How to Live With Adult ADHD : Adult ADHD: Therapy

[SuperMadhatter2]

To the people who believe in their hearts that adhd is a fake disorder i would just like to tell you how lucky you are to not have to deal with this yourself, I wouldn't wish adhd-pi on anyone not my worst enemy not anyone, I am not just simply a label or statistic of some pharm co. and I myself hope to god you nor your family have to suffer through something like this because its like living in your own tiny little hell and no one deserves to feel this way.not even someone like you....

[redmondgar]

yes very informative series...I'm almost 100% sure that I have ADD but it's never been treated or diagnosed. I get by...I fake alot . I suffer alot. When should a person take ADD drugs? I'm 57 years old now should I start now. I'm divorced single out of work depressed and yet I go out each day and I run ride my cycle and I cope.

[SpeedFreakNO]

Thank you for this series, it's very imformative =) I've sendt it to some of my friends to help them understand it :)

The place I work in is where pedagogues help kids and adults with among other things, ADHD. So now that I've gotten my diagnosis it will be interesting to see how they react when I tell them :)

[whiff1962]

aberrant physical condition equals disease:

No argument there. ADHD does not fit this definition of disease; and it is doubtful that mere theoretics gets in the way of psychiatry's lies and deceits.

[nezapamatovatelne]

And what about now. Do you funtion well?

[flan350]

Oh yeah am fine.. i still day dream and stuff like that but i rather that then ritalin.. i could have worse stuff happen to me in life.. No parent should put there kid on that stuff

[smiletoowide]

did you try cbt, drugs arent meant to be a long term solution

[whiff1962]

You miss the point. Many so-called mental illnesses (disorders) serve a social function, that being of ordering behaviours, or, more specifically, individuals. You touched upon the notion of disease as physical abberation. This definition cannot be applied to most disorders listed in the DSM. Mental illness and, by extension, behavioural disorders serve as a socially stategic purpose. The "science" of ADD is not conclusive, however, it serves-in large part-to justify ongoing pharma-poisoning.

[28g34ajbsd]

No need to play Michel Foucault, dude.

There was - in some parts still is - psychiatry as a political force serving to normalize, and then there's another relation of power where you set the goals for what you wanna get out of it - medication is just a cruch, albeit sometimes a necessary one, and when I see you suing Pfizer then I'll take you at least a bit more seriously.

[whiff1962]

What does this name dropping have to do with anything? If you truly understood Foucault, you would see that he did not repudiate the myth of mental illness. His was a Marxist-centric critique of the social stigma of the so-called mad. As for your inane comment of me putting my money where my mouth is, I prefer to stay out of any legal entanglements and stick to the court of public opinion, thank you very much.

[28g34ajbsd]

@whiff1962 A Marxist-centric critique? LOL.

[whiff1962]

If you avail yourself to do any meaningful reading, and not just spout off names out of the blue, you will see that the 1960s, and early 1970s, was a time of considerable social and political tumult. Left-leaning and Marxist intellectuals seized on the latter to critique the established institutions, especially psychiatry, which was viewed-more or less truly-as a means of subjugating segments of society, certainly the poor.

[28g34ajbsd]

As for your 'eureka' moment about the science not being conclusive, well, no one's yet determined if depression is a symptom or a disorder: yet people study it, people treat it, and most people get something out of it.

[whiff1962]

The Pharmaceutical and mental health enterprises certainly get something out of it. I am not sure why depression needs to be studied, unless, of course, the disease mongerers are looking to cash in on such an idea as making ALL negative affect a medical concern, which is pretty much the case today, in a culture strongly informed by medicine and of sickness.

[28g34ajbsd]

People have it hard, they multitask yet they cannot follow through with just about anything, they feel like crap about it, and wanna do something about it - not because their parents or whatever authority deems them unsociable or whatever, but 'cause they feel like they could go on through life with a bit less baggage.

[28g34ajbsd]

As for 'ordering behaviours,' dear Dr House, a disorder/diagnosis commonly knows as 'X' or 'X1' or 'Y' is simply a conceptual framework for a bunch of symptoms and a possible hypothesis about a root cause that helps those who study it - and by extension, those who suffer through it - deal with it. Some of it is more conclusive, some of it less - it's a pretty young science.

[whiff1962]

I have arrived at that conclusion that it isn't the supposed science that is the article of faith in believing oneself to "have" ADD. The real faith in assuming oneself to have any given disorder(s) is a moral concern. You see, just like religious identification, there is a strong moral and social implication to assuming a label; some people even collecting life-time disability for "mental illness". In short, the psych enterprise also acts as a clean-up detail in society.

[suripopje]

Great video, well put.

[Danut87]

kind of dont like her... shes mixin up the terms adhd and depression. Adhd is often caused by a depression and theres way too big of a story about it. medication helps

[peaceandparty]

thats an excellent video........i just disagree with the label disorder....as an xxy chromosmed third sex--being diagnosed as having adhd is merely itching at a bite that needs to be treated...my use of testosterone because as an xxy i lack in testosterone,aided me to not show adhd in me....i know and admit that i am absolutely as adhd is described but i do not have a disorder--society has its disorders people are just a mix of sensitivities...for instance as an xxy i am now termed a DSD...:(

[Wolley41]

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