Launching the new "definitions" series!

Yes please

Misted Forest

Hey threre, still new here and catching up. I love the definitions series! I was struggling hard with dyslexia as a child and still have some anxiety issues when it comes to reading out loud to people. As far as I could see you did not do anything about that yet, right? ADHD and dyslexia or the overlap. Maybe someone is aware of a good video on that. That would mean a lot to me. Thanks a million for your work! Jan

Jabberwocky (Jan H. H.)

So live this pattern, I've even described it in words to close family members. So great to hear someone else put their finger on it.

Scott Missen

Can you talk about ADHD related depression? I've done some digging and found a lot of sources suggesting that a large portion of ADHD brains have episodic depression , a result from overexerting oneself for long stretches of time. For many people that seems to work in a pattern (tries really hard at life for 1-3 months_ - is absolutely useless, unmotivated and well depressed for 1-2 months and then bounce back) - this is really poorly researched so I wouldn't bet any money on these figures. What I found most useful in learning more about that was conceptualizing depression as lack of energy rather than sadness - I feel like that often still gets misunderstood.

Diana Drepper

RSD- rejection sensitive dysphoria - I can never remember what RSD stands for- never mind explaining what it means!

I posted this comment on the video: This sounds awesome! Could you please tackle sustained attention executive function. I feel like it is sometimes overlooked in the shadow of hyperfocusing. I could really use your and the community's help explain to someone, like my boss, how forcing myself to sustain my attention without breaks tanks my day. For example, if I use the pomodoro technique for the first 4 hours of my, I will crash and not be functional for several hours (the rest of my work day). While the pomodoro method does have breaks, they are a mechanism to motivate oneself to sustain attention. I've found that it takes me 30 min to transition my thoughts after sustaining my attention for more than 2 hours. Only after the 30 min of transitioning can I actually settle into a 20 min break. After long days at work, some people have thought I was high because I was completely non-functional. ... my attention is shifting, and I'm losing my train of thought ... Something something, a work day can be work 4 hours, zombie 4 hours. Or something something, a work day can be work 2 hours, transition for 20 min, take a 20 min break, and repeat 3 times (no zombie usually). I might come back and edit this comment later to make it more clear.

Blake Chambers

awesome new vid! Seen it! Nice start J!

I think that's a fatalistic idea, because I share your videos with my boyfriend, and he can still understand him, but I did have to explain to him what hyper focusing was and things like that. Also, I think it just puts everyone on the same page, because everyone has their own definitions for the same word sometimes.

Christina Creech

Ha, I'd never heard the term body double (in ADHD context) immediately googled it and discovered I'd been doing this without realising. *brain immediately wonders what other strategies we've picked up by ourselves. Let's research that all morning*...NO. Bad brain. It's time to get back to writing!

Body double good idea as one. Executive functionining. Hyperfocus. Maybe go over adhd categories...a lot of people dont knoe about that (hyperactice/inattention or combo) Emotional dysregulation is a good one too! I was also thinking alexithymia but its not specific to adhd

Sara Richter

Awesome idea! Would love to know about "body double" and also the different zones talked about above? sounds really interesting.

love love love this. i would be much more inclined to share short snippets with coworkers.

Executive Function! Please!

Deanna Sambucci

The term "Body Double" is really bad (especially since it usually refers to a stand-in for an actor during nude scenes) but it's a really good method of staying on track. I used to pay a friend to be my "assistant" when I was doing big work projects, but she mostly just sat at the other desk in my home office which kept me focused on the work.

Kerry Gammill