AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
ADHD Is Not Just a Disease, but a Process
When he wrote the book, I still thought of ADHD as kind of a thing. And now I no longer see anything as an entity. So it's a dynamic process. The whole disease model is false. Not just when it comes to ADD, but virtually everything. What's really going on is some kind of an adaptation to the environment. You can imagine the stress my mother was under with her parents being deported to Auschwitz and my father being enforced labor and the war. Their brain has limited rapporteur of resources with which they respond to overwhelming stress like that.