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Russell Barkley, Ph.D., discusses the recent advancements in understanding the nature and subtyping of ADHD as well as recent discoveries in what might cause the disorder and medications that might help treat ADHD. Series: MIND Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [11/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 14660]
@TrampledRights I know how you feel about taking ADHD pills. I’ve been taking adderall ever since I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 3, and frankly it is not a pleasurable experience. Usually, I’m a pretty happy-go-lucky guy, but whenever I’m on adderall, I feel depressed and groggy, just like a zombie. However, the reason I take them is to do well in school. I’ve been trying to depend less on adderall, but without it I just can’t get things done.
@gotmilk311
Same here. My IQ was measured at 162. Sure, I get distracted in the detail, but I think detail is important. I never took drugs to “coral” me like a wild horse. My daughter has it and has issues with her big mouth. Everything in her head comes out of her mouth and gets her into trouble. Another gets straight A’s, the other is ADD, is a talented guy, but grades suffer due to his inability to focus on things he doesn’t like. He gets blinded by things he DOES like.
I ask you..: How many ADHD kids does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Wanna ride bikes??????
@Metman07 he cant point you to them because he is an idiot making connections where they dont exist
@chadycom This is an oft repeated claim. Do you have any data to back up your claims? Are there studies to conclude that these deaths and suicides were caused by methylphenidate, adderall etc.? If they do exist, I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me to them. Thanks.
I hope this disease is understood
@chadycom you are retarded. he is supporting these drugs because they have been proven to work
Dr. Barkley. If I may say and with all do respect… go F yourself!
You’ve done great till you started advertising Concerta and Daytrana and Adherol, praising the companies that manufacture them! You shoul have more concious than supporting the DRUG INDUSTRY. That lobby makes trillions of Dollars from millions of children buying those drugs! Those drugs are behnind many death incidents, suicides not to mention how they turn our children into ZOMBIES! Shame on you!
This probably isn’t the best type of video for someone who has ADHD… I skipped forward 30 seconds in
Exactly. I’m a vice president of a Fortune 500 company.
If you are unable to look beyond such interpretations and so cannot recognize the reality to which the word points, then don’t use it. Don’t get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It’s an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself. The word ADHD isn’t ADHD. People can talk and study ADHD for as long as they like, but you won’t really understand it until you taste it and trust me you don’t want to taste it.
i have ADHD
but i am totally opposite
i struggle w/making good grades
im in college & its hard 4 me at times
but im getting lots of help tho
but everyone is different i guess
I dont get why everyone thinks people with ADHD are dumb. I have ADHD and i get straight A’s.
He has the knowledge AND he has the understanding of the relations, and so he manages to crush myths, making new perspectives, etc about AD/HD.
Hes a AD/HD genious, brilliant work Barkley!!
@BartNopper…you are ranting!! But I agree with you. Nothing’s wrong with being different. What’s not broken shouldn’t need to be fixed. If your ADHD is not disrupting your life or inteferring with other people’s lives, then there’s no need for anyone to make a big negative deal out of it. I don’t know if I make any sense…I don’t have ADHD but this is just my humble opinion.
That is what our society wants from me. It is not MY society. I would function better in a society where being different is applauded, where my strange, creative ideas are appreciated or at least listened to, without being discarded as crazy. Where the schooling system sees the potential of people like me instead of kicking me out after 3 years of high school. I speak, read and write 4 languages, am a technical wizard and a filmmaker and have an IQ of 139. All without education. Who’s crazy ?
Sometimes it would be an advantage to have an ADHD brain in stead of a “normal” one. Example? When the wonderfully “normal” George W Bush heard about the WTC disaster, he didn’t move for minutes and had no idae what to do. Believe me, that would not have happened with an ADHD president. He would have known what to do in a nanosecond and would have acted accordingly.
As for treatment: I use Ritalin to my disgust. I use it so I can postpone my often “inapropriate” reactions and fit in better.
Fortunately there will be new guidelines in DSM V that will also take into account the incredible positive potential of an ADHD brain. I am proud to say that a Dutch psychiatrist is partly responsible for that broader view. Our wiring works in different ways. Sometimes at an advantage sometimes not. But doesn’t that go for every brain? A “nomal” brain can have it’s limitations as well, don’t forget that. Maybe it isn’t obvious because there are so many “normal” brains around.
It is thought, cannot be proven anymore unfortunately, that some of your revered Founding Fathers probably had what we now call ADHD. Bill Clinton is highly suspected of the same as is Einstein and JFK. It is easy to say that someone who doesn’t fit the bill exactly has a disorder or a mental health problem. If you’re different, you’re crazy, right? Think about that. The internationally accepted norm to diagnose ADHD as written down in the DSM IV, only looks at the so called “problem areas”.
I didn’t see all the video, that takes to long for someone with a concentration issue. But I did read a lot of the responses. I am flabbergsted by the reactions. I read words like mental illness, disorder, sickness and what have you. I am Dutch and here in Holland the thoughts about ADHD are shifting slowly from a “sick brain” to a “different brain”. Think about this: Isn’t it possible that there more kinds of brain wiring that serve or served a different purpose ?
Sounds like a pharmaceutical sales pitch to me.
it is so misunderstood in my opinion
yeah but… its all a big coverup because im a retard and i dont believe in science
I suffer from ADHD as well, the reason it is attacked so much is because it dose not seem like a disorder to some, but it is
I actually have tested my behavior when I started back on my medication “concerta”
before I would daydream and could barely stay focused one one thing, its not that I didn’t want to, I just couldn’t.
in five days of my medication I learned over 6 courses of algebra and went from 5 f’s
to b’s and a’s
ADHD is a real disorder and the medication works
I was born with a chemical imbalance in the brain and discovered at 25 years old. As a child, I wet the bed, had frequent ear infections, somatic pains, excessive tantrums, sleep problems. During Adolescence the tantrums/outbursts were not normal. I didn’t know how to control my inhibitions as well as others. During adulthood it became uncontrollable until I was diagnosed. My implicit ADHD was never recognized as there was and still is no expertise in my homeland Ireland. ADHD is genuine.