Dr. Gabor Maté challenges that ADHD is a disorder: "ADHD is learned 'tuning out' behavior from childhood stress that gets mislabeled as disease"

@BigBrainPsych While I agree with the sentiment. How do we explain the anatomical differences observed in ADHD patients?

@BigBrainPsych He has no idea.

@BigBrainPsych I always wait for adults with ADHD to chime in and call this B.S. because their childhoods were awesome.

@BigBrainPsych First rational thing I've ever heard from this grifter

@BigBrainPsych You mean on top of my generalized anxiety, ptsd and dissasociative disorder?

@BigBrainPsych This guy is irritating. The peer reviewed research says otherwise. So who do we believe. A large group of those finding biological differences or one self proclaimed self help guru.

@BigBrainPsych I was one of the first adults in Australia to be diagnosed with adult ADHD, at 20 years old. Back then, it was half a day in a clinical hooked up to brain caps, and online reaction tests etc. I can totally relate to what he’s saying.

@BigBrainPsych there's a laundry list of childhood learned behaviors that turn into disorders though? 🤔

@BigBrainPsych This is true of every bad feeling, They are all simply physically presented memories. You can remove them at will. Identify the physicality Regress to find the childhood source Relive and remove the physicality as no longer necessary.

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@BigBrainPsych I doubt this and I think having ADHD may make childhood more difficult and there may be traumatizing moments. ADHD polygenic risk predicts neural signatures of cognitive control: Evidence from midfrontal theta dynamics

@BigBrainPsych Whether it's a disorder or an adaptation, the experience is the same — a mind that won't stay where you point it. The people who figure out how to work with that rather than against it tend to do something interesting with it.

@BigBrainPsych Dr Maté is correct. ADHD is environmental not genetic.