The Truth About ADHD: Why It’s Not What You Think

—with psychiatrist, Dr Dianne Grocott.

[anderssvensk]

Thank you for talking about ADHD! Busy brain is a excellent explanation. It takes so much energy to be able to focus. It's like try too stand up in a hurricane. 👍

[HoneyHollowHomestead]

I had someone make that observation about me when I told him I was diagnosed with ADD. He said I just had a busy brain. That is the first time something had made sense about how my brain was working! After that, I didn't feel so down on myself.

[benmlee]

I am the ADHD champion. How many people do you know that had flunked out and had to retake 3rd and 5th grade. Been flunking since as far as I can remember. Cannot concentrate. Literally had tears when the teacher said to take out a book to read. Flunked out in senior year. First year of community college, was about to flunk out of Calculus 2A and ready to quit engineering. Now I am engineering fellow.
So what happened?
I promised God before college I would seek Him and read the Bible. Of course I never did as college started. The night I took the time to read the Bible even if I would flunk the Calculus test was the turn around. Passed the Calculus quiz the next day instead of flunking. That was over 30 years ago. From that day onward, never had a single episode of ADHD. Not one. My brain was flying around, but I could focus all that intensely. I got not just straight A, but was top of the class the next year. Even won the academic scholarship award.
Looking back, I would say lack of purpose in life was causing me not to focus.

[jacob.tudragens]

Every teacher in every school I attended, as their summation of me, said that I would have been a great student if I only would pay attention.

I found most of my teachers to have been boring and hard to pay attention to!

[AgeOfNefarious_Deception]

What I don't understand is, this could be a normal behavioral personality trait. I agree with Dr. Diane Grocott about it being related to proper diet or lack of it, exacerbating brain function irregularities. It's most likely genetic (nature) and also environmental (nurture).
I still don't believe it shouldn't be regulated by drugs as I think those drugs lead to addictions and or dependencies which are so hard to overcome, when we can use psychiatry and/or diet to regulate and not resort to drugs, if possible. Drugs should only be used as a last resource and only in very severe cases when someone is unable to function normally at all but only after other methods, mentioned above are trialled first.
What is normal behavior anyway?
What about preservative, additives and food colorings effecting kids behavior?

This certainly has given me an insight into ADHD I never had before.

[dontperish]

I was that kid in 70's who was always the teachers favorite child. Being put in special ed combined with learning disability required learning to adapt to survive. Then later in life understanding i was normal just how my mind worked

[craigmccall]

My 30 year old Son is on the spectrum. Although he's always been high function, distractions and procrastination [were] a constant battle for him.
Two years ago he went CARNIVORE and nearly all the fog has lifted.
Yes, zero sugars, plants, grains and processed foods.
High protein, fat and electrolytes.
Water.
Oh...and he lost 35lbs. ❤

[reverentalexanderchezeley-]

Yep I was diagnosed with adhd at age 49, I'm now 51. I came in at 50% moderate attention deficit component, and 100% severe hyperactive disorder component.

I have more energy than a 10 year old lol. In school in the 70's the teachers just hit lumps out of me for being wild and rebellious.

The root of my adhd was the extreme, hardcore physical and mental abuse of my Narcissist personality disordered mother, and my psychopath father from age two upwards. At age two in the cot in nappies my psychopath father was punching me in the face, like he was punching another man. Leaving me with black eye's, a little boy at age two.

Great video.

Thanks both.

God bless you.

[lorddaikonofsadala]

This channel has helped me strengthen my faith while keeping me focused as well. I find it slightly difficult to work in silence, I need some sort of noise and with these videos, it's educational noise.

[surrenderdaily]

I started reading at the age of 3. I was an avid reader, all my extra time was spent in books, until the age of 25. I was still buying books all the time, but I noticed after a few months that my books were stacking up here and there, and they all had bookmarks in them. I hadn't finished any of them, and that had never happened to me before. All of the books were subjects I was really interested in, but I could not make my brain understand what I was reading beyond a few sentences and I would think, "What did I just read?" and have to reread it, over and over, always losing my concentration. I have not gotten through a book in the last 40 years now. For about 3 decades I stopped buying them altogether, but I started again when I became a Christian because I wanted to read my Bible. I was always an A student when I was a child and never had any problems concentrating but I was a big daydreamer. However, it never affected my grades. I have not been able to read my Bible every day or all the way through, so now I have a bunch of Christian books stacked up and instead I listen to audio Bible and YouTube videos to learn. When I was 33, I was seeing a psychiatrist (for other reasons) and he told me I had obsessive/compulsive thinking. But because I also have always (since childhood) had a sleep disorder, I was always tired, never hyperactive physically, just mentally, mostly at night and it kept me from sleeping. Ever since a child I was always dragging through school and anything else during the day, but even though I stayed up (forced by my parents) all day, around 8 or 9pm, when it was bedtime, I would start waking up and stay awake until 4 or 5am, then had to get up at 6 to get ready for school. I did this for years. Today I am on disability and I still get energetic at night and want to sleep all day, but a lot of times of course, I can't because there are things you have to do during the day that you can't at night. Every doctor I've been to has diagnosed me with something different. Now I don't believe any of them know what they're talking about. Or very few. This lady seems to know what she's talking about. I don't go to see doctors any more though, unless I"m dying, which I almost did in May 2023. With me, there isn't really a part of my body I can think of that isn't having problems in some way or another. And so yes, I have gut problems, which have gotten worse since my hospital visit with a burst appendix. But everything is getting worse, I'm getting old, so... I'll be 64 this month. I'll have one or two good days a week, and the rest I can barely function; lots of reasons for that. But since I have no friends or family around me I have no one to help me with anything, and since I can't prepare food or cook (again, various reasons) and I have no teeth, I don't eat well or digest well. So I trust God to do with me what He will and whatever will be, will be.

[johnsmit]

I could go on crusade just about the problems of gluten if it were not for the more important mission of bringing people to salvation. I am so thankful God helped me discover it was gluten causing me so much brain fog.

[Stevenowski]

I was "accused" of being ADD, now ADHD, when I was very young. I was given methylphenidate to drug it out me. I was one of the first in the country to be experimented on, uh, treated with it. What a treat!
That resulted in serious side effects. I excel in tedious things that require a LOT of concentration. Chess, math, language interpretation (from one to another), photography, etc. I can keep up with conversations around a room and the one I am engaged in as well. I have been told that I learn very quickly. It does have its advantages! 🤯

[gtotrips]

Yup, couple the ‘busy brain’ 🧠 with the inability or inadequacy to multitask and prioritize, and there’s the rub.
— Also, Jesus tells us over and over, don’t be anxious or afraid. Thus when we lean on Christ, our anxiousness abates and tasks become clearer and then comes the ability to prioritize.

[chuckmoser]

OMG! This is ME. Not sure how I came across this video. My mind has always gone a million miles and hour, but I've thought it a benefit as I am comfortable managing several jobs at once. At 51, I've noticed I excel mostly when working under pressure, and I'm at the top of my game in crisis. It's always baffled my wife how I calmly walk through gnarly situations (including life and death) with a certainty and clarity... and... a sense of malaise. I don't panic, instead, I feel laser focused, almost like a drug. Sheesh. I've thought there was something wrong with me this whole time.

[dfoster]

I’m 46 and I hate it. I was just a bad disruptive child in school, so I was always in trouble. I didn’t really understand what was going on in my head until my mid 30s. I’ve been able to master a lot of it, but it still can’t run me over. Yes, I’m an entrepreneur, but I pray for normality. ADHD and an ENTP. 😢

[Slipknoted]

"That's design, not evolution" 👀

[raisondetre.Is]

I’m someone who celiac disease mimicked seizures, including a type called absence seizures where my brain would shut down on pause. It does not happen anymore praise the Lord ❤ Makes sense the way she describes dopamine and the gut-brain axis.

[ramsfan]

She described my whole life. I'm 63 and fight this everyday. It wares me out.

[CherylMotherofSeven]

"And you still need someone to make it" yes we do and His name is YHWH, the Holy God who created us in His image ❤

[adunzoroq]

ADHD it's NOT genetic, theres no gene responsible for this disorder.
What we need is a massive study of ADHDers and their early childhood. If you actually look into the early years of a child upbringing you will soon realise the commonalities.
Difficult pregnancies - high levels of stress on the mother and inevitably the child. Dysfunctional homes, emotional neglect, abandonement, competing for attention between siblings, shaming, conditional love and acceptance, narcissistic parent, single parenting, divorce, etc. You will find a staggering number of ADHDers are anxious-avoidant.
The child goes into a frenzy trying to stay sane given the daily life in lack of stability. And we do know monkey does as monkey sees, we often learn those behaviours from our own parents, the likelihood of creating a dysfunctional home is not genetic, it is learned, if it's all we know, we're likely to recreate it. It's like diet, obesity is not genetic, but it's likely to present in the parent-child because the diet 'runs' in the family.

I understand it's easy to make a claim about ADHD being genetic, because it takes away the stigma. It's an excuse. But if you have got the diagnosis, or present with the typical symptoms please take a really good look at your mother's pregnancy, your first five years of life and your immediate family. It might be a true revelation and it will provide you with answers to which of your wounds need healing. When you start chipping away at it, it's truly freeing and while it won't take all of your ADHD behaviours away, you will understand the reason behind them. So your decision making can improve. Compassion to self is key in this process.