ADHD: Out of Control Kids (Medical/Parenting Documentary) | Real Stories

This poignant film examines the lives of people who suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Behavioural characteristics include severe distractibility, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Diagnosis has proved controversial as most sufferers are diagnosed when young and treatment is for life. Filmed in New Zealand, the programme shows the reality of dealing with children so difficult they can barely interact with their peers, let alone family members.

The film also features adult sufferers who have had to live with the disorder, undiagnosed for much of their lives and the different methods of dealing with ADHD such as drugs, life management, natural remedies and counselling.

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[bruno-vicious]

Reading a book at a rock concert is a very accurate description of how ADHD feels.

[minsugagenius]

ADHD is like being In a room with many televisions or radios all playing at once

[kaitietaylor]

I was diagnosed with ADD in 5th grade, i was a very mediocre student. I switched schools and became the top of my class but the school really hurt my desire to continue when they took away the valedictorian title I had earned… kids who work really hard to turn things around deserve the same recognition that normal students get.

[alleycat]

It’s truly something you don’t understand until either you or your child has it. I’ve been a teacher for over a decade and even I didn’t truly understand it until my own son has it. Now I have much more compassion towards adhd children and their parents.

[emd]

It's like throwing 10000 of the same balls onto a trampoline ... Someone jumping on it and telling you to focus on the one ball. That's the best way I can describe it to you.

[BlondBarbie]

It's sad to see the documentary is mainly about hyperactivity. Underactivity is very common when it comes to ADHD.

[top-secret]

To everyone who has to suffer from raising a kid with ADHD, I can tell you its becoming better in most cases, when they are getting older. I went through this with my son. I thought its a never ending story. I went through so much stress. He had trouble in school and put himself in risky situations and i had been scared for him all those years because i always thought something really bad would happen because of his uncontrollable behavior. Now he is almost 16 he is genius very good at school. Very active but in a normal way he loves sport, he is very strongwilled and so responsible for everything he does. 😊

[DietEllie]

My ADHD is really severe, it always has been, but I was never violent as a child, just unable to act "normal, " which was and still is extremely stressful and frustrating. ADHD is having so many different thoughts in your head all at once that you want to punch yourself in the face, taking hours to do something that would otherwise take one or less because you get distracted by anything, never having a clean room, and feeling like you can't do anything right.

[suchnothing]

I really feel for the people talking about how destroyed their self-esteem was/is. I don't have ADHD, but I do have a lifelong anxiety disorder that has an enormous effect on my energy levels and concentration, and it didn't get diagnosed until well into adulthood. I can't tell you the number of times I heard "you could do better if you just tried harder" or "you're really smart, you just have to put in the effort" while I was growing up. When you're told enough times that you're not putting in the effort, you start to really believe it and internalize it. You start to think that you're just defective, or naturally bad, that you have no ability and no future. I'm really lucky to be alive today. I really wish it was the norm to take a constructive and cooperative approach with underachieving kids, rather than a punitive or compliance based approach like we often do now.

[maureend]

Oh how this brings back memories of my son 🙈😂 I have no idea how we coped with him having Tourette and ADHD. He's almost 28 and I want to tell all parents you will survive and to the people labelling them as naughty kids to know these kids are not naughty, they need constant stimulation and are very special kids

[greatexpectations]

mothers mothers oh..mothers💕💕💖🌹🌷😢😓 it is all on your shoulders..all respect and prayers💖🌷

[cantbeatthebay]

people who think that ADHD doesn't exist probably think the earth is flat.

[sahpem]

Two of my kids have ADHD. They’re genuinely the sweetest kids and they are very smart and do great in school. My son has high expectations for himself and if he cannot meet perfection, he cries and becomes sad and bawls. My daughter leans toward depressive symptoms. There’s the obvious focus issue, of course. That feels last place next to the mental health struggles.

[jean-mariestrydom]

i just want to say something. In schools teachers tend to be "boring"... I don't suffer from ADHD, my husband does. I was a swim coach before I fell pregnant. I had this boy I had to coach ( because none of the other teachers wanted him) I soon noticed the "problem" and I had to make changes as a coach. I made the coaching more like a game we were playing. Its the trick of teaching ADHD that works most of the time, you have to make everything fun and make its seem like they are playing a game instead of learning. This boy developed so good with in a month he did everything perfect and all the other coaches then loved coaching him . 3 months later he won his first gold medal. Teachers should stop seeing teaching and coaching as a job and see it a an opportunity to (not just for ADHD children but for every child) to teach in a fun way, because it is the quickest and most affecting way in teaching any child, it also develop their communication abilities and help to get very shy children to loosen up and make more friends.... its is a problem in every system that I feel are taken up to lightly

[ClareBearCB]

1. ADHD is NOT a new diagnosis! The truth is that it has been well-researched all the way back to the late 1700s. In the 1700s, Sir Alexander Crichton gave a detailed and accurate description of the condition in a medical journal.

2. ADHD is not really about attention. It has been mislabeled. It is actually a regulation problem due to the underdevelopment of the frontal lobe in people who have ADHD. This causes a failure to develop age-appropriate behaviors on schedule with their peers. Attention problems are a byproduct of poor regulation.

3. In ADHD, the hyperactivity is caused by the overgrowth of the action part of the brain combined with the low ability to regulate due to the underdevelopment of the frontal lobe.

4. Emotional dysregulation is a huge component of ADHD. It is unfortunately not in the diagnostic criteria. However, it affects every aspect of the ADHD person’s life and especially those who love and care for them.

5. ODD is a byproduct of ADHD. It results from the emotional dysregulation combined with anger (often anger about not being understood) or anxiety. According to Dr. Russell Barkley, every ADHD person is automatically subclinically ODD.

6. ADHD is the most researched and proven condition of any mental health condition known to man. This is true regardless of what culture and media tell you.

7. ADHD people are not addicted to media and video games. But rather, media and video games work in a way that gives immediate responses. This is what ADHD people need to stay motivated and focused.

8. ADHD is not a result of lack of discipline or poor parenting. But rather, it is a result of how the brain has formed. ADHD is a result of genetics.

9. ADHD can be proven. Furthermore, there are even brain scans which back up the science proving that it is real. Additionally, It is the most treatable condition in psychology even though most ADHD people do not get treated.

10. ADHD needs to be identified and treated. The earlier the better. And there is significant potential damage for children who do not get a diagnosis, treatment, and have knowledge of their own diagnosis. I cannot emphasize enough how important knowledge of the condition is to the healthy psychological development of the child.

11. ADHD is a neurogenetic disorder. ADHD medication is a scientifically proven neurogenetic treatment.

12. ADHD people are statistically far less likely to become addicts if they are effectively medicated and treated before they get desperate enough to start self-medicating with drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. Even the majority of addicts with ADHD do not go back to illegal drugs if they are properly diagnosed and treated for their ADHD. It doesn’t matter what the media says, because the science backs up this position.

13. ADHD people cannot and will not be “normal.” Ever. This is because they have different brains. So normal methods of organization, education, employment, etc, will not work for them like it works for those who have neurotypical brains.

[lailaalaghbari]

IM LITERALLY WATCHING THIS WHILE IM SUPPOSED TO BE DOING MY HOMEWORK

[mlkirkl]

I have ADD and so does my daughter. I am not medicated because I don't need to be. I'm disabled and since I am at home and not working, I don't need medication. My daughter, however, is in school and has been taking medication since 1st grade. If she does not take it, she cannot concentrate at all and ends up getting into trouble at school. No, she is not a "zombie" or "catatonic" when she takes her medication. It just refocuses her brain and slows it down. She is not addicted. In fact, during the summer, she takes a break and resumes during the school year.

[yody]

I feel so bad for all these people that never got diagnosed as a child. It ruins their lives as they think they're just stupid all their lives. People should only have kids if they're willing to do the best for them and not ignore very obvious signs. Just so sad....

[littlecamo]

I don’t have ADHD, but my brother and sister do (and I have autism). One thing that helps my siblings and I is movement! Allow the kids to move! Or pressure (weighted vest or blanket). We can’t focus because our needs aren’t being met, and our brain is desperate to compensate. For example, like how the kids were sitting down singing ABC, try jumping or spinning while learning/ singing the ABC. It won’t help all the time, or for everyone, but this helped my siblings and I a lot. They say we’re “uncontrollable” and “bad” but we’re just inquisitive and different and not afraid to get hurt to learn.
Also, they said kids with ADHD don’t understand or feel danger. We do.
My brother and I used to play tag on the roof, so I know we have misguided senses of danger, but that doesn’t mean we don’t understand or feel it. We do, but we have trouble putting doing A will cause B to happen. Like, we know, but we want to do A so we’ll deal with B when it happens (or we just don’t care) (example: running and jumping on the merry go round as it’s spinning. We know we can fall and we know we’ll get hurt, but having your body and your brain “settle” is so satisfying or it’s so much fun that we HAVE to take that risk. It’s hard to explain. But we’re not dumb. We get it. We just don’t do it.
(Note: I’m just speaking from my perspective and experiences. I know these things affect everyone differently)
Also, it’s not a lack of discipline. If we misbehaved, my parents would spank, beat, lock us up, leave us home alone for a few days to weeks, or withhold food and water (yes, I know most of these are abusive). No matter how severely we were punished, we would do it again if it felt right/ good. (Kinda like if you got grounded for drinking water. But you have to drink water to survive, so you’ll keep doing it anyways, no matter how many times/ how severely your punished)

[barbaragoldsmith]

Why is the mother let her son bully his younger siblings. She just stands around smiling while she says my son bites adults.