What is adult ADHD and how to treat it

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Parents and doctors have known about childhood ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - for decades, but it is only recently that the medical field has started to recognise, diagnose and seriously study ADHD in adults. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we explore what adult ADHD looks like, how it is diagnosed today and the many new treatments available to help those with the disorder live better lives.
Featuring Laura E Knouse an associate professor of psychology a the University of Richmond in the US, and Tamara May, senior research fellow at Monash University in Australia. 
This episode of The Conversation Weekly was produced by Mend Mariwany. Sound design is by Eloise Stevens and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. Further readingADHD looks different in adults. Here are 4 signs to watch forWhy many women with autism and ADHD aren’t diagnosed until adulthood - and what to do if you think you’re one of themADHD in adults: what it’s like living with the condition - and why many still struggle to get diagnosed

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@wowwee0 10 ай бұрын

Me listening to this podcast while procrastinating by cleaning my room >.>

@KE-xj9vm 8 ай бұрын

The stigma is real. I just got diagnosed at almost 41. Have literally turned dysfunctional with chronic fatigue and burnout, and have to deal with my parents dismissing it. I’m so relieved to finally be validated that I’m not just a lazy scatter brain that has no will power or self control. Have been struggling so much since having kids especially. And previously diagnosed with anxiety of course 🤦🏽‍♀️

@jinny44 2 жыл бұрын

@20:25 "level of rigorous diagnosis is maybe not what's happening". Understatement of the century. Psychiatry has gotten lazy, with 'talk therapy' and medication letting therapists off the hook with their responsibility to do any real analysis or assessment. Thumbs up on the segment and quality of the interview.

@jacquiblackburn743 Жыл бұрын

Relate. I wish I could just get diagnosed!! I’m going in circles getting help !

@wendyhannan2454 Жыл бұрын

I hope you get your diagnosis. This is an excellent video, these people are giving great advice, they truly know their stuff. I relate to many of these symptoms, and it gives me hope of improving my life, you can too. 😉

@UniqueGeekFreak 11 ай бұрын

Please continue to get your help. I was on a wait list for 2 1/2 years.

@connorthewoo 5 ай бұрын

Same😢

@wendyhannan2454 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, this is great video, how ever it’s so hard to get a diagnoses. It’s just a shame there’s not enough Drs who specialise in ADHD. 😢

@slavbarbie 10 ай бұрын

@GregAustine-ex3vfthat's not ok to give advice like that

@gillb9222 10 ай бұрын

I am always very confused about the figures for children and adults. My understanding is that if you have ADHD you have a lifelong condition. They say less adults have it than children which makes no sense. Adults may not be diagnosed because until recently it was alnost impossible to get a diagnosis, especially if you are female. Adults may be better at masking but that doesnt mean you don't still have it and masking is very unhealthy.

@TheStarBlack 2 жыл бұрын

Hating my ADHD right now. Waiting nearly a year to get a formal diagnosis and access to medication is awful. I need help now but I can't get it.

@MsPopo81 Жыл бұрын

Meditate dont take the kiddy coke lol. Are you hooked on it yet?

@wendyhannan2454 Жыл бұрын

Yes it’s so hard to get the help you need. I hate the forgetfulness, that’s so hard to live with. I love this talk, thanks to all of you. 🙏 Tamara sounds like a lady I’d like to see. Thanks to all concerned. I now understand the way it gets mistaken for, depression anxiety and ptsd , I’d been treated for all those, when the obvious was ADHD 🤷‍♀️

@timj4601 11 ай бұрын

Thank god I live in Australia. Hearing of people having to wait in a queue for 1+ years is baffling to me. It's really awful. Did you end up getting on medication? For me vyvanse was game changing. I'm pretty much useless without it, and just wish I had started it earlier in my life, could've prevented so much suffering and failure.

@06MPST Жыл бұрын

12:55 Felt a little personally attacked when she mentioned procrastination, meanwhile I’m sitting here watching this instead of doing the 7 assessments I have to complete/resubmit😭

@annetteka Жыл бұрын

😂

@homelessrobot 10 ай бұрын

I have an older brother who was definitely hyperactive-impulsive type and diagnosed pretty early because of how insanely unmanageable he was, which sort of 'pushed me' into having to fill a more submissive little brother role, probably more submissive than normal because of how much movement and sound my brother generated and how completely it commanded everyone's attention, and how little of my movements and sounds anyone in the same hemisphere with him could give a shit about. So most of what I did was sitting on the couch quietly watching my demon brother bounce off the walls and everyone trying to keep him from setting the place on fire or breaking all of his own limbs. And when it came to play, he played the video games, and I was perfectly content to watch him. And for most of our adolescence, he was the sheer chaotic magnetism of the duo, and I was the quite, cordial observer and side bar; like a comfortable pair of sunglasses for staring directly into the sun. My parents actually thought I was deaf because of how repressed I was. I started talking late, and I didn't really give a shit about most thing that would definitely get the attention of the average baby; like clapping behind their head or making a funny face. I was just sort of deadpan and spacey. They had me evaluated by the family doctor and he was like "No, he can definitely hear you, he just doesn't seem to care".

@skyflower2498 10 ай бұрын

Excellent !!!!

@ikaikanuiloa Жыл бұрын

Dude, 35 minutes? Is there a recap? AHHH!

@kirstenweyter4431 11 ай бұрын

Other ADHD’ers suggested speeding up video playback times and man oh man is that a game changer! Before I thought to do that and the presenter talked too slow, I’d just click off the video.

@rebeccabraterman7168 9 ай бұрын

not enough attention to people having a trully awful time living in utter chaos and its impact in all areas of life

@staceycollins5398 10 ай бұрын

Interesting episode but the Not so Background music around 25+ mins is so distracting I can barely listen.

@me-fx5yj Жыл бұрын

Hey I have Adhd and cptsd its been fun lol So the adhd and disassociation gives me no executive functioning😂

@annezotos9803 Жыл бұрын

Is concerta generic the same efficacy

@trillianmcmillian2660 Жыл бұрын

they didnt cover how to treat it … lame 😒

@hanskraut2018 Жыл бұрын

What is adhd: coming late Anything else? They can be sooo good in riskmanagement because they think all of these thoughts and go down all those different paths what can happen. Relly? Relly? Please you dont understand adhd thats the most trivial shit i have ever heared off call those people something else. Adhd is feeling terrible about things you want to to, having a brain that does not want to cooperate and u trying to work with it. This means more pain, less social intuition and intuition in generall like someone that has sleept 2 hours 10 days in a row is sick and depressed but even then im not sure normal people feel as shit And its a spectrum so the mildest people are the most motivated they are gona be the loudest as to what adhd is.

@angieorozco1853 Жыл бұрын

@EcstaticZero117 Жыл бұрын

I never hate my ADHD. I hate the word suffer. I never did suffer. For adhd. See the profits dat ADHD gives you. 1: never boring. 2: always active. 3: we are loyal. 4: we are creative. 5: we like to think outside the box.

@AmedeeBoulette Жыл бұрын

You’re lucky, because I: 1) can’t control my emotions when not under medication and hurt people that I love the most by lashing out for no reason; 2) act without thinking of the (too real) consequences; 3) quit school when I was 16 (I was diagnosed this year at almost 50); 4) wasted most of my life by not being able to finish anything and didn’t had a real career even if I’m super talented at a lot of things (being ADD); 5) can’t come to terms with all of this happening to me (realization) when most of my active life is behind me and it’s too late to plan for long term. So yeah. It’s all about perspective.

@eridanuskelpi3908 Жыл бұрын

does it need treatment! i really don't think so. it's another way of experiencing and interacting with our world.😮‍💨

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@scarred10 Жыл бұрын

It needs treatment of its making you suffer or hurts other people,that's the definition of a disorder.