Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

So this person is saying this thing, and my distraction is literally a thought.

that your thought, thoughts can be distractions.

Like it's so simple to say, but we don't think of them that way, right?

That the distractibility, the inability to maintain my attention, impulse control, I think filtering deficit, all of those kinds of things, the ability to stick on something that you will produce distractions.

So I think this is another really, really scary thing to really think about.

This is where we understand the basic science and I think we have a hypothesis.

So I remember seeing that, you know,

There's a really famous video of, you know, a kid like watching a movie or something with ADHD and he's like sitting still in the chair and he's like engaged in the movie.

And if his mind is engaged enough, he doesn't he's fine.

But then if he's like listening to a lecture on math, he's like spinning in a circle in a chair.

And so one of the key things that I sort of learned is there's a certain amount of mental stimulation there.

that you need if you have ADHD.

And if the environment doesn't give it to you, then you will give it to yourself.

And this is where I've started to realize that, you know, if someone is like boring in a conversation because they're working with their way up to a point, like your mind is like, this is not doing it for me.

So your mind starts spinning around in circles.

You start thinking about something else.

You start with something that you're engaging in.

And then the last piece of emotional regulation that I think you talked about, I think sometimes what we, you know, the emotions that actually get my patients in the most trouble are not the negative emotions.

It's like the positive emotions, you know, curiosity.

Love.