Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Then I'm still worried about it.

I make the mistake again, and I make the mistake again.

So eventually what'll happen is with a neurotypical kid, when you make a mistake, you correct your mistake, and then you can relax.

You're not always doing something wrong.

You made a mistake, you fixed it, now you can relax.

But with ADHD...

You can't correct your mistakes, which means the only way for you to not make mistakes is to be paranoid, be in a constant state of hypervigilance because you cannot count on yourself to correct your problems.

Therefore, unless you are thinking in this moment, I am making a mistake, I am doing it wrong, there must be a better way to do it because you've said that to yourself all the time and then you forgot about it and then you ended up making the mistake again.

So this paranoia of constant mistakes, this sense of overwhelming guilt that you feel all the time is your adaptive mechanism.

Because if I'm always worried that I could be doing something wrong, what is the likelihood that I will do something wrong?

If I stop worrying that I'm making a mistake, what's going to happen?

I'm going to make a mistake.

People tell me to pay attention.

People tell me not to forget.

People tell me to focus.

And the way that I'm going to do that is by being paranoid.

There are a couple of other mechanisms here.

So in our ADHD guide and guide to doing stuff, we talk a lot about the comorbidity between ADHD and depression.

There's another YouTube video about it.

So kids with ADHD...