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Russell Barkley ADHD lectures
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A YouTube lecture series by clinical psychologist Russell Barkley covering ADHD in clinical and medical terms, with a focus on childhood ADHD and executive function. The course is delivered as a long playlist of lectures.
Commenters call Barkley an excellent, pragmatic expert who explains ADHD in clear medical terms and shows it is more than attention problems.
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This is all well meaning and nice... Still between Dr Russel Barkley's excellent lectures and papers' reviews, and Dr Rege's very clear explanations, both on Youtube, your time may well be better spent there instead of here if you have an interest on the subject.
If you have ADHD or are close to someone with it, do yourself a favor, sit down and watch this lecture series by Dr Russell Barkely: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzBixSjmbc8eFl6UX5_wW...
It's geared a little more towards childhood ADHD, and it's quite long (I needed to be medicated in order to watch the whole thing, of course..) but this Dr is a fantastic expert on the topic and doesn't hold back on explaining the disorder in clear medical terms. He also does not sugar coat anything or tell you what you want to hear. It's a very pragmatic and thorough explanation of what ADHD means, and really opened up my eyes in many ways.
One of the important takeaways from that lecture is that ADHD is not simply attention problems, there are a myriad of related issues with executive function that are just not as apparent. Learning that ADHD is more than attention can fundamentally change your coping strategies. Well worth investing time into deeper education
Just so you know, (depending on who you read) those with untreated ADHD may live, on average, 10 fewer years than the rest of the population. So if I had to chose between your concerns and 10 better quality years, I know what I'm picking.
Where are you getting this from? Any papers? If this is the consensus then I really must not have been paying attention (pun intended)
You seem to have a lot of "observational" experience in a specific setting, but little more knowledge or understanding than the tip of the iceberg "top-5 symptoms". ADHD is an incredibly complex developmental issue. Look at the issues with ADHD and gauging signals from the body, how those affect eating. Look at various issues with sensitivities sensory stimulation. Issues with inhibition and how they permeate behaviours. Reducing ADHD to "focus" is like reducing baseball to throwing a ball around.
Maybe look into some of Dr Russel Barkley's lectures. Some of them are a little dated but mostly accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzhbAK1pdPM&t