Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

Um, yeah.

So let's talk a little bit about symptoms and traits of ADHD that people don't really appreciate or didn't realize.

So what are some obscure symptoms you experienced that you didn't realize were ADHD until you were diagnosed and learn more about it?

Coffee didn't do anything for me because of lack of stimulants in the brain.

People feeling anxious due to coffee, always feeling like I was guilty or as if I'll be in trouble and always feeling that whatever chore activity I'm doing, it's wrong and I should be doing something else.

Never being able to stay in the moment.

What are some ADHD signs you didn't realize were related?

Executive dysfunction.

The fact that I always needed some sort of body double to get chores done.

Emotional dysregulation and random bouts of intense emotions.

And complete inability to engage with a topic that I see no practical use for or have any interest in.

Okay.

If I hear just meditate one more time, I may lose my mind.

Okay.

So let's talk about this.

there are a lot of things that happen in ADHD.

And there's a lot of stuff that we're familiar with.

Like we're familiar primarily with like academics, right?

So if you think about the classic picture of who has ADHD, what you think about is something school related, a kid who doesn't sit still, having an inability to focus on your test, using stimulant medication so you can focus and write a paper.

These are the kinds of things that we think about.