Could make a short youtube video - not even a short - and have it promoted that way. (Do another stuff as well, though). Have you seen that “sitting down in bedroom talking to camera” videos get pushed hard by the algorithm now?

Don’t feel embarrassed about promoting it anywhere, nor in multiple places at once. Social media makes it so that this is the norm.

Not that convinced by the article but I will listen to the dr mike interview at some point

gotta rememebr that ADHD as a whole is seen as a grift and a psuedoscience by many people, and was originally dealt with in unscientific and unhelpful ways, so i hold back on trusting people who say “we have it right because we’re mainstream science and this guy who wants to do something slightly different to how we’ve been doing it, he’s a fraud, he’s going to ruin everything.”

I don’t really see why his work is considered a threat to mainstream medicine or anything.

If it works for you (and your budget), then I’m happy for you.

i have universal healthcare where i live. So i’m just wondering why it isn’t standard procedure.

However, his clinic gave off red flags by prioritizing expensive, imaging tech that is in its infancy – while still offering traditional treatment like medication and therapy.

I don’t see why that should be a red flag - brain imaging exists, any expensive new one is just going to be built on the same principle but (hopefully) be more precise, hence why he would want it

I don’t think “while still offering traditional treatment” means anything here, because Dr Amen is not proposing that the scan cures people of adhd. The scan is the dagnostic tool, the traditional methods to treat it are what works to alleviate symptoms.

Based on his talk it sounds like the brain scan allowed him to identify the precise symptoms each ADHD sufferer had (i.e their “type” of ADHD) and that allows more informed selection of medication. Some medicine works for some, who need stimulation, some medicine works for others, who need the opposite.

Would this not save time for psychiatrists who instead just follow the same order when cycling through titrations? They could immediately say “methylphenidate is less likely to work for this person, so we try another drug” for instance.

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i’m British, so to me “Asian” usually means from the Indian Subcontinent. Some of those guys can be very beardy!

Also british here. I don’t get why people don’t just say Southern Asian, West Asian, Central Asian, East Asian.

We do that for europe and Africa, so it isn’t offensive or anything, right?

It really neatly divides people into generally similar groups (admittedly Afghanis can be profoundly distinct from Indian-subcontinent-als, and i consider both to be south asians)

Tweakers and the mentally infirm. There is also a type of character who just compulsively lies about things, especially in the worst situation.

I can see why some people wouod be unwilling to trust the advice of “run towards the fire,” regardless. Maybe the firefighter took the time to explain the ohysics briefly, in which case we have 12 survivors who understood the physics (thus could trust him) and a couple dozen or so who were less physics literate. Science saves lives!

I think both you and ickplant’s reaponse to your comment are correct - it has got a genetic element but even a kid “born with an ADD brain” should be able to “recover” from that pr avoid problems with it in the right environment and with the right events. A lot of us probably only had enough problems with ADD when we were teens or adults, right? Hearing Dr K (healthygamersGG) talk about it in this light is one of the things that helped me understand it properly - he says people can pass the criteria for ADD one year and then “recover from it” later as their brain is growing.

That said I did see a cool video from a psych who seemed to be presenting the opposite idea, yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnJ4wjVu9k

So I came away with the same reaction as you, but his examples gave me food for thought. Especially relevant is the fact he said his kids were completely restless

I probably have both. I just feel so embarrassed saying I have PTSD for the reasons I do

To be fair, do they carry around any sort of badge? Could have seemed like a crazy person to- oh it was in Austria, not New York

I’d never taken the time to realise firefighters have to learn about physics-nonsense for their line of work. On top of having to stay really fit? That’s tough

In the US, university functions like a rite of passage into adulthood.

Which i think is precisely the reason it shouldn’t be like that across other countries. This is very derived from anglo-culture but historically university has been for all ages groups; public education in Europe is the reason people started doing it later, but realistically some people could be doing it earlier and some people shouldn’t be doing it until later in life when they’re more sure of what they want. To me the tragedy of public education is that it holds smart and hardworking kids back until the less motivated ones catch up with them.

The brain i suppose does keeps growing until say midlife, 30s, or 25 (most things keep developing until 25) - this is something doctors believe when I talk to them. But as my above paragraph alludes: some people reach mental maturity faster. I would rather we look at uni as a scholarly pursuit again and detach the societal pressure to engage in hedonism. It (university) would benefit as a system engaged-in by all age groups.

Same! I didn’t mention that because I didn’t want to just receive a reply like “well obviously it’s a YOU problem!”

I’m in university right now, 2 years behind on standard schedule, and the people younger than me have a distinct problem with communicating or making friends, which I’m told is due to going to school during covid for longer than I did - but I think part of it is also technology exposure.

I went to several clubs and a lot of them were almost empty.

Clubs are indeed declining. People might then suggest fraternities/sororities but they’re very problematic, generally.

I also genuinely don’t have the time for clubs because I do one of the highest work-hour courses available. The socialisation I’ve done was largely not at uni but from interacting with the wider world around me,e.g thru volunteering, and I think we’re moving towards a world like that since people are increasingly unable to move out of their parents home, and working from home increases.

But more importantly I think the attitude of 'uni is for partying and if you don’t party through it all there’s something wrong with you!" Is harmful to neurodivergent students.

18-20 year olds would lose out on the necessary social and development opportunities of an in-person school.

I think this is a toxic mindset. Do people not consider 18 year old fully formed adults? University is really about learning and then your fit in whatever adult stuff you choose around that.

This whole comment will be from a UK perspective

In Britain they kind of tend to be (unless redditors are lying… which happens… so it could just an astroturfed narrative by the government to “sell” more degrees) but the important elements of getting a job, I feel, are how well you market yourself OR good luck and connections. Sometimes people have all 3.

The benefit of an in person uni in this regards is that good ones have employability teams which will coach you on preparing your cv on any day you want, and put on events to help people get experience.

I expect that online unis have the same thing (and to be fair I’ve gotten more help in this regard from the independent employment charity I use rather than the uni ones, which are basically just there to waste your time and keep their own staff in a job [notwithstanding the course specific ones]) but I guess the in person unis are more likely to have it as a service, and it might be more robust.

But basically since covid society has had to admit that an open university degree (our leading example of online degrees) is worth as much as a university degree, since people did uni degrees mostly online in 2020. SO the only reason someone might reject you is their own bias against people who stray from the norm, which is probably a boss you don’t want to be working under.

https://youtu.be/E3p_Crhi3K8

You might even say it was about the oiI aII aIong

I never thought to do this, and tho I’m not on piefed at the moment I just changed my “theme” in lemmyworld to “dark vaporwave” to achieve the same result.

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It’s called no stupid questions. I thought it was an interesting thing to think about

Thank you very much, and thank you @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca

I want it to end at tricorns because everyone looks good in those