prescribed antidepressives and led down wrong paths by my psychologist. It was only after years of realizing what they did didn't help that I went to get a second, and third opinion - Not only did I have to spend years and money out of pocket but it seems that the medical system will actively try to derail people seeking help for inattentive ADHD symptoms. I've heard from medical professionals "You can't have ADHD if we didn't spot it as a child" and "You can't have ADHD if you got through school" - I'm still paying for meds out of pocket. It's no wonder people are turning to self help
Yup, I even got a diagnosis but I still can't get medicine because of drug seekers etc. At least not yet. Too many people lying trying to abuse the system, that us who actually struggle with the disorder get shafted. I'm trying a non-stimulant for now.
One important diagnostic criterion that is often missed out from most videos explaining ADHD / autism diagnostic criteria (even the well meaning ones) is that the so called symptoms must have a significant detrimental effect on day to day life. It’s horrible deficit based language but when living in a world that isn’t designed for us (and is sometimes designed to exclude us) we are put at significant disadvantage.
Yes. Pretty sure my teenage son wasn’t diagnosed autistic (his younger half-sister had been, and he wanted assessed, too; I definitely am; just got assessed myself waiting for the results) largely if not entirely because, at this stage, he doesn’t “seem disabled”. I fully anticipate he may have more serious issues as an adult. 😕
I feel like i have autism too idk, my friends tell me i have it. And i never can describe the emotions im feeling. I feel alone and nobody understands me
Yep!!! Diagnosed at 29, after years of seeking help for anxiety and depression, and only then because I started putting the pieces together myself and finally asked my therapist and doctor if that could be what I was dealing with. One test later, and the answer was *absolutely*, and medication has changed my life. One thing that made me seek a diagnosis was that maaany of my closest people were also being diagnosed or told by other already diagnosed friends that they probably had it too. People weren’t saying the same things to me, but it made me stop and think, “wait, but we’re the same…?” If all the people that you relate to the most and feel the most relaxed around have ADHD, the chances are…… 😅 And now that I recognize the parts of my personality that are quite ADHD specific, I see it so much more in other people too. And as you know, we tend to blab, I talk about my experience all the time 🙈 especially if I think it might help someone else.
@@ivanopolese7546the raadsr is a pretty accurate test to self assess autism (of course, not as good as a diagnosis but it's a useful tool) i recommend trying to take it if you're unsure.
A lot of people assume ADHD is just hyperactivity, and it simply isn't. My brother was diagnosed at a very young age and prescribed medication, but I wasn't diagnosed until 32 years old. The only reason I got diagnosed at all is because I mentioned to my doctor in passing some of the issues I experience in my life, and how my forgetfulness, inability to force myself to do tasks that I don't find to be interesting, and my inability to focus on anything I'm not REALLY interested in have gotten so bad that it's affecting my relationship with my husband. There are also stigmas surrounding stimulant medications, people calling them essentially legal m3th. All I can give is my personal experience, and my personal experience was this: The very first time I took stimulant ADHD meds, I experienced my brain going quiet for the first time in my life. I actually sat for an hour sobbing. The medication obviously doesn't work like that forever, but what I have now, nearly a year later, is a brain that still struggles sometimes, but for the most part is able to get up and go do the important things necessary. I can function. I will be grateful for the rest of my life for that.
Imagine there being constant “noise” in your mind. It could be something akin to white noise or a bunch of different thoughts all at once. Those are two examples, either way it all equals to unending mental commotion. All while trying to live your life. In practice this means a person with an ADHD brain has to keep all of that mental commition at bay. All while trying to do anything. Basically one has to keep their own brain in check through out the day.
Im so happy you were able to get meds that work for you :D! The stigma around adhd and meds pisses me off so bad. I hate how so many people are denied treatment or the help they need just because doctors are more worried about a few bad apples compared to the thousands and thousands of people suffering in silence.
This is exactly what happened to me the first time I took medication as well! I struggled in school my entire life and just conceeded that I was stupid and bad compared to the other kids. Looking back, it seems like most of my struggles could be linked to ADHD or processing delays. It really hurts when family says "oh you don't have it, we could tell" meanwhile friends or peers who were diagnosed with ADHD as children would say they thought I already knew I had it.
there are studies that suggest that men are more hyperactive while women are more inattentive when they have ADHD, it's just a tendency tho, doesn't mean that the opposite cannot be true.
Partly, because trauma is often confused for ADHD. Nadine Burke has a Ted talk about this. She worked as a therapist(? or health care worker, don't know that detail) in an area with a lot of poverty and violence and noted that a huge amount of children had a ADHD diagnose. She found that after treating the trauma, a big part of those children didn't qualify for the ADHD diagnoses anymore.
I think in general ADHD is fluid. I don't think she discovered that these kids were wrongfully diagnosed. I think what she discovered is that ADHD is fluid. I've been recently diagnosed a couple years back with ADHD and my symptoms have definitely worsened with age. I'm not saying I didn't have my struggles when I was younger but I also was probably managing them. Like it would be more likely that trauma makes ADHD symptoms worse. But ADHD can be more managed when you don't have environmental triggers.
@@milliedragon4418 i agree - the symptoms of ADHD are on a spectrum. This makes it tricky because where we draw the line to make a diagnosis matters, and it is often influenced by more than the patient's suffering - like industry influence on medical practice, social expectations/biases, and constraints on the medical system (like practitioners who are rushed to make a diagnosis without a thorough review).
1) People with ADHD have a much higher chance of developing things like anxiety and trauma, which in turn can increase their symptoms. 2) ADHD runs in families, so a lot of children with ADHD have parents with (undiagnosed) ADHD. And unfortunately having highly impulsive and having problems regulating your emotions (another symptom of ADHD), doesn't always go hand in hand with being a parent e.g. child abuse / neglect. (Definitely not saying people with ADHD can't be good parents! I know great parents who have ADHD, and I strive to be one myself every day.) 3. The educational system (anywhere) is not made for people with ADHD. As a teacher with ADHD I often struggle to see what my collegues do to their students on a daily basis. All in the assumption that good behaviour can be taught to these children. (They have the best of intentions, they just really don't know what it's like). 4. ADHD is much more common among people in lower socio-economic positions, since they more frequently drop out of school, struggle to hold a job, etc. Which is a more vulnerable group to begin with, plagued by plenty of other issues as well. So trauma isn't necessarily mistaken for ADHD, it's just that kids with ADHD are much more likely to development trauma, and end up in need of treatment.
Or it might be that people with ADHD more often end up living in poor and violent areas and then reproduce there resulting in a lot of children with ADHD in such areas. + trauma, poor nutrition, pollution, etc. of course
I've come across with this TH-cam channel like an hour ago, appeared on my recommendations. After watching the videos of no one wants to have children and gen z gave up, I found this channel interesting since it addresses today's phenomena with statistics and research. As soon as I finished those videos, this one appeared, also noticed more people with ADHD recently, specially young adults. Glad I found this channel.
I've always appreciated how you try to do you due diligence when researching topics, and remain humble while being able to admit gaps in your knowledge, while also pointing out potential biases. appreciate you
After being left-handed was accepted by society there was an extreme increase in people identifying as being left-handed. Did all these people suddenly become left-handed? No, they simply were able to express their true self. I think a big part of the increasing numbers of people with ADHD is simply our society becoming more open and accepting for all kinds of mental illnesses and a bigger focus on mental health. I'm not saying that social media and technology also plays a major part, but you can't deny that there's been a lot of people in the past who had all kinds of mental issues but simply weren't diagnosed...
@@wowwhyisthistaken it is, actually. My parents never thought I might have ADHD because I was able to sit and read for 8-10 hours at a time, not knowing that "attention deficit" is the wrong description, it's an attention mismanagement. The hyperactivity also allowed me to pick up on new concepts in school for a very long time and gave me good grades, until suddenly studying became very important and they tanked. Long story short, the "popular" understanding of what ADHD is still doesn't align with the reality, and as such people like me slip under the radar until our twenties or even later.
If you actually have ADHD you wish you never had it and without medication you struggle to function and focus your attention on the right things. It sucks when people are like “oh I have adhd too! I have trouble focusing” because it’s more than just not being able to focus. People with ADHD are actually good at focusing, we just focus on things other than what we are supposed to be doing. It’s a brain disorder, not something that manifests itself later in life. If you’re like me and diagnosed in adulthood, usually you can look back and see that you did have it as a kid, it just wasn’t caught. Like for me I got by being “gifted” because I could think fast and was knowledgeable on subjects I hyperfixated on (aka biology), but this approach fell apart in college.
@@the_oc_brewpub_sound_guy3071 ADHD is a neurological disorder, not a mental illness. ADHD people have different brain function than people without ADHD, people with ADHD have dysfunctional dopamine receptors which is why something normal might be hard for an ADHD person to do, but something exciting or pressure that increases dopamine causes them to do something.
I call it, "having a different opperating system", like running linux - its more complicated to do anything, but you can do things in a way nobody else can. I was diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia as a child. The result is i homeschooled myself from the 4rth to 12th grade and the State thought i was a genius. What i didnt do though... i didnt take the drugs they wanted me to take, my parents decided they didnt want those and the state was like "well he cant go to school then" and my parents were like "fine, we will homeschool him then"🖕@irenicrose @@irenicrose
I keep seeing people with adhd saying they got diagnosed later in life because they were gifted and managed to function until things went wrong in college. It sucks how many people go under the radar.
I have it and Im actually grateful for it. we arent conventionally successful but because of our creativity and daydreaming, we can do things like be talented artists, build a business or be hyper efficient. Yes it sucks not being able to do 'life' like other people but I find ways to work around it like be minimalist. No need to clean if theres nothing to clean.
I've been struggling with recurring depression for almost 10 years, misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, with no real expectation of improvement. Then I started using tiktok and recognized myself in the symptoms of ADHD. I got an official diagnosis and medication, and now a year later my mental health has dramatically improved. People talk a lot about trauma symptoms mimicking ADHD, but what they don't take into account is that neurodivergent people are way more vulnerable to developing CPTSD, so in a lot of cases, it's both. And I haven't been able to make significant progress in trauma healing before I got my ADHD appropriately medicated.
Indeed, I think the ADHD caused me to have a lot of the trauma/issues with family/bullying, so on. I don't think it caused the ADHD. Especially since it's in my family, and known to be relatively genetic. Oh, how many times I've been called lazy and worthless, and came to believe it was just my personality and character trait and I was a terrible person. Well, I'm still not far off, but at least I know some of the reasoning behind it and have something to both blame for it other than myself, and a system to work on it directly. Sadly usual medication is out of the picture for me for now thanks to the drug seekers and restrictions. I'm using wellbutrin since last month instead, but don't think it's helping much.
I was diagnosed in 2022 at 24 years old. I had already completed half my college courses to graduate, but each semester was a grueling battle of procrastination, guilt, and burnout. On paper, I was nearly a 4.0 student in a Health Science degree, but i was suffering immensely. I was also one of those kids that fell through the cracks of diagnosis and treatment as a child because I displayed inattentive based ADHD and not hyperactivity like is stereotyped for most adolescent boys, despite having a parent, grandparent and uncle being formally diagnosed with the disorder. In a way, i feel like a decent portion of those upticks in diagnosis are people like myself who are now being caught up, especially since medicine is always evolving and diagnostics are being improved with each generation.
Yup, took me until now in my late twenties to get diagnosed, thanks to inattentive type. Just took a lifetime of anguish and reaching rock bottom to finally stop procrastinating getting help.
I'm not sure how they're determining "over prescription." I have ADHD, I've been on meds. They've put up so many barriers that I can no longer get them. A drop in prescriptions doesn't mean people don't need them
There were a ton of issues but the most recent one was a doctor who wanted me to have a $300 ua every couple months or so whenever she calls me, which wasn't covered by my insurance bc the purpose of it isn't to manage my health but to prevent her liability. Also if she calls me in I have like one day to show up and I'm literally disabled. Not to mention that I have to go into a germ ridden office during a pandemmy. Like I'm not doing any of that
I had this same problem. Trying to get a refill at one point took me almost 2 months and multiple visits to both my doctor and pharmacy who were both blaming each other for the mix-up. It's gotten to the point where it's a part-time job just trying to keep a prescription filled, and it's just not worth the effort. I ended up dropping the medication and just haven't gone back because of the mental torture I was putting myself through trying to get it filled. All the phone calls, the frustration, and annoyance was almost causing more harm than the good that the medication was doing.
Basically they study people and determine whether the meds are having any positive effects at all. In most cases they aren't, maybe your case is different but by in large these stimulants aren't for most people.
@@0mn1P4wn4g3That's only true for the unethical digital prescribers churning out medications to all and sundry. For people with ADHD who are carefully and properly titrated through various doses of methyphenidate and dexamphetamine, the correct dosage of one or the other is effective in 94% of patients. But yeah, carelessly slapping out 10mg of Adderall to every single patient and booting them out the door is helping next to no-one.
I work in a pharmacy, it’s quite easy to figure out. A person given an adderall prescription from a telehealth or primary doctor either zero history of adhd and no diagnosis code. Often give. A dose that doesn’t make sense for a stimulant naive patient. It’s really that simple
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid. Recently some traumatic things happened that I was having trouble coping with, so I went to a therapist (like everyone says you should). That therapist told me I didn’t have ADHD; I just had “pregnancy brain”. I found a different therapist. That therapist told me I didn’t have ADHD; I had bipolar disorder. I brought in a copy of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder and read it out loud to her (I’ve never experienced any of those symptoms) and she insisted that I had bipolar disorder anyway because she just knows it when she sees it. Now I don’t go to therapy anymore. It saves money, but it’s frustrating knowing that if I need help there isn’t anyone to turn to.
Medical misogyny is a huge problem and it isn't just with getting an ADHD diagnosis. Women are less likely to be believed by doctors about anything, more likely to be dismissed, not given adequate pain relief when compared with men with the same complaints, take longer to get any diagnosis, more likely to have their complaints written off as "anxiety" even when the problem is physical and they have no anxiety, more likely to be subjected to medical gaslighting, less likely to have a steriliation approved than men of the same age, and women's health research is severely underfunded when compared to men's. Discrimination is alive and well in the medical field.
Women are nearly twice as likely to die in the Emergency Department as men. I was nearly part of this statistic a few months ago when I ruptured an internal artery and nearly bled out. I was just another woman with abdo pain and anxiety. They had to rush me to surgery to save my life. I was in hospital for two weeks and at no point was my pain under control, despite me having a very high pain threshold. I don't understand why it's like this.
@@gray_mara When a man has pain, he gets pain relief. When a woman has pain, she's told she has AnXiEtY. It's the new hysteria diagnosis and is used to dismiss women, and ends up killing women. It needs to be illegal to dismiss women's physical pain by accusing them of having a mental illness. These doctors are not psychiatrists and have no business slapping these labels on women. We need to raise hell. Sorry that happened to you, it's unacceptable.
Kind of unhinged Eh? Don't know where you are pulling this from seeing as I can't tell you the difference a woman has at my doctor than a man. What IS well known is that the field of psychiatry is geared towards women, particularly ideas of talking with a therapist. A large body of evidence shows that this is far more effective for women than for men. So... seems to me like you're letting your feminist dogma cloud your judgment on the issue.
@@0mn1P4wn4g3 Women are 89% more likely to die in the emergency room than a man (Braitberg et al, 2016).This isn't feminist dogma. It's a medical fact. And if you won't believe facts because they don't fit in your worldview, then that makes you a fool, but it doesn't make you right.
You explained this SO well. As an adult with ADHD, I was able to show this to my Mother to help her understand my diagnosis. She likes to ask a lot of questions so our conversations often get derailed. Thanks for making this video.
I also think the way society and daily life is just generally more demanding to be a part of, is playing a role. Nowadays the distractions are everywhere, and they are constant and endless. Everything has accelerated to a point of constant improvement, that there is just so much noise. Make money, get enough sleep, be a good friend, meet new people, excercise daily, eat healthy and cook at home, remember to stretch, be frugal, protect the earth, be a good mother, a good coworker, a good citizen, a good employee. Grind, hustle, improve - there’s always something you’re supposed to be doing. You are always falling behind. The demands we place on ourself is skyrocketing, and people with disabilities can’t keep up anymore. Back in the day when you got distracted, you would stop what you were doing for a bit, and eventually circle back to your task, because there was nothing else to do. Now we have an endless stream of consciousness in our back pocket, that is designed to keep us entertained, and it *never* gets boring. People want to numb their brains and escape for a bit, and adhd people especially want to, because we’re even more exhausted and unable to keep up. And then we ALSO have a harder time putting the phone back down. Makes sense to me why there’s a correlation.
Indeed, I don't think it's causing ADHD at all, I think it's mostly a birth condition. However all the instant dopamine we have now definitely isn't helping, and is mostly just exacerbating the issues, probably causing heightened diagnosis now as some people are struggling more and more with the disorder in our modern society.
Diagnosed with ADHD myself at around age 19 - This was a very well crafted, thoughtful and considered video!!! Great stuff, looking forward to seeing more of your work! :)
My brother got diagnosed with ADHD as an 8 year old. My sisters and i got diagnosed in our 20s. My parents still haven't been diagnosed, but they have ADHD. My manager realized his young daughter had ADHD over COVID during at-home learning and when he was filling out her questionnaire, he realized a lot of the questions/answers applied to himself and his wife, too. They've just been diagnosed in their 40s.
The disparity of males and females in medical research has affected way more than adhd. And it still exists today. A 2022 review (of published works) on the subject found not only does it exist but the perceptions for why males made better subjects were largely due to misogynistic perceptions. Which like, as a biochemist, hurts to hear. Those are my colleagues. We got big issues to solve. There’s been a backlash against researchers lately, actually, for a lot of reasons, and I’m not exactly mad at it. We need some major fixing in that area and the male disparity is only one of our issues. Edit: to add the review was in 2022. Important context.
No fr this is a serious problem. It’s absolutely crazy how a bunch of the diagnosis criteria for mental disorders and health disorders are based on white males. Like so many ppl get missed because of this and they aren’t taken seriously bc ppl refuse to acknowledge how outdated the criteria is.
It depends on the diagnosis. It's a recent phenomenon for medical researchers to acknowledge that medical conditions can look very different between men and women. It does cut both ways as depression in men doesn't look like it does in women in many cases. It's a part of why mass shooters are more often men than women. Men are more likely to get angry when depressed than women are.
It could also be females have a higher tolerance to poison, and we've introduced a lot of poison into our environment and our food - if those poisons influence ADHD then women may be effected less due to that fact.
I found that managing my ADHD is not about focus and attention but about my executive function in directing my focus and sustained attention to a task that requires a long term investment of my effort in order to achieve noticeable results. I found that the most commonly prescribed medication does not aid me with my executive functioning but it does help with focus and attention when the executive function is managed by someone else (employer for example). When I become genuinely interested in something then I yield my best focus and sustained attention to the task without any help from medication or behavioral tools. Once my interest is exhausted by relentless immersion into a subject then, unless I have someone taking charge of my executive function, I quickly move on to the next "shiny" thing in sight. And the cycle repeats. And these cycles are short lived. I don't know about anyone else, but for myself I concluded that I have no problem with attention and focus - my biggest problem is finding discipline for my executive function.
Same I can focus intensely when I want to, at least on things I'm interested in and enjoy, and in general I don't have "focus" issues but I do often forget things, or blank out when people are speaking, or get distracted during anything somewhat boring. But I can still focus it's just uncomfortable and I have to fight with myself. I'm not a total squirrel, I can drive a car for example for hours straight without hitting anyone, lol. Danger and intensity heightens my focus a lot actually, so I love things like driving, motorcycling, storm chasing, downhill mountain biking, putting myself in some dangerous situations just for the stimulation ... whatever adrenaline you can think of. As far as meaningful employment or getting work done though, I'm with you on needing an employer or something to give me the executive function. I could never make it as an entrepreneur, I can't stay on top of myself at all to ever get anything done I actually need to. I just don't start, I have 1001 excuses, and I'm always just "too exhausted right now."
@@d1ssolv3r Yep, that's very relatable. Danger, looming deadlines, a bullet that's already shot and flying toward me, Armageddon, those are all the things that have a chance to convince me that I probably need to get up and do something. Otherwise, I'm just like a curious kitten on a raft floating through the river of life, observing things around me and not even caring that at some point there will be a waterfall.
The main diagnosis criteria is haveing problems since childhood. Adhd is framed on tiktok like it's something funny or quirky, though it's just not. It's actually horrible and I would change with someone who is doing fine immediately. Constantly being late caused me losing several jobs and repeating a year in school. I was always in trouble in school, there wasn't one moment, where things were doing good. Always the worst grades, always loosing everything, forgetting to do homework, feeling like a complete loser, being the weird person, avoided by everyone, teachers telling you that you won't make it, parents constantly yelling and crying. Thinking about all of this is like a fever dream. While everyone can experience some symptoms of adhd, the ones who have it SUFFER from it. I just lost a job, because all of this, once again. Hearing people telling me that they think they might have it just sucks, knowing that they actually are successful and never had problems in school or in their personal life caused by these symptoms.
I feel extremely embarrassed to tell anyone about having adhd, I don't want them to know, not having it together. Being a child, although I am in my 30s. These symptoms give me regularly the urge to unalive myself, because I just feel like I can't hold it together. I always wondered how could anyone almost brag about having adhd. It's not a joke, it's not fun, it's not a quirky personal trait!
I understand your feelings but if you looked at me you would most likely also think I am successful and never had problems in my life; what you don’t know is what mess (this word is not strong enough but I don’t know better) actually is inside of all this and how do I and people around me feel, and what health problems I have because of adhd. I am trying my best and hardest to never show it to anyone who is not my immediate family at cost of regular burnouts since being twelve. Then someone tells me I can’t have adhd because I somehow managed to have good grades.
exactly, im like you except because Im high achieving i still fortunately have opportunities, plus im young. but the internal struggle to ever appear high achieivng is so exhausting and seeing people on tiktok "aesthetic-fy" adhd is so irritating
@@motionistaI feel this. It’s a lot easier to get away with being adhd in school bc as long as you can hold it together for a test, you can get away with the more day to day struggles, but then when you get a job you realize how screwed you actually are
@@motionista Sure. I am talking more about people that say "Oh I always see those funny ADHS Tiktoks, I probably have ADHD" If many peple think like this it severely undermines the problems of people that acually suffer from it.
I wish autism had the marketing team that ADHD has. Whereas ADHD is seen as a cute quirk, autism is still considered infantile. Both are valid, serious conditions but I can't figure out why one is more embraced while the other struggles to have decent representation in media.
@@ThomasWillett1 maybe misconceptions of what autism is. I used to follow an autistic TH-camr ( stop because he changed content from personal developement to apps and computer programs). He knew he was autistic and was very open about it. But not everybody is, nor they have to. It's just watching him, knowing he was autistic changed my perception on the subject. It doesn't come in on size fits all like the movie with Tom Cruise and the other who played his autistic brother. It can BE in different degrees in different ways. But my idea of it before was the one from that movie...
Gotta say it must be an absolute mind fuck to make banger after banger videos and have some take off massively and others not for literally no reason. Keep doing what you're doing ❤
Another element of this whole discussion that interests me, and is kind of related to the issue of tech companies getting so involved in diagnosis and treatment, is the whole social media culture around ADHD. There are huge ADHD communities on TikTok, TH-cam, and I'm sure every other platform, which basically encourage Gen Z to self-diagnose with ADHD based on the word of influencers who are very much not experts themselves. A lot of which, of course, is also motivated by these creators trying to rope young people into their content, sell them some nonsense products to "manage their (supposed) ADHD", etc.
People are doing this because actual care is so hard to get. I had to pay a lot and wait several months to get tested. A lot of people can't afford to and a lot of young kids can't get help because their parents won't acknowledge they might have a problem. I agree that self diagnosis is problematic because there's such a huge overlap in symptoms between adhd, autism, depression and anxiety, ptsd and cptsd, and ocd. And the treatments are different. Even when you seek care you might not get the right diagnosis at first. I was treated for anxiety and depression and they didn't get better until I got my adhd diagnosis and then everything clicked into place. What I thought were the racing thoughts of anxiety were actually the overlapping thoughts of an adhd brain that doesn't know how to pick one at a time. I didn't have the language to explain the difference. That's where those groups really help people. Finding out about what adhd really was helped give me the language to advocate for myself. Like I always knew I didn't really understand time. Everyone else seemed to know how long ago things happened and how long something will take and for me time just feels like one big blob. I didn't even know that was a thing to bring up to a mental health professional. There's a lot of things you experience that you don't know are not normal because you only know what it's like to live as you.
Another part of that is also just that adhd people tend to flock to these spaces. A LOT of TH-camrs are adhd because the job is just attractive to adhd’ers. Same with content creation generally speaking. Neurodivergent ppl just tend to move in groups haha
Possibly, although the schools are set up more for girls than for boys, which is part of why boys are identified more often. The sorts of things like gym that allow the extra tension to burn off have been shrinking over that same interval that the diagnoses started to markedly increase.
I went to the psychiatrist for depression. I was at my end and knew if I was alone and untreated that it would not have ended well for me. I went to the dr and they saw me that day after seeing how distressed I was. The psychiatrist asked about my childhood, how I acted, if there was trauma and we really went into it for about an hour or so. And he said “I don’t know how you got through college when your ADHD is this severe”. It was a shock to me because it wasn’t on my mind that how I felt was adhd related. He prescribed me meds for 2 weeks and it felt like a switch was flipped in my mind. I could get up and do daily hygiene tasks, clean, do work and not be so in my head and overwhelmed about the steps of everything. This was in 2017. I’m grateful he gave me an answer.
Absolutely brilliant analysis. As someone who has anecdotally observed more adults saying their ADHD, and seeing symptoms in my own child, it was a nice balanced take on understanding why it feels like it's happening all of a sudden. Thank you.
Great video! As someone (25M) who's been diagnosed with ADHD when I was 11, I would like to add something. The second D in ADHD stands for 'disorder'. Which is interesting because it doesn't have to be a disorder, it doesn't have to limit you in life. Sure having ADHD works horribly in our education system, but that's on our education system, not on ADHD. Our education system is trying to reform people to fit the mould society created. This is useful because in an extremely large and complex system like our society, that works really well. It's very hard to keep track of every single person if everyone's completely different. People with ADHD are horrible to reform and shape to fit in a mould, literally the worst thing you can do. Telling ADHDers to sit down, sit still, listen and focus on something they're disinterested in, will never work. Which is why they're flagged as a problem. But it doesn't have to be like this, ADHD can be a superpower. Almost every single ADHDer has a skill they will excel in, they have ssoo much creativity and finally a little thing called hyperfocus. Especially this last thing is underestimated. If I find something I like and I'm good at, I can literally go full focus deep work for 4-5 hours and afterwards wake up like I was in a trance. Former Google X chief business officer Mo Gawdat praises ADHDers. He said in a podcast episode with Modern Wisdom that ADHDers can perform an 8 hour task in 4 hours, as long as you give them a task they're interested in and they're good at. The problem about ADHD is that the education system is forcing them to fit into a mould, if we would let them free and do their own thing they can achieve some wonderful feats.
To reassure you: Just because a doctor looked at you (with his eyes, not a medical instrument or something) and told you you have a disorder by the book some dumbass rockefeller type of researchers wrote, it does not make you sick in any way, but instead, draws a picture of what has become the theoretical standard that the founders of the scholar system (the prussian and the ones that wanted a nation of workers/soilders) have set for us (the practical, actual standard: nearly everyone "has adhd" aka want to live life like human beings). Please make sure your children live a happy childhood and know when to explicitly NOT follow instructions from people that want to "calm them down" aka take their childish energy that we adults all have long lost because of the same school. Please help me work together for a better school system. Please never give up. Thanks bro.
Bullshit. ADHD sets you up for failure in life. It increases the risk of accidents, drug use, health issues, and a poor diet among other things. And it's due to impulsivity and lack of self-regulation rather than education.
So glad someone pointed this out! I resisted diagnosis because I've never believed I had a 'disorder'. Creativity, problem-solving (non-linear thinking) and multi-tasking always seemed a bonus to me. Luckily, I've worked mostly in hospitality whereas 'normal' jobs put me to sleep. Nurses and hospo workers need to be able to function at high speed, high stress and constant changing conditions and multi-tasking. I'd employ ADHDers any day. Recently had the experience of steering emergency response team in local natural disasters (fires then major floods) Most people panic and are quite dis-functional in such situations, only the wait-staff and nurses stayed clear-headed through long hours
This is exactly it. It’s not that our brain has a problem, it’s that our brain doesn’t fit nicely into modern work/education culture. I became an entrepreneur where I can follow my own work rules (and interests), and have thrived.
i got evaluated in 2017 when i was 20, deep in addiction, and failing out of college. after missing a few of the appointments (and avoiding rescheduling out of extreme shame), i finally finished the process. the doctor showed me where my results were on all of these different bell curves. her explanations validated things i’d quietly struggled with for years. she said my results were in line with relatively severe ADHD, but she couldn’t say for sure until she’d gotten background info on me as a child. my mother is an unreliable narrator who never cared much to investigate my emotional well-being. i told this to the doctor, but she still wanted to have a conversation. my mom didn’t report anything abnormal about my behavior as a child. i didn’t get into trouble in school because i was petrified of authority. i didn’t fail classes because i could ace a test without studying. so, even though the evaluation itself clearly indicated ADHD, i still do not have the official diagnosis because of the ways ADHD has (and hasn’t) been studied and codified. thank you for making this video, and not attributing it solely to false self-diagnosis or bad actors in the medical field
I’m in this boat. As a male, I was a “naughty child” and went to a child psych, blah blah, nothing much happened. After the pandemic I had severe issues reintegrating into “normal”, first went to a psychologist and did the screeners, then a psychiatrist who formally diagnosed me, in my thirties. If I hadn’t had that evidence saying almost everything except the acronym “ADHD” on my medical records, I wouldn’t be able to get PBS subsidised Vyvanse now, because there has to be some sort of proof (in Australia anyway) that the condition existed in childhood. Just the diagnosis alone answered so many questions, but the medication has been a life saver. To this day I wonder what my life would have turned out like if anyone had bothered following up on the various reports that were clearly seen by my psych, parents, GP, etc., etc….but nothing I can do about that.
Great simile between ADHD and left handedness. The whole clip is quite logically put together and well researched: Now, as an ESOL online English coach I can begin to understand why there are so many new young students "diagnosed" with ADHD, when in fact, it could well be something else.Totally agreed (liked & subscribed)
Hey Fads, just wanted to let you know (among many others, judging by the comments here) that I really appreciate your channel. Your selection of topics, your presentation and your conversational style are outstanding!
I was "tested" multiple times for autism and ADHD as a kid, but because I'm a girl, I wasn't diagnosed until adulthood. My parents were amazed I was able to go through all of school without being held back a single year (it felt like a fight for my life every single year) and still everyone at school just told me I wasn't trying hard enough, didn't care enough, etc... I've had doctors accuse me of just trying to get stimulants too. When I finally did get prescribed stimulants, they made everything worse, and my psychiatrist started accusing me of every sin and evil. Now I have a doctor who actually cares about how I feel and I take a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor and anxiety meds and I feel almost normal for the first time ever.
I also was told I had bipolar, borderline, CPTSD, and other disorders I meet one or less of the criteria for by doctors who simply wouldn't listen to anything I had to say, because those are girl disorders and ADHD and autism aren't
I'm grateful that my parents believed me and were willing to back me up every step of the way. My dad was the first to be diagnosed, though with aspergers under the DSM4, but we suspect most of his family had autism and ADHD. I never needed to convince him. He saw the way that I learned as a child and knew.
You know in the last 30 years we went from knowing of 0 exo planets to now knowing of almost 6000. Where are these exo planets coming from, are people making them up? No, our tools got better so we found more. I'm talking about adhd
No you're talking about exoplanets, something you can see and measure. You can't do that with psychiatric science, everything is on a bell curve based on patient reporting and it's why it gets a reputation as a pseudo-science. I disagree with that, but it's just a highly inaccurate field and it can especially be seen with ADHD that it doesn't work to critique itself.
Ahh, you mean like how Washington bureaucrats try to convince the public that medical professionals “discovered a billion new genders” in the last decade “bEcAuSe oUr tOoLs gOt bEtTeR?” Nah, none of those “genders” are real, quantifiable phenomena with measurable and clearly-defined characteristics based in immutable reality, and *were instead conjured up so that pharmaceutical companies can profit from chemically disfiguring children under the guise of it being a life-saving treatment.* Assuming western society doesn’t fall into a state of full-blown delusion, 50 years down the line we will likely view “reassignment procedures” and “SSRIs” the same way we presently view lobotomies and mental wards.
I think someone in the UK looked at the data and realised how behind the US we were on diagnoses and prescriptions for ADHD. Depending on who they were, they either saw a clinical shortcoming or a gap in the market (probably the latter). I honestly remember seeing articles encouraging people to go out and get a diagnosis, because Brits were 'underdiagnosed'. Then there came a wave of articles saying that diagnoses of ADHD were going up, as if it was an unexpected problem. But it was preceded by actions that would naturally lead to that increase. I don't know if it was all an intentional play, but I legit have a friend who was hooked by this wave, ended up going private, getting a diagnosis, and getting the (expensive) meds. Well done Big Pharma / Compassionate Society, you have more ADHD citizens. I dunno.
The rapid rise in ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions, alongside the troubling role of tech startups in healthcare, highlights a growing need for caution. While increased awareness is crucial, we must ensure that diagnoses are accurate and that treatments are responsibly managed by qualified professionals, not driven by profit motives. The trend underscores the importance of balanced, accessible mental health care that truly prioritizes patient well-being.
🙌🏼💯 THIS SO MUCH!! I myself suspect that I may have it (biggest suspicion comes with high school excelling vs college fumbling) but don’t want to be diagnosed as part of a trend either. It’s like anything else though- awareness is only good to a point. We need accurate diagnoses, not over diagnoses. (Includes c@ncer, h!gh BP, etc.)
I’m 62 years old and have suspected I have ADHD for many years. I have put many strategies in place to make my ‘condition’ my superpower, not a disability. I am at the point of considering discussing my symptoms with my GP to see if there is any value in getting a formal diagnosis. I did reasonably well at school, despite always getting into trouble for talking (now I know why I did that!) but I wonder how much better I might have done had I been able to focus better. Thank you for an informative and concise presentation. If the video was much longer, I wouldn’t have watched it. I think you can understand why!
If you are a woman and or are unsure if you have Adhd; get your iron levelS (several) and b12 and d3 checked. Every third woman has an iron deficiency during her life time. And all people in question should check the other levels. Been there 👍 Ferritin; get it above 60, better 80 or 100. Beef liver supplement and cast iron to boot. Had to have a infusion and my symptoms improved so much, it was wild.
I take supplements for all three and my B12 s fine; D3 a bit low but could have been because of winter. Iron deficient without anemia (red blood cells and hemoglobin normal). I have a hematologist I see and have done IV iron infusions twice. I also have consistently mildly elevated white blood cells and platelets. I didn’t notice any big changes when I had the IV infusions.
@@wintersprite interesting. what were your ferritin levels before and after the infusions and what are your symptoms. How low is low for the D3, because laboratories have different ranges.
Also, did you struggle in elementary school? How so? If everything seemed fine TO YOU until puberty, less likely that this is ADHD, though it may take some time and thinking to sort that out! 🤔
Autism also has the same research problems. I was diagnosed autistic at age 50 and just this last week my nurse practitoner gave me Adderall and put me on the list for assessment. I'm female so I spent all my life being told I was just depressed and anxious. This kind of "misdiagnosis" is discrimination pure and simple. It's racist, misogynist and ableist.
Thank you for this video. I was skeptical at first, listening to your opening statements, concerned you were going to be another person who says, "oh everyone has ADHD now" or "it's just a trend," which is very deflating to hear after finding this surprising answer to frustrating and confusing lifelong struggles. I want to clarify something I hear often, about ADHD being a mental health issue. Yes, mental health is affected because of it, however, ADHD itself is a BRAIN issue. Thank you again.
I have had a diagnosis since I was ten. I am now 30 and one of the hardest things to describe is that it's an emotional... Almost pain to sit down and do paper work, study, FILL OUT JOB APPS. I found it helpful to go to a friend's house or my parents a d have somebody present to help apply that social expectation.
Just having another person with me helps so much. I hate shopping but it is necessary every week. However, having my teenage son with me to remind me of my list helps me keep focused and able to complete the task quicker.
I'm pretty sure I have ADHD. I've suspected I've it since I learned what ADHD was as a teenager. However, my parents aren't the type of who believed ADHD was a thing. Years later it hasn't gotten easier. I've struggled with school and finding steady work. When I do work I struggle to get there on time and keep a consistent speed. When I do get to work and school on time it doesn't last long because I quickly burn out. Then the pattern repeats. In the last decade I've also had the sudden death of my dad and a some familial problems that have left me with trauma, depression, and lots of anxiety. I decided to seek out a diagnosis to help me process all of this so I can get on the right track. My best friend is also going through a similar struggle in her life that she suspects that she also has ADHD. She too has also suspected this since she was a teenager but hasn't taken action into getting diagnosed until much recent. Like me she has struggled with being on time and concentrating on studying. Also we both have sought out advice from our doctors. I don't want to diagnose myself online because I wouod probably diagnose myself with countless stuff I most likely don't have.😅 In my research on ADHD it made me look back at my childhood and what signs were present. I also realized that my dad had a lot of the symptoms of ADHD. He was a baby boomer (born 1963) and was never diagnosed by a psychologist. If he did have ADHD it would explain why he was always losing stuff and not being able to read for long periods of time. My mom and my grandmother helped my dad with a lot of the structure and organization in his life.
One of the most annoying things when you tell someone you have ADHD is when they casually say "oh I probably have it too, I just never got diagnosed" I've had lots of people say that to me over the years, and of all of those there's probably maybe a couple where I thought they might genuinely have undiagnosed ADHD after a 5 minute conversation. In all other cases it was clearly just symptom recognition, rather than an actual disorder. So like both the video and other commenters have said: you don't have ADHD if you occasionally experience this type of behavior. You have ADHD when that behaviour repeatedly gets you into trouble. And if that's not the case, please don't tell someone with ADHD you probably have it too, because it only highlights to them you don't take it seriously. And no, you are also not "a bit OCD" just because you prefer something a certain way. Just like ADHD, OCD is a serious disorder that causes a lot of pain to those who have it.
Lovely video!! I always appreciate the time and care you put into the videos you make. This one was very comforting to watch, as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD in 5th grade I can definitely understand why the adult ADHD diagnosis have gone up! My mom opted for an IEP plan for me during school as she didn’t like how the medication affected my personality (looking back I wish she would’ve kept me on it because I struggled SO much in school) but as an adult the symptoms of my ADHD are actually debilitating!! I’m finally in the process of getting treatment for myself at 23 and I’m so looking forward to trying out medications :3
Man, this hits home. I was just talking to my sister about how I was in my last year of university in 2009 and I specifically remember the answer book for my English class being 14 pages after I finished the test. But now I can barely even fill out a form at work without starting to tense up and twitch around uncomfortably
Thank you for this, especially for explaining how and why the diagnostic criteria for ADHD have changed, and the effects on ADHD diagnoses. This was illuminating (and it brings together information that I had to gather in various other places myself, over time). About the feeling that people have that they might have developed ADHD from using the Internet a lot: the book “ADHD 2.0” (by Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Ratey, prominent ADHD clinicians who have ADHD themselves) says that this could be a kind of environmentally-induced trait the feels similar to ADHD. ADHD itself is highly heritable, with some environmental factors, (highly suspected are oxygen deprivation at birth, environmental toxins such as lead, and other factors that influence brain development,) and it existed before computers or mobile phones became ubiquitous. But most people in the modern world are under constant bombardment by information and notifications (and advertising) from devices with screens, and they get distracted by them. That makes it difficult for them to sustain their efforts to complete their tasks, and it distracts them enough that they forget things more often. This is not unlike ADHD, but it is not caused by a genetic disposition for brain development that makes it hard to control your attention, from the “inside”. The diagnostic criteria for ADHD try to guard against mixing fully environmentally-induced ADHD-like symptoms with ADHD that is caused by brain development (or even brain injuries). The onset in early childhood is one of these guards. And I believe that careful diagnosticians also try to discern ADHD from the technology-induced lookalike. (But I can imagine that the incentives of some corporate providers could be skewed - the examples from this video suggest as much.) Because the treatment with ADHD medications targets brain systems that are affected in people with actual ADHD, while the “treatment” for technology-induced ADHD-like traits can look quite different: learning to live without being hooked to devices and their notifications 24/7. To be sure, being hooked to devices with notifications (or doom scrolling, to name another factor) is also something that people with actual ADHD should avoid, as it appears to make their ADHD worse. On the other hand, devices can also help people with ADHD remember things that they want or need to do, and they can help them stay on task as well. It all depends on how the device is set up, and what people do with them.
When you started talking about tech companies, I thought "here we go again" but you surprised me and actually did the topic a lot of justice, will watch more of your videos :)
I clearly remember the UK programme “Jamie’s school dinners” shown in the UK around 2005. The teachers were amazed at the change in children’s behaviour after changing what they were eating at school. They said that children that would no pay attention on lessons and we disruptive in class changed their behaviour very noticeably. The medical person said the number of times that she had to use the Asthma Pump on the children had dropped dramatically. So, how much consideration is being paid to the rubbish (fast & hyper processed ‘food’) that more and more people are eating now compared to decades ago.
I'm in the demographic. The school wanted to test me for adhd as a kid, but my mom was fearful of me having a "label". I had one friend in high school who told me I had adhd, but back in the 90's there wasn't much info available in my rural town. I was smart, so didn't have to study to pass classes, and I liked learning in general, so was fine until homework. I was late on assignments, would pull all nighters because I couldn't time estimate. I still got an engineering degree, but I've struggled so hard having a desk job. I tried a few other things, but lower pay, and physical fitness, so ended up back at a desk job. I was so stressed out and had so much anxiety, I was thinking I'd have to quit for my mental health. Then I saw a TH-cam of a girl with adhd that struggled like me. And then I kept watching more videos and started crying because it explained everything. It took a while to get diagnosed. I'm on meds now and life is so much better. I still struggle, but not nearly as much, and I know what toolbox to look in for tips on how to manage challenges. It's all been so wonderful of a life change. When I was 1st being diagnosed, my doc tried giving me anti depressant and anti anxiety meds in low doses, but I hated how they made me feel. I'm not depressed, and once my adhd was diagnosed and meds for that, I don't have anxiety either. This was all back in 2022. So, my reason for getting diagnosed at 40, was TH-cam making adhd info available in a form that didn't require reading a boring book.
I've wondered this exact question (as per vid title) and so watched your video with interest. It explains some things, but one thing which I don't think it does in depth, is the effect of the state of the world more recently, and how people feel. It's good that conditions like ADHD are talked of on platforms, and even de-stigmatised, but I feel like some have made it in to this cool thing to have, people are now self-describing as "neurospicy". People might be struggling in life and find such videos and just as your video suggests, align some of the symptoms with what they have. They might be wanting a diagnosis as it then gives them comfort as to what they were previously struggling with. I'm not in any way saying ADHD doesn't exist, I am however saying that the vast majority of people I know more recently diagnosed with ADHD went through private clinics, which are clearly for profit. Where do their interests lie between not diagnosing, and diagnosing and making more money? Some platforms talking about ADHD even talk about the testing procedure and I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to "prep" for the test if you wanted the diagnosis. My worry/concern is that, again as mentioned by your video, the diagnosis doesn't just go away. Taking stimulant medication is then a lifelong thing. Those I know newly diagnosed didn't seem to have gone through the process of trying much in the way of coping strategies before opting for drug treatment, e.g. to forgetfulness or being side-tracked. Long term use of a stimulant drug can also lead to hypertension, cardiovascular issues, etc which they dont seem to have want to have considered
We should also keep in a mind that a lot of people who get diagnosed now should have been diagnosed much earlier. If all those people were treated in the data as if they were diagnosed as children the graphs would look much different and there wouldn't be a sudden "rise" in ADHD.
New to your channel - your videos are great! Deeply researched, compassionate and delivered with humility - the antidote to clickbait trash. So much information in here it felt a lot longer than 12 minutes.
People who claim that internet addiction is causing ADHD CLEARLY do not understand the disorder at all. Many people get it wrong that people with ADHD simply struggle with focus. ADHD affects ALL executive functions (ex: self control, time management, organization), not just focus, and it really feels like that is getting overlooked. I have ADHD, and it feels almost hurtful to have my struggles minimized into a single lens of focus-issues.
Except for the fact that social media is directly shown to cause self-diagnosis of practically any issue someone is wondering whether or not they have.
I’m a 32 year old woman who was diagnosed with ADHD right before the pandemic hit. I was really struggling with anxiety and dissociation, so I saw a counsellor and a doctor at my school. I was lucky that the doctor specialized in ADHD and noticed that I had the symptoms. I still doubted the diagnosis, so I got a second opinion from another specialist who confirmed my diagnosis. I was a gifted kid, so I still managed to do really well in school, and my symptoms didn’t start until I hit puberty. I didn’t know this, but many women start showing symptoms after puberty. Now that I know about it, I notice it in at least 3 of my family members too. When you grow up around people who have it, they don’t notice anything is different, and neither do you. I work in a field where lots of my colleagues have it as well (field biologist), so it definitely seems like the norm to me. I hope the rise in diagnoses and understanding of ADHD will at least help everyone understand themselves and each others quirks and difficulties.
Interesting... In 1991, I was diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome. Perhaps the diagnoser didn't know a patient couldn't be both, or already knew that a patient could be both... I was pumped full of Ritalin through the 90's. I tried going without meds for a while, then got Adderall in the mid 2010's. Once I realized I was abusing it (I got the prescription while going through rehab for street drugs), I got off meds completely. I figured people with brains like mine made do for thousands of years without meds, so I could too. While I'm sure I don't have the most severe case of either, I have found that a little discipline can get you a long way. I have still been through moments where I have to humbly apologize because I wasn't paying attention, or I realize I have no idea how long I haven't been listening to a lecture and have a big gap in my notes, but I successfully made it through the last two years of a bachelor's in engineering and 5 years of employment as a design engineer without meds. It's not the end of the world if you're a little uncomfortable for a while or need to get instructions repeated. It all gets better with practice, and your boss would rather have an employee that does what he asked with two or three repetitions of instructions than one who just doesn't do it at all. I should probably stop while I'm ahead, but I frankly think being concerned about getting a diagnosis or medication is a waste of energy. You know how you are, and you know what is expected of you to be functional in the world. It may take more work for you than some people, but you can put systems in place that will make you successful without the need for meds. (If you choose that, it is also up to you to honestly evaluate how your systems are working and adjust as necessary. This can be done with the help of a close friend, family member, or counselor.)
Oh no I missed your community post. I am fortunate that when I did go to seek help with my ADHD I had a good doctor. But due to the American healthcare system, I had to change doctors multiple times, or didn’t have insurance for many years, so I went unmedicated.And daily life is difficult for me. I set goals I can’t meet them and so I’m depressed. Thankfully I had that history of being prescribed so that did help when I did find another good doctor. But I did go through so many doctors that just didn’t believe me, or they would complain about them having to prescribe a controlled substance. I have been with my doctor for two years with no problems on my medication refills or my urinalysis tests so I hope that helps going forward.
And I can say that as a person diagnosed with ADHD that I can’t be on TikTok or Instagram for longer than 10 minutes. I don’t know if that helps. Ha ha.
Well written and balanced. Thank you for taking the time to delve into the history a bit and make thoughtful comparisons. As an adult who is coming to terms with my own diagnosis, it's tricky for sure. There's no brain scan, biopsy, or blood test for ADHD. The questionnaires and even facetime with mental health professionals can be fuzzy and subjective, making it feel like it's simultaneously too easy to get prescribed medication and too hard to get helpful therapy. And there are many who still aren't getting the help we need. The social dynamics of how the world is built and the systems we live in function also show that we are still grappling with the tradeoffs technology has brought. When I am in a tech free environment, I can really hone in and be present, but that's also not reflective of my real life, and without some of the tech tools I rely on, I would be completely lost, and fundamentally unable to do my job, much less care for my family or connect with almost anyone in my social circle.
One of the reasons why we saw an uptick during covid was the government allowed patients to use telehealth style appointments. For ADHD'rs Booking appointments, getting time off work, travel Aunt time management are huge hurdles for treatment.
in my case i was born with it it's just that i wasn't diagnosed properly, as a little boy i was hyperactive like always, but unlike now i was unruly, violent ,aggressive, couldn't stay form one place to another, i grew up in a poor family during one of the darkest periods in Romanian History, the reason the girls do not get diagnosed more than boys is because girls are not diagnosed that frequently due to mental illness.
Back in the early 2000's getting an adhd diagnosis was a hard thing needing multiple appointments and tests before the kid was officially diagnosed (least that's what my brother went through) and the medication was more of a last ditch effort to help the kid than being the goto solution. What's wild to me is how easily they prescribe the medication now for example when my brother was on the stuff (no clue on the brand) he radically changed in fact it he seemed like a different person to the point that my mom took him off the stuff after less than a month. Since then my brother had been medication free and he managed to graduate highschool and land jobs like any other person. Honestly its a good look into the medicine industry as a whole. The whole industry has become way too pro-profit over being pro-consumer. Nowadays you can go in for whatever adhd, depression, gender dysphoria, obesity, bipolarism, autism, etc and you being diagnosed within 1 or 2 appoints and they'll prescribe whatever drug will "fix" your problem immediately even if it's not a good fit for the patient or seeking alternatives first. Finally there's the whole mess of Tiktok diagnosis which are way way worse than google self diagnoses since there are influencers the person trusts and then the kid is like "oh I'm like them so I have ____" or the kid copying said influencers' actions/symptoms leading psuedo-versions of those problem. The kicker is these kids might fake it till the make it, get the diagnosis from a doc, then be prescribed a drug that'll screw them up since they don't have that condition at all... Gotta wonder how many people have an adhd diagnosis when they actually have add or how many adults are diagnosed as add when they are actually adhd, but just know how to hide the Hyper part just from experience being an adult :/
Great video, thank you. I've come to *strongly* suspect I've Inattentive ADHD but haven't been up to the process of talking to a professional. Until I knew there was an Inattentive type I would've never fathomed having it, I had a stereotype of an outwardly hyper person in mind. I've said to people before I suspected anything that my brain ain't normal, like it's hotwired lol, and I've had issues with sustained attention and such going back as far as I can remember. My dad was the same and he's even half joked about having ADD but never got diagnosed. Others noticed too.
Inattentive ADHD used to be ADD (they got rid of the ADD title when it switched in 2013 with the DSM5). But now researchers are realizing that was a mistake and are making it its own diagnosis again. They're calling it Cognitive Disengagement Tempo (CDS). Check it out and see if it fits! You can't be diagnosed with it, yet, as they're still researching the causes+treatments, but looking up videos about it will definitely help you understand your brain and how to seek support
The problem with things like ADHD, is that there's no objective test, so it becomes whatever the patient and/or examiner want it to be or think it might be. No objective test means that... does it really even exist in the first place? Can't say. So, here's some drugs, everybody!
The medication itself is an objective test. If the person reacts to ADHD meds like an ADHD person, that confirms the diagnosis. If they react like a non-ADHD person, the diagnosis was wrong. The anecdotal reports are full of people who discovered they were ADHD when non-ADHD friends got hold of ADHD meds to take as a "party drug" and everyone else in the room was off their nut while this one person was finally in the right headspace to clean the kitchen and write up that overdue homework assignment. It's a pretty dramatically different reaction!
I just got diagnosed as an adult at 40plus. When I was young adhd didn’t exist. It has hampered me all my life and I got through my schools and college with great creativity. Everytime I failed I blamed myself, for not trying enough, although I kind of obsessively did just to make it through. The stress and the self blaming built up untill I got anxiety for failing, lethargic and depressed and burned out. For that I also blamed myself. ADHD sets your psychology up to fail and then some and it can take a long time before you realise that the struggle that is your normal is another extra anker you are dragging with you. There enough of us old unrecognised cases that enter in the statistics just now.
America is the only country that seems to have an extreme skyrocket in ADHD diagnosis. Most developed countries do not have this problem, so there’s most likely something else going on in America causing the issue (diet, exercise, overlapping symptoms that aren’t inherently ADHD itself).
I think its probably more with the methods of diagnosing Autism and ADHD. I don't think theres more ADHD or Autistic individuals I think its more the fact it can be easier in the US to get diagnosed. Maybe a combination of catching up to where the numbers should be and also overdiagnoses to sell medications.
@@jeremyfisher8512 this. the method of diagnosis in america for minors is "just ask your parents and teachers" and that doesn't work with older generations that typically think that it's "all in their head" and "they're kids so they're going to be hyper." as an adult, it's "how do you feel?" instead which gives an insanely high output rate for various obvious reasons tl;dr it's a combination of kids not getting diagnosed nearly enough in childhood and adults maybe getting diagnosed _too_ much in adulthood who knows
Yea, Covid brought the market online where Americans could actually access it and those companies went of their way to make it affordable to Americans. Here you most likely have to pay out of pocket to see a mental health professional, often even if you have insurance. Or you have to pay and file it to insurance on ur own and wait for reimbursement. They do this bc insurance doesn’t like to cover. The prices are insane. Even more for diagnostic appointments. Most Americans don’t even have a primary care doctor they can see and the average American avoids the doctor at all costs. U see stuff online that fits with ur struggles, find out u can get meds for it in like less than an hour from ur couch. No appointments three months out, no insurance issues, no appointments just for referrals, no out of pocket therapy prices bc insurance hates paying for that. It was access plain and simple. Colon cancer on the other hand… I won’t say bc I don’t research it, could be a lot of things and many things combined, but I was in the field of researching American’s diet, obesity, and type-2 diabetes not long ago and it wouldn’t surprise me if the studies start to show a link. Edit to say no studies have linked diet or exercise to triggering or causing adhd. So your conclusion isn’t backed by any research about adhd. Regardless of the country. It’s been found to be largely genetic with a few (pretty serious) environmental factors, none of which is diet or exercise.
Either it's being properly diagnosed, the society is sick, or pharma is pushing more psychotropics. Or a combination of the three. Medicine and mental health in this country is broken.
I think a big part is that people don't try to get diagnosed untile it actually impedes them in their life. That is basically why I started seeking a diagnosis and why I want to get treatment if I have it. Before college, my short ass attention spam, my forgetfullness and impossibility to focus were an issue sure, but they never really interfered with my life to a point where it was damaging. In fact, my friends just accepted them as who I was and joked around at how forgetful I could be and how funny it was that I could change subjects on a whim or forget the thing we were talkinga bout 5 minutes ago. Ever since I've started college though, it's been absolute hell. I can barely focus in class, I can't finish a single task for the life of me, I forget stuff all the time that I need for exams or classes, like when I can use my notes for an exam I forget to print them and have to do it without them (happened too many times already...), etc... for the last 3 years I haven't been studying in college, I have been barely surviving it. That's when a friend of mine who has ADHD told me I probably have it and should get diagnosed. The only reason I tryed looking into it was because of how utterly horribly I felt like it was affecting my current life, and before I saw it as an option, I just felt like I was an incompetent idiot who's just not made for studies and who's gonna end his life as a cashier because I could't finish writing an essay if my life depended on it...
Wow, this is very interesting. I'm a female with ADHD. I didn't have many symptoms showing at school or when I was younger, but as I've grown into my 20's, I really started looking for help. I got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD and started taking pills a few months ago. I recall looking for help earlier, but my parents played it off as if there was nothing wrong with me - and treated it like I was being offensive to everyone else who had to deal with "real" problems.
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there absolutely IS a causal link between ADHD and addictions of all sorts, including internet addictions, but also anything else like drug/alcohol/gambling/sex/etc. addictions. It's actually quite well understood how ADHD messes with the dopamine levels and dopamine receptors, which in turn directly impacts impulse control, which in turn causes addictions to get that dopamine hit to get to a level that a normal person should feel without ADHD-driven dopamine deficiency as well as deficiency in dopamine receptor sensitivity. That's also why stuff like dopamine agonists (that would cause schizophrenia in a regular person, but not in ADHD or Parkinson's patients) and Adderall (literally a stimulant similar to amphetamine) helps, it regulates the dopamine levels allowing a person with ADHD feel like what a person without ADHD feels like with healthy dopamine levels and the sensitivity to the said dopamine levels. This is also what causes the hyperactivity, inattentiveness, etc. - of course there's many more layers to it than just that (there's a reason why ADHD and Parkinson's are 2 different things despite both having that as an overlapping major cause, but there are other non-overlapping components to them as well), but it's a huge part to it.
Too many self-diagnosed people also make it seem like everyone has it. Many seem to have a need for some extra "special" tag to their name to attract attention and have an excuse for being lazy and unsuccessful. I've met quite a number of individuals like that, who would refuse to get diagnosed, and whose symptoms would suddenly wanish outside of work environment.
Something you have to keep in mind is behavior doesn't just come from nowhere. people aren't just lazy and unsuccessful for no reason, and I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't choose to be lazy and unsuccessful. Although refusing to get diagnosed is stupid
@@thrpotatoasfgfejfidieiidkr7071 I would disagree. Of course there are people who are suffering from either physical and mental conditions, and sometimes the circumstances are just too overwhelming. However, for a typical person (at least as far as developed and developing countries go), it's just a matter of willingness to put an effort into something. It's much easier to do nothing and blame the circumstances than actually trying to get somewhere.
Actually no. If will it is all it takes, everyone would succeed. Everyone wants a good life. You have to go deeper and discover what makes that person not "try hard enough", because all of us want to succeed and have a good life.
I would add other aspect, like in the UK the NHS didnt recognise ADHD until 2000, meaning many slipped through the cracks, a lot more adults that are only now pushing to figure out why they feel like a failure.. or why they struggle with the seemingly most basic tasks but can do complex stuff with ease
ADHD is not a disease. Making humans (especially children) sit quietly on chairs and focus on boring things for 8+ hours every day and expecting them to just comply with it is the true insanity here. Society has apparently accepted that something that is incredibly unhealthy for everyone's physical and mental health is now normal and everyone who doesn't want to be like that has to take very addictive substances for the rest of their lives in order to "be healthy" again
I've had trouble in school, work, home life etc since grade school, but didn't get "officially" diagnosed until last year. 43 years of my life. I've suspected I had ADHD for longer, since I was in my mid-30s at least. My diagnosis was through an actual clinic in my city and at first I was Dx as "SCT" which is currently considered Inattentive ADHD (although it's likely it'll be split out into its own executive function disorder called CDS) I'm a woman. When I was a kid to get the ADHD Dx you had to be hyper, practically bouncing off the walls. Kids like me who sat quietly and daydreamed our lives away got no diagnosis or treatment. We're "quiet" and "sweet" and "don't cause problems" ("so why aren't you getting your work done!?"). I was lucked to get diagnosed by a clinic that's accepted by Medicaid/Medicare so my state insurance will pay for my medication
Everyone in the comments: But I was just diagnosed with ADHD and mine is legit. It seems more common to have ADHD than not. If you don’t have it, you are the unusual one. Pretty sure the rise of technology and SM has played a contributing factor to the decline of the attention span. ADHD medication will mess you up for life btw. Psychologists have now espoused that there is no such thing as ADHD and it’s actually a person who suffers from underlying childhood trauma that has gone unresolved.
Love your channel Fads. Love that you're a fellow northerner :) we don't have enough english northern lads experience success on TH-cam up here. I wish you the very best mate. You know thay you are gonna keep experiencing more and more success. I'm actually curious about whether or not you are ND, because you are so good with patterns and fine detail. Some ND people hop through topics of interest, rather than stick to one primary interests. I'm not just seeing your videos, I'm seeing the hyperfocus behind them. Food for thought lad. I'm also ADHD/Autistic and I work with this demographic in my occupation. There's no way, however, that recreational habits will manifest ADHD symptoms in NT people. For example, an NT person is going to exhibit dysphoria by way of rejection, being ignored, et al. To anyone working in this field, there is no cross-over. The differences are massive, and obvious. Lastly, if anyone who's bothered to read this is ADHD, avoid medications until you've spoken with an ND-aware counsellor, because we all have the means to cope. We have difficult inert traits that we have to work through and we get no choice. The important thing to consider, is that we can work through this. We are fully human and can always feel better with the right support. Pharmaceuticals are about business and profit. Don't be too keen to offer yourself to that industry. They're qunts.
I dont know what is actually going on with ADHD. I do however notice that the symptoms of ADHD, are the exact symtoms of someone who has an addiction to thinking (More-so than the average member of society). Meaning that they have a mind full of thoughts of past and future, and is unable to slow it down without medications (alcohol or pills or whatever). Its the equivalent of a computer with tons of useless and unresponsive tasks open, with no known way of closing them. And if this is the reality of ADHD, then meditation (learning to keep focus on something other than thinking), is a cure. People who master meditation have anti-ADHD. Superb memory, superb ability to focus and pay attention etc. Because the mind is empty of thoughts, and they have their full consciousness on what you are saying when you speak to them.
ADHD is more of an issue with the brain, rather than the person. The brain is akin to any other organ. We need our organs to do certain things on their own. Take the pancrease as an example, it is suppose to produce insuilin. However a person with Type 1 Diabetes has a pancrease that is unable to produce insulin. Said person will need insulin prescribed to them, as a result. There are functions that the brain should be doing on its own. The brain is supposed to allow a person to focus. In the brain focus is multiple systems working concurrently. An ADHD brain is under aroused, it lacks sufficient stimulation. This is why stimulants, wether they be medication or otherwise, have a paradoxical reaction to an ADHD brain. That's why a person with ADHD can become calm, both physically and mentally, when taking stimulants.
It's also important to do a meta analysis on environmental factors. These can include medications, food, chemicals, and RF exposure. It's clear that cellular companies have been ramping up the strength and frequency and pervasiveness of RF. Cell towers are everywhere. I haven't seen any research around this and health effects. Also, the use of Roundup and other herbicides and ever changing pesticides in agriculture is pervasive. The use of high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners has also ramped up. And social media algorithms are performing personalized mental manipulation to create addiction. The greatest cause of social media addiction seems to be fear. This is well documented. Pervasive fear will increase all disease - especially mental disorders. It's important to look at correlations. But, with that said, correlation does not prove causation. It's a good investigatory tool. But, real research needs to be done on all potential environmental causes of emerging diseases including ADHD, certain cancers, autism, metabolic disorders, mental disorders, Alzheimers, and other new or expanding diseases.
Long ago, there used to be a belief that "Fey/fairies" would sometimes "swap" one of their children with a human infant. It was a kind of involuntary cultural exchange program; a Fey child would learn how to be Human and a Human child would go learn about the Fey world and culture. This Fey child posing as a Human was called a "Changeling". And this belief was used to explain how some children might seem to grow up relatively "normal", but then _abruptly_ turn "strange" at about a year old or so. They'd throw tantrums, have extreme reactions to sounds and touch (eg. Church bells made them go crazy), they might not start talking when expected, or they might start learning some skill like potty training or talking but then suddenly "lose" it. The savvy among you may recognize these as descriptions of Autism symptoms. And that's _exactly_ what they were; Autistic children growing up in a time when no one had the faintest inkling what Autism was, but folktales of spirits and Fey were abundant and ready-at-hand explainations for most unusual occurances. These conditions like Autism, ADHD, etc. have *always* been with us; we just called them other things: Changelings, Spirit Possession, Visions, Hauntings, etc. And just as "Miasma Theory" eventually made way for "Germ Theory" in pathology, those concepts eventually made way for the very earliest concepts in Psychology. Freud, Jung, and others of their time weren't _right_ by any stretch of the imagination, but at least they were orders of magnitude _less wrong_ than prevailing beliefs. And they set the foundation for those who came after to put together the science of Psychology to, eventually, be "mostly, more or less, not wrong". I'll close out with this, one of the best analogies for ADHD and other "exaggerations of normal" conditions: _"Everybody pees."_ Normally, maybe 3-5 times a day. But if someone has to pee 47 times per day, that's *not* normal, even if _peeing,_ itself, is a normal thing that everybody does. It's the _frequency_ that makes it a problem and interferes with their life. If someone who had to pee 47 times per day were venting, "I pee so much, it's such a problem!" It'd sound pretty dumb to criticize them with, "Well, everybody pees! You're not dealing with anything that anyone else isn't struggling with in *their* lives, so stop whining and expecting special treatment. You're not special!" Really would make you look like a total moron if you respond like that, because it's obvious you're missing the point. They're not claiming to be "special" and they're not dealing with a problem that "everyone" deals with, either. They have a unique, personal problem that causes difficulties most people don't have, and it's an undue burden to them. Yet, when we reframe it to psychological issues where the "normal" body function exaggerated to problematic levels and/or frequency is a function of the brain, suddenly that kind of reasoning is "just fine"? No... it's still the reasoning of a moron.
By far the biggest impact of the internet on ADHD diagnosis is the memes. A decade or so ago, most people greatly misunderstood what the lived experience of ADHD looked like. Who knew that people with the 'hyperactivity disorder' were frequently branded as 'lazy', or that our biggest difficulty tended to be with getting goals done? Once ADHDers started to post memes, people (such as myself) found ourselves relating to the shared experiences so completely that we realized we shared the condition and raised it with our doctors. And the condition is definitely causative in internet addiction. So much quick-hit dopamine! Getting stuck in rabbit holes and lacking the executive function, time-awareness etc to escape is a constant struggle.
This a very balanced video, I'm 38 and only just narrowed down the evidence in myself for inattentive ADHD as my productivity has gradually decreased to nil. Looking at a carnivore diet while I await official diagnosis and treatment as that's meant to help and I've exhasted all other avenues. Clean nicotine takes the edge off but obviously not ideal. A huge plus is how much endurance and inner strength you've displayed through the journey and the groundwork you've layed for success once the disorder gets managed.
Thanks for watching! This is edited from a stream I did recently - they give me a a chance to go into a bit more detail compared to the video, and usually cover a couple more angles. Plus I love hearing your opinions too.
I stream on Fridays @ 7.15pm EST :)
I'm a guy who was diagnosed as inattentive type as an adult after barely scraping through high school. Family didn't agree, and a lot of comparisons were made to someone they knew as evidence, but they had a different subtype.
I try not to dwell on who I'd be if it was caught early - I wish there were dedicated systems checking for early problems for kids. It's unfair to expect parents and teachers to be able to spot these problems armed with just anecdotal information.
I love your videos, I'd buy you a beer just to hear your thoughts on anything! ^_^
I have ADD and perfectionism
Ah I actually have ADHD(like legit got diagnosed when i was 8)
And have extreme trouble getting the medication i need to function.
It's great that so many people without actual ADHD are eating the stuff I need :(
Oh intersesting fact I got diagnosed with Autism and ADHD in 2008 in The Netherlands, so I guess the DSM is only used in the US and not Europe?
A lot of the medication shortages were created by intentional design at least in America the FDA did it on purpose, creating confusing and limiting constraints on drug manufacturers because of concerns about over prescription.
One thing to keep in mind when we come across stats or graphs suggesting that, "diagnoses of X disorder have been increasing rapidly (oh no!!!11)" is to consider whether people are actually developing such disorder more often or whether the disorder is simply being better understood. The criteria for many psychological conditions has drastically changed in the last few decades alone.
Possibly but we have to remember, if everyone has a disorder… then no one has a disorder. The test for ADHD is a questionnaire and students commonly talked about getting diagnosed just to get the drug when I was in college. I know many people who claim ADHD and I almost always am suspicious because I see how in control of their life they are in comparison. I never hear them mention anything other than difficulty focusing in conversation
@@wowwhyisthistakenthere’s a big difference between people saying they have ADHD and actually being diagnosed. Also I think going to a therapist or getting help is not looked down upon as it used to be, so people get diagnosed more often.
@@wowwhyisthistaken My diagnosis in later adulthood was informed by school assessments report I had found from much earlier in life that indicated dyspraxia and various issues in the school environment.
I'm not an extroverted person so the issues are internalised with an over active thought process too much of the time which inhibits my ability to relate to others and cope with the overstimulation of the built up environment.
It took me a long time to build up a tolerance to the medication, only accepting the very lowest dosage, although it greatly helps me with my occupational and self care activities, there are mood swings to manage and I worry about becoming too over reliant on them given intermittent supply.
It's frustrating that some people consider it recreational, it's a serious nuro stimulant and is not trivial to manage. I never got hooked on illicit narcotics I've been exposed too earlier in life, my reaction was generally bad and I developed I apprehension against things that alter my mental state which is why it took me so long to build a tolerance to just the lowest dose of adhd medication they would offer.
Taken a couple of years, and this was after many many years of being on the waiting list twice because I kind of just forgot I had the appointment by midday first time...
It has in moderation though, been very beneficial to helping me even out my state of being now getting into my late 30s, all the little occupational interests I developed before and day to day good habits are really starting to fall into place much better.
Also more people having access to health insurance
What a roundabout way of saying “maybe they’re just manipulating the criteria.” 😂 Here, you can even say it’s “more inclusive” and that “it’s actually a good thing!” It’s 2024, if you’re going to use journalist copy pasta maybe don’t use such cliché maxims 🙄
If there's one thing you know about ADHD, it should probably be this:
yes, everyone experiences the symptoms, but people start to seek serious help when these smyptoms interfere with their lives.
You can forget things and not have ADHD, you can have trouble focusing and not have ADHD. But when someone constantly forgets things and have so much trouble focusing that they can't even finish a school that is otherwise not difficult for them, then they need some extra help.
Right! I've had to explain this to a few people in both directions.
Help i never and will never get xD
THIS! Anytime i hear someone say "we're all a little autistic" or something I wanna tell them this. Yes, many people do have the traits of autism, the issue is: do those traits IMPAIR your life & functioning?
Literally!! One of the requirements for diagnosis is "interferes negatively with your day to day life"
“Everyone needs to take a piss sometimes. But if you’re running to the bathroom three times every hour, something’s not right.”
As a neurodivergent person and PhD researcher in the identification of ADHD, it has been so nice to see the breadth and depth of research you've put into this and how well you've presented your research- its so important, thank you
Which is to say, very little research. Confirmation bias much Mr. "I-hate-neruotypicals"?
I hate it when people think that because I've been to therapy & used tools to mitigate some of my behaviors that I should be "cured" by now. Just yesterday my boss was like "still having memory issues? I thought you would've worked that out by now" & I had to be like "duh dude, that's why its called a DISORDER"
Let your boss know that he's an asshat
Noooo it's not a disorder it's actually a superpower!!1! (/s obviously, that toxic positivity can go right in the bin)
@@Roanmonster lmao right! Its so funny to see someone try & "talk me out of" having adhd. Like the hubris on these people sometimes.
Well some people apparently do 'lose' the label of ADHD, but simply cause they learned, and got tools, to cope. Put simply though, if an adhder experiences working memory issues or rsd, no amount of organisation and discipline will discount it from actually happening. The severity of it though, that can be dealt with.
This is so true ..
It's actually especially damaging when this mentality is internalized. It's the cognitive dissonance of trying not to let the diagnosis contribute to developing "learned helplessness" whilst also not developing self hate and constant criticism in giving yourself kindness and genuinely being ok with giving yourself realistic standards and expectations.
It's especially hard when we live in a world saturated with husstle culture, to the point it's so ingrained in us abd our values that we're not even aware of it or how destructive it is...
That's something I've been really struggling with for a long time.
It really hit me the other day when I was opening up about how much I was struggling and I was trying to verbalize how I need to be kinder to myself and be realistic about how hard abd debilitating dealing with ADHD can be, but afterwards I had this deeply uncomfortable feeling of disgust and cognitive dissonance that I've felt manny times, but this time it hit me just how deeply ingrained I still subconsciously had the thought that I SHOULD just be able to "do it" and meet stereotypical standards of being "disciplined" ... Despite me genuinely putting in so much mental energy to do this that I'm now chronically burnt out and can hardly, let alone consistently, take on my own daily maintenance let alone other task and commitments...
As someone who was clinically diagnosed at 7 but didn't get recognition and treatment for it till I nearly died as a teenager, the whole contemporary framing of ADHD as both endemic and unprecedented is so nerve-searingly frustrating. While Tiktok has watered down genuine terminology to pop psych buzzwords, people are suffering (and ADHD *does* make you suffer) without access to treatment and, crucially, self-knowledge. The simple fact of knowing what is happening, why you struggle with the things you do, can completely change your self worth. I was not lazy, or sloppy, or stupid. I was floundering.
I'm getting my PhD now, and while there's plenty to be critiqued about the conflation of traditional life progression with healing/progress, that's an avenue that would never have been available to me without treatment.
Same boat here! Diagnosed at 9 but received zero supports or treatments growing up. Now, 30 years later, thanks to the spread of ADHD education from Dr. Russell Barkley's channel and HealthyGamerGG (whom also references Dr. Barkley), I found out how bad ADHD actually affects my life. I knew I struggled a lot, but I didn't realize that was the cause as it wasn't explained to me as a child. Now I am able to reach out to physicians for support for the first time! I've had an AMAZING past 2 years of my life in HUGE part to working on my mental health with help from others!
Congrats on getting your PhD!!!
Trying to write a PhD thesis with untreated adhd is a nightmare. Don't ignore it like I did
Nearly died what you dont die from adhd or am i not understanding the comment but any ways congrats on getting your phd:)
@@the_luminous_raven I was being intentionally vague, because I have a right to privacy. But to hopefully get you to think a little more about your comment, I’ll clarify.
My ADHD diagnosis was withheld from me. My untreated symptoms led to me being told I was a disappointment and a failure and a waste of time by those who were supposed to protect and care for me. Because I didn’t have any other explanation for why I was like this, I internalized those messages. Ultimately, feeling guilty for the burden I placed on those around me and sure that it was who I inherently was as a person, I tried to kill myself and would have succeeded if not for the intervention of a cop. It was horrific and traumatic and I’m still healing from it now.
To get back to your comment-ADHD can kill you, the mechanisms behind it are just a little more complicated than something like pneumonia. My story isn’t unique, nor is it the only deadly avenue. People with ADHD are more likely to be unhoused, more likely to have a substance use disorder, and more likely to deal with unemployment. None of those things are safe or healthy under capitalism. Our life expectancy is 7-20 years shorter than our neurotypical peers, depending on the studies you use.
@@lunarmagpie619 oh damn im sorry :( it was just that i also have adhd and i was just abit suprized sorry
I am part of this statistic. A female diagnosed in her late thirties with inattentive type. I've always had adhd and I've been searching for an answer for what was "wrong" with me my entire life. I was treated for anxiety and depression with little success. I was missed because I was quiet and intelligent so I didn't struggle in school until college. Getting diagnosed changed my life though. My anxiety and depression were actually just symptoms of adhd and now that I have told for that they've mostly cleared up too. I think the reason why suddenly "everyone" has adhd is cause this population that was missed is now telling everyone because they don't want other people to stay missed. It's still just 5-9% of people though even with the increase in diagnosis. It's not everyone.
Same here, was treated for bipolar disorder for over a decade, after I started getting treated for ADHD, I improved quickly and tremendously.
The story I'm living right now. It's really nice to finally understand why my brain works the way it does, and not that there is just something 'wrong' with me.
i was always told i have ever-worsening anxiety.... i even told the doc, i'm literally NOT worried about anxiety.
but as a kid i was always the weirdo, i was in the gifted and talented kids program but struggling to understand what was happening around me at school, all my friends tended to be neurodivergent and i just.. had no clue.
I was diagnosed at 33..combined type, apparently... and autistic traits to boot.
I have to be grateful for social media, ironically, coz during the pandemic it became apparent my "clearly life is busy and i just don't have time, that's why" issues were more than just that, and i started seeing posts about adhd and realised other people had had my experiences throughout their lives--especially through school.
The moment the psychiatrist saw my school reports, she laughed that she'd never seen such a textbook PERFECT report for an ADHD gifted kid. but the question mark parts were better explained by autism.
You're right about the 5-9% feeling like a lot.. i think if combined with autism, it could be up to 20% of the population (that is, autistics and adhders combined.. i search for combined figures as i do seem to have both). When lefthanders were first allowed to exist without being smacked out of it, the numbers increased and people panicked that "suddenly EVERYONE is lefthanded!" but that number grew to about 10% and ... that's it. that's all it is.
So for people, 10% of the population feels like "everybody" which i find interesting now, with ADHD and ASD. "ohh everyone has it".. well, if it is about 20% total, YEAH it should feel like double the population should have it lol
Are you me?! I likely still have underlying anxiety, but I know the two are often comorbid. Docs have me on meds for both, but the ADHD meds have made more of a difference.
I always thought my mom had bipolar disorder. Granted, I was a kid and didn’t know the details of the disorder, but that’s what it really seemed like to me growing up. After I got diagnosed with ADHD and really started researching it, I realized that a lot of it is what I saw in my mom, too. I wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m also a statistic 😊), so I am fairly open and vocal about having ADHD and how that affects me. I want people to understand that it’s a real thing that isn’t just something describing a 10-year-old boy that can’t sit still and study for 8 hours straight. I creates very real obstacles in life.
as a person who has had severe adhd symptoms since child to the point of not being able to attend normal school, but also not being able to recieve a diagnosis I'm really glad you went the mature route of analyzing medical data and not just the "it's the tiktoks and the phones!"
It sucks that TikTok shortened attention spans have led people to lump us with them. But I think the difference is TikTok addicts can still do things in other areas of their life. If you have ADHD, your whole life is a mess.
@@irenicrose studies have shown that attention spans have not actually been affected by tiktok or social media.
It's made kids more unable to stand things they don't find fun, that's the problem.
@hugolindum7728 Ironic how some of the poly’s are doing better than the Russell Group red bricks.
But it isn't well done in the video.
Adult with inattentive ADHD here (male)
It took me years to get diagnosed - I went to the doctor concerned about every symptom individually, and I was wrongly prescribed antidepressives and led down wrong paths by my psychologist. It was only after years of realizing what they did didn't help that I went to get a second, and third opinion - Not only did I have to spend years and money out of pocket but it seems that the medical system will actively try to derail people seeking help for inattentive ADHD symptoms. I've heard from medical professionals "You can't have ADHD if we didn't spot it as a child" and "You can't have ADHD if you got through school" - I'm still paying for meds out of pocket. It's no wonder people are turning to self help
Yup, I even got a diagnosis but I still can't get medicine because of drug seekers etc. At least not yet. Too many people lying trying to abuse the system, that us who actually struggle with the disorder get shafted. I'm trying a non-stimulant for now.
One important diagnostic criterion that is often missed out from most videos explaining ADHD / autism diagnostic criteria (even the well meaning ones) is that the so called symptoms must have a significant detrimental effect on day to day life.
It’s horrible deficit based language but when living in a world that isn’t designed for us (and is sometimes designed to exclude us) we are put at significant disadvantage.
Yes. Pretty sure my teenage son wasn’t diagnosed autistic (his younger half-sister had been, and he wanted assessed, too; I definitely am; just got assessed myself waiting for the results) largely if not entirely because, at this stage, he doesn’t “seem disabled”. I fully anticipate he may have more serious issues as an adult. 😕
I feel like i have autism too idk, my friends tell me i have it. And i never can describe the emotions im feeling. I feel alone and nobody understands me
Yep!!! Diagnosed at 29, after years of seeking help for anxiety and depression, and only then because I started putting the pieces together myself and finally asked my therapist and doctor if that could be what I was dealing with. One test later, and the answer was *absolutely*, and medication has changed my life.
One thing that made me seek a diagnosis was that maaany of my closest people were also being diagnosed or told by other already diagnosed friends that they probably had it too. People weren’t saying the same things to me, but it made me stop and think, “wait, but we’re the same…?” If all the people that you relate to the most and feel the most relaxed around have ADHD, the chances are…… 😅
And now that I recognize the parts of my personality that are quite ADHD specific, I see it so much more in other people too. And as you know, we tend to blab, I talk about my experience all the time 🙈 especially if I think it might help someone else.
@@ivanopolese7546the raadsr is a pretty accurate test to self assess autism (of course, not as good as a diagnosis but it's a useful tool) i recommend trying to take it if you're unsure.
And detrimental effect compared to what? We can't turn it off like a tap to compare it and many of us are productivity experts by now.
A lot of people assume ADHD is just hyperactivity, and it simply isn't. My brother was diagnosed at a very young age and prescribed medication, but I wasn't diagnosed until 32 years old. The only reason I got diagnosed at all is because I mentioned to my doctor in passing some of the issues I experience in my life, and how my forgetfulness, inability to force myself to do tasks that I don't find to be interesting, and my inability to focus on anything I'm not REALLY interested in have gotten so bad that it's affecting my relationship with my husband. There are also stigmas surrounding stimulant medications, people calling them essentially legal m3th. All I can give is my personal experience, and my personal experience was this: The very first time I took stimulant ADHD meds, I experienced my brain going quiet for the first time in my life. I actually sat for an hour sobbing. The medication obviously doesn't work like that forever, but what I have now, nearly a year later, is a brain that still struggles sometimes, but for the most part is able to get up and go do the important things necessary. I can function. I will be grateful for the rest of my life for that.
What do you mean when you say your brain went quiet? Can you elaborate? Thanks!
Imagine there being constant “noise” in your mind. It could be something akin to white noise or a bunch of different thoughts all at once. Those are two examples, either way it all equals to unending mental commotion. All while trying to live your life.
In practice this means a person with an ADHD brain has to keep all of that mental commition at bay. All while trying to do anything. Basically one has to keep their own brain in check through out the day.
Im so happy you were able to get meds that work for you :D! The stigma around adhd and meds pisses me off so bad. I hate how so many people are denied treatment or the help they need just because doctors are more worried about a few bad apples compared to the thousands and thousands of people suffering in silence.
This is exactly what happened to me the first time I took medication as well! I struggled in school my entire life and just conceeded that I was stupid and bad compared to the other kids. Looking back, it seems like most of my struggles could be linked to ADHD or processing delays. It really hurts when family says "oh you don't have it, we could tell" meanwhile friends or peers who were diagnosed with ADHD as children would say they thought I already knew I had it.
there are studies that suggest that men are more hyperactive while women are more inattentive when they have ADHD, it's just a tendency tho, doesn't mean that the opposite cannot be true.
Partly, because trauma is often confused for ADHD.
Nadine Burke has a Ted talk about this. She worked as a therapist(? or health care worker, don't know that detail) in an area with a lot of poverty and violence and noted that a huge amount of children had a ADHD diagnose. She found that after treating the trauma, a big part of those children didn't qualify for the ADHD diagnoses anymore.
I think in general ADHD is fluid. I don't think she discovered that these kids were wrongfully diagnosed. I think what she discovered is that ADHD is fluid.
I've been recently diagnosed a couple years back with ADHD and my symptoms have definitely worsened with age. I'm not saying I didn't have my struggles when I was younger but I also was probably managing them.
Like it would be more likely that trauma makes ADHD symptoms worse. But ADHD can be more managed when you don't have environmental triggers.
@@milliedragon4418 i agree - the symptoms of ADHD are on a spectrum. This makes it tricky because where we draw the line to make a diagnosis matters, and it is often influenced by more than the patient's suffering - like industry influence on medical practice, social expectations/biases, and constraints on the medical system (like practitioners who are rushed to make a diagnosis without a thorough review).
interesting!
1) People with ADHD have a much higher chance of developing things like anxiety and trauma, which in turn can increase their symptoms.
2) ADHD runs in families, so a lot of children with ADHD have parents with (undiagnosed) ADHD. And unfortunately having highly impulsive and having problems regulating your emotions (another symptom of ADHD), doesn't always go hand in hand with being a parent e.g. child abuse / neglect. (Definitely not saying people with ADHD can't be good parents! I know great parents who have ADHD, and I strive to be one myself every day.)
3. The educational system (anywhere) is not made for people with ADHD. As a teacher with ADHD I often struggle to see what my collegues do to their students on a daily basis. All in the assumption that good behaviour can be taught to these children. (They have the best of intentions, they just really don't know what it's like).
4. ADHD is much more common among people in lower socio-economic positions, since they more frequently drop out of school, struggle to hold a job, etc. Which is a more vulnerable group to begin with, plagued by plenty of other issues as well.
So trauma isn't necessarily mistaken for ADHD, it's just that kids with ADHD are much more likely to development trauma, and end up in need of treatment.
Or it might be that people with ADHD more often end up living in poor and violent areas and then reproduce there resulting in a lot of children with ADHD in such areas. + trauma, poor nutrition, pollution, etc. of course
I've come across with this TH-cam channel like an hour ago, appeared on my recommendations. After watching the videos of no one wants to have children and gen z gave up, I found this channel interesting since it addresses today's phenomena with statistics and research. As soon as I finished those videos, this one appeared, also noticed more people with ADHD recently, specially young adults. Glad I found this channel.
me too lol, just my second video of his. Kinda like this format, not that much self-validated opinions like them guys with whatever agendas.
@@pandasworld4168 what imaginary agendas?
I've always appreciated how you try to do you due diligence when researching topics, and remain humble while being able to admit gaps in your knowledge, while also pointing out potential biases. appreciate you
It really isn't well done in this video.
After being left-handed was accepted by society there was an extreme increase in people identifying as being left-handed. Did all these people suddenly become left-handed? No, they simply were able to express their true self.
I think a big part of the increasing numbers of people with ADHD is simply our society becoming more open and accepting for all kinds of mental illnesses and a bigger focus on mental health.
I'm not saying that social media and technology also plays a major part, but you can't deny that there's been a lot of people in the past who had all kinds of mental issues but simply weren't diagnosed...
that's true, especially considering that adhd is harder to diagnose in women, it's good that people are now spreading awareness about this
ADHD has been around for long enough that this surge is not realistic
@@wowwhyisthistaken simply not true, please do not spread misinformation
@@wowwhyisthistaken it is, actually. My parents never thought I might have ADHD because I was able to sit and read for 8-10 hours at a time, not knowing that "attention deficit" is the wrong description, it's an attention mismanagement. The hyperactivity also allowed me to pick up on new concepts in school for a very long time and gave me good grades, until suddenly studying became very important and they tanked. Long story short, the "popular" understanding of what ADHD is still doesn't align with the reality, and as such people like me slip under the radar until our twenties or even later.
@@wowwhyisthistaken being left handed has been around longer than our concept of ADHD. Is that surge unrealistic?
I feel like life full of stress can make you think like you might have adhd. Stress makes you incapable of living life
If you actually have ADHD you wish you never had it and without medication you struggle to function and focus your attention on the right things. It sucks when people are like “oh I have adhd too! I have trouble focusing” because it’s more than just not being able to focus. People with ADHD are actually good at focusing, we just focus on things other than what we are supposed to be doing. It’s a brain disorder, not something that manifests itself later in life. If you’re like me and diagnosed in adulthood, usually you can look back and see that you did have it as a kid, it just wasn’t caught. Like for me I got by being “gifted” because I could think fast and was knowledgeable on subjects I hyperfixated on (aka biology), but this approach fell apart in college.
Just because the world is completely boring, tedious and doesnt like smart people does not mean you have a mental illness.
@@the_oc_brewpub_sound_guy3071 ADHD is a neurological disorder, not a mental illness. ADHD people have different brain function than people without ADHD, people with ADHD have dysfunctional dopamine receptors which is why something normal might be hard for an ADHD person to do, but something exciting or pressure that increases dopamine causes them to do something.
I call it, "having a different opperating system", like running linux - its more complicated to do anything, but you can do things in a way nobody else can.
I was diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia as a child. The result is i homeschooled myself from the 4rth to 12th grade and the State thought i was a genius.
What i didnt do though... i didnt take the drugs they wanted me to take, my parents decided they didnt want those and the state was like "well he cant go to school then" and my parents were like "fine, we will homeschool him then"🖕@irenicrose @@irenicrose
I keep seeing people with adhd saying they got diagnosed later in life because they were gifted and managed to function until things went wrong in college. It sucks how many people go under the radar.
I have it and Im actually grateful for it. we arent conventionally successful but because of our creativity and daydreaming, we can do things like be talented artists, build a business or be hyper efficient. Yes it sucks not being able to do 'life' like other people but I find ways to work around it like be minimalist. No need to clean if theres nothing to clean.
I've been struggling with recurring depression for almost 10 years, misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, with no real expectation of improvement. Then I started using tiktok and recognized myself in the symptoms of ADHD. I got an official diagnosis and medication, and now a year later my mental health has dramatically improved.
People talk a lot about trauma symptoms mimicking ADHD, but what they don't take into account is that neurodivergent people are way more vulnerable to developing CPTSD, so in a lot of cases, it's both. And I haven't been able to make significant progress in trauma healing before I got my ADHD appropriately medicated.
Indeed, I think the ADHD caused me to have a lot of the trauma/issues with family/bullying, so on. I don't think it caused the ADHD. Especially since it's in my family, and known to be relatively genetic. Oh, how many times I've been called lazy and worthless, and came to believe it was just my personality and character trait and I was a terrible person. Well, I'm still not far off, but at least I know some of the reasoning behind it and have something to both blame for it other than myself, and a system to work on it directly.
Sadly usual medication is out of the picture for me for now thanks to the drug seekers and restrictions. I'm using wellbutrin since last month instead, but don't think it's helping much.
I was diagnosed in 2022 at 24 years old. I had already completed half my college courses to graduate, but each semester was a grueling battle of procrastination, guilt, and burnout. On paper, I was nearly a 4.0 student in a Health Science degree, but i was suffering immensely.
I was also one of those kids that fell through the cracks of diagnosis and treatment as a child because I displayed inattentive based ADHD and not hyperactivity like is stereotyped for most adolescent boys, despite having a parent, grandparent and uncle being formally diagnosed with the disorder.
In a way, i feel like a decent portion of those upticks in diagnosis are people like myself who are now being caught up, especially since medicine is always evolving and diagnostics are being improved with each generation.
You sound a lot like me. Could you explain in more depth the sort of symptoms you faced?
Yup, took me until now in my late twenties to get diagnosed, thanks to inattentive type. Just took a lifetime of anguish and reaching rock bottom to finally stop procrastinating getting help.
I'm not sure how they're determining "over prescription." I have ADHD, I've been on meds. They've put up so many barriers that I can no longer get them. A drop in prescriptions doesn't mean people don't need them
There were a ton of issues but the most recent one was a doctor who wanted me to have a $300 ua every couple months or so whenever she calls me, which wasn't covered by my insurance bc the purpose of it isn't to manage my health but to prevent her liability. Also if she calls me in I have like one day to show up and I'm literally disabled. Not to mention that I have to go into a germ ridden office during a pandemmy. Like I'm not doing any of that
I had this same problem. Trying to get a refill at one point took me almost 2 months and multiple visits to both my doctor and pharmacy who were both blaming each other for the mix-up. It's gotten to the point where it's a part-time job just trying to keep a prescription filled, and it's just not worth the effort. I ended up dropping the medication and just haven't gone back because of the mental torture I was putting myself through trying to get it filled. All the phone calls, the frustration, and annoyance was almost causing more harm than the good that the medication was doing.
Basically they study people and determine whether the meds are having any positive effects at all. In most cases they aren't, maybe your case is different but by in large these stimulants aren't for most people.
@@0mn1P4wn4g3That's only true for the unethical digital prescribers churning out medications to all and sundry. For people with ADHD who are carefully and properly titrated through various doses of methyphenidate and dexamphetamine, the correct dosage of one or the other is effective in 94% of patients.
But yeah, carelessly slapping out 10mg of Adderall to every single patient and booting them out the door is helping next to no-one.
I work in a pharmacy, it’s quite easy to figure out. A person given an adderall prescription from a telehealth or primary doctor either zero history of adhd and no diagnosis code. Often give. A dose that doesn’t make sense for a stimulant naive patient. It’s really that simple
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid. Recently some traumatic things happened that I was having trouble coping with, so I went to a therapist (like everyone says you should). That therapist told me I didn’t have ADHD; I just had “pregnancy brain”. I found a different therapist. That therapist told me I didn’t have ADHD; I had bipolar disorder. I brought in a copy of the DSM IV diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder and read it out loud to her (I’ve never experienced any of those symptoms) and she insisted that I had bipolar disorder anyway because she just knows it when she sees it. Now I don’t go to therapy anymore. It saves money, but it’s frustrating knowing that if I need help there isn’t anyone to turn to.
Medical misogyny is a huge problem and it isn't just with getting an ADHD diagnosis. Women are less likely to be believed by doctors about anything, more likely to be dismissed, not given adequate pain relief when compared with men with the same complaints, take longer to get any diagnosis, more likely to have their complaints written off as "anxiety" even when the problem is physical and they have no anxiety, more likely to be subjected to medical gaslighting, less likely to have a steriliation approved than men of the same age, and women's health research is severely underfunded when compared to men's. Discrimination is alive and well in the medical field.
Spoken like a real frustrated radical feminist who blames nen for everything
Women are nearly twice as likely to die in the Emergency Department as men. I was nearly part of this statistic a few months ago when I ruptured an internal artery and nearly bled out. I was just another woman with abdo pain and anxiety. They had to rush me to surgery to save my life. I was in hospital for two weeks and at no point was my pain under control, despite me having a very high pain threshold. I don't understand why it's like this.
@@gray_mara When a man has pain, he gets pain relief. When a woman has pain, she's told she has AnXiEtY. It's the new hysteria diagnosis and is used to dismiss women, and ends up killing women. It needs to be illegal to dismiss women's physical pain by accusing them of having a mental illness. These doctors are not psychiatrists and have no business slapping these labels on women. We need to raise hell. Sorry that happened to you, it's unacceptable.
Kind of unhinged Eh? Don't know where you are pulling this from seeing as I can't tell you the difference a woman has at my doctor than a man. What IS well known is that the field of psychiatry is geared towards women, particularly ideas of talking with a therapist. A large body of evidence shows that this is far more effective for women than for men. So... seems to me like you're letting your feminist dogma cloud your judgment on the issue.
@@0mn1P4wn4g3 Women are 89% more likely to die in the emergency room than a man (Braitberg et al, 2016).This isn't feminist dogma. It's a medical fact. And if you won't believe facts because they don't fit in your worldview, then that makes you a fool, but it doesn't make you right.
You explained this SO well. As an adult with ADHD, I was able to show this to my Mother to help her understand my diagnosis. She likes to ask a lot of questions so our conversations often get derailed. Thanks for making this video.
It's not a good explanation. Look for other research on the topic.
I also think the way society and daily life is just generally more demanding to be a part of, is playing a role. Nowadays the distractions are everywhere, and they are constant and endless. Everything has accelerated to a point of constant improvement, that there is just so much noise. Make money, get enough sleep, be a good friend, meet new people, excercise daily, eat healthy and cook at home, remember to stretch, be frugal, protect the earth, be a good mother, a good coworker, a good citizen, a good employee. Grind, hustle, improve - there’s always something you’re supposed to be doing. You are always falling behind.
The demands we place on ourself is skyrocketing, and people with disabilities can’t keep up anymore.
Back in the day when you got distracted, you would stop what you were doing for a bit, and eventually circle back to your task, because there was nothing else to do. Now we have an endless stream of consciousness in our back pocket, that is designed to keep us entertained, and it *never* gets boring.
People want to numb their brains and escape for a bit, and adhd people especially want to, because we’re even more exhausted and unable to keep up. And then we ALSO have a harder time putting the phone back down. Makes sense to me why there’s a correlation.
Great comment.
@@noComment243 thank you :) means a lot!
Indeed, I don't think it's causing ADHD at all, I think it's mostly a birth condition. However all the instant dopamine we have now definitely isn't helping, and is mostly just exacerbating the issues, probably causing heightened diagnosis now as some people are struggling more and more with the disorder in our modern society.
Diagnosed with ADHD myself at around age 19 - This was a very well crafted, thoughtful and considered video!!! Great stuff, looking forward to seeing more of your work! :)
My brother got diagnosed with ADHD as an 8 year old. My sisters and i got diagnosed in our 20s. My parents still haven't been diagnosed, but they have ADHD.
My manager realized his young daughter had ADHD over COVID during at-home learning and when he was filling out her questionnaire, he realized a lot of the questions/answers applied to himself and his wife, too. They've just been diagnosed in their 40s.
The disparity of males and females in medical research has affected way more than adhd. And it still exists today. A 2022 review (of published works) on the subject found not only does it exist but the perceptions for why males made better subjects were largely due to misogynistic perceptions. Which like, as a biochemist, hurts to hear. Those are my colleagues. We got big issues to solve.
There’s been a backlash against researchers lately, actually, for a lot of reasons, and I’m not exactly mad at it. We need some major fixing in that area and the male disparity is only one of our issues.
Edit: to add the review was in 2022. Important context.
Thanks for advocating for women's medical equality.
No fr this is a serious problem. It’s absolutely crazy how a bunch of the diagnosis criteria for mental disorders and health disorders are based on white males. Like so many ppl get missed because of this and they aren’t taken seriously bc ppl refuse to acknowledge how outdated the criteria is.
It depends on the diagnosis. It's a recent phenomenon for medical researchers to acknowledge that medical conditions can look very different between men and women. It does cut both ways as depression in men doesn't look like it does in women in many cases. It's a part of why mass shooters are more often men than women. Men are more likely to get angry when depressed than women are.
It could also be females have a higher tolerance to poison, and we've introduced a lot of poison into our environment and our food - if those poisons influence ADHD then women may be effected less due to that fact.
I found that managing my ADHD is not about focus and attention but about my executive function in directing my focus and sustained attention to a task that requires a long term investment of my effort in order to achieve noticeable results. I found that the most commonly prescribed medication does not aid me with my executive functioning but it does help with focus and attention when the executive function is managed by someone else (employer for example). When I become genuinely interested in something then I yield my best focus and sustained attention to the task without any help from medication or behavioral tools. Once my interest is exhausted by relentless immersion into a subject then, unless I have someone taking charge of my executive function, I quickly move on to the next "shiny" thing in sight. And the cycle repeats. And these cycles are short lived. I don't know about anyone else, but for myself I concluded that I have no problem with attention and focus - my biggest problem is finding discipline for my executive function.
Same I can focus intensely when I want to, at least on things I'm interested in and enjoy, and in general I don't have "focus" issues but I do often forget things, or blank out when people are speaking, or get distracted during anything somewhat boring. But I can still focus it's just uncomfortable and I have to fight with myself. I'm not a total squirrel, I can drive a car for example for hours straight without hitting anyone, lol. Danger and intensity heightens my focus a lot actually, so I love things like driving, motorcycling, storm chasing, downhill mountain biking, putting myself in some dangerous situations just for the stimulation ... whatever adrenaline you can think of.
As far as meaningful employment or getting work done though, I'm with you on needing an employer or something to give me the executive function. I could never make it as an entrepreneur, I can't stay on top of myself at all to ever get anything done I actually need to. I just don't start, I have 1001 excuses, and I'm always just "too exhausted right now."
@@d1ssolv3r Yep, that's very relatable. Danger, looming deadlines, a bullet that's already shot and flying toward me, Armageddon, those are all the things that have a chance to convince me that I probably need to get up and do something. Otherwise, I'm just like a curious kitten on a raft floating through the river of life, observing things around me and not even caring that at some point there will be a waterfall.
The main diagnosis criteria is haveing problems since childhood. Adhd is framed on tiktok like it's something funny or quirky, though it's just not. It's actually horrible and I would change with someone who is doing fine immediately. Constantly being late caused me losing several jobs and repeating a year in school. I was always in trouble in school, there wasn't one moment, where things were doing good. Always the worst grades, always loosing everything, forgetting to do homework, feeling like a complete loser, being the weird person, avoided by everyone, teachers telling you that you won't make it, parents constantly yelling and crying. Thinking about all of this is like a fever dream. While everyone can experience some symptoms of adhd, the ones who have it SUFFER from it. I just lost a job, because all of this, once again. Hearing people telling me that they think they might have it just sucks, knowing that they actually are successful and never had problems in school or in their personal life caused by these symptoms.
I feel extremely embarrassed to tell anyone about having adhd, I don't want them to know, not having it together. Being a child, although I am in my 30s. These symptoms give me regularly the urge to unalive myself, because I just feel like I can't hold it together. I always wondered how could anyone almost brag about having adhd. It's not a joke, it's not fun, it's not a quirky personal trait!
I understand your feelings but if you looked at me you would most likely also think I am successful and never had problems in my life; what you don’t know is what mess (this word is not strong enough but I don’t know better) actually is inside of all this and how do I and people around me feel, and what health problems I have because of adhd. I am trying my best and hardest to never show it to anyone who is not my immediate family at cost of regular burnouts since being twelve. Then someone tells me I can’t have adhd because I somehow managed to have good grades.
exactly, im like you except because Im high achieving i still fortunately have opportunities, plus im young. but the internal struggle to ever appear high achieivng is so exhausting and seeing people on tiktok "aesthetic-fy" adhd is so irritating
@@motionistaI feel this. It’s a lot easier to get away with being adhd in school bc as long as you can hold it together for a test, you can get away with the more day to day struggles, but then when you get a job you realize how screwed you actually are
@@motionista Sure. I am talking more about people that say "Oh I always see those funny ADHS Tiktoks, I probably have ADHD" If many peple think like this it severely undermines the problems of people that acually suffer from it.
I wish autism had the marketing team that ADHD has. Whereas ADHD is seen as a cute quirk, autism is still considered infantile. Both are valid, serious conditions but I can't figure out why one is more embraced while the other struggles to have decent representation in media.
@@ThomasWillett1 maybe misconceptions of what autism is. I used to follow an autistic TH-camr ( stop because he changed content from personal developement to apps and computer programs).
He knew he was autistic and was very open about it.
But not everybody is, nor they have to. It's just watching him, knowing he was autistic changed my perception on the subject.
It doesn't come in on size fits all like the movie with Tom Cruise and the other who played his autistic brother. It can BE in different degrees in different ways.
But my idea of it before was the one from that movie...
Gotta say it must be an absolute mind fuck to make banger after banger videos and have some take off massively and others not for literally no reason. Keep doing what you're doing ❤
Another element of this whole discussion that interests me, and is kind of related to the issue of tech companies getting so involved in diagnosis and treatment, is the whole social media culture around ADHD. There are huge ADHD communities on TikTok, TH-cam, and I'm sure every other platform, which basically encourage Gen Z to self-diagnose with ADHD based on the word of influencers who are very much not experts themselves. A lot of which, of course, is also motivated by these creators trying to rope young people into their content, sell them some nonsense products to "manage their (supposed) ADHD", etc.
People are doing this because actual care is so hard to get. I had to pay a lot and wait several months to get tested. A lot of people can't afford to and a lot of young kids can't get help because their parents won't acknowledge they might have a problem. I agree that self diagnosis is problematic because there's such a huge overlap in symptoms between adhd, autism, depression and anxiety, ptsd and cptsd, and ocd. And the treatments are different. Even when you seek care you might not get the right diagnosis at first. I was treated for anxiety and depression and they didn't get better until I got my adhd diagnosis and then everything clicked into place. What I thought were the racing thoughts of anxiety were actually the overlapping thoughts of an adhd brain that doesn't know how to pick one at a time. I didn't have the language to explain the difference. That's where those groups really help people. Finding out about what adhd really was helped give me the language to advocate for myself. Like I always knew I didn't really understand time. Everyone else seemed to know how long ago things happened and how long something will take and for me time just feels like one big blob. I didn't even know that was a thing to bring up to a mental health professional. There's a lot of things you experience that you don't know are not normal because you only know what it's like to live as you.
Another part of that is also just that adhd people tend to flock to these spaces. A LOT of TH-camrs are adhd because the job is just attractive to adhd’ers. Same with content creation generally speaking. Neurodivergent ppl just tend to move in groups haha
i also think women are detected for hyperactive adhd less often because they are conditioned to mask their symptoms more so then men are
Incorrect, men are scientifically proven to mask their emotional defects more than women
Possibly, although the schools are set up more for girls than for boys, which is part of why boys are identified more often. The sorts of things like gym that allow the extra tension to burn off have been shrinking over that same interval that the diagnoses started to markedly increase.
Only 10% of people with ADHD is visible hyperactive for their environment
Societal constructs between boys/girls or even just natural differences are the main issue found in diagnosing children, yes.
I went to the psychiatrist for depression. I was at my end and knew if I was alone and untreated that it would not have ended well for me. I went to the dr and they saw me that day after seeing how distressed I was. The psychiatrist asked about my childhood, how I acted, if there was trauma and we really went into it for about an hour or so. And he said “I don’t know how you got through college when your ADHD is this severe”. It was a shock to me because it wasn’t on my mind that how I felt was adhd related. He prescribed me meds for 2 weeks and it felt like a switch was flipped in my mind. I could get up and do daily hygiene tasks, clean, do work and not be so in my head and overwhelmed about the steps of everything. This was in 2017. I’m grateful he gave me an answer.
Absolutely brilliant analysis. As someone who has anecdotally observed more adults saying their ADHD, and seeing symptoms in my own child, it was a nice balanced take on understanding why it feels like it's happening all of a sudden. Thank you.
Great video! As someone (25M) who's been diagnosed with ADHD when I was 11, I would like to add something. The second D in ADHD stands for 'disorder'. Which is interesting because it doesn't have to be a disorder, it doesn't have to limit you in life. Sure having ADHD works horribly in our education system, but that's on our education system, not on ADHD. Our education system is trying to reform people to fit the mould society created. This is useful because in an extremely large and complex system like our society, that works really well. It's very hard to keep track of every single person if everyone's completely different.
People with ADHD are horrible to reform and shape to fit in a mould, literally the worst thing you can do. Telling ADHDers to sit down, sit still, listen and focus on something they're disinterested in, will never work. Which is why they're flagged as a problem.
But it doesn't have to be like this, ADHD can be a superpower. Almost every single ADHDer has a skill they will excel in, they have ssoo much creativity and finally a little thing called hyperfocus. Especially this last thing is underestimated. If I find something I like and I'm good at, I can literally go full focus deep work for 4-5 hours and afterwards wake up like I was in a trance. Former Google X chief business officer Mo Gawdat praises ADHDers. He said in a podcast episode with Modern Wisdom that ADHDers can perform an 8 hour task in 4 hours, as long as you give them a task they're interested in and they're good at.
The problem about ADHD is that the education system is forcing them to fit into a mould, if we would let them free and do their own thing they can achieve some wonderful feats.
To reassure you: Just because a doctor looked at you (with his eyes, not a medical instrument or something) and told you you have a disorder by the book some dumbass rockefeller type of researchers wrote, it does not make you sick in any way, but instead, draws a picture of what has become the theoretical standard that the founders of the scholar system (the prussian and the ones that wanted a nation of workers/soilders) have set for us (the practical, actual standard: nearly everyone "has adhd" aka want to live life like human beings). Please make sure your children live a happy childhood and know when to explicitly NOT follow instructions from people that want to "calm them down" aka take their childish energy that we adults all have long lost because of the same school. Please help me work together for a better school system. Please never give up. Thanks bro.
Bullshit. ADHD sets you up for failure in life. It increases the risk of accidents, drug use, health issues, and a poor diet among other things. And it's due to impulsivity and lack of self-regulation rather than education.
Hyperfocus can’t really be controlled, though. “Consistent inconsistency” is rarely tolerated in the world of work. 😕
So glad someone pointed this out! I resisted diagnosis because I've never believed I had a 'disorder'. Creativity, problem-solving (non-linear thinking) and multi-tasking always seemed a bonus to me. Luckily, I've worked mostly in hospitality whereas 'normal' jobs put me to sleep. Nurses and hospo workers need to be able to function at high speed, high stress and constant changing conditions and multi-tasking. I'd employ ADHDers any day. Recently had the experience of steering emergency response team in local natural disasters (fires then major floods) Most people panic and are quite dis-functional in such situations, only the wait-staff and nurses stayed clear-headed through long hours
This is exactly it. It’s not that our brain has a problem, it’s that our brain doesn’t fit nicely into modern work/education culture. I became an entrepreneur where I can follow my own work rules (and interests), and have thrived.
i got evaluated in 2017 when i was 20, deep in addiction, and failing out of college. after missing a few of the appointments (and avoiding rescheduling out of extreme shame), i finally finished the process.
the doctor showed me where my results were on all of these different bell curves. her explanations validated things i’d quietly struggled with for years.
she said my results were in line with relatively severe ADHD, but she couldn’t say for sure until she’d gotten background info on me as a child.
my mother is an unreliable narrator who never cared much to investigate my emotional well-being. i told this to the doctor, but she still wanted to have a conversation. my mom didn’t report anything abnormal about my behavior as a child.
i didn’t get into trouble in school because i was petrified of authority. i didn’t fail classes because i could ace a test without studying.
so, even though the evaluation itself clearly indicated ADHD, i still do not have the official diagnosis because of the ways ADHD has (and hasn’t) been studied and codified.
thank you for making this video, and not attributing it solely to false self-diagnosis or bad actors in the medical field
I’m in this boat. As a male, I was a “naughty child” and went to a child psych, blah blah, nothing much happened. After the pandemic I had severe issues reintegrating into “normal”, first went to a psychologist and did the screeners, then a psychiatrist who formally diagnosed me, in my thirties. If I hadn’t had that evidence saying almost everything except the acronym “ADHD” on my medical records, I wouldn’t be able to get PBS subsidised Vyvanse now, because there has to be some sort of proof (in Australia anyway) that the condition existed in childhood. Just the diagnosis alone answered so many questions, but the medication has been a life saver. To this day I wonder what my life would have turned out like if anyone had bothered following up on the various reports that were clearly seen by my psych, parents, GP, etc., etc….but nothing I can do about that.
Great simile between ADHD and left handedness. The whole clip is quite logically put together and well researched: Now, as an ESOL online English coach I can begin to understand why there are so many new young students "diagnosed" with ADHD, when in fact, it could well be something else.Totally agreed (liked & subscribed)
The left handed point was a complete non-sequitur. This video did not discuss the topic very well.
You came out of nowhere to make really high quality video essays like this… and I’m all for it ❤
Hey Fads, just wanted to let you know (among many others, judging by the comments here) that I really appreciate your channel. Your selection of topics, your presentation and your conversational style are outstanding!
I was "tested" multiple times for autism and ADHD as a kid, but because I'm a girl, I wasn't diagnosed until adulthood. My parents were amazed I was able to go through all of school without being held back a single year (it felt like a fight for my life every single year) and still everyone at school just told me I wasn't trying hard enough, didn't care enough, etc... I've had doctors accuse me of just trying to get stimulants too. When I finally did get prescribed stimulants, they made everything worse, and my psychiatrist started accusing me of every sin and evil. Now I have a doctor who actually cares about how I feel and I take a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor and anxiety meds and I feel almost normal for the first time ever.
I also was told I had bipolar, borderline, CPTSD, and other disorders I meet one or less of the criteria for by doctors who simply wouldn't listen to anything I had to say, because those are girl disorders and ADHD and autism aren't
I'm grateful that my parents believed me and were willing to back me up every step of the way. My dad was the first to be diagnosed, though with aspergers under the DSM4, but we suspect most of his family had autism and ADHD. I never needed to convince him. He saw the way that I learned as a child and knew.
You know in the last 30 years we went from knowing of 0 exo planets to now knowing of almost 6000. Where are these exo planets coming from, are people making them up?
No, our tools got better so we found more.
I'm talking about adhd
No you're talking about exoplanets, something you can see and measure. You can't do that with psychiatric science, everything is on a bell curve based on patient reporting and it's why it gets a reputation as a pseudo-science. I disagree with that, but it's just a highly inaccurate field and it can especially be seen with ADHD that it doesn't work to critique itself.
Ahh, you mean like how Washington bureaucrats try to convince the public that medical professionals “discovered a billion new genders” in the last decade “bEcAuSe oUr tOoLs gOt bEtTeR?”
Nah, none of those “genders” are real, quantifiable phenomena with measurable and clearly-defined characteristics based in immutable reality, and *were instead conjured up so that pharmaceutical companies can profit from chemically disfiguring children under the guise of it being a life-saving treatment.*
Assuming western society doesn’t fall into a state of full-blown delusion, 50 years down the line we will likely view “reassignment procedures” and “SSRIs” the same way we presently view lobotomies and mental wards.
The fact the advertising in this video was for adhd meds was not lost on me.
I love thats your making videos more frequently, very intresting and catching videos thanks. Keep up the good work
I think someone in the UK looked at the data and realised how behind the US we were on diagnoses and prescriptions for ADHD. Depending on who they were, they either saw a clinical shortcoming or a gap in the market (probably the latter). I honestly remember seeing articles encouraging people to go out and get a diagnosis, because Brits were 'underdiagnosed'. Then there came a wave of articles saying that diagnoses of ADHD were going up, as if it was an unexpected problem. But it was preceded by actions that would naturally lead to that increase.
I don't know if it was all an intentional play, but I legit have a friend who was hooked by this wave, ended up going private, getting a diagnosis, and getting the (expensive) meds. Well done Big Pharma / Compassionate Society, you have more ADHD citizens. I dunno.
The rapid rise in ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions, alongside the troubling role of tech startups in healthcare, highlights a growing need for caution. While increased awareness is crucial, we must ensure that diagnoses are accurate and that treatments are responsibly managed by qualified professionals, not driven by profit motives. The trend underscores the importance of balanced, accessible mental health care that truly prioritizes patient well-being.
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THIS SO MUCH!! I myself suspect that I may have it (biggest suspicion comes with high school excelling vs college fumbling) but don’t want to be diagnosed as part of a trend either.
It’s like anything else though- awareness is only good to a point. We need accurate diagnoses, not over diagnoses. (Includes c@ncer, h!gh BP, etc.)
I’m 62 years old and have suspected I have ADHD for many years. I have put many strategies in place to make my ‘condition’ my superpower, not a disability. I am at the point of considering discussing my symptoms with my GP to see if there is any value in getting a formal diagnosis. I did reasonably well at school, despite always getting into trouble for talking (now I know why I did that!) but I wonder how much better I might have done had I been able to focus better.
Thank you for an informative and concise presentation. If the video was much longer, I wouldn’t have watched it. I think you can understand why!
If you are a woman and or are unsure if you have Adhd; get your iron levelS (several) and b12 and d3 checked. Every third woman has an iron deficiency during her life time. And all people in question should check the other levels. Been there 👍 Ferritin; get it above 60, better 80 or 100. Beef liver supplement and cast iron to boot. Had to have a infusion and my symptoms improved so much, it was wild.
I take supplements for all three and my B12 s fine; D3 a bit low but could have been because of winter. Iron deficient without anemia (red blood cells and hemoglobin normal). I have a hematologist I see and have done IV iron infusions twice. I also have consistently mildly elevated white blood cells and platelets.
I didn’t notice any big changes when I had the IV infusions.
@@wintersprite interesting. what were your ferritin levels before and after the infusions and what are your symptoms. How low is low for the D3, because laboratories have different ranges.
Also, did you struggle in elementary school? How so? If everything seemed fine TO YOU until puberty, less likely that this is ADHD, though it may take some time and thinking to sort that out! 🤔
@@misspat7555I was fine till puberty. What do you think might be the problem ? Possible fixes?
just happy to have u posting again fads, keep at it pliss
Autism also has the same research problems. I was diagnosed autistic at age 50 and just this last week my nurse practitoner gave me Adderall and put me on the list for assessment. I'm female so I spent all my life being told I was just depressed and anxious. This kind of "misdiagnosis" is discrimination pure and simple. It's racist, misogynist and ableist.
Thank you for this video. I was skeptical at first, listening to your opening statements, concerned you were going to be another person who says, "oh everyone has ADHD now" or "it's just a trend," which is very deflating to hear after finding this surprising answer to frustrating and confusing lifelong struggles. I want to clarify something I hear often, about ADHD being a mental health issue. Yes, mental health is affected because of it, however, ADHD itself is a BRAIN issue. Thank you again.
I have had a diagnosis since I was ten. I am now 30 and one of the hardest things to describe is that it's an emotional... Almost pain to sit down and do paper work, study, FILL OUT JOB APPS. I found it helpful to go to a friend's house or my parents a d have somebody present to help apply that social expectation.
Just having another person with me helps so much.
I hate shopping but it is necessary every week.
However, having my teenage son with me to remind me of my list helps me keep focused and able to complete the task quicker.
I'm pretty sure I have ADHD. I've suspected I've it since I learned what ADHD was as a teenager. However, my parents aren't the type of who believed ADHD was a thing. Years later it hasn't gotten easier. I've struggled with school and finding steady work. When I do work I struggle to get there on time and keep a consistent speed. When I do get to work and school on time it doesn't last long because I quickly burn out. Then the pattern repeats.
In the last decade I've also had the sudden death of my dad and a some familial problems that have left me with trauma, depression, and lots of anxiety.
I decided to seek out a diagnosis to help me process all of this so I can get on the right track. My best friend is also going through a similar struggle in her life that she suspects that she also has ADHD. She too has also suspected this since she was a teenager but hasn't taken action into getting diagnosed until much recent. Like me she has struggled with being on time and concentrating on studying. Also we both have sought out advice from our doctors. I don't want to diagnose myself online because I wouod probably diagnose myself with countless stuff I most likely don't have.😅
In my research on ADHD it made me look back at my childhood and what signs were present. I also realized that my dad had a lot of the symptoms of ADHD. He was a baby boomer (born 1963) and was never diagnosed by a psychologist. If he did have ADHD it would explain why he was always losing stuff and not being able to read for long periods of time. My mom and my grandmother helped my dad with a lot of the structure and organization in his life.
One of the most annoying things when you tell someone you have ADHD is when they casually say "oh I probably have it too, I just never got diagnosed"
I've had lots of people say that to me over the years, and of all of those there's probably maybe a couple where I thought they might genuinely have undiagnosed ADHD after a 5 minute conversation.
In all other cases it was clearly just symptom recognition, rather than an actual disorder.
So like both the video and other commenters have said: you don't have ADHD if you occasionally experience this type of behavior. You have ADHD when that behaviour repeatedly gets you into trouble.
And if that's not the case, please don't tell someone with ADHD you probably have it too, because it only highlights to them you don't take it seriously.
And no, you are also not "a bit OCD" just because you prefer something a certain way. Just like ADHD, OCD is a serious disorder that causes a lot of pain to those who have it.
Lovely video!! I always appreciate the time and care you put into the videos you make. This one was very comforting to watch, as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD in 5th grade I can definitely understand why the adult ADHD diagnosis have gone up! My mom opted for an IEP plan for me during school as she didn’t like how the medication affected my personality (looking back I wish she would’ve kept me on it because I struggled SO much in school) but as an adult the symptoms of my ADHD are actually debilitating!! I’m finally in the process of getting treatment for myself at 23 and I’m so looking forward to trying out medications :3
Man, this hits home. I was just talking to my sister about how I was in my last year of university in 2009 and I specifically remember the answer book for my English class being 14 pages after I finished the test. But now I can barely even fill out a form at work without starting to tense up and twitch around uncomfortably
Thank you for this, especially for explaining how and why the diagnostic criteria for ADHD have changed, and the effects on ADHD diagnoses. This was illuminating (and it brings together information that I had to gather in various other places myself, over time).
About the feeling that people have that they might have developed ADHD from using the Internet a lot: the book “ADHD 2.0” (by Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Ratey, prominent ADHD clinicians who have ADHD themselves) says that this could be a kind of environmentally-induced trait the feels similar to ADHD. ADHD itself is highly heritable, with some environmental factors, (highly suspected are oxygen deprivation at birth, environmental toxins such as lead, and other factors that influence brain development,) and it existed before computers or mobile phones became ubiquitous.
But most people in the modern world are under constant bombardment by information and notifications (and advertising) from devices with screens, and they get distracted by them. That makes it difficult for them to sustain their efforts to complete their tasks, and it distracts them enough that they forget things more often. This is not unlike ADHD, but it is not caused by a genetic disposition for brain development that makes it hard to control your attention, from the “inside”. The diagnostic criteria for ADHD try to guard against mixing fully environmentally-induced ADHD-like symptoms with ADHD that is caused by brain development (or even brain injuries). The onset in early childhood is one of these guards. And I believe that careful diagnosticians also try to discern ADHD from the technology-induced lookalike. (But I can imagine that the incentives of some corporate providers could be skewed - the examples from this video suggest as much.) Because the treatment with ADHD medications targets brain systems that are affected in people with actual ADHD, while the “treatment” for technology-induced ADHD-like traits can look quite different: learning to live without being hooked to devices and their notifications 24/7.
To be sure, being hooked to devices with notifications (or doom scrolling, to name another factor) is also something that people with actual ADHD should avoid, as it appears to make their ADHD worse. On the other hand, devices can also help people with ADHD remember things that they want or need to do, and they can help them stay on task as well. It all depends on how the device is set up, and what people do with them.
When you started talking about tech companies, I thought "here we go again" but you surprised me and actually did the topic a lot of justice, will watch more of your videos :)
I clearly remember the UK programme “Jamie’s school dinners” shown in the UK around 2005. The teachers were amazed at the change in children’s behaviour after changing what they were eating at school. They said that children that would no pay attention on lessons and we disruptive in class changed their behaviour very noticeably. The medical person said the number of times that she had to use the Asthma Pump on the children had dropped dramatically.
So, how much consideration is being paid to the rubbish (fast & hyper processed ‘food’) that more and more people are eating now compared to decades ago.
Thank you for discussing this topic so thoroughly! Your editing and presentation are so engaging, so keep it up!
I'm in the demographic. The school wanted to test me for adhd as a kid, but my mom was fearful of me having a "label". I had one friend in high school who told me I had adhd, but back in the 90's there wasn't much info available in my rural town. I was smart, so didn't have to study to pass classes, and I liked learning in general, so was fine until homework. I was late on assignments, would pull all nighters because I couldn't time estimate. I still got an engineering degree, but I've struggled so hard having a desk job. I tried a few other things, but lower pay, and physical fitness, so ended up back at a desk job. I was so stressed out and had so much anxiety, I was thinking I'd have to quit for my mental health. Then I saw a TH-cam of a girl with adhd that struggled like me. And then I kept watching more videos and started crying because it explained everything. It took a while to get diagnosed. I'm on meds now and life is so much better. I still struggle, but not nearly as much, and I know what toolbox to look in for tips on how to manage challenges. It's all been so wonderful of a life change.
When I was 1st being diagnosed, my doc tried giving me anti depressant and anti anxiety meds in low doses, but I hated how they made me feel. I'm not depressed, and once my adhd was diagnosed and meds for that, I don't have anxiety either. This was all back in 2022.
So, my reason for getting diagnosed at 40, was TH-cam making adhd info available in a form that didn't require reading a boring book.
i love how on point your videos are
I've wondered this exact question (as per vid title) and so watched your video with interest. It explains some things, but one thing which I don't think it does in depth, is the effect of the state of the world more recently, and how people feel. It's good that conditions like ADHD are talked of on platforms, and even de-stigmatised, but I feel like some have made it in to this cool thing to have, people are now self-describing as "neurospicy". People might be struggling in life and find such videos and just as your video suggests, align some of the symptoms with what they have. They might be wanting a diagnosis as it then gives them comfort as to what they were previously struggling with.
I'm not in any way saying ADHD doesn't exist, I am however saying that the vast majority of people I know more recently diagnosed with ADHD went through private clinics, which are clearly for profit. Where do their interests lie between not diagnosing, and diagnosing and making more money? Some platforms talking about ADHD even talk about the testing procedure and I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to "prep" for the test if you wanted the diagnosis.
My worry/concern is that, again as mentioned by your video, the diagnosis doesn't just go away. Taking stimulant medication is then a lifelong thing. Those I know newly diagnosed didn't seem to have gone through the process of trying much in the way of coping strategies before opting for drug treatment, e.g. to forgetfulness or being side-tracked. Long term use of a stimulant drug can also lead to hypertension, cardiovascular issues, etc which they dont seem to have want to have considered
We should also keep in a mind that a lot of people who get diagnosed now should have been diagnosed much earlier. If all those people were treated in the data as if they were diagnosed as children the graphs would look much different and there wouldn't be a sudden "rise" in ADHD.
New to your channel - your videos are great! Deeply researched, compassionate and delivered with humility - the antidote to clickbait trash. So much information in here it felt a lot longer than 12 minutes.
People who claim that internet addiction is causing ADHD CLEARLY do not understand the disorder at all. Many people get it wrong that people with ADHD simply struggle with focus. ADHD affects ALL executive functions (ex: self control, time management, organization), not just focus, and it really feels like that is getting overlooked. I have ADHD, and it feels almost hurtful to have my struggles minimized into a single lens of focus-issues.
Except for the fact that social media is directly shown to cause self-diagnosis of practically any issue someone is wondering whether or not they have.
I’m a 32 year old woman who was diagnosed with ADHD right before the pandemic hit. I was really struggling with anxiety and dissociation, so I saw a counsellor and a doctor at my school. I was lucky that the doctor specialized in ADHD and noticed that I had the symptoms. I still doubted the diagnosis, so I got a second opinion from another specialist who confirmed my diagnosis. I was a gifted kid, so I still managed to do really well in school, and my symptoms didn’t start until I hit puberty. I didn’t know this, but many women start showing symptoms after puberty. Now that I know about it, I notice it in at least 3 of my family members too. When you grow up around people who have it, they don’t notice anything is different, and neither do you. I work in a field where lots of my colleagues have it as well (field biologist), so it definitely seems like the norm to me. I hope the rise in diagnoses and understanding of ADHD will at least help everyone understand themselves and each others quirks and difficulties.
Hey man, just discovered your channel and I love it! I'm impressed with the way you provide nuances to topics so empathetically. Keep it up :))
Interesting... In 1991, I was diagnosed with ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome. Perhaps the diagnoser didn't know a patient couldn't be both, or already knew that a patient could be both...
I was pumped full of Ritalin through the 90's. I tried going without meds for a while, then got Adderall in the mid 2010's. Once I realized I was abusing it (I got the prescription while going through rehab for street drugs), I got off meds completely. I figured people with brains like mine made do for thousands of years without meds, so I could too. While I'm sure I don't have the most severe case of either, I have found that a little discipline can get you a long way.
I have still been through moments where I have to humbly apologize because I wasn't paying attention, or I realize I have no idea how long I haven't been listening to a lecture and have a big gap in my notes, but I successfully made it through the last two years of a bachelor's in engineering and 5 years of employment as a design engineer without meds. It's not the end of the world if you're a little uncomfortable for a while or need to get instructions repeated. It all gets better with practice, and your boss would rather have an employee that does what he asked with two or three repetitions of instructions than one who just doesn't do it at all.
I should probably stop while I'm ahead, but I frankly think being concerned about getting a diagnosis or medication is a waste of energy. You know how you are, and you know what is expected of you to be functional in the world. It may take more work for you than some people, but you can put systems in place that will make you successful without the need for meds. (If you choose that, it is also up to you to honestly evaluate how your systems are working and adjust as necessary. This can be done with the help of a close friend, family member, or counselor.)
Oh no I missed your community post. I am fortunate that when I did go to seek help with my ADHD I had a good doctor. But due to the American healthcare system, I had to change doctors multiple times, or didn’t have insurance for many years, so I went unmedicated.And daily life is difficult for me. I set goals I can’t meet them and so I’m depressed. Thankfully I had that history of being prescribed so that did help when I did find another good doctor. But I did go through so many doctors that just didn’t believe me, or they would complain about them having to prescribe a controlled substance. I have been with my doctor for two years with no problems on my medication refills or my urinalysis tests so I hope that helps going forward.
And I can say that as a person diagnosed with ADHD that I can’t be on TikTok or Instagram for longer than 10 minutes. I don’t know if that helps. Ha ha.
Well written and balanced. Thank you for taking the time to delve into the history a bit and make thoughtful comparisons. As an adult who is coming to terms with my own diagnosis, it's tricky for sure. There's no brain scan, biopsy, or blood test for ADHD. The questionnaires and even facetime with mental health professionals can be fuzzy and subjective, making it feel like it's simultaneously too easy to get prescribed medication and too hard to get helpful therapy. And there are many who still aren't getting the help we need.
The social dynamics of how the world is built and the systems we live in function also show that we are still grappling with the tradeoffs technology has brought. When I am in a tech free environment, I can really hone in and be present, but that's also not reflective of my real life, and without some of the tech tools I rely on, I would be completely lost, and fundamentally unable to do my job, much less care for my family or connect with almost anyone in my social circle.
George Still is really funny name for someone talking about ADHD
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One of the reasons why we saw an uptick during covid was the government allowed patients to use telehealth style appointments. For ADHD'rs Booking appointments, getting time off work, travel Aunt time management are huge hurdles for treatment.
in my case i was born with it it's just that i wasn't diagnosed properly, as a little boy i was hyperactive like always, but unlike now i was unruly, violent ,aggressive, couldn't stay form one place to another, i grew up in a poor family during one of the darkest periods in Romanian History, the reason the girls do not get diagnosed more than boys is because girls are not diagnosed that frequently due to mental illness.
Why is your voice so calming 😅
It fits these types of videos so perfectly ❤
i thought i had ADHD some time ago but then i realised that im actually just very stupid and slow.
Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome?
Damn that’s mean to adhd ppl bro
There was actually no need for you to comment this 🙂
Back in the early 2000's getting an adhd diagnosis was a hard thing needing multiple appointments and tests before the kid was officially diagnosed (least that's what my brother went through) and the medication was more of a last ditch effort to help the kid than being the goto solution. What's wild to me is how easily they prescribe the medication now for example when my brother was on the stuff (no clue on the brand) he radically changed in fact it he seemed like a different person to the point that my mom took him off the stuff after less than a month. Since then my brother had been medication free and he managed to graduate highschool and land jobs like any other person.
Honestly its a good look into the medicine industry as a whole. The whole industry has become way too pro-profit over being pro-consumer. Nowadays you can go in for whatever adhd, depression, gender dysphoria, obesity, bipolarism, autism, etc and you being diagnosed within 1 or 2 appoints and they'll prescribe whatever drug will "fix" your problem immediately even if it's not a good fit for the patient or seeking alternatives first.
Finally there's the whole mess of Tiktok diagnosis which are way way worse than google self diagnoses since there are influencers the person trusts and then the kid is like "oh I'm like them so I have ____" or the kid copying said influencers' actions/symptoms leading psuedo-versions of those problem. The kicker is these kids might fake it till the make it, get the diagnosis from a doc, then be prescribed a drug that'll screw them up since they don't have that condition at all...
Gotta wonder how many people have an adhd diagnosis when they actually have add or how many adults are diagnosed as add when they are actually adhd, but just know how to hide the Hyper part just from experience being an adult :/
Great video, thank you. I've come to *strongly* suspect I've Inattentive ADHD but haven't been up to the process of talking to a professional. Until I knew there was an Inattentive type I would've never fathomed having it, I had a stereotype of an outwardly hyper person in mind. I've said to people before I suspected anything that my brain ain't normal, like it's hotwired lol, and I've had issues with sustained attention and such going back as far as I can remember. My dad was the same and he's even half joked about having ADD but never got diagnosed. Others noticed too.
Inattentive ADHD used to be ADD (they got rid of the ADD title when it switched in 2013 with the DSM5). But now researchers are realizing that was a mistake and are making it its own diagnosis again. They're calling it Cognitive Disengagement Tempo (CDS). Check it out and see if it fits! You can't be diagnosed with it, yet, as they're still researching the causes+treatments, but looking up videos about it will definitely help you understand your brain and how to seek support
Love SO much that you care to show scientific examples and explanations. Subscribed to see more ❤
The problem with things like ADHD, is that there's no objective test, so it becomes whatever the patient and/or examiner want it to be or think it might be. No objective test means that... does it really even exist in the first place? Can't say. So, here's some drugs, everybody!
The medication itself is an objective test. If the person reacts to ADHD meds like an ADHD person, that confirms the diagnosis. If they react like a non-ADHD person, the diagnosis was wrong.
The anecdotal reports are full of people who discovered they were ADHD when non-ADHD friends got hold of ADHD meds to take as a "party drug" and everyone else in the room was off their nut while this one person was finally in the right headspace to clean the kitchen and write up that overdue homework assignment. It's a pretty dramatically different reaction!
I just got diagnosed as an adult at 40plus. When I was young adhd didn’t exist. It has hampered me all my life and I got through my schools and college with great creativity. Everytime I failed I blamed myself, for not trying enough, although I kind of obsessively did just to make it through. The stress and the self blaming built up untill I got anxiety for failing, lethargic and depressed and burned out. For that I also blamed myself. ADHD sets your psychology up to fail and then some and it can take a long time before you realise that the struggle that is your normal is another extra anker you are dragging with you. There enough of us old unrecognised cases that enter in the statistics just now.
America is the only country that seems to have an extreme skyrocket in ADHD diagnosis. Most developed countries do not have this problem, so there’s most likely something else going on in America causing the issue (diet, exercise, overlapping symptoms that aren’t inherently ADHD itself).
I think its probably more with the methods of diagnosing Autism and ADHD. I don't think theres more ADHD or Autistic individuals I think its more the fact it can be easier in the US to get diagnosed. Maybe a combination of catching up to where the numbers should be and also overdiagnoses to sell medications.
@@jeremyfisher8512 this. the method of diagnosis in america for minors is "just ask your parents and teachers" and that doesn't work with older generations that typically think that it's "all in their head" and "they're kids so they're going to be hyper." as an adult, it's "how do you feel?" instead which gives an insanely high output rate for various obvious reasons
tl;dr it's a combination of kids not getting diagnosed nearly enough in childhood and adults maybe getting diagnosed _too_ much in adulthood
who knows
Yea, Covid brought the market online where Americans could actually access it and those companies went of their way to make it affordable to Americans. Here you most likely have to pay out of pocket to see a mental health professional, often even if you have insurance. Or you have to pay and file it to insurance on ur own and wait for reimbursement. They do this bc insurance doesn’t like to cover. The prices are insane. Even more for diagnostic appointments. Most Americans don’t even have a primary care doctor they can see and the average American avoids the doctor at all costs. U see stuff online that fits with ur struggles, find out u can get meds for it in like less than an hour from ur couch. No appointments three months out, no insurance issues, no appointments just for referrals, no out of pocket therapy prices bc insurance hates paying for that. It was access plain and simple.
Colon cancer on the other hand… I won’t say bc I don’t research it, could be a lot of things and many things combined, but I was in the field of researching American’s diet, obesity, and type-2 diabetes not long ago and it wouldn’t surprise me if the studies start to show a link.
Edit to say no studies have linked diet or exercise to triggering or causing adhd. So your conclusion isn’t backed by any research about adhd. Regardless of the country. It’s been found to be largely genetic with a few (pretty serious) environmental factors, none of which is diet or exercise.
Either it's being properly diagnosed, the society is sick, or pharma is pushing more psychotropics. Or a combination of the three.
Medicine and mental health in this country is broken.
In Europe, you don't hear about ADHD unless it's mentioned in school books..
I think a big part is that people don't try to get diagnosed untile it actually impedes them in their life. That is basically why I started seeking a diagnosis and why I want to get treatment if I have it. Before college, my short ass attention spam, my forgetfullness and impossibility to focus were an issue sure, but they never really interfered with my life to a point where it was damaging. In fact, my friends just accepted them as who I was and joked around at how forgetful I could be and how funny it was that I could change subjects on a whim or forget the thing we were talkinga bout 5 minutes ago. Ever since I've started college though, it's been absolute hell. I can barely focus in class, I can't finish a single task for the life of me, I forget stuff all the time that I need for exams or classes, like when I can use my notes for an exam I forget to print them and have to do it without them (happened too many times already...), etc... for the last 3 years I haven't been studying in college, I have been barely surviving it. That's when a friend of mine who has ADHD told me I probably have it and should get diagnosed.
The only reason I tryed looking into it was because of how utterly horribly I felt like it was affecting my current life, and before I saw it as an option, I just felt like I was an incompetent idiot who's just not made for studies and who's gonna end his life as a cashier because I could't finish writing an essay if my life depended on it...
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Wow, this is very interesting. I'm a female with ADHD.
I didn't have many symptoms showing at school or when I was younger, but as I've grown into my 20's, I really started looking for help. I got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD and started taking pills a few months ago. I recall looking for help earlier, but my parents played it off as if there was nothing wrong with me - and treated it like I was being offensive to everyone else who had to deal with "real" problems.
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there absolutely IS a causal link between ADHD and addictions of all sorts, including internet addictions, but also anything else like drug/alcohol/gambling/sex/etc. addictions. It's actually quite well understood how ADHD messes with the dopamine levels and dopamine receptors, which in turn directly impacts impulse control, which in turn causes addictions to get that dopamine hit to get to a level that a normal person should feel without ADHD-driven dopamine deficiency as well as deficiency in dopamine receptor sensitivity. That's also why stuff like dopamine agonists (that would cause schizophrenia in a regular person, but not in ADHD or Parkinson's patients) and Adderall (literally a stimulant similar to amphetamine) helps, it regulates the dopamine levels allowing a person with ADHD feel like what a person without ADHD feels like with healthy dopamine levels and the sensitivity to the said dopamine levels. This is also what causes the hyperactivity, inattentiveness, etc. - of course there's many more layers to it than just that (there's a reason why ADHD and Parkinson's are 2 different things despite both having that as an overlapping major cause, but there are other non-overlapping components to them as well), but it's a huge part to it.
Too many self-diagnosed people also make it seem like everyone has it. Many seem to have a need for some extra "special" tag to their name to attract attention and have an excuse for being lazy and unsuccessful. I've met quite a number of individuals like that, who would refuse to get diagnosed, and whose symptoms would suddenly wanish outside of work environment.
I believe this is a very big factor
Something you have to keep in mind is behavior doesn't just come from nowhere. people aren't just lazy and unsuccessful for no reason, and I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't choose to be lazy and unsuccessful. Although refusing to get diagnosed is stupid
@@thrpotatoasfgfejfidieiidkr7071 I would disagree. Of course there are people who are suffering from either physical and mental conditions, and sometimes the circumstances are just too overwhelming. However, for a typical person (at least as far as developed and developing countries go), it's just a matter of willingness to put an effort into something. It's much easier to do nothing and blame the circumstances than actually trying to get somewhere.
Actually no. If will it is all it takes, everyone would succeed. Everyone wants a good life. You have to go deeper and discover what makes that person not "try hard enough", because all of us want to succeed and have a good life.
I would add other aspect, like in the UK the NHS didnt recognise ADHD until 2000, meaning many slipped through the cracks, a lot more adults that are only now pushing to figure out why they feel like a failure.. or why they struggle with the seemingly most basic tasks but can do complex stuff with ease
ADHD is not a disease. Making humans (especially children) sit quietly on chairs and focus on boring things for 8+ hours every day and expecting them to just comply with it is the true insanity here. Society has apparently accepted that something that is incredibly unhealthy for everyone's physical and mental health is now normal and everyone who doesn't want to be like that has to take very addictive substances for the rest of their lives in order to "be healthy" again
I've had trouble in school, work, home life etc since grade school, but didn't get "officially" diagnosed until last year. 43 years of my life. I've suspected I had ADHD for longer, since I was in my mid-30s at least.
My diagnosis was through an actual clinic in my city and at first I was Dx as "SCT" which is currently considered Inattentive ADHD (although it's likely it'll be split out into its own executive function disorder called CDS)
I'm a woman. When I was a kid to get the ADHD Dx you had to be hyper, practically bouncing off the walls. Kids like me who sat quietly and daydreamed our lives away got no diagnosis or treatment. We're "quiet" and "sweet" and "don't cause problems" ("so why aren't you getting your work done!?"). I was lucked to get diagnosed by a clinic that's accepted by Medicaid/Medicare so my state insurance will pay for my medication
Everyone in the comments: But I was just diagnosed with ADHD and mine is legit.
It seems more common to have ADHD than not. If you don’t have it, you are the unusual one. Pretty sure the rise of technology and SM has played a contributing factor to the decline of the attention span. ADHD medication will mess you up for life btw. Psychologists have now espoused that there is no such thing as ADHD and it’s actually a person who suffers from underlying childhood trauma that has gone unresolved.
Idk about childhood trauma. Even defining that varies wildly between individuals. But definitely technology, that's no coincidence.
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I'm actually curious about whether or not you are ND, because you are so good with patterns and fine detail. Some ND people hop through topics of interest, rather than stick to one primary interests. I'm not just seeing your videos, I'm seeing the hyperfocus behind them. Food for thought lad.
I'm also ADHD/Autistic and I work with this demographic in my occupation. There's no way, however, that recreational habits will manifest ADHD symptoms in NT people. For example, an NT person is going to exhibit dysphoria by way of rejection, being ignored, et al. To anyone working in this field, there is no cross-over. The differences are massive, and obvious.
Lastly, if anyone who's bothered to read this is ADHD, avoid medications until you've spoken with an ND-aware counsellor, because we all have the means to cope. We have difficult inert traits that we have to work through and we get no choice. The important thing to consider, is that we can work through this. We are fully human and can always feel better with the right support. Pharmaceuticals are about business and profit. Don't be too keen to offer yourself to that industry. They're qunts.
I dont know what is actually going on with ADHD. I do however notice that the symptoms of ADHD, are the exact symtoms of someone who has an addiction to thinking (More-so than the average member of society). Meaning that they have a mind full of thoughts of past and future, and is unable to slow it down without medications (alcohol or pills or whatever). Its the equivalent of a computer with tons of useless and unresponsive tasks open, with no known way of closing them. And if this is the reality of ADHD, then meditation (learning to keep focus on something other than thinking), is a cure. People who master meditation have anti-ADHD. Superb memory, superb ability to focus and pay attention etc. Because the mind is empty of thoughts, and they have their full consciousness on what you are saying when you speak to them.
ADHD is more of an issue with the brain, rather than the person. The brain is akin to any other organ. We need our organs to do certain things on their own. Take the pancrease as an example, it is suppose to produce insuilin. However a person with Type 1 Diabetes has a pancrease that is unable to produce insulin. Said person will need insulin prescribed to them, as a result.
There are functions that the brain should be doing on its own. The brain is supposed to allow a person to focus. In the brain focus is multiple systems working concurrently. An ADHD brain is under aroused, it lacks sufficient stimulation. This is why stimulants, wether they be medication or otherwise, have a paradoxical reaction to an ADHD brain. That's why a person with ADHD can become calm, both physically and mentally, when taking stimulants.
It's also important to do a meta analysis on environmental factors. These can include medications, food, chemicals, and RF exposure.
It's clear that cellular companies have been ramping up the strength and frequency and pervasiveness of RF. Cell towers are everywhere. I haven't seen any research around this and health effects. Also, the use of Roundup and other herbicides and ever changing pesticides in agriculture is pervasive. The use of high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners has also ramped up. And social media algorithms are performing personalized mental manipulation to create addiction. The greatest cause of social media addiction seems to be fear. This is well documented. Pervasive fear will increase all disease - especially mental disorders.
It's important to look at correlations. But, with that said, correlation does not prove causation. It's a good investigatory tool. But, real research needs to be done on all potential environmental causes of emerging diseases including ADHD, certain cancers, autism, metabolic disorders, mental disorders, Alzheimers, and other new or expanding diseases.
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Long ago, there used to be a belief that "Fey/fairies" would sometimes "swap" one of their children with a human infant. It was a kind of involuntary cultural exchange program; a Fey child would learn how to be Human and a Human child would go learn about the Fey world and culture. This Fey child posing as a Human was called a "Changeling".
And this belief was used to explain how some children might seem to grow up relatively "normal", but then _abruptly_ turn "strange" at about a year old or so. They'd throw tantrums, have extreme reactions to sounds and touch (eg. Church bells made them go crazy), they might not start talking when expected, or they might start learning some skill like potty training or talking but then suddenly "lose" it.
The savvy among you may recognize these as descriptions of Autism symptoms. And that's _exactly_ what they were; Autistic children growing up in a time when no one had the faintest inkling what Autism was, but folktales of spirits and Fey were abundant and ready-at-hand explainations for most unusual occurances.
These conditions like Autism, ADHD, etc. have *always* been with us; we just called them other things: Changelings, Spirit Possession, Visions, Hauntings, etc. And just as "Miasma Theory" eventually made way for "Germ Theory" in pathology, those concepts eventually made way for the very earliest concepts in Psychology. Freud, Jung, and others of their time weren't _right_ by any stretch of the imagination, but at least they were orders of magnitude _less wrong_ than prevailing beliefs. And they set the foundation for those who came after to put together the science of Psychology to, eventually, be "mostly, more or less, not wrong".
I'll close out with this, one of the best analogies for ADHD and other "exaggerations of normal" conditions:
_"Everybody pees."_ Normally, maybe 3-5 times a day. But if someone has to pee 47 times per day, that's *not* normal, even if _peeing,_ itself, is a normal thing that everybody does. It's the _frequency_ that makes it a problem and interferes with their life. If someone who had to pee 47 times per day were venting, "I pee so much, it's such a problem!" It'd sound pretty dumb to criticize them with, "Well, everybody pees! You're not dealing with anything that anyone else isn't struggling with in *their* lives, so stop whining and expecting special treatment. You're not special!" Really would make you look like a total moron if you respond like that, because it's obvious you're missing the point. They're not claiming to be "special" and they're not dealing with a problem that "everyone" deals with, either. They have a unique, personal problem that causes difficulties most people don't have, and it's an undue burden to them. Yet, when we reframe it to psychological issues where the "normal" body function exaggerated to problematic levels and/or frequency is a function of the brain, suddenly that kind of reasoning is "just fine"? No... it's still the reasoning of a moron.
What a great video! Props to a very thorough analysis of ADHD.
By far the biggest impact of the internet on ADHD diagnosis is the memes. A decade or so ago, most people greatly misunderstood what the lived experience of ADHD looked like. Who knew that people with the 'hyperactivity disorder' were frequently branded as 'lazy', or that our biggest difficulty tended to be with getting goals done? Once ADHDers started to post memes, people (such as myself) found ourselves relating to the shared experiences so completely that we realized we shared the condition and raised it with our doctors.
And the condition is definitely causative in internet addiction. So much quick-hit dopamine! Getting stuck in rabbit holes and lacking the executive function, time-awareness etc to escape is a constant struggle.
This a very balanced video, I'm 38 and only just narrowed down the evidence in myself for inattentive ADHD as my productivity has gradually decreased to nil. Looking at a carnivore diet while I await official diagnosis and treatment as that's meant to help and I've exhasted all other avenues. Clean nicotine takes the edge off but obviously not ideal.
A huge plus is how much endurance and inner strength you've displayed through the journey and the groundwork you've layed for success once the disorder gets managed.