Alex Partridge

But what other trauma could a child with ADHD be exposed to that perhaps someone who didn't have ADHD might, for various reasons, avoid?

Gosh, it's heartbreaking.

If a child experiences those traumas you were just mentioning, and they're in their really early stages, their developing years, and they are on the receiving end of all of those horrible comments, or they witness this event like a divorce, and they internalize it and think that it's their fault.

What does a child do?

How do they react?

How do they...

respond to those messages?

Do they change who they are?

I asked Dr. Ned Halliwell what...

ADHD, if it's not recognized and managed, can turn into, and he summarized what you just said, it can turn into addiction and compulsive spending.

And it explains a huge percentage of the prison population.

Do you think if left unchecked and that propensity to seek the low-hanging fruit, the quick dopamine, can that lead to a dangerous path of crime, perhaps, for somebody like that?

It's such a big motivator for me.

Like, as someone myself who's an addict and an alcoholic, like, I've been in the hospital wards with tubes hanging out of me.

I've been in the back of police cars.

I've been down an alleyway with someone calling an ambulance because I just can't stop drinking.

And then I got my diagnosis of ADHD.

I got sober.

And suddenly I realized that so much of what was holding me back was my...

Not being aware of my addiction and how much ADHD played into that.