ADHD isn't real (but it IS serious) 

As someone who actually has ADHD and has struggled with it for 39 years, who has just this morning by the way, finished that very book you speak of, ADHD is not a spiritual awakening. How do I know? Because I deal with this every day. Fight or Flight has nothing to do with the neurons in my brain firing off ten thousand times a second splitting my focus seven different ways to Mars. Like, okay, let me give you an example. I am going to ask you to remember five things. While I'm asking you to do that, at the same time, I will also give you a bunch of useless facts that have no relevance or meaning to anything. While that's going on, I'm going to have a video playing in the background that you're really interested in. Oh? Have you taken a notice of my shirt that perhaps has an image you like? Where have you seen that image before? Was that image of a TV show you like? Hey, do you remember that one time that character on that show did that thing? Hey, I kind of wish I was doing that thing right now. Now...what were the five things I said? Perhaps you can sit through it and remember them all despite the distractions and faulty information, and if you can, awesome! However, the scenario I just described is a typical day in my head. Now couple that with ADHD people having really bad short term memory at times, and I'd be lucky if I caught ONE of those things. This is nowhere near spiritual awakening. Can you overcome it with hard work? Yes, and I think Mr. Tollie's book is a very good read. It has definitely helped me and I would surely recommend it to others. However, it is very disingenuous and dishonest to say ADHD isn't real and hide behind "spiritual enlightenment". Please don't invaildate people for your spiritual beliefs. Thank you.

I have started my spiritual journey long time ago, approximately 15 years ago. Lived in Amazonia, did master plant dietas and multiple Ayahuasca ceremonies. I know my traumas and my shadow. They have nothing to do with my ADHD. I still have ADHD and always will. You have really no clue about how dopamine works .

Astonished at the arrogance and projection it takes to purport to be spiritually awakened and to then throw out a reductive take like this thinking you've got the key to a mental condition that is well researched, well documented, and which has a treatment that is also well-researched and proven to help. ADHD correlates with lowered quality of health, relationships, self-image, education and career to name just a few things that individuals with ADHD may suffer from. And then to pile on the already steep stigma of using medication to treat it. Your take makes the world a little bit worse for people struggling with ADHD. Also the condition is not a trend, there are a lot of folks who suffer from it and the only thing trending is increasing awareness and open discussions of neurodiverse traits.

As a person who has lived with ADHD his whole life I know for a fact you obviously have zero clue of what you are talking about.

If that were true then you'd think it would stop at some point? But it has not stopped since I was a child. I meditate EVERY morning, do yoga, therapy etc. I still struggle with it, even if it does help...

This is NOT a psychotherapist. He did a therapeutic counseling course! And he seems to use that to spread his religious pseudoscience!

No, that is incorrect assumption. Trust the person and their descriptions of their condition. I don't have too high self-esteem, I'm pretty anxious person and so on. If your assumption is correct, that mean that I should display characteristic of ADHD, but I'm exact opposite. My thought process is slow and very structural. When I left to myself and my thoughts I feel most calm I can. When i forced to switch quickly between tasks my brain just blanks and I can't do anything, unlike ADHD people, who usually like fast-paced jobs and environments. So it's not just awareness of you own thoughts and feelings, some people really struggle with long term focus and they can't do much about it.

One thing more trendy than ADHD is trauma. Everybody is suffering from trauma and ADHD. Get off tictoc and you'll be cured.

Why don’t you say that you just don’t know? You don’t know. And you know that you don’t know so you could just say that. Knowing that you don’t know is far more of a spiritual awakening.

Nothing you said is backed by robust evidence. But thank you for bothering to try to say something.

You're talking nonsense

I’m pretty sure those with ADHD have physically smaller frontal lobes and delayed growth in this brain area. Could be wrong but I think while most people’s brains are ‘fully developed’ by 25, ADHD peoples aren’t developed until 30

Videos by ignorant people talking because they can are dangerous. This is absolute trash.

Absolute nonsense. ADHD is not some superpower, or spiritual awakening or trauma... trauma is a side product from the many things we hear and have internalised about ourselves over the years. It can exaccerbate things but that does not make it the condition. Its something you develop in childhood and the current concensus is it does not develop in adulthood. You've likely been this way away since you can remember even if it took you until your 30s (like me) to put the puzzle pieces together. but never had the knowledge or awareness that these struggles might not just be some character flaw. Not surprising since ADHD was only first diagnosable in children since 2008 and Adults since 2014 in the UK. Btw its not a mental illness, it's a developmental disorder - this demonstrates how uninformed this creator is. Message to OP: Stop with the ridiculous grand narratives. This is medical misinformation and you're essentially huffing your own farts and blowing them back in our faces. The internet has given a platform to far too many arm chair theorists. Touch grass. Heres some real advice. If you believe you have ADHD, get evaluated by a medical professional. If you can afford to, go private. I waited 18 months on the NHS. I'm now medicated and it has drastically improved where I'm at, but it's not a panacea, try to seek therapy as well. Oh and ignore psuedoscientific unfalsifiable claims from someone championing "enlightened" gurus.

Thanks for your input

Guys only trust ADHD advice from someone who is a professional because, lol, this dude is a loser, i am 40 in India, have been told I am lazy and a quitter all my life, I have blamed myself for failing school, profession, and relationships throughout. on a whim, I went to a neuropsychiatrist in my city only to be diagnosed with ADHD, Dyslexia & Social disorders. I am on Counselling & Meds and I am doing way better in the last 2 months than my entire life and you say it's not real.

Finnaly someone is talking about it, thanks