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This demagoguing of psychiatric issues should frighten everyone, and it is pervasive on the Internet given the simplicity of the message. Patients experiencing RSD would almost certainly benefit from psychotherapy to help manage co-morbid disorders or even simply as supportive care, but knowing that approach may not effectively treat RSD directly is critical information.

I do agree that we need better conceptions of ADHD. Dr Macleod, Although I appreciate your candor in your commentary on the veracity and credibility of Dr. He neither expressly states so nor even uses the word in his entire piece. I further contend that what he is trying to say, based on the context, is that patients many times feel relief when told that there is educated consensus that what they have been suffering from their entire lives is a result of physiology and genetics, as opposed to something that could have been avoided had circumstances of their upbringing and influences been different: that they had not missed out on an opportunity to avoid what many times has caused severe unhappiness in their lives through lack of due dilligence on their part.

You also mention several times that he presents his conclusions with no accompanying evidence. But this does not seem to be an appropriate forum to present an argument in that form, with pages of references longer than the article itself. The intended audience of this article seems to be lay people with loved ones whom, or even themselves, suffer from the symptoms of RSD and not those trained in evidence based practice.

Are you sure that Dr Dodson just woke up one morning and decided to pull these arguments out of his… yeah…? What is truly confounding me is that you also say that Dr Dodson is advertising new uses for old medications that are not used for ADHD. Clonidine is second or third line I believe, and I myself was trained in its use during my training. Admittedly my current practice is in vascular and interventional neurology, with little to no exposure to patients with ADHD as their chief complaint, but your assertion that these medications are not used to treat ADHD is baseless.

I can not think of anything that a physician would gain from advocating for the use of drugs of which the patents have long since expired, other than mitigating the suffering of their patients. I can understand that you may have inherent bias when someone suggests greater efficacy of an approach to a problem over the methodology that you may practice. I find myself suffering from that exact bias when I hear Dr Oz advocating for the use of some exotic potion collected from the sweat glands of pigmy walruses during a full moon over conventional therapeutics.

Hook a brother up then because the neurosurgeons do some of the same things that I do but get paid three times as much. No lies. I would appreciate any feedback you would have. But I still feel the need to emphasize one thing.

How quickly you descend into personal attack. So please just be quiet and go away. Obviously not a single person here is happy with your input. Bruce, what degree do you have? Thank you for this article. I did not do well in school. My parents moved, so that I could attend high school where there were a lot of Jewish girls and make friends with them. I am Jewish. They were snotty bitches. A lot of them became friendly in the early years, because they grew up in certain neighborhoods, went through elementary, middle and high school together.

I was a Hebrew School drop out. At age 17, my parents took me to a neurologist, child psychologist and child psychiatrist. College was out of the question. I had trouble focusing,listening and paying attention. Then, how come my GPA was 1. All I can remember about the psychologist is her saying that I had no motor and cognitive skills. I said that one could easily break.

The tasks were difficult. My evaluations were far from perfect. His IQ was I am a failure, who is weak and gets taken advantage of. You are not crazy.

My husband says that a lot and it breaks my heart. He is an amazing person! I do know that our close relationship with Christ has been the absolute number one thing that helps my husband know that he is not alone. My husband is very smart in physics but he did not do well in school so he was never able to achieve his full potential.

Please find a good therapist, support group and a friend. One more thing. My parents rented a pool for me to have a pool party when I was I invited some of those bitches. One guy I had a crush on, came. Children can be cruel, but adults are worse. I live in a resort city. Some of the residents are rather snobby and rude. They have their clicks. I truly have a distaste for snobs. One psychotherapist I saw said that normal people see him.

As so kany others are I was diagnosed withsevere depression following 14 day hospital evaluation and prescribed Venlafaxine and for a very short tim ranrisparadone 5 years ago. The venlafaxine initially increased to mg and later reduced to 75 mg took amore than a few months and a third divorce to achieve its greatest effects. They were however awesome. Things slowed dwn enough fir me to note the similarities of what i was going thru to my sons and grandson who were both diagnosed with AdHD and as adults were on medication.

And were discontinued. The results so far have been a major increase in working memory, in not losing things, in accomplishing tasks on my todo lists this still needs work in patience notoriously LFT , and in accepting and encouraging criticism.

And the complete disappearance of what I now fecognize was RSD. Things helped but not as much include Timeliness better but not all that good, Downside Recently I ran out of Venlafaxine after giving the Pharmacy a months notice to contact my doctor and then another 4 days notice.

They sent him a fax but neglected to follow up. My Family Physician had recently left the city and his brother in the same clinic became my FP. A few hours after the first missing dose I went balistic at an email that dared to assume i knew the user ID and PW for a site that would provide a set of instructions to forward to others. Although i had correponded with them 3 weeks before I completely forgot who they were and was totally upset and felt they were implying i was auditioning for their approval.

One of the nastiest emails i can recall was sent to them saying everything but that their mother wore army boots.

It was bad enough and scary enough that they fired me from a vlounteer choir. Anyway believe everything you have heard about withdrawl on this med. In fact I would never have been in that choir in the first place fearing rejection. As two of my divorces are directly related to RSD i wish i had met this diagnosis and treatment two divorces and a million dollars ago.

Love those second and third line meds. Just an apology for the notoriously poor spelling on this IPad and a click on the followup boxes below. PPS The trigger for ky hospitalization with major depression was my third wife packing to leave One box per day and placing them in our dining room.

I was wondering why it described as unique to people with ADHD? My DH is on the autism spectrum and experiences all of these things. He grew up with an alcoholic abusive father and also struggles with anxiety.

Did your DH perhaps have a similar childhood? Just curious bc I wonder if that aspect has anything 2 do with my mans RSD. Many people can have one or a few of the traits associated with ADD. My diagnosis has explained my entire screwed up life to me finally. If you treated each trait that we have, we would be taking pills non stop all day long, which with the stimulants I already feel like I do take pills all day long. Impulsive comments, intense feelings of rejection before an actual rejection, brain freeze, overwhelm and lack of motivation, just to mention a few.

Fact is stimulants affect the biggest one, focus. These symptoms are similar to those of Borderline Personality disorder — fear of abandonment causes people pleasing behaviour, perceived or real rejection can cause angry outbursts and the person being vilified even for a small misdemeanour. I think that all of these developmental disorders have common connections, lack of impulse control, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, low mood, lack or organisation.

With ASD people are constantly reading social cues to try to make sense of the social world, with BDP people are constantly trying to please to make sense and belong in the social world, with ADHD people are constantly trying to curtail their impulses to fit in to the social world. In all cases the difficulties fitting in to the social world causes anxiety, sometimes depression, sometimes depersonalisation, sometimes loss of identity.

The key is to treat people earlier as children and help them as children with anxiety control such as exercise, Mindfullness, CBT. I agree with you but we have to come up with a clinical inexpensive test or vacine that accomplishes. The tremendous support given by olders and the neighborhood grapevine worked better than any facbook or twitter info line and i was fortunate to have such a system that very few today benefit from. The key iss in a. Clinical a,larm test since so many will slip thru the other safeguards we have.

I was also fortunate to inherit the families genius level IQ. Unfortunately having the patience to correct all these errors or mis intuitive spelling suggestions on this ipad doesnt come with my set of genes. I am one of those unfortunate people that got misdiagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder by a psychiatrist after a few minutes in her office.

Because of my emotional flooding I self harmed and that was that — in her eyes I was borderline. Dobson might be the lone voice on this but his articles and on-line talks have helped me understand what is going on. O it does exist. You can have it but never let it determine how you respond to others becauseof how they make you feel.

You can beat this but the solution comes from an very unexpected source. The 7 habits of highly effective people, The 17 laws of teamwork, Thinking for a change, 21 laws of leadership, Intentional Living, etc and any other book on managing and leading in the business and church environment.

Regardless of what position or work you do, learn to lead yourself first well by learning how to lead others well.

This despite being no confirm diagnosis of being ADHD. What happen when you despite all odds you have made it to a position like mine and with it your ability to do things improve suddenly beyond even your own understanding. Does this create further success? Me Worry? Module 1: Overview of Generalised Anxiety This module provides a general description of anxiety and looks at the symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder.

Module 2: Overview of Worrying This module provides an overview of what worrying is, what triggers worrying, and what keeps it going. Module 3: Challenging Uncontrollability Beliefs This module explores a particular negative belief you might have about worry, that "worrying is uncontrollable". Module 4: Attention Training This module focuses on strengthening your attention so that your mind is not so easily distracted by worries.

Module 5: Challenging Danger Beliefs This module explores another negative belief you might have about worry, that "worrying is dangerous". Module 6: Challenging Positive Beliefs This module explores the positive beliefs that you might have about worry and encourages you to challenge and experiment with these beliefs. Module 7: Problem-Solving Worrying and problem-solving are two very different things.

Module 8: Helpful Thinking This module explores more helpful ways of thinking about things that concern you to assist you to feel more capable and less inclined to worry. Find more information in our comprehensive ADHD diagnosis guide. People who say they have ADD most likely have symptoms of inattentive type ADHD like forgetfulness and poor focus, organization, and listening skills.

If you think you have Primarily Inattentive Type ADHD, take one of our self-tests below and share your results with a medical professional.

In reality, only a small portion of children and adults meet the symptom criteria for this type of ADHD. According to the DSM-V , six of the following symptoms must be present to warrant a diagnosis:. A child with inattentive ADHD may rush through a quiz, missing questions he knows the answers to or skipping whole sections in his haste.

An adult may fail to carefully proofread a document or email at work which leads to more problems. A child with inattentive ADHD may have trouble staying focused during organized activities, like sports and games, or tasks, like picking up his room.

An adult may struggle to maintain attention during lengthy readings or extended conversations. Children and adults with inattentive ADHD may seem absent-minded when spoken to directly, even though there may not be an obvious distraction. Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace e.

Many children, teens, and adults with inattentive ADHD struggle to follow through on instructions, failing to finish schoolwork, chores, or other duties in the workplace. Organization can be a challenge for those with inattentive ADHD at any age — a child might struggle with keeping her locker organized; a teen may find it difficult to keep college applications straight; and ADHD adults might feel overwhelmed by work emails at the office.

A lack of organization often goes hand in hand with messy work, poor time management, and a failure to meet deadlines. Adolescents and adults with inattentive ADHD often have a hard time completing projects that require sustained mental effort, like lengthy homework assignments, reviewing documents, and filling out forms.

Frequently misplacing important items, like keys, eyeglasses, cell phones, and school materials, can be a sign of inattentive ADHD in kids, adolescents, and adults. Children with inattentive ADHD may become distracted in the classroom by extraneous stimuli, while adults may simply drift off into unrelated thoughts and lose focus on the task at hand. Young girls and women who struggle with inattentive ADHD symptoms are overshadowed by hyperactive boys, who demonstrate more stereotypical hyperactive ADHD behavior.

Instead of detecting their symptoms as ADHD, medical professionals frequently mistake them for mood disorders. Many boys have this subtype of ADHD, though their symptoms may be similarly overlooked or misdiagnosed due to gender stereotypes. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition.

People with anxiety and depression both may voice similar symptoms, like difficulty sleeping, poor mood, lack of energy, and anxious thoughts. However, this quiz tests for the differences in depression and anxiety. While depression involves persistent sadness and the tendency to ruminate on past events and thoughts, anxiety generates restlessness and persistent worrying. But to understand why depression can have a devastating impact on our everyday life, we need to look at the signs and symptoms.

Typically, symptoms must last at least two weeks for depression to be diagnosed, so take this into consideration throughout the depression quiz; then ask for an assessment from a mental health professional for further information and treatment, Furthermore, medical conditions such as vitamin deficiency can be mistaken for symptoms of depression so it is important to fully consider all possible causes as you take any depression quiz or inventory.

Mental health can impact your energy levels, how tired you are, your stress, sleeping habits, mood, thoughts, and so much more. Keep reading to find out more about what treatment might be right for you.

If the results of this depression test seem like you may be experiencing depressive symptoms, know that you are not alone: Depression impacts 1 in 15 adults each year. And 1 in 6 people will experience depression at some time in their life. There is help out there for those with depression. Let the results of this quiz empower you to get help and improve your mental health, sleep, and mood. If you or a loved one are experiencing suicidal thoughts, reach out for help immediately.

In fact, studies suggest that a mix of psychiatric interventions and therapy focused on depression, provides the best possible outcome. With the right treatment plan, anyone with depression or a mental health diagnosis can improve their mood, stress levels, sleeping, thoughts, and more.

After this depression quiz, don't be afraid to reach out for the treatment and help you need for depression. In general, experts believe therapy is an excellent treatment option for mild forms of depression, and most professionals specialize in depression or have experience working with people who are experiencing depression.

When it comes to severe clinical depression, healthcare professionals recommend a psychiatric consultation followed by antidepressant medication to tackle the depression. This balance of treatment medications and therapy can help with the pain of depression while understanding the thoughts and feelings. Aside from individual therapy, patients with depression can benefit greatly from family and couples therapy. Since depression disorders are caused in part by chemical imbalances in the brain, the use of psychiatric treatments is sometimes the only way patients can get back on their feet, improve sleep, and decrease stress.

Depression is treatable with the right care, and a therapist can support you to get the help you need and start feeling more like yourself and less like your depression symptoms. As a person who's actually already diagnosed, this test gave me a score really similar, to the one I a professional gave me! I always like to see which tests are reliable, and I think these are pretty reliable. Oh, but never self diagnose, if you have any symptoms of any mental illness, please check in with a professional.

I was obviously surprised with my results, but then again, I have been acting this way for awhile now. I feel exposed, but in a good way! Effective copers also sought advice as needed throughout the game. A study suggested that helping others, even strangers, helps mitigate the impact of stress.

Examples of coping skills include prayer, meditation, deep breathing, exercise, talking to a trusted person, journaling, cleaning, and creating art. However, the purpose of this post is to provide coping alternatives. Coping is not one-size-fits-all. The best approach to coping is to find and try lots of different things! The inspiration for this post came from Facebook.

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