Prof. Philip Shaw

You know, he grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of violence and he had a lot of home instability. And as you like just unpeeled the layers of everything this boy had experienced in his life and you open the DSM to the PTSD criteria and you understand a little bit about how that can also manifest and you also ask questions about that and you see that that story just fits this kid perfectly.

You know, he grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of violence and he had a lot of home instability. And as you like just unpeeled the layers of everything this boy had experienced in his life and you open the DSM to the PTSD criteria and you understand a little bit about how that can also manifest and you also ask questions about that and you see that that story just fits this kid perfectly.

I didn't give him an ADHD diagnosis, even though at quick glance, somebody definitely would have.

I didn't give him an ADHD diagnosis, even though at quick glance, somebody definitely would have.

The worst for me are the ones that say things like, experiencing indecision, you might have ADHD. Having trouble keeping up at work, you might have ADHD. Come take this five-minute quiz to see if you do. What'd you think when you saw that?

The worst for me are the ones that say things like, experiencing indecision, you might have ADHD. Having trouble keeping up at work, you might have ADHD. Come take this five-minute quiz to see if you do. What'd you think when you saw that?

Well, as somebody who has spent decades doing research trying to show that you cannot diagnose ADHD with a five-minute quiz, it definitely activated me a little bit.

Well, as somebody who has spent decades doing research trying to show that you cannot diagnose ADHD with a five-minute quiz, it definitely activated me a little bit.

Five things that are ADHD that I had no idea were ADHD.

Five things that are ADHD that I had no idea were ADHD.

Having ADHD feels like you're on an emotional roller coaster. Either everything is great or everything is absolutely terrible.

Having ADHD feels like you're on an emotional roller coaster. Either everything is great or everything is absolutely terrible.

It does make intuitive sense that if ADHD is a disorder of dysregulated attention, you're going to experience both sides of that coin. So the distractibility means that you're unable to focus on something usually that's not holding your interest. And then the other side of that coin is that you can focus well when things are holding your interest.

It does make intuitive sense that if ADHD is a disorder of dysregulated attention, you're going to experience both sides of that coin. So the distractibility means that you're unable to focus on something usually that's not holding your interest. And then the other side of that coin is that you can focus well when things are holding your interest.

So it's not the emotions themselves that are unstable, but your cognitive ability to put the brakes on the emotion, maybe.

So it's not the emotions themselves that are unstable, but your cognitive ability to put the brakes on the emotion, maybe.