Trevor Noah: ADHD Hidden Truth - Why Shame Isn't Always the Answer - video Dailymotion

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"‘It’s all about shame’ - That’s what they told Gerard Carmichael about his wild behavior. But what if 90% of ‘shame-based’ diagnoses are actually UNDIAGNOSED ADHD? Here’s the life-changing distinction every therapist gets wrong.

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00:00attracted to adhd that was the can i tell you man the most frustrating thing

00:05look you know me i love puzzles there's few things i love more than solving a puzzle

00:10like a something that's wrong you know yeah figuring out if she happens to be gorgeous

00:15even better go ahead i love solving a puzzle uh-huh it's been so frustrating to me realizing

00:22how little time we've put into we just put into thinking about the possibility that there is

00:30something else that's happening to people as opposed to these broad yeah shame you suffer from

00:37shame yeah you know like an example i was talking to um gerard carmichael and i don't know if you've

00:43seen gerard's reality show but in it he's just having sex everywhere all the time everything

00:48wild like wild sucking toes doing sucking toes yeah exactly and so gerard and i are speaking

00:54and i say to gerard i go hey man i see you do a lot of therapy trying to dig you know and trying

01:00to get to the bottom of this and a lot of it is about shame they're like you have shame that's

01:03why you go on dating apps you have shame that's why you want to have sex with people you have shame

01:08that's why you cannot control yourself you have shame i just said to him i was like hey just

01:12quick question has anyone tested you for adhd and he's like no i'm like it's interesting that you've

01:19spent this much time in therapy and the first thing everyone has gone to is shame but something

01:26nobody has considered if you just look at some of these triggers some of these things that you talk

01:31about a lot of them can be attributed to something we understand and so in the same way people have

01:36started understanding autism asperger's and you know all these i feel like adhd was one of the

01:43weirdest ones and it's still one of the stranger ones where people think and so did i when i was

01:47young that adhd is ah yeah ah this kid can't pay attention ah when in fact what it means is

01:55you are unable to control what you pay attention to so generally when you have adhd you are paying

02:02more attention than most people but to the wrong thing right to super mario brothers

Trevor Noah: ADHD Hidden Truth - Why Shame Isn't Always the Answer

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