Episode 35: How To Respond When People Tell You ADHD Isn't Real
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In this episode, Tracy talks about how to respond when a friend, family member, teacher, coworker or boss tells you that there is no such thing as ADHD?
Tracy starts out by sharing her thoughts with anyone who is listening to this episode and doesn’t believe in ADHD and tells them why their viewpoint is hurting their relationship with their ADHD friend, family member or colleague.
Learn how to tell if a relationship is about connection or power.
Discover the most helpful thing you can do for someone who has ADHD.
Remember to have a little grace and don’t forget what you used to think you knew about ADHD before you really knew anything about ADHD 🙃.
Learn how to respond to comments like:
There’s no such thing as ADHD
People with ADHD are stupid, unmotivated and lazy. It’s a character flaw of their own making.
I read an article that there is no ADHD in France
ADHD is strictly an American phenomenom
Big Pharma made up ADHD so it could sell more drugs
ADHD is new, it’s a product of modern society. Look at how many more kids are now diagnosed with it.
Everyone has some ADHD
Everyone has ADHD today
We are medicating our kids and turning them into addicts
And finally, Tracy shares how she responds when she’s dealing with a real know-it-all who clearly knows nothing about ADHD. She also ends with a discussion on how to figure out who should and shouldn’t be in your life.
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NOTE: This post was updated with a correction on March 16, 2020. The post and its headline had claimed that the prevalence of ADHD in France was lower than that of the U.S. or other developed countries. That inaccurate claim has been removed. Is ADHD a biological-neurological disorder?
Have you ever had trouble concentrating, found it hard to sit still, interrupted others during a conversation, or acted impulsively despite the chance of injury? While most people - children and adults - experience all of these challenges from time to time, people living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may face them constantly.
Two models of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coexist: the biomedical and the psychosocial. We identified in nine French newspapers 159 articles giving facts and opinions about ADHD from 1995 to 2015. We classified them according to the model they mainly supported and on the basis of what argument.
Have you heard that "French kids don't have ADHD?" It's not true. French Kids do have ADHD-as do children around the globe, at generally the same prevalence rate. When the post first appeared on Psychology Today' s website, in 2012, I pegged it as more self-promotional nonsense, the kind we see too often around ADHD.
Despite studies linking moderate alcohol consumption to heart health, picking up a glass of wine isn't the answer to prolonged life. The health risks associated with alcohol consumption, like liver disease, heavily outweigh the slight benefits - especially since those same heart healthy benefits can be achieved through diet and exercise.
Tobacco smoking is one of the world's largest health problems. Millions of people live in poor health because of smoking and researchers estimate that every year around 8 million people die an early death due to smoking. It has been a major health problem for many decades.
The recent recommendation that Ritalin and other medications for attention-deficit disorder carry the most serious allowable warning will certainly slow the explosive growth in the use of those drugs. That was the intention of some members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory committee that called for the packaging alert, known as a black-box warning.
Host Tracy Otsuka is a lawyer, not a doctor, a life-long student, not a coach. She’s also the creator of Coretography a patent pending system that helps smart, driven women understand their own unique ADHD brain and use it to their advantage.
Tracy will be talking about ADHD. Your super powers, your symptoms, your solutions and work-arounds and how you proudly stand out. Tracy credits ADHD for some of her superpowers and much of her success in life.
