This is video 5 in my 12-part video series on The Myth of the ADHD Child. In this video I focus on the impact that our changing media landscape has had on the increase in the ADHD diagnoses of children and teens over the past many years. First, I talk about media stimulation, how it's measured (in ''jolts''), how it impacts our nervous system, and how it has speeded up substantially for everyone over the past fifty years. Then I relate this increased media stimulation to the exponential rise in the incidence of ADHD over the past 20-30 years. I talk about the relationship between the neurotransmitter dopamine and media stimulation, and how ADHD is connected to dopamine dysregulation. I share studies that link media exposure to ADHD symptoms. I note the ADHD community's reluctance to ascribe media influences to ADHD, and then suggest that ADHD experts need to recognize that there are bio-cultural dimensions to ADHD that need to be recognized and acted upon. I ask the viewer whether we should keep giving kids more drugs to help them survive this overexposure to media, or instead work to lower their media exposure, and work as advocates for alternatives to mass media such as reading, playing, outdoor experiences and more.
3 окт 2024
