Doctor REACTS To Family Guy | Psychiatrist Analyzes Stewie's ADHD | Dr Elliott 

Knew someone who found out he had ADHD when he took Adderall illicitly. Rather than get him high, it just made him feel more stable than he could ever remember. He found out he was diagnosed with ADHD as a child but his mom felt it was an over diagnosis and he didn't need medication. Once he got an updated diagnosis and adequate dose of medication, he was able to get his GED, go to college, and his whole life has improved.

My sister got diagnosed with ADHD about 10 years before I did because she was more hyperactive and had a lot more trouble with school. Me on the other hand, I did pretty well in school despite being a huge daydreamer and constant procrastinator. It wasn't until I was an adult, out of school, when I realized I had so much trouble with executive function and I basically had to beg my doctors to take my concerns seriously. I'm basically the poster child for inattentive ADHD and I didn't get diagnosed (or even realize it) until I was about 28.

"Sorry if you're adhd and I'm part of your problem now" 😂 Well, I actually have been up watching you when I should have been trying to sleep, but since you treat my diagnosis with respect and helps destigmatise it you are forgiven! ❤

As a woman I only recently got diagnosed at 23 while a childhood friend of mine (male) got diagnosed in primary school even tho we attended the same class 🙃 and 23 is relatively early for women. They usually get diagnosed after 30 and by this point we have collected all these comorbidities (depression, addiction etc.). Fun life.

My parents refused to beleive I had ADHD, chosing instead to beleive I was an defiant little brat. I stopped "ignoring" them after I had surgery to correct my hearing (I was deaf). Problem solved! As an adult a friend pointed out that it was abnormal to be so frustrated with mundane tasks that I ended up in tears. Attention Deficit Disorder: inattentive type, so I was not disruptive (or male) enough to get help as a child. The strangest part of going on the medication was learning I capable of feeling joy.

My kids school started to suspect she had ADHD in kindergarten. But I insisted we “give her time” and “try everything else” before medication. After years of struggle and falling behind her paediatrician asked why I was so resistant to drugs. I said that I knew she was struggling in school but I love her and I didn’t want her personality to change. Her paediatrician reassured me that wouldn’t happen. We put her on meds and it drastically changed her life for the better. I think portrayals like Stewie are really detrimental. They create fear, that if you put your kid on meds you’re going to turn them into a zombie. In my experience that didn’t happen. My kid is the same bright creative person she was before.

I was diagnosed aged 27 and had to get my primary school reports that thankfully still existed. The psychiatrist looked through them and immediately said yes I have it

I’d say that Doctor is more taking the piss out of the way others perceive ADHD than suggesting it doesn’t exist

I’m a 31 y/o female that was luckily diagnosed at ~10 y/o. The meds I take are life saving, and I may have started them too young, but I’ve always been open to alternatives. I think I’ve only gone through two different meds for it, but the ones I have now work perfectly for me. I already had other diagnosed disabilities growing up and went to very small schools so I think that’s why I was diagnosed so quickly. My mom teaches first grade (6-7 y/o) and she and the parents are excellent on picking up on the signs now, especially with girls. My mom basically ruined a book called “Dr. Mom” while I was growing up looking for answers so I’m so thankful the internet has amazing people to help parents ❤️

oooooh this episode brought me back to the late 90s early 00s when I was diagnosed with ADD (before they grouped them together) and had every single person tell me that ADHD and ADD aren't real and doctors just over medicate kids who are being annoying kids, so I didn't take meds until well after graduation and my school performance from K-12 was ABYSMAL because I just could not figure out how to focus or start things, and teachers just said crap like "I wish she would just try" while I'm over here trying my hardest aaaaaAAAAAA

As someone who suffers from ADHD (and am in fact treated [successfully] with stimulant medications), the kind of mis-portrayal of what ADHD is like and the abuse of people with the medications really is one of my pet peeves. It also makes it a lot harder for me to receive proper treatment due to government regulations that were made for people who due abuse it.

Gidday Dr Elliott! As someone with ADHD I'd like to say I found this video very informative! To me it's quite interesting that Family Guy (of all sources) had such a robust take on the complexities of ADHD medication. Especially while at the same time (by my interpretation) belittling the act of providing medical assistance for attention conditions in the first place! Love your work, keep sharing your invaluable knowledge! It means a lot :)

After it being a long-running joke that I had ADHD, my childhood best friend was diagnosed with ADD. He came to school and said "If I have ADD, you DEFINITELY have ADHD". I was officially diagnosed at 18, and the difficulty I could have been spared up to that point took some time to grieve over. I was always a 100%/0% student, and with executive function my post-secondary average was over 90%. For me, meds at a low point and with less on the weekends lets me find the right balance. As my Doctor said, if I had diabetes I wouldn't feel shame about taking insulin. Ain't no shame in the medicine game - Pete Davidson

At uni, I struggled with motivation and executive function to the point where I was failing to complete assignments and flunking out. My then-girlfriend suggested I get tested for ADHD. I went to the campus clinic and asked to be tested, and they gave me a huge survey to fill out; then I sat down with the psychologist and psychiatrist and had a conversation (I guess technically an interview?). At the end of it, he looked at me and went, "you had no trouble filling out this form quietly and sitting still for it for 30 minutes. We've been talking for another 30 minutes while I've been changing the subject every minute or so, and you've had no trouble following along and keeping focused. You don't have ADHD. But between the answers you provided on the survey, and what I've heard from you today, I'm concerned you have a pretty severe anxiety disorder, and that may be causing the symptoms you're noticing." TL;DR: I thought I had ADHD, turns out I'm just an anxious and depressed mess, so... yay for varying forms of broken brains? 🤷‍♂

I was lucky to be diagnosed early as an afab person (despite knowing I’m trans now) as I was diagnosed with ADHD at seven. To be fair my other learning disability wasn’t diagnosed until a couple years ago when I was twenty, but looking back both affected the way I interacted with the world. Admittedly I didn’t know what I was diagnosed with initially until I was fifteen, because my parents assumed that I didn’t need to know specifics about it, and I learned I had it from a teacher. Which sucks, come to think of it, but I knew from an early age that I had a learning disability, not only because of the trouble I was having with peers, but keeping on task, etc, in class. I think you actually treat it in a way that doesn’t contribute to negative stereotypes about ADHD and I appreciate that

not me pausing this and flicking to one of the other 4 youtube tabs i have open right as you said "starting things, not finishing them"

Me, ADHD AF, watching this too late at night before work tomorrow Dr Elliott "sorry if you're ADHD and I'm part of the problem now" Me "Current me forgives you, but I can't guarantee that tomorrow morning me wont retract that statement"

I was pretty late DX, at 31 I think. It was such a relief. Unfortunately before I finally got assessed, I was straight up ridiculed but quite a few doctors. I am afraid that is not all that uncommon. Fortunately, I am with a good psychiatrist right now. Finally.

In my opinion, coming from someone who has spent some time in a psych ward where literally everyone was diagnosed with ADHD and given Ritalin, just for convenience's sake, I feel like ADHD is, at the same time overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed. Oftentimes those who suffer in silence don't get the help they need while "difficult" children are simply labeled ADHD and then given medication to make them easier to handle. I've had buddies go their whole life wondering why the couldn't get their life under control until they were finally diagnosed with ADHD in their mid-20s, while other friends of mine were given Ritalin all throughout Middle and High School only to find out that their difficulties regarding concentration and getting things done were caused by anxiety, depression or OCD rather than ADHD. The problem is: ADHD is often diagnosed by how much that person is "bothering" others, and not by how they feel on the inside themselves. That's why, I think: ADHD is overdiagnosed AND underdiagnosed.

A frustrating point (besides the ADHD = "physically hyperactive boy with bad grades" stereotype) is that it feels like only stimulant medications are shown. Where I live (Japan), most stimulant drugs for ADHD are illegal. We do have Concerta, but non-stimulant atomoxetine and guanfacine seem to be heavily preferred. There have been deportations for people bringing Adderall or similar from overseas.

ADHD meds always always always put me to sleep, and I’ve tried a few. I already had severe hypersomnia (which has reduced by a lot, but I was sleeping 120 hrs a week at peak; now I average closer to 66) so sleeping more was not an option. (Yes, I have other chronic illnesses that surely contributed and no, the sleep could not be explained by depression alone. I spent about 7 years sleeping my life away).

I was diagnosed young and the meds really help me get my thoughts in order so I actually do things instead of daydreaming or whatever, I'm the same person but able to do things I normally find really challenging. If I wasn't also autistic then I think my medication could help me get far in life, instead the autistic stuff sticks around even when the adhd is more mellow. Representations like Stewie with this medication holds people back from medicating kids with true adhd who could benefit from having a little more order in their heads. It's not just for if you're bouncing off the walls

A coworker bought Adderall meds once because she'd been horribly sick and needed to catch up on her work. She took it, it worked, BUT she felt so hyper and so energized it was frightening. She got her work done for that night and never took it again.

I am a person with learning disabilities. I am Dsylexic and Dsygraphic, and as such have problems with reading and writing. Unfortunately, due to a combination of environment factors, I was labelled as a problem child by my public school's administration and there was a push to medicate me as if I had adhd. Thankfully, that didn't happen, but medicating a child just to get them to sit down and shut up does happen. As an adult, one of my concerns is that child who need help with their disabilities or problems at home are just being drugged out because of either bad or overworked teachers. I know that there are kids who do have ADHD and will benefit from having the proper medication, and they should be the ones getting it, but there are other kids with other problems who need different supports and they should be receiving them as well.

I'm obsessed with your channel recently. Handsome as hell, smart, and emotionally aware. Love your channel and videos man

My son takes Ritalin for his ADHD. He only takes it during the school year instead of year round. At night he takes melatonin at night to help with falling asleep. I was hesitant about the medication at first but it really has helped him. He went from getting in trouble constantly to making honor roll.

3:59 For my English class this year, we actually just finished a research project a few weeks ago in which we could choose a controversial topic of our choosing and take a side on it and write about it, with 3 arguments and 2 counterarguments in which you prove the counterarguments wrong. My topic was actually "Is ADHD overdiagnosed?" I asked my teacher to make an exception for me; I wanted to give merit to both sides of the argument, with my main argument being that ADHD is actually severely underdiagnosed instead, while also giving merit to the arguments regarding why ADHD would be overdiagnosed.

A family guy suggestion for your reaction is Season 16 Ep 12 titled "Send in Stewie please." It would be really interesting to know what you think of stewie in therapy especially the transference and countertransference

As usual, awesome video. Family Guy really delivered a good base for this very interesting and complicated topic. It's always nice to learn more, and in this case about how ADHD and its medication works. I don't have to deal with ADHD myself nor in my environment, but it's one of the likely most famous issues where people confuse some things. All medical conditions and diseases (physical or mental) have a list of possible symptoms. Not every person showing some of these necessarily has the condition. Not everyone with the conditions displays all the symptoms. Yes, and sometimes the medication is more conveniant for the caregiver/surroundings than useful for the patient. (similar with sleeping pills in hospitals/retirement homes or tranquilizers sometimes (THAT I experienced myself. Being extremely distressed (not agressive or anything) over bad news in a psychiatric juvenile unit and being threatened to be given lorazepam to calm down - and being less challenging. I was not the only one though. The "hard to parent" kids acting out: lorazepam)...) I love how you tackle this. Thank you

Interrupting the "Ranking EVERY Family Guy Episode Ever" to watch Dr. Elliott react to an episode from Family Guy. Yeehaw!

I’m so confused about my ADHD diagnosis. I mean, it makes sense that I have it in ways, and I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist with a QB test, but My result was hyperactive/impulsive type. This is weird, because I am a pretty chill person that isn’t usually bouncing off the walls, and I’ve always been able to pay attention and follow rules well. I am however late to pretty much everything despite my best efforts (like setting multiple alarms/timers), and I get really jittery and flustered and fidgety in social situations, and can be loud and maybe obnoxious at a party when I’m comfortable. So I think my social anxiety growing up has hidden it.

I'm a big fan of trying to explore different education or development structures, as well as focuses of expression or knowledge retention, before attempting medication. Do we ask if the situation, environment, or practices with ADHD children or adults are inconsistent with their needs or if we're trying to prescribe them to social standards at a detriment?

treating with drugs or not make sure the child gets some sort of help. I was diagnosed in the 1st grade my parents didn't like the effects of Ritalin and assumed I a 1st grader diagnosed with not paying attention knew what was going on. no direct attempt was made to address my problems after that. it was not mentioned again until I self diagnosed as adult failing out of college. medication really turned things around. I'm not arguing for medication specifically just working to address the problems associated with add instead of ignoring them

Not me having ADHD and watching this at 620 in the morning after a night shift and getting called out 🤣

I’d love a video by you on Autism and ADHD co-occurring - I’m a late diagnosed AuDHDer and there’s not a lot of scientific information on the two co-occurring :)

This is why I am appalled that in the state of Washington it is legal for schools to medicate your children without informing the parents.

I went for grief counselling and got told to consider looking into Attention deficit disorder I didn't pursue it because it didn't feel the right time.

My 10 year old has ADHD and has also made it into a gifted and talented program. He needs medication to function at school, but I don't tend to give it outside of school. Only if we're going to be in a situation that is difficult on his coping skills.

I fully believe that ADHD is a real thing, but absolutely everybody around me is coming out with it, and every little slight personality trait is getting absorbed into the diagnosis, and now there is a push on within the social group to label everybody else as also having ADHD Because we do sometimes forget things, or walk into a room and forget why we were there, or sometimes find things hard to complete. There is complete levels to all of this stuff. But it’s alarming how much recruitment seems to be going on by people recently diagnosed. It’s also getting used as a blanket excuse for rude or annoying behaviour which has become more prevalent since the diagnosis, I’m empathetic to a point, but very much, to a point!

It’s should be said, yes ADHD is over diagnosed and over treated, but it’s not just some excuse people are using to medicate their kids into compliance, for me it was an actual risk to my life, I had such poor impulse control that I would just run into the street in front of cars and got hit by cars multiple times before being put on stimulants. And then everyone found out how smart I was, before then I was completely incapable of participating in class, I got in trouble every day and couldn’t understand why because from my perspective I wasn’t doing any of this on purpose it just kept happening and I couldn’t stop it.

It took me doing my dissertation on the underdiagnosis of adhd in Women for me to realise I had adhd. My GP wouldn't refer me because I was getting good grades at university. I had always done well academically which was often used to dismiss me when I asked for support. I was ready to give up again but my friends convinced me to at least try another GP. I saw a different GP who actually listened and managed to get referred. It took 2 years for a diagnosis, at my appointment my psychiatrist was surprised no one around me had noticed. Now on medication at 22, my mental health is far better, I'm doing better on my doctorate and I've finally been able to pass my driving test. The biggest difference I noticed was that my brain was quiet like someone had hit the noise cancelling on my brain. Everything became much easier to manage.

I'm not sure if I'm adhd, but I kinda diagnosed myself with autism, or being on the spectrum, much later in life. Looking back on my childhood, I recognised a lot of autistic and maybe also some adhd traits, but I just got really good, really fast at masking. Plus autism used to have a rather narrow definition (that we knew) - like, really non-functional, non-verbal children or something like that - and so nobody thought to have me tested or give me a diagnosis. I am not sure if I should try to get diagnosed now as an adult. A part of me thinks it's pointless, but I do see that there are areas in my life that suffer because of those autistic traits and it makes me wonder if a diagnosis and therapy might not improve my life... But idk, it seems complicated to unravel all the stuff under the mask. Anyway, just sharing my experience.

You should react to episode 5 of moon knight “Asylum” I feel like there’s a lot of stuff in there you could talk about, also I’ve been watching your stuff non stop for a bit now, you’ve helped me understand psychiatry a lot more as it’s one of the topics I’m really interested in, thank you

...(also told someone, recently, I'm not very convinced "attention deficit" is a proper prognosis for those with highly active cognitive patterns)...

Not you calling me out for staying up all night again instead of sleeping when I have uni tomorrow

Lol, watching this while I should be sleeping but my mind is in 500 places, love my ADHD

My brother was erroneously diagnosed as having ADD because of the inattentiveness and acting out in class - they did not account for the fact that one of our grandfathers had recently passed away.

(starting at 1:58) i’ve never agreed with a statement faster than i agreed with this lol

Well i mean if it does make it harder for others to learn than it should at least be looked at

In America there is Aderall (stimulant)

So so hurt & angry that my teachers didn't pick up my (what to me now) obvious forgetfulness, memory problems, difficulty with maths and all the things of ADHD Inattentive subtype. I'll be 28 soon & I just got my diagnosis this year. Meds & therapy have been LIFECHANGING. I'm still grieving.

I love the analyses of media. I commented it on a older episode of yours, but here you may see it: Would you consider commenting on Arkham Asylum doctors in Batman media? Games, movies, or maybe some cartoons? Telltale Batman has a lot about arkham, also cartoons with Harley Quinn.

As a person with adhd I'm always worry of academics and people who want to give an adhd diagnosis to kids. Mostly as a person with adhd I can recognize key behaviors and honestly most of the time they're jsut being kids. Meaning little young people with lots of energy being pent up ina classroom for 8 to 9 hrs a day and told to sit still and watch people. It doesn't work and honestly teachers aren't anywhere near trained to handle children anymore. Most are bluntly wanting to act as amateur psychologists rather than learning how children act and seeing how to respond. I personally am also early of giving adderall or any other meds to adhd kids simply because they need to learn how to live with it without the meds. Honestly people think adhd is jsut take a pill and it's done without learning habits to slowly learn to live with the condition and have the medication as a plus. It's always a struggle to teach people these things and honestly I worry for children who don't have parents ready to learn about how best to live with adhd.

also stewie has been able to speak, to the dog at least, since before being born, so that has to have had some impact

When i was put on ahdh meds(i dont remember which) i refused them because it made me feel like a zombie

I mean obviously they where intentionally making fun of how quickly people were getting prescribed Ritalin in the 90s before making certain that they had a condition that could benefit from it without any sort of process of elimination making sure it wasn't something else with similar physical displays, or at least that is how it looked to the average person, but the same thing could be said about a lot of health issues where screening has improved over time including things like cancer where it looks like cancer numbers have risen but in reality it is just the fact it is getting diagnosed way earlier because of better screening. The issue comes though with the better screening what is the appropriate time to react because some things exist but don't continue to develop and so never become a problem later and so if you start treating too early you could be treating for zero reason. For example you could have say an early stage of Thyroid cancer that isn't giving you any issues or symptoms but it gets noticed when you are doing a CT scan of your chest and lower neck because you are having breathing issues and nothing is showing up in xrays. Which you can choose to treat that right away having surgery, dealing with radioactive iodine and having to take hormone replacement medication every day for the rest of your life or you can choose to do nothing, maybe just keep an eye on it and only act if symptoms start to immerge and you can go 30 years before it actually starts to become an issue saving you 30 years of having to take drugs daily. With ADD/ADHD in the 90s it definitely seemed like anyone who wasn't 100% average was diagnosed with it without actually seeing if maybe other things are causing similar symptoms or even just realizing that some kids are just naturally more active than others. That may have just been a case of better detection, but it still has the issue of "when is the right time to treat the issue, and when is the right time to just monitor and watch before taking any actions?"

I had almost forgotten how much I hate Family Guy and why, so thanks for that.

Van Gogh killed himself. Maybe we would’ve gotten more paintings if he had more support around him.

I think i might have adhd and ive struggled all my life with things in and out of school but im really scared to persue a diagnosis as im a really nervous person who likes to people please a lot and therefore comes across as really quiet and im also of the female sex (im genderfluid tho) so im worried someone will look at me, see that im quiet and see that im a certain gender and just dismiss my concerns and not take me seriously. This is a very real concern i have and it sucks.

I'm 27 and I was diagnosed at the age of 7 and I've been on medication ever since. I have SEVERE ADHD, I'm pretty much textbook. I'll joke that if you looked up the definition of ADHD you'll find my name as a prime example. Whenever I tell someone I have ADHD, exactly zero people have been surprised. I challenge anyone who doesn't believe it exists to hang out with me for three days and I guarantee they will believe... and I'm medicated with 40mg of act amphetamine... I'm on that high of a dose and I'm still a prime example

That is my fave family guy episode 😭😭

Absolutely love your videos! Think it would be great to see you react to an episode of Ted Lasso! (You’ll get over them calling it soccer I promise) ❤

Elliot you definitely need to react to the psychiatrist scenes from After Life. The season 2 compilation.

This is making me think, I should get checked .

Excuse me sir... "Van Goff"? (7:01)

Could brian being an alcoholic possibly be the reason for his response?

I think i have adhd i have all the things you sad, like it is very hard for me to focus, i made a lot of mistakes, it was very hard for me to study for university and also graduating, it causes a lot of problems for me at work too i think i should use some medication

I don’t know, my wife and I used to be prescribed vyvanse. The family guy portrayal is obviously exaggerated for comedy but I acted like Brian and my wife acted like stewie.

I would love to hear your take on the people of N Korea or even the dictator. How does one live under that much repression?

Could you react to Chicago med?

You should review Moon Knight next!

handsome. And that accent. Also, your content is great ;)

Have you seen a TV show Calfat on netflix

Stewie's reaction to the medication is way off. I have ADHD and stimulants quieten my brain and make me feel relaxed, but not high. You know noise cancelling headphones? Stimulants are like thought cancelling brain.... Phones for people with ADHD.

It's unrelated but you look cute af. Love your videos, keep well 💜

Grey’s anatomy!

Iv been on concerta for a yr now I sleep better n seen this before n found it halerious.. it definitely dosnt make you feel high if you definitely have adhd lol 😆

Family guy is so funny 😅and please react more of family guy😅

Oh don't worry, if I'm up all night watching videos it's because of my brain, not because of you. But it would help if you tried being a bit more boring and sleep-inducing to watch. Being interesting is not conducive to sleep.

If someone already had ADHD and took a higher dose of their meds, could that cause mania?

If it helps i´m ok with it but it´s still a Drug you´re giving kids. It´s basically the same as amphetamine.