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Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Jan 12, 2016 ^^
Rating : 4.919 (128/6,160 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I love how he doesn't dance around the point. In the comments I see some people who say he's being too negative. But I don't see it that way at all. He shows what science finds, without trying to please anyones ego. Especially this part of the talk reminds me why I have to keep trying. Not let my unmotivated, procrastinating side win over. For me it is highly motivational to hear my problems reflected in actual science. If you listen to the whole talk, that's 3 hours I think, you will hear him give some GOLDEN advice for handling those problems, too. So maybe give it a chance, even if you don't like what you are hearing.
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I've just been diagnosed with ADHD 2 weeks ago, I'm 67.
Oh how I wish I could have had someone in my life as understanding as this man. It breaks my heart to think "what could I have been" with the proper help earlier in my life.
More help and less judgement is far more helpful. At last I am beginning to understand and forgive myself.
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I'm 39, never diagnosed with ADHD, however the more I look into it the more I get a picture of why I am who I am. But I always feel trapped and unable to seek help or get a diagnosis. Around 6 months ago I really began thinking that my mental health problems could be down to ADHD. Before that I was diagnosed with depression some 15 years prior, but never found that the drugs worked, they just made me feel more agitated.
My Dad told me that he thinks he have Autism, and more recently saying that one of my primary school teachers thought so too. My Mum also thinks that way. This put me on a path where I thought it could be Asperger's, and that may well be a factor, I have huge issues in social settings, never quite knowing what to say and my brain just locking up so to speak. ADHD on the other hand seems to fit as a descriptor for my mental condition so incredibly well I find it hard to find ways to deny it.
Overweight, jobless, poor dental hygiene, impulsive, zero sleep pattern, poor money management, no natural gas due to missed payments (means no hot water on tap), and so on. Honestly makes me angry and upset that all this time I've not been getting the help I so desperately need.
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I know that for people with ADHD this might be hard to listen to- disheartening. But it is good that he's talking about these statistics because then lawmakers can see the facts and KNOW that people with ADHD need help and might put more funds into them getting it.
So many people struggle all their lives where at least teachers should have noticed the signs. Teachers and health-care professionals needs to be more educated in what ADHD looks like- so a person doesn't need to go untreated far into their adult life.
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@bianca4829
3 years ago
A lot of people think this man is insensitive, but as someone with terrible ADHD he describes someone with ADHD spot on. He’s not being critical he’s just explaining his studies.
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