ADHD Awareness Month 2018 - Shine a light on ADHD 

it's not an issue of POOR concentration, it's an issue of mismanaging attention. how do even experts get this wrong? a lot of people ADHD, when they find something they truly truly enjoy, can be concentrated on that thing for hours on end. it's not an "attention deficit", it's an "attention imbalance". and no, there is no cure. you want people to just be the same boring box thinkers as everyone else? ADHD has its problems yes, but for crying out loud maybe SHINE A LIGHT on the positives as well

I cried twice during this video. I'm not yet diagnosed with adhd, but i'm in the middle of it and my psychiatrist said there's a chance, and i keep relating to most of the things i see about adhd online. It's really hard for me to do homework or any boring task, like showering or going to bed, even sometimes things i enjoy like playing videogames are difficult for me to initiate. My mom says i'm lazy and using adhd as an excuse. I know i'm not lazy but it still hurts me. I'm so impatient to get officially diagnosed so that i can be taken seriously and maybe even be medicated.

"I feel like a universe stuffed within a shoebox..." Salud, hermano.

If a person has a physical problem with an organ, then people are often very sympathetic towards them. For example, if you have bad eyes,which causes blindness , bad ears, which causes deafness, or bad lungs, which cause asthma, people will not blame you for it. They will say that you didn't choose to have a bad organ. However, your brain is also an organ and it controls your ability to think, your personality, and your feelings. So if you have a hard time thinking or there is something wrong with your personality, then obviously there is something wrong with your brain. So if a person has a problem with their brain they deserve the same sympathy as a problem with any other organ like your eyes, ears, or lungs, but people don't see it that way. I think the reason for the lack of sympathy is because people think that if a problem is mental, then a person should be able to control it since we have free will. However, if you think about it, we don't have as much control over our thoughts as we think. For example, could you make yourself enjoy the smell of raw sewage or the feeling of stubbing your toe? If there is a food that you dislike, you could still make yourself eat it, but could you make yourself like it? If you find someone unattractive, could you just decide to be attracted to that person? If you are gay, could you just decide to be attracted to the opposite sex and if you straight could you just decide to be attracted to the same sex? If you are depressed, could you just decide to be happy? If you are nervous before taking a test, could just decide to not be nervous? If someone tells you not to think about elephants, wouldn't you think about elephants for at least a split second? If you have a learning problem could you just decide to increase your intelligence a thousand fold, so that your are the smartest person who ever existed? It is true that we make decisions. For example, I decide to eat an apply because I like apples and hate pears. However, we decide to do something based on what we want and like and since we don't really control what we like, then we are not as in control of our decisions as we think we are. So, if a person has a mental problem, please don't think that it is something they choose to have.

Life is hard with ADD. It can affect every part of your life, private and job life. There is depression aswell quite often and other problems like anxiety and lonliness. I wish these people all the best and a good way to stand this difficult system and society.

I just cried instantaneously watching the first minutes of this video. It gets so lonely when nobody understands you because you hardly understand yourself. All this selfpressure and anxiety is so overwhelming that I started to conclude not being suitable to live a life worth living

Thank you to whoever made this. Right now my life needed this ....

I once read "adhd is like your brain is carrying all this stuff but it has no pockets"

If you landed here in the comment section while the video is playing, because you had trouble listening to the entire bit, you probably have ADHD :)))

For a simple mind like mine, this documentary sheds a light on my ignorance.

I feel like a universe stuffed within a shoebox. Best definition so far. The best one word definition so far is Hochgeschwindigkeitslangsamkeit, which means Highspeedslowness.

Wow what a good Film. I cryed Cause of my Owm ADHD.

It is a great way to spread more information about ADHD. I could disagree also with just a description of not being able to pay attention, but along the video there is plenty of focus on many of the other dysfunctional issues that ADHD affects. It is a great way to start forums for discussion about what defines better a disorder like ADHD, ADHD awareness is always welcome, and ADHD Europe made an amazing job. Thanks for this.

Thank you for whoever made this video my son is 17 adhd and odd I’m struggling with him almost all his life we have done it all family therapy medicine he try some but always stopped them . Now he’s not getting any medication or support as they say he doesn’t want help we can’t help him. I would not even bother to ask him to watch this video. Any advice will be much appreciated.

I am glad to know that I am not alone with this and I am glad that my bf sent this to me and told me to read the comments :)

That was a very interesting video, and it definitely made me understand more about ADHD.

This isn’t shining a light on #ADHD for me. There are some nice bits in it but the prof starting off saying it’s about poor concentration is wrong- It’s the inability to switch attention to the ‘right’ thing and doesn’t even mention hyperfocus which is important in this context. It's also arguable that it’s a disorder. Some would say that it’s a difference that needs to be accepted and supported and not cured like a disease with symptoms. Sure there are meds and strategies and support that help us to ‘fit in’ and be better people that’s up to the individual. Can't get my head around the second prof says that ‘everyone is looking for a cure’. #ADHD cannot be cured its part of our evolution, and one of the reasons we’re here today. We were the original poison berry eaters!!!

unfortunately the entire channel seems to be focused on the negatives. as if it's smth to be ashamed about and as if it's smth that needs to be "fixed". talk about the insanely important people of history who likely had ADHD like Van Gogh, Lincoln, Edison, Einstein, or Andrew Carnegie? or the famous people right now with ADHD like Emma Watson, Johnny Depp, Michael Phelps, or political strategist James Carville? sure you say we should focus more on the positives, but that's towards the end, when a majority of people will have either clicked away or made up their mind already.

What`s killing me is not ADHD but the depression in brought with it.

How can I contribute to the translation in Portuguese? I have ADHD and I am Brazilian.

Im zoning out whilst watching this -- goes to comments -- cant finish reading a full one -- decided to write one whilst watching video-- zones out whilst writing this 😂

I don't know if it's ADHD or not, I talked to my father who is a doctor about some symptoms I started to have in the early two years, I can't read anything like a book or even a paper of literature.. I can't tidy my room and thinking about chores just overwhelms me, even if I try to do some housework it takes really long. People always tell me I'm so slow.. On the emotional side I'm much more socially isolated, I used to feel like I can't relate to people since childhood but now I always feel like I want to be left alone, also I'm irritable sometimes.. I really can't figure this out, everyone tells me you seem fine and my father refused to take me to a psychiatrist, he talked to one and he gave me brain supplements and a herbal stress relief.. I'm 19..I have a one month exchange program next week and I'm afraid I'll screw it up

Same here I can get emotional very very very sooon

@ADHD in Adults Is there any chance to get Polish subtitles, please? That would make a big difference for Polish-speaking ADHD community.

Good video but sorry i don't want to be 'cured' because there isn't really anything wrong with me, i would like to be understood and where appropriate accommodations where society is designed for other brain types. So yes meds might help make life easier for me but i don't need 'cureing' and talking about cureing adhd will only increase the stigma.

i want make life on this mission

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I have adhd too

great!

Im 14 ann i have adhd

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