'This is what ADHD really is' - Gabor Mate

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[danielbarrera]

The best explanation:

Your mind is thinking of things that are interesting to distract you from the internal distress/pain that you are feeling.

[BanjoPixelSnack]

As a so called highly sensitive person diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, this resonates with me so strongly. I had a very fraught and stressful childhood with a mother who had dramatic mood swings and threatened and attempted su1cide. My father left so I became responsible for trying to keep my mother alive. It felt like years and years of torture to me. Zoning out and living in fantasy worlds in my head is the only way I could escape.

[kl-uezl]

ADHD is not simply tuning out. I have ADHD and if I were driving with someone holding a gun to my head, saying, if you take your eyes off the road, you're dead. I would last about a minute, and at times forget there's even a gun to my head.
Also scientifically it has not been proven that ADHD is related to a child's relationship with their parent, or how their parent raised them etc. Thankfully neuroimaging is improving to show the physiology of the brain in greater detail, so that people who don't understand ADHD will hopefully one day be able to visualize the difference in a brain with ADHD.

[mgsilverhead]

Best description ever. Absolutely 100% yes. 20 yrs teaching piano ... knowing kids and their families, often for 5++ years, so many of them with attention issues -- always clearly with family stresses. Yes it's not heritable, but, he doesn't mention that it's GENERATIONAL. Zoned out parents produce zoned out kids. 😢❤

[Myatheroses]

I believe thus only because every person I personally met with ADD had something abnormal about their childhood. They also were highly sensitive people usually. Either empathic, psychic, creative, or just eccentric. Not everyone with trauma gets adhd, but generally people with adhd had something off about their parents or school. I think kids that are more sensitive naturally like I was then get adhd tendencies from early trauma or dysfunction. Blaming only genetics seemed unfair because then it makes you seem like it’s somehow your defect instead of something that isn’t your fault at all

[koofraw]

This is the most accurate explanation I have ever heard. Having 3 kids all in their 30s now. School counselors, school psyc, psychologists. This is the first time I have ever heard this. Thank you

[moonhajung]

just saying but this is more towards maladaptive daydreaming and CPTSD than ADHD.
yes, this is how ADHD looks like sometimes, but it's just one of the surface symptoms and not the root of it at all. it's neurodevelopmental disorder and not a "mental health problem" for a reason....

[fruitloops]

Adhd and complexed trauma, are my super powers once healed. Learned the hard way. Wishing I'd had video's like these as a young woman. Am 52 years old and life is always amazing everyday to constantly learn new things❤

[shannah]

Dr Gabor Mate' is imbued with knowledge and wisdom.

[joannegarofalo]

This is so powerful 😢thank you dr Gabor❤

[ClaudiaM-rczd]

yup its like it! i consider i have this but i can concentrate when i put my energy on it. its possible but i totally understand the feeling of zooning out everytime i need it

[johnt]

I think this highlights the misdiagnosis of ADHD more than anything. Growing up in school I knew kids who were diagnosed with ADHD and I think it was cause they just weren’t interested in school and they tuned out like Mate said.

I didn’t know I was ADHD till after college. I find that I loved school and more specifically love learning things. For me I had a pretty good childhood and my dad and I are both ADHD. We are creative, driven, and sometimes a bit all over the place. To me at least from what I read and my experience it is about having a more hyperactive brain than anything.

[matthewjackson]

It has to be more complicated than that. This is a theory for sure.

[jeanannedupratt]

We can resolve this. Stop being afraid. Learn by trial + error. Grow. It takes a lifetime. That's why we are here.

[JordanCarlin-qyed]

I'm not too sure if I have ADHD/ADD even though I'm am adult. I grew up in a single parent household with a mother who was a heavy binge drinker, would often invite people into our home who would cause absolute chaos. I was exposed to many conflicts from such a young age. My father died when I was 2 and my mother died when I was 11(which I witnessed). Many of the traits of ADHD/ADD i see within myself. I zone out a lot, can be very fidgety. Can often zone out when people are speaking to me, always having trouble with sleep, always craving some sort of dopamine high, inability to have control over my emotions. Daydream a lot and have done since I was a child. I dont know if I am or not but going through the tests in the UK are very difficult unless you have money to afford it.

[wickedoctober]

It’s traumatic brain injury in reaction to the parents horrendous behaviors.

[madeleinegrayson]

Gabor has massive childhood trauma himself and he projects that pain onto literally everything. Yes, childhood trauma matters, but no, it's not the root of all issues.

[saram]

Adhd is so much more than being easily distracted. Actually, it's easier to focus very much on certain things, including people's emotions. And the fast association, the great motivation in the right circumstances, even impulsivity like talking through others is not zoning out at all, it's being very much engaged in what's happening but lacking the inhibition to wait. I believe there is a connection with trauma and attention problems, but ADHD itself is so much more and not all bad at all! Even if the non-typical dopamine regulation (which also influence working memory and time blindness, so I guess we should look there for the root cause) is based on trauma, the attention problems is just a tiny part of it, and there are many very positive consequences as well. I just don't think trauma would cause so many positive brain qualities... Maybe he is talking about wrongly diagnosed ADHD that mainly presents as bad attention, always (without healthy hyperfocus, so not for escapism)

[annak]

Even when a family has positive endearing attachment and intimate communication between parents and children, there can still be ADHD due to the child's sensory responses in the environment, especially school. For some kids, the school environment is cold, intimidating, overwhelming with all the people, kids, rules, and demands. It's cognitive processing and integration of executive functioning, overactivated internal sensations and feelings. PTSD presents many of the same symptoms as ADHD - it takes much commitment and expertise to differentiate. This is dangerous fallacy based on his own experience and not rooted in the science and treatment. One doctor cannot know everything.

[juliagarb]

Totally what happened to me in the USA, nyc namely, as an immigrant. Never had those issues.