BOYS ADRIFT: WHY ADHD IS DEFINITELY OVERDIAGNOSED is a powerful episode with Dr. Leonard Sax, author of 'Boys Adrift', 'Girls on the Edge', 'Why Gender matters' and 'The Collapse of parenting'. We talked about the reasons for the overdiagnosis of children with ADHD and about the type of medications that have harmful longterm effects on children's motivation center in the brain (nucleus accumbens). Most experts are not aware of the studies that clearly show that children medicated with methamphetamines (Adderall, Dexedrine, Focalin) show a higher lack of motivation in the long term than children medicated with methylphenidates such as Concerta, Focalin or Quillivant. Oh, and we also talked about the financial ties that many ADHD experts have to pharmaceutical companies, especially institutions such as Harvard Medical School... I think you'll like this episode very much so! Dr. Sax earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in five semesters at the age of 19. He then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both his PhD in psychology, and his MD. Next he did a 3-year residency in family practice at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster Pennsylvania. In 1990, he established a family practice in Montgomery County Maryland, just outside Washington DC. He provided care for children and adults in Montgomery County for more than 18 years. He took a 5-year sabbatical, 2008 to 2013, to devote himself full-time to visiting schools and communities, and to writing. He returned to clinical practice in 2013 near his home in Chester County, Pennsylvania, while continuing to lead workshops and give keynotes based on his visits to more than 460 communities over the past 20 years.   Dr. Sax has led workshops and given keynotes not only all across North America – from California to Nova Scotia and from Alaska to Florida – but also in Australia, Bermuda, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. For more information on Dr. Sax and his work, please visit https://www.leonardsax.com 'Boys Adrift' on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Adrift-Epidemic-Unmotivated-Underachieving/dp/0465040829/ For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

WHY NOT TO USE ADHD AS AN EXCUSE is an episode that looks at the notion that some people use having ADHD as an excuse to explain why they fall short of being a well-functioning person... "Oh, it's my ADHD [that had me be late, forget my homework, etc.]. Parents often make excuses for their children when in public. Why could this be not only not useful, but also harmful for the future of a child's self esteem and self worth... Listen in and hear for yourself why what we're saying definitely has some legs... For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

YOUR CHILD'S BRAIN IS NOT A FERRARI ENGINE is an episode that dissects the silly and surface level metaphors that parents hear over and over again, attempting to explain to them what their [ADHD] child's brain is like. We call BS on this. Here is a link to the site of the creator of such metaphor, Dr. Hallowell'. https://drhallowell.com/2019/04/05/your-adhd-brain-is-a-ferrari/ Even though he might mean well with this metaphor, it's doing more harm than good. Don't believe it? Listen in and hear for your self. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

THE DISORDER FORMERLY KNOW AS... is an episode that not only explains that our movement's name is a declaration - much like the declaration of independence was - but that it's 110% possible that in 5-10 years, ADHD will be over! What do I mean by that? Well, listen in for yourself to see what I tell people who confront us by saying "ADHD is not over and it will never be over", or "You don't know what you're talking about..." It is very common that mental disorders changed names over time. ADHD is a good example of that. In 1902, British pediatrician Sir George Still described these symptoms as “an abnormal defect of moral control in children”. He found that some affected children could not control their behavior the way a typical child would, but they were still intelligent. The APA issued the first “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (DSM) in 1952. This manual listed all of the recognized mental disorders. It also included known causes, risk factors, and treatments for each condition. Doctors still use an updated version today. The APA did not recognize ADHD in the first edition. A second DSM was published in 1968. This edition included "hyperkinetic impulse disorder" for the first time. The APA released a third edition of the DSM (DSM-III) in 1980. They changed the name of the disorder from "hyperkinetic impulse disorder" to "attention deficit disorder" (ADD). Scientists believed hyperactivity was not a common symptom of the disorder. This listing created two subtypes of ADD: ADD with hyperactivity, and ADD without hyperactivity. As you can tell, several versions of what we now know as ADHD were at some point in history 'over'... so, it's totally possible that ADHD will be over soon. We give it 5-10 years max! Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/history#1955 For more information on our podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

HEALING ADHD : IT'S AN INSIDE JOB is an exploration of why outsourcing the healing of mental disorders is not effective. The only way to truly 'heal' the ADHD behaviors of our children is to look inside... inside the family, inside the parents, and inside our children's world. Only when we turn inward can we truly bring wholesomeness to our children. As a matter of fact, it's the only responsible thing to do. Outsourcing the healing is literally 'irresponsible'... as in 'not responding powerfully and with sovereignty to the situation. Listen in and hear for yourself what there is to do, should you want to truly heal your child's behaviors as a result of the friction in her or his environment. For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

DAD ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER is a very powerful episode with Dr. Peter Breggin MD, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former Consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health who has been called “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his many decades of successful efforts to reform the mental health field. His work provides the foundation for modern criticism of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs and leads the way in promoting more caring and effective therapies. His research and educational projects have brought about major changes in the FDA-approved ‘Full Prescribing Information' or labels for dozens of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs. He continues to educate the public and professions about the tragic psychiatric drugging of America’s children. Dr. Breggin has authored dozens of scientific articles and more than twenty books, including “The Ritalin Fact Book”, “Talking back to Ritalin” and the bestseller Toxic Psychiatry. As a medical-legal expert, Dr. Breggin has unprecedented and unique knowledge about how the pharmaceutical industry too often commits fraud in researching and marketing psychiatric drugs. Most recently, Dr. Breggin has turned his attention to the misuse of the science surrounding COVID-19 and its origins in what he calls "global predators."  Dr. Breggin and his wife Ginger R. Breggin have written a new book, COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey. For more information on Dr. Peter Breggin MD, please visit https://breggin.com For more information on SPAC!, visit https://breggin.com/spac-resources-page/

YOU CANNOT 'HAVE' ADHD is a powerful episode with Sami Timimi, a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in the National Health Service in Lincolnshire and a Visiting Professor of Child Psychiatry and Mental Health Improvement at the University of Lincoln, in the UK. Sami writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and childhood and has published over a hundred and thirty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, therapy, mental health services, and culture. He has authored 6 books including 'Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour', 'ADHD and the Role of Culture' co-edited 4 books including, with Jonathan Leo, 'Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture'. His latest book, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them, is available in serialized form on the Mad in America website as well as for purchase on Amazon. In 2004, Sami Timimi spearheaded and co-endorsed the creation of “A Critique of the International Consensus Statement on ADHD, essentially the rebuttal of such statement lead by Russell Barkley.
 For more information on Sami Timimi, please visit https://www.samitimimi.co.uk His books: https://www.samitimimi.co.uk/patient-stories To read the 'International Consensus Statement on ADHD', please visit http://russellbarkley.org/factsheets/Consensus2002.pdf For Sami Timimi and his team's rebuttal on the above consensus, please visit http://www.brown.uk.com/diagnosis/timimi.pdf For more information on this podcast and the movement, please visit www.adhdisover.com

THE DIAGNOSIS SURVIVAL GUIDE is an in-depth episode on how parents can at first 'survive' the initial [ADHD] diagnosis of their child, especially if they're open-minded enough to not jump into camp 'coping' right away. It takes an emotionally intelligent parent to sit with the impact, feel the emotions and then start doing the type of research that includes both sides of the debate. Listen in for your self and if you like the episode, feel free to share it with a friend or family member that might need to hear this at this time in their lives... For more information on this podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com For more info on our support partner, visit www.bokusuperfood.com

ADHD & ADDICTION is a short episode around the myth that [unmedicated] children with ADHD will most likely end up 'self-medicating later in life... that is simply not true and there are loads of studies and scientific evidence out there that refutes those claims. Yet parents are still told so. Why? Addicts are not addicts because they're addicts. People with ADHD don't have ADHD because of ADHD. Curious? Listen in and hear for yourself what's so around ADHD & Addiction. For more information on our podcast, please visit www.adhdisover.com

MIND HEALTH 360 is the latest episode with my guest Kirkland Newman - an Anglo-American journalist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, who specializes in integrative mental health.  Kirkland founded and runs the successful integrative mental health website, MindHealth360, which provides free information and resources on integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry to those suffering from mental health issues, their friends, their families, and to health practitioners worldwide. 

She also founded and hosts The MindHealth360 Show, which interviews leading integrative mental health practitioners from around the world.  In this episode, Kirkland and I will discuss what ADHD actually is, her own family’s experience with ADHD, some of the myths surrounding ADHD, the most effective alternative treatments currently available, and what parents can do to steer away from the medication centric narrative around ADHD. For more information on Kirkland Newman and MindHealth360, please visit https://www.mindhealth360.com For more information on our podcast, go to www.adhdisover.com For more info on our support partner, visit www.bokusuperfood.com