World Leading Physician View On ADHD: Gabor Mate

Gabor Mate is an expert physician who specialises in neurology. He has ADHD himself and in this clip explains the truth about the condition.

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📖 Gabor Mate is a multi-bestselling author and a world leading expert on trauma and how it effects us throughout our whole lives. A holocaust survivor and a first generation immigrant, Gabor’s knowledge and wisdom on the scars trauma leaves behind is deep and drawn from personal experience.

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[naekwon]

We can’t have a serious conversation regarding the spectrum of ADHD - Anxiety - Depression without getting honest about the physiological impact of watching screens. From the first TVs in the mid 20th century; to the Nintendo explosion, to present day smartphones. The human eye and it’s primary role of FOCUS in translating external environment into internal information and meaning needs to be deeply examined. What happens to our brainwaves when shift this focus from natural world to digital screens with a flicker rate in the billions per second ? What happens to your breathing ? Is your body stationary and locked in an unnatural (sitting) position ? The new smartphone technology has out paced our biology. Very few are ready to acknowledge and discuss these easily verified observations.

[sineadw]

As someone with ADHD, who just completed a masters and my dissertation topic was research on parents with ADHD, with a daughter with ADHD and autism, who respects Dr Gabor Mate and who is a huge fan of the Diary of a CEO you really should have Dr Russell Barkley on to talk about ADHD. As much as I like Gabor, he is not a specialist in this field. So it would be ethical journalism to ensure you have someone who specialises on this topic to provide solid facts on ADHD.

[Mcdogmom]

I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with ADHD. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.

[CriaAndKiddFW]

I grew up in an abusive household, lots of stress, and family history of alcoholism and poverty that goes back generations. I used to daydream a lot as a child, as a coping mechanism, and I still do. I'm 48 now and just got dx for ADHD and autistic tenancy. I've got autoimmune disease, fibro, and osteoarthritis. I'm also a veteran and DV survivor. I'm working on breaking generational trauma with my child.

[izzy]

A lot of gifted people have ADHD, they have a heightened sensitivity and they do get overwhelmed by their environment. It’s not necessarily a bad or traumatic environment. I don’t believe that every child who has ADHD has been traumatised.

[denise]

I had ADHD which manifested in lifelong workaholism and depression, since a very early age. Through listening to Dr Maté these past years, I now understand the connection of my depression, ADHD and workaholism with my own childhood traumas. Now when I am triggered, I am able to breathe through the familiar reactions to let them go and find real inner peace.
I was an elementary school teacher for decades, and saw many children with similar challenges. I always tried to create the learning atmosphere and safe environment, especially for boys with ADHD, that I didn’t have as a child.
Thanks for helping me find my real self, Dr Maté!

[thelmawintercat]

Someone with ADHD isn't "broken", our society is.

[watchdaride]

i am 51 and in school in 80s no one in school even mentioned adhd . i thought my whole life i was just lazy . In my 40s after researching on the internet that i have the symptoms . Now i am aware and my life has improved knowing why i act like i do .

[Sez.the.shortone.]

Diagnosed at 32. Always knew something was different about me and struggled to relate and had a lot of depression. it was so validating to me to know im not alone and not just lazy and depressed

[terryleederrick]

He is so right on. I know from my own life experience. Drugs alone won't solve trauma. Trauma must be uncoved, felt, grieved and create meaningful understanding. The truth can set one free.

[Stoitism]

Diagnosed with ADHD last year at 41. Its funny because I was doing everything Gabor says to do to correct it before I even knew what ADHD was. My lifestyle was 95% coping mechanisms for something I didn't know I needed coping mechanisms for.

The only thing I had never done was Therapy, which I begun last month. And its helping. I also use the medication but I only take it 4 days a week with a 3 day break at the weekends. I'm hypersensitive and a partial responder to the medication so it doesn't even help me that much in terms of focus, internal hyperactivity and distractibility but it does help my executive dysfunction a bit which is my worst ADHD trait. I would like to come off the medication completely one day but for now i'm finding it has some utility while I find my way.

[joycependleton]

1. You're not doing any of your friends any good by suggesting that ADHD means broken! That's insulting and sad. We're not broken, we're different.
The term is NEURODIVERGENT, and we work hard to adapt to neurotypical formats.
2. No, there's no proof that anything can "heal" ADHD because it's not a temporary illness, it is a condition of how our brains are wired.
3. Maybe one of the reasons we feel more stress is because we are structured more like square pegs and society wants us to fit into round holes!
4. ADHD is not an accurate label. Most of us don't have a deficit of attention we have an abundance of attention and it is harder to filter things out.
5. Please don't limit your focus or interviews with one person who disagrees with the inherited factor or choose only those who support your limited preconceived notions.
Look up Jessica McCabe's TedTalk.
5. ADHD has a large spectrum! Think of any neurodivergent spectrum as a pie shape not a line. There are many, many, overlapping factors with as well.
6. Best wishes for learning about the vastness of neurodivergent people and someday supporting the understanding rather than where you currently sit.

[devplace]

This was almost healing to hear as someone diagnosed in their 20s- thank you for this conversation

[BaiMengLing]

My partner was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I have some similar symptoms though an ASD diagnose and was certainly the "dreamy girl that tunes out in the background", our toddler started exhibit ADHD symptoms early and I chose to get educational help as well as psychological support for us, parents, because my partner needed help to understand our sensitive boy, and I had to work on my childhood PTSD. Our boy healed quickly and his behovior returned to normal, despite his "genes" and without medication. So I have experienced what Gabor MAte describes in this clip.
THANK YOU doc ;)

[queenj.i]

Amazing! I love how ADHD & PTSD are being studied so much more now. Wish it had been much sooner, but at least it’s happening now! 🙏🏽🙏🏽 God bless! 🦋

[brainsandmountains]

gotta say this is the most pathologizing explanation of ADHD I've heard to date and ignores entire bodies of research better explaining the phenomena discussed (like the increases in diagnoses, the overlap or misdiagnosis of ADHD and trauma, the problems that arise from "complex trauma" not yet being a legitimized diagnosis, and why kids in lower SES households are more likely to present having ADHD). ADHD is a pervasive wiring that isn't just tuning out or avoiding uncomfortable realities or reacting to stress.

Parenting interventions ARE super important and in general helping adults respond positively to kids who do have ADHD (or other adults), but if it's actually ADHD, changing these things do not fix the adhd - if it's actually the correct diagnosis, then ADHD will be present for the person's whole life, though some symptoms naturally resolve or are lessened with age. I totally agree with that the environmental and behavioral parts of

ADHD treatment are just as if not more important than medication depending on the severity, but this "origin story" for ADHD is rather discouraging.

ADHD and wiring from complex traumatic experiences are different (though they do impact each other).

You don't "heal" from ADHD - you definitely do "heal" from trauma. By using that language, it suggests that ADHD is some kind of wound - there are many joyful parts of ADHD and it isn't something to fix but something to manage and learn how to work with, like a powerful horse.

There are other explanations out there folks that aren't quite so pathologizing and don't center on intergenerational trauma or the necessity of "healing" ADHD. Healing trauma? yes. "Healing" ADHD? nope.

[alena]

Omg I can’t believe you think people with ADHD or other mental differences are broken. People are different, we’re more aware of it now, and it is beautiful!!

[angelfreedom]

I hereditated a neurodegenerative disease from my dad, I also developed refractory celiac disease and IBS.
In my childhood I have seen my brother struggling with epilepsy and my mom with Chron s disease.
These emotions are still haunting me and the physical pain that I have suffered with my intestine, killed my balance.
For me zooming out were: hyperactivity, compulsion, addiction and self doubt.

[desmondfransen]

It’s really true. I feel so much better and do so much better since I am gone out of my stressed parents home.

[artisticafflair]

He is brilliant. 😮. What a guy. I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism both by different psychologists.
My mum even after my diagnostic reports came back positive, refused to believe I had ADHD. When I tried to confront her about my autism, she snubbed me and sniggered and snared and told me to stop giving myself things....😢 . I decided we have nothing in common and we don't see eachother any more.