If You Have ADHD, You Are Likely To Be Depressed

▼ Timestamps ▼
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:29 - Lecture start (Genetics)
00:14:36 - Neuroscience
00:27:30 - Deficits
00:42:38 - The present
00:56:00 - Roadmap
01:08:04 - Summary & Questions
01:26:42 - Why do people have ADHD?
01:35:50 - Any recommendations for people who don't have access to health professionals?
01:40:25 - Apathy towards success and sensitive to failures common in ADHD?
01:47:19 - Gender differences in ADHD
01:48:20 - Do today's teenagers have it worse with ADHD?
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[Netbase]

Ohh wow.. I heard that "You're so smart" so many times as a child but I can't do life. It feels like everyone is able to uncover their true potential and lives by it. Except me.

[joelman]

If you have ADHD. You’re living life on hard mode. Even just a diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect on depression because you can put a name to the invisible challenges you’re facing daily. Be proud of yourself for just living life with ADHD.

[FANNIX-]

"Children with adhd are bullied, unless they are the class-clown" - Miz :(

[Sipzostudios]

I’m the ‘smart’ kid who never got diagnosed with adhd with life long depression. I was fortunate to just “get” my schooling from listening and drawing during lectures. I feel the “I know what I need to do but don’t have the ability to do it. I have low self esteem due to childhood bullying. It’s really hard for me to participate in my corporate day job because it’s structured for neurotypical people. I appreciate this lector a lot! Thank you so much.

[elainascott]

I've had ADHD for 30 years and I can remember my teachers getting mad at me for drawing while they lectured but then getting annoyed that I could repeat everything they said back to them, lol. Even in my professional life, I have to be doing multiple things at once in order to focus, lol.

[Blockistium]

I'm so fucking sick of ADHD forever being the "joke" mental illness that either doesn't mean much or everyone has and therefore doesn't matter. It is all-encompassing. It has consumed my entire life. I want people to know that. We're not just a joke. It's not fun.

I'm so far a quarter through your video. Thank you for making it. It feels good to have your life's troubles be taken seriously _by someone who knows what they're talking about._

[dr.bandito]

About half of my huge extended family has ADHD. Our social norms are strange. Talking over each other is comfy and default. Lots of interruptions. None of us can make ourselves go to bed and I often end up talking to my aunts, uncles, and cousins until 5am. Everyone is late to everything by like 4 hours.

It’s nice that this weirdness is acceptable in the family but it honestly makes it trickier to deal with groups outside of our own family.

[notbrad]

I don't think people understand how important this is to protect our kids from. I literally have no happy childhood memories; not that good things didn't happen, but I was unable to feel happiness or enjoy them. The first 30 years of my life are blurry and grey. Knowing is half the battle and others don't have to live through this.

[gingercurls]

If you have ADHD i want to give you hope, being a young adult with ADHD is incredibly hard but it's harder not knowing why. The more you learn about how your brain works and how you process things you start to understand that you have to create your own norms to get things done, your own processes that help combat executive dysfunction, impulsivity, anger etc. I promise it will get easier. I promise you, don't give up.

[lrn]

I love how every time I mention my ADHD people around me quite literally say, “Oh shut up, everyone has ADHD.” And I’m just so tired of having to explain myself. I’m tired of being so self-aware of my issues without having a way of dealing with them. And when I do try to make changes or fight my mental wiring I get shut down by external forces (I.e. people, work, etc.)…. It sucks and I do have bad depression from it all. But still, I press forward.

[MisterPac]

The “don’t get invited to social gatherings” really hit hard for me. For my entire life as long as I can remember it’s usually me asking others to hang out or try and get something going. Very rarely does someone invite me to hang out or for a group thing.

[mitthrawnuruodo]

As a person with adhd we fall into depression easily. Being sensitive and different from others you grow up thinking something is “wrong” with you, that you’ll never fit in and that’s bad. Humans being tribalistic by nature and the human need for connection doesn’t help this either. And when you are being bullied (like I have) growing up being called retarded, dumb, childish, etc, . It sucks. And don’t even get me started on the education system… but at the same time I wouldn’t want to be anyone else. I’ve learned to accept who I am, to not care about what others think and learn to live how I want to live. I’ve tried doing things the “normal” way but it never clicked with me. I’m fine with this now. I will say now that I’m no longer depressed or anxious. I’m still stumbling through life and am a late bloomer in a lot of areas but I’ll find my way. Remember, when you are a fish in a jungle surrounded by monkeys they will ALWAYS judge you for how well you climb a tree. Instead find your pond.

[ICEcoldJT]

“Sometimes you don’t even realize you’re blocking your own blessings by holding onto to the past or thinking negatively. Start letting go.”

[jackhayden]

A brilliantly informative and easily understandable presentation. ❤ I am 71 years of age and have struggled with ADD my whole life. I was fortunate enough to learn how to adapt and had a very successful business career (though exhausting as it was) until our eldest of two sons died by suicide 12 years ago. He had ADHD. At eight months he went from crawling to running and never slept through the night for the first five years. I (we) have struggled terribly since losing him. Our younger son, also very intelligent now 36 struggles with ADD. Your presentation has helped my wife (and I) understand what we’ve been dealing with the past 40 years and I know it will help my younger son understand his condition and how to learn new and better coping skills. Our heartfelt appreciation. Keep up the good work. ❤

[LucyLucy]

2:50 - You are not screwed if you have ADHD
7:18 - Genes + Environment
11:10 - Risks of ADHD
13:35 - Treatment of ADHD
18:20 - Volume in brain less
30:09 - Coaching programme 20% reduction
32:39 - ADHD causes depression, treat the ADHD to treat the depression

[brownmetalsoul]

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 6 years old. My parents hid it from me until I was 21 and failing out of college, at which point they told me about it. This video made so many things make sense.

[tea]

I have only watched the part where he talks about apathy towards success and holy shit. This hits home. I'm only diagnosed with depression by my GP but working on getting an appointment with a psychiatrist, and am currently struggling a lot on my bachelor thesis because I don't really care about succeeding but I'm also so so scared to fail and ruin everything like the last time that I'm just stuck doing nothing. Panic is my last minute "motivator" that relies on pressure and leaves me very very drained afterwards but that's what I felt like was the only option to move forward with my studies even though I told myself every semester again that I'm doing it different now. Never worked.

[FINGERBNGING]

This hits everything. Having ADHD and depression for most of my life, it’s actually hard remembering how it feels to NOT BE depressed. It’s a life long process for most of us to overcome some of these challenges. Thank you for even attempting to shed light into this. I know myself and other people with ADHD really appreciate it.

[kenbutsuri]

A psychiatrist told me once that I cannot have adhd because I had depression, then another psychiatrist diagnosed me with adhd. It's scary that psychiatry is still invthe pseudoscience stage.

[tengutheterrible]

Lady with ADHD-I chiming in - I extremely relate to the history of being bullied and academic failure while teachers were constantly saying, "You're so smart, why are you choosing to do so poorly?" I wasn't the class clown, but once I got high school I definitely did a related coping mechanism - being very flirtatious. I felt like I had nothing to offer except (the potential for) sex, so I tried to make everyone fall in love with me. "Gathering allies" is how I've talked about it in therapy. It is an extremely isolating way to go through those young adult years. I'm only about halfway through this vid so far, but I wanted to share while it was still on my mind.