ADHD 2.0: A Conversation with Author Ned Hallowell
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- While most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it, the potential upsides have been lost in the discussion. Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to their ADHD, and recent research developments give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. In ADHD 2.0, Ned Hallowell and co-author John Ratey, both of whom have ADHD, or what they prefer to term “variable attention stimulus trait,” draw on the latest science to provide both children and adults a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. As inspiring as it is practical, ADHD 2.0 will help you tap into the power of this mercurial condition and find the key that unlocks potential.
Dr. Hallowell is an esteemed child and adult psychiatrist, a world authority on ADHD, and the author of 20 books on multiple psychological topics. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including 60 Minutes, PBS, CNN, Dateline, Good Morning America, USA Today, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe, and many more. He is a regular columnist for ADDitude Magazine. Dr. Hallowell lives in the greater Boston area with his wife Sue.
I can tell that life with ADHD is hard. People think is no big deal, but, it is.
It’s a huge deal, specially before and during your diagnostic, I’ve never struggle as much as I have before and maybe it’s because ive been diagnosed, but it’s honestly one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to deal with
For years, I've tossed a lot up to me just being naturally lazy and a procrastinator. My husband would always say I'm just lazy whenever I'd tell him I think I have ADHD. It wasn't until I was on an OTC cold and allergy med that I realized something neurologically (outside of my epilepsy) was definitely going on that made me seem lazy and made me procrastinate because that particular med had me staying productive. I was able to get everything at work caught up within a week (about 7 months' worth of work). I knew my dad was diagnosed with ADHD, and I finally decided to see my doctor about whether I had it or not even if my husband didn't agree with me. Sure enough, she determined I have ADHD. Ever since I've been on my medication, I can tell a difference with how I am at work...how focused I am without hyperfocusing or being easily distracted, how I can prioritize without getting myself overwhelmed or doing multiple things without finishing one, how I don't get tired nearly as much as I used to, etc. I can tell my brain is still running a lot, but overall, I've definitely noticed a difference.
There are a lot of haters here… just don’t buy his book. But there are people like who are searching for answers and a way out. We need people like him that at least is trying to give a solution. I hear and if I don’t like it I move on. Get over it.
Well said, Luis. A shame there aren't more people on here like you. 👏👏
It's more than that Luis.
He's got a history of groping women's butts.
He's taken pharma money
He recommends others to take Adderall and Concerta for his ADHD but doesn't take it for his own as conveniently he's one of the 20% who can't take it.
He says they are safer than Aspirin. What a complete and load of utter fucking bullshit.
Hallowell says 15% of the US have ADHD. It is 5% according to the DSM.
He diagnoses in six questions live on TV.
He said he diagnosed and drugged an 86 year old.
He tested a boy with an IQ of 69 and after two months on Ritalin his IQ was 140.
He claims Edison, Edgar Allan Poe and Einstein had ADHD. Why take fucking Adderall then?
He's a very very dangerous person. A sick, warped, pathological liar who needs stopping and exposing.
Haters will hate, that only means you are onto something, thank you, we need more people, professional like you, keep feeding our ignorance, thank you.
@@marvincartagena2260 Oh you are conned by an evil fucker. You don't know him. Trust me. I do. Hallowell's a monster in real life.
A year later… 55 just diagnosed with ADHD. I’m in the grieving process of how my life, my family’s life could have been so much more. Thank you for the positive spin.
I hear you. I was diagnosed 8 months ago at 60. I didnt realise there was a grieving period. For a guy my age its difficult to just burst into tears in the evening when the meds wear off.
Yes things could have been much better, but i can have a better future now i know what to manage. Yes it will always be a challenge, but according to Dr Halliwell i can capitilise on it.
Which is what im counting.
I get both of you and I’m only 24 and Diagnosed only a few months ago, it’s very strange I don’t feel myself or normal and now you notice things more the more it plays on your mind and with your life . Any support or tips you guys have along the way I’d appreciate I guess we are all in this together
Just diagnosed at 46 but I already gave up in a lot of ways (dead-end job because of fear and hopelessly single because that's paired with the all-encompassing low self-esteem). Perpetually mourning what could have been.
No reason to grieve: yours and your family's lives have been enriched by your unique mind more than you'll ever know or imagine.
I grieved for week then got bored with it.
I love this doctor’s energy
I found him because of "How To ADHD". I liked what he had to say. This is a good interview as well. Very helpful.
The kid who is struggling to hand in essays and assignments needs SUPPORT. I had incredible teachers who helped me learn how to finish things. It helped I was studying what I loved (art/graphics). Rewards are the best for me, I refuse to be paid in full for creative consignments, because I need a reward at the end. A dopamine hit. If the reward for even trying to start is punishment if we don't get it right by neurotypical standards, then we WONT DO IT AT ALL. Diagnosed 3 weeks ago at 51. Oh the stories I could tell.
I read this book in one day. It was amazing! The next day we started our son on Concerta and we have already seen such positive changes. I had resisted the stimulent meds for him for so long. We had done balance exercises with him for a couple of years and he has been clonidine since second grade. We never increased his dosage and more recently we have been struggling with him immensely (seriously!!!). I wish I would have tried the Concerta sooner.
How did the balancing exercise worked for him? Did you noticed any changes? I am a parent who is new at this plus through my kids diagnosis I realized that I have it too.
I plan on staying vigilant for my/my brother's future offspring ,when they develop adhd (high chance as me & my bro have severe adhd)
Undiagnosed adhd has wrecked the life of both me & my brother
Yes!!! 100% he is right! Real connection is missing. We are humans on the first place not robots!!!
35:40 i told my close ones that if u tell someone with that condition to try harder and stop making excuses is like telling a cripple he can walk normally if he tried and not make excuses ...they took that against me and further bullied me to me to change to their own size ...now i am truly alone which to be honest i love it because i dont want to be a burden on anyone anymore ..sure they gave me pain rather than comfort but thats just because they are also dealing and copping with their own broken code much like myself ...but i dont want to indulge anyone anymore just to satisfy their pity ..
thank u dr .
This Doctor and his explaining has brought some kind of clarity for me
Yes, I agree. I feel like he’s describing me to a tee.
It gives me hope to hear that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Brilliant. Thanks for creating and sharing your wisdom. Searched all my life what it was in me why some things were hard or impossible for me to do, despite being reassured of intelligence in school and at uni. I became a clinical psychologist but not much was taught about ADHD, and as a sufferer ‘you can’t read the label from within the jar’ - and it took another 20 years to follow the right track and finally got the diagnosis confirmed. Do you want to know how I found the track? I rented a room in an ADHD clinic. How coincidental was that? I tick all the boxes! Finally everything I had experienced in my life before now makes sense.
By far the best book on ADHD I've ever read. Helped me tremendously, but more importantly, it helped those around me (family members) understand how I function a little better.
The negative loop is why i think adhd is a trauma actually
This Dr hit the nail in the head. He is a great help to me who has this condition.
Great information, thanks for sharing 👏
I am so grateful I have the chance to watch his videos...he is so great, thanks !
35:11 i wanted to say the same thing to u Dr..
i want to express my gratitude to you sir ...very few is able to reach that level of decency and sincerity while others are still contempt with the shortcut you u genuinely seem to want to go to the full extent ...my sincere admiration goes to u and the likes of you ...
Yes that my kid! He is always negotiating with me!
Thank you ❤
Thanks a lot Doctor for your suggestion, support....🙏
It gave a new perception regarding ADHD...👌👌
Who is this man ? I’ve heard about 100 webinars on the topic and this wonderful human said many things that really resonated and I hadn’t heard this way . Thankyou 🤗🇦🇺
32:31 Cows don't need to be milked unless they gave birth. Common myth used to promote the dairy industry.
i fell off the sink when i was 7 or 9 and hit my head so hard ,, i am 30 now and still have a bump in my head due to the fall . when i have a migraine or a headache its starts to grow and hurt like hell ..
Do you have a chapter or any connection in Connecticut.
The problem here in the UK is children with a diagnosis only a minority who have structure of parental and teachers mentoring, but at school leaving age this abruptly stops. So all the hard work both the child has achieved maybe still lower than their peers due to the stigma alot of teachers unfortunately label children "naughty or disruptive and excluded" LOST AND IN TURN, as they become young adults especially here in the UK, they are lost in the system and I have been a parent of a child with ADHD for 28 years now. That's how old my son is now, and I am now trying to get him the support and help he needs, including his medication (restart -prescription) and not prescribed with an anti depression medication.... I have studied, researched and kept my own files from various "TRUE" sources. This channel being 1 of reliable means of information and I have found myself quoting from my sources, to provide the relevant information, which the UK will not tell you, if you don't ask... They would rather you didn't ask! I feel I must prove my knowledge.
What a good parent you are, advocating for your son when he can’t. Not everybody is blessed with that. Well done and keep persisting.
@@livelystones7773 much appreciate your words of support and I will also take this as encouragement to fight the fight 👍
Lesley. Listen to me about Hallowell. Ignore him. Listen to somebody like Larry Diller.
He's got a history of groping women's butts.
He's taken pharma money
He recommends others to take Adderall and Concerta for his ADHD but doesn't take it for his own as conveniently he's one of the 20% who can't take it.
He says they are safer than Aspirin. What a complete and load of utter bullshit.
Hallowell says 15% of the US have ADHD. It is 5% according to the DSM.
He diagnoses in six questions live on TV.
He said he diagnosed and drugged an 86 year old.
He tested a boy with an IQ of 69 and after two months on Ritalin his IQ was 140.
He claims Edison, Edgar Allan Poe and Einstein had ADHD.
He's a very very dangerous person. A sick, warped, pathological liar who needs stopping and exposing.
UK is a mess. I'm from there but here in Brazil you can see a doctor the same day and start meds . They will listen to your story, and try you with meds if think you need them . If they work, along with some other factors, you can get your diagnosis and stay medicated
@@eirini98 same for here in india as well
Although adhd awareness is less , leading to misdiagnosis
When i dont take Adderall, i annoy everything around me. When i take Adderall, i can actually listen 😂
safia morsley is a gift from god ..
20:00 so here right now 😭😐🙁
How can you expect someone with adhd to read a book?
Plenty of people with adhd read. Having it doesn't mean they can't. The same way they can have jobs, etc. As long as the topic is interesting enough to the individual to engage their focus they can definitely read
@@jessicaalyse7 i cant read academic books , yet finish 8 self help books every month
I hv vitiligo , have read most research papers on the subject
Its all about hyperfocusing on the things that interest you
Hyper focus. My issue is that when I am interested in a book, I will read the whole thing at once, not accomplishing anything else that I should be. When I'm not I interested, I will read the first page 9 times and still not grasp it because my focus is just not engrossed enough in it.
Thats the funniest thing I ever heard! :) lol
😂😂 what's that?
lol @ triggered Alan...returning every month to comment
Yeah, what an annoying dude lol
lol.. "tell me you have ADHD without telling me you have ADHD." Actually, I'd say he has a lot more going on than just ADHD. Hopefully he is talking to someone and will get the help he needs.
@@timcleary8608 When you are being conned by a liar such as Ned you have the issues
@@davidmiranda8412 Ok.
It's more than that Luis.
He's got a history of groping women's butts.
He's taken pharma money
He recommends others to take Adderall and Concerta for his ADHD but doesn't take it for his own as conveniently he's one of the 20% who can't take it.
He says they are safer than Aspirin. What a complete and load of utter fucking bullshit.
Hallowell says 15% of the US have ADHD. It is 5% according to the DSM.
He diagnoses in six questions live on TV.
He said he diagnosed and drugged an 86 year old.
He tested a boy with an IQ of 69 and after two months on Ritalin his IQ was 140.
He claims Edison, Edgar Allan Poe and Einstein had ADHD. Why take fucking Adderall then?
He's a very very dangerous person. A sick, warped, pathological liar who needs stopping and exposing.
Debate with me on that then.
@@alanberkeley7282 You sound like a conspiracy theorist. What kind of research have you done on this topic? What makes YOU an expert? Do you also not trust that 9/11 happened or mass shootings? Sorry but you come across as a nut job.
need help dont know how to connect
Omega brite fish oil
Vitamin C, D, B12
Note💁🏻♀️
B12 has been helping me a LOT
Whoever Alan is needs to get a life
And read some actual studies.
This Ferrari brain better be real because you are not helped much if ur only problem is your brain is too great 😐🤦♂️ and there are also different severti levels so maybe some just have mild adhd and think the symptoms are because they are too smart when they could be happyer/better without that problem. To say evolution is perfect and it cant be that some systems get caught up and malfunction would seem to be on shaky ground to me. I mean we do t do research on how good people are thats useless in the context of mental helath and illnesses.
But yes i understand what mr hallowwell might mean. In terms of human beings being algorithms adhd might be a kind that is better in some circumstances but having consumed adhd stuff for years i dont believe so at all. Seems to be more in line with the people dont wanting to get bothered but using indirect means to archive that goal. Downplaying. “There are no gay people, they are devilish, decadent or can be treated by conversiontherapy” to name an example of extreme form of downplaying. Milder would be “it only came up in our society” and ignoring points like: well we havent looked/documented or shunned before and now police protects you if you say ur gay.
Or society (countys) are richer so they become more inclusive and caring. But in medival times when everything is shit you will be a lot less concerned about philantropic actions.
Ned says You may have heard the term “chemical imbalance in the brain.” The symptoms of ADHD result from biochemical differences in the brain; therefore, medications that adjust those chemical balances can significantly improve a patient’s daily functioning. Where's your proof of this chemical imbalance? How much is enough or too low or too much?
Sorry, Vegan is TERRIBLE for ADHD. Lectins, phytates oxalates etc are TERRIBLE for us. I did the experiments, raised vegetarian. The opposite is true, butter, meat, high qality fermented dairy (if tolerated) animal fats, cheese, organ meats. I DID THE EXPERIMENTS AND CHANGED MY LIFE. yes I am literally type-shouting. Our btsins need cholesterol. Please limit Veg and Fruit and increase butter, animal fats and meats. Try it for 6 months and watch your childs life change. I didn't discover this until my mid 40s. A big Eff U to the plant based lie I was tortured with since conception. I couldn't think at all as a vegan/vegetarian. I couldn't remember anything long term or short term. And my body was in excrutiating pain because I apso have EDS. I am so tired of bad dietary advice ruining lives.
Otherwise, this interview and information was fantastic. But NEVER EVER make a child go vegan. It is abuse.
Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell is the doyen of adult ADHD, a position he has staked out for himself by means of several books along with innumerable articles, lectures, and interviews. Along with his colleague John Ratey, he authored the first book about adult ADHD intended for a general audience: Driven to Distraction, published in 1994 (throughout the book they use the term “ADD” rather than the then-recently coined “ADHD”).
Drs. Hallowell and Ratey encounter the same difficulties their colleagues who came before them experienced in delimiting the boundaries of this ill-defined syndrome, regardless of what is called. According to Hallowell and Ratey, ADD can manifest itself in not paying enough attention, or paying too much attention; in being oversexed, or undersexed; in being too active, or being too quiet. Symptoms of ADD can include cocaine abuse, consumption of pornography, “addiction” to crossword puzzles - or all three.
Throughout the book, the authors speak of ADD as something one has, or does not have, like a rock in a basket. This seems a bit odd, given that they acknowledge that there is no test for ADD, that nearly everybody has some its symptoms, and that this condition intergrades imperceptibly into normality. Early in the book, they state unequivocally that ADD is caused by a chemical imbalance, although towards the end they admit they do not know what the nature of that imbalance is.
Drs. Hallowell and Ratey both identify themselves as “having” ADD, although, given that both of them managed to graduate from medical school, it is not clear in what sense either of them suffers from a deficit of attention. No matter. This is a condition which, according to them, they “have” alongside such distinguished luminaries as Ben Franklin, Mozart, Edison, Einstein, and Dustin Hoffmann - although, since they have already acknowledged that there is no test for ADD, it is not clear what there is in this case to be “had.”
We hear enthusiastic testimonials from patients who have tried medication for this condition and found it turned their lives around. Employing a didactic style similar to that used by psychiatrist Peter Kramer in his best-selling Listening to Prozac, the authors never claim that these results are typical, although they do little to disabuse readers of that notion.
In fairness to Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, they are about more than just drugs:
“The ADD therapist must offer concrete ways of getting organized, staying focused, making plans, keeping to schedules, prioritizing tasks due, and in general dealing with the chaos of everyday life.”
Elsewhere they advise readers “Do what you are good at, rather than spending all your time trying to get good at what you are bad at.”
These points are well-taken, but didn’t all this used to be called “growing up?”
ADHD is the pathologizing of childhood, and I should add, the field of psychiatry is increasingly pathologizing normal human behavior while allowing the normalization of aberrant and pathological behavior. It is the weaponization of psychology and psychiatry and the lowering of the noble profession of medicine to a status no better than that of a snake oil salesman. The human species is not unique in that the young of the species have an exuberance of energy, rather this is a common trait shared by many thousands of species. Even an uneducated observer should be able to note this shared commonality in nature. The young of the species are usually highly active and very prone to engage in play behavior. We do not seem to find it aberrant in chimpanzees, dogs, cats, foxes, bears etc. though modern psychiatry with its slant towards the interest of the pharmaceutical industry increasingly pathologizes this behavior in human beings and emphasizes the "need" to drug the youth in order to "treat" this normal behavior. High energy levels in children is a normal finding and it should be treated as such while it is actually hypoactivity, low energy, and lethargy which is an abnormal finding. Again, this is not something that is new in the human species and in the past it was effectively dealt with by 1) having enough interspersed play time throughout the school day to allow young boys and girls to blow off the excess energy and be able to concentrate during their lessons and 2) making the lessons highly engaging to keep the attention and interests of the students. I suspect, though I do not have concrete proof, that the long-term impact of this early drugging is detrimental to the neural development of children. Regardless, it borders on child abuse to pathologize normal childhood behavior, treat it as a "mental illness," and drug a child in an effort to make them conform to un-human standards of behavior. It should also be noted that often the more brilliant and intelligent kids are restless and prone to act out if the pace of education does not suit their developmental needs. Under such conditions, rather than providing a gifted child with the proper pace and intellectual challenge they require for their academic development they are drugged and made to endure lessons which they find hopelessly boring to conform to the pace of other students. That constitutes the drugging of a child to conform to the needs of the teacher rather than actually addressing the individual child's needs.
Good grief, I got tired just scrolling past your diatribe. 🥺 Hope spelling it all out was cathartic.
Do you have ADHD?
@@veganrican606 In the US it's hard to know who doesn't
@@alanberkeley7282 That's a non answer.
Not every child with ADHD is high-spirited and energetically playing with others. I was the kid who daydreamed and had a book going inside my desk because I was so bored in class. It's a life-long condition for most of us and the struggle to manage attention is real. That the medical profession is finally waking up to this is a blessing, but it's still hard and expensive to get diagnosed and find the proper medication and support.
A Psychiatry shit list. Can you think of some more monsters to add to this list?
1. Worst of all - Joseph Biederman.
2. Timothy Wilens
3. Thomas Spencer
4. Jeffrey Lieberman
5. William Dodson
6. Ned Hallowell
7. Peter Jensen
8. Jeffrey Katz
9. The Harvard Crowd - Len Adler et al
What are your credentials? As an individual that works with patients with ADHD & friends that live with it, I'm glad that their are other individuals & colleagues that research & provide POSITIVE help. All you've done on here is bash researchers. Uh....that's NOT helpful at all. Not to others with ADHD or professionals helping. YOU are part of the stigma.
Richard Branson got by without it Ned
He dropped out of college
Self-medicated by making over 200 businesses, doing adventure sports etc
Ned says Concerta is safer than aspirin. Aspirin doesn't have a black box warning.
Groping women's asses is Ned's lack of impulse control
I can see how you would be taken in by Ned Hallowell. But the more I learned about him the more I realized the guy's a liar and a conman. If you watch him on you tube he looks at the camera, appears warm and friendly, smiles, polite, calls people by their first names.
He's an expert conman who has pulled the wool over the eyes of most of the public. I'd argue Ned Hallowell is a narcissist with sociopathic traits. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
he has ADHD they are common symtoms
@@SISupply Yea according to the DSM I do
Ned Hallowell is a great communicator. I will give him that. But if you listen he's got nothing to communicate. He's just repeating the same slick but empty catchphrases as he did 25 years ago. Eyeglasses. Safe and effective. Go get this diagnosis. To be diagnosed makes no sense if you don't medicate. It's like squinting. The prisons and the addicted. In fact a UK study found 25% of population have this disorder. The way Ned carries on you'd think it was 100%. The reason the US is violent is because of ADHD. The reason the US is entrepreneurial is because of ADHD. Answer this Ned. Did John Wayne Gacy have ADHD? Or Ted Bundy? Or Jeffrey Dahmer? Does Edward Kemper? People who went out, planned a murder, hid the bodies, targeted their victims and did it again? So Henry Ford had ADHD? Or Steve Jobs? Does Bill Gates? You don't mention the gun laws in the US for violence. Or the lack of Universal Healthcare. Or meager welfare system. Or minimal rights at work. No it is all due to ADHD! And then stuff he says doesn't stand up. I diagnosed and medicated a 86 year old with ADHD. I've diagnosed Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Billionaires and CEO's. Who? What's their names? Then he whines about the New York Times mentioning how dangerous Adderall, Concerta etc are. Too right. When you read and hear about students taking these drugs to pass exams or people crushing and snorting them to get high or using them as performance enhancers and getting addicted or going psychotic and hanging themselves on them. When Hallowell mentions the side effects it is grudgingly, like appetite suppression. He still fails to mention the 20 plus side effects they often cause.
Of course you know Ned Hallowell has taken pharma money in the past and possibly has shares in big pharma.
He says that the main symptoms of ADHD are unexplained underachievement. I'm skeptical it exists but if so, no mention of impulsivity, but that's a very subjective word in itself. Which kids aren't impulsive? No mention of disorganization or blindness to time? And there is no way on this earth do 10 or 15% of children have ADHD. In the Revolution when Jennifer Ashton said 5-8% of kids have ADHD he enthusiastically said "At least at least". Ashton said "Yea and probably a lot more". No they don't. The DSM says 5%. Conners who knew more about the condition said 3%. And my daughter mentioned something. When Ashton said 5-8%, 8 million adults and 5 million kids. I didn't notice this but my daughter told me "The US population is 328 million. 10% of it is 32.8 million. 8% of 328 is 26.4. 5% is 16.4". Not a word from Ned on Ashton's appalling Math skills.
And as for Hallowell's assertion that Einstein, Mozart, Galileo, Edgar Allan Poe, George Bernard Shaw had ADHD. I knew he was a bullshit artist. I never knew he held seances as well.
The best thing we can do with liars, morons and scum like this, are starve him of the oxygen of publicity. Don't read his books. Don't interview him. Don't report on what he says. And shame on anybody who interviews him or gives him publicity.
Many say Ned Hallowell is a disgrace to the ADHD community. He's a disgrace to the human race and somebody we can do without. The sooner he leaves this earth the better.
If you know SO MUCH about mental health you probably know you should be NICE TO PEOPLE. Specially those with a condition. Go to therapy man, lots of unresolved shit.
@@indranikeiki1392 I don't go on TV and tell random strangers I know fuck all about they have ADHD in six questions. Ned does.
@@indranikeiki1392 If you are conned by a crook like Hallowell then there is no hope for you
@@alanberkeley7282 please stop posting here and get a life outside of your dislike of psychology and Dr. Hallowell. Your comments are obnoxious and not helpful.
@@cherihuff876 I haven't even started yet. Let alone going to stop.