Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

It can't afford to do other things prior to 4 p.m.

until we learn how to train ourselves in that direction, okay, which we'll get to in a second.

Second thing that we're going to talk about is guilt.

So this person says, always feeling like I'm guilty or as if I'm in trouble, always feeling that whatever chore activity I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong and I should be doing something else.

How does this happen?

Always guilty.

Doing things wrong.

Now, when you look at something like this, you may say this looks like depression.

And that's why the differential diagnosis is really important.

You know, this is why jumping to this as a symptom of ADHD is you have to be careful.

Because there could be other things that can make you feel always guilty.

You can have a history of trauma.

You can have a mood disorder.

You know, you can have abusive parents growing up.

You can have something like dependent personality disorder.

This subjective feeling doesn't necessarily, it's not a smoking gun for ADHD.

Now let's talk about the mechanism of why this happens in ADHD.

So why does a human being think that they're always doing something wrong?

Because they were taught they are always doing something wrong.

It's not rocket science.