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Dr. John Kruse

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Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

It's not just more structure is always good because if you put or impose too much structure on someone, so most people with ADHD are really lousy assembly line workers. They don't want to be just Picking up one bolt, screwing it on the side of the Lexus or whatever and watching the car move down the line, that's too stultifying, too limiting, too structured.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

It's not just more structure is always good because if you put or impose too much structure on someone, so most people with ADHD are really lousy assembly line workers. They don't want to be just Picking up one bolt, screwing it on the side of the Lexus or whatever and watching the car move down the line, that's too stultifying, too limiting, too structured.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So you need the optimal amount of structure. And with COVID and working from home and kids... being at the home. So one thing it created is less structure for the day, but it also increased the demand side of the equation.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So you need the optimal amount of structure. And with COVID and working from home and kids... being at the home. So one thing it created is less structure for the day, but it also increased the demand side of the equation.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So you need the optimal amount of structure. And with COVID and working from home and kids... being at the home. So one thing it created is less structure for the day, but it also increased the demand side of the equation.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the cognitive demand, not only did you have to manage your own time and schedule now, in addition to doing your work, you had to schedule it, but you might have had screaming kids in the other room, or you might have had your partner who wants to use that room for their quiet meetings some of the time when you're trying to do it. So the demand's

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the cognitive demand, not only did you have to manage your own time and schedule now, in addition to doing your work, you had to schedule it, but you might have had screaming kids in the other room, or you might have had your partner who wants to use that room for their quiet meetings some of the time when you're trying to do it. So the demand's

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the cognitive demand, not only did you have to manage your own time and schedule now, in addition to doing your work, you had to schedule it, but you might have had screaming kids in the other room, or you might have had your partner who wants to use that room for their quiet meetings some of the time when you're trying to do it. So the demand's

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

increased for many people and the structure decreased and that was sort of a perfect storm for creating more ADHD and what's really Interesting from a mental health perspective, at the very start of the COVID epidemic, public mental health figures said, we know if this is a massive epidemic and we're going to have to do quarantine, we know depression is going to go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

increased for many people and the structure decreased and that was sort of a perfect storm for creating more ADHD and what's really Interesting from a mental health perspective, at the very start of the COVID epidemic, public mental health figures said, we know if this is a massive epidemic and we're going to have to do quarantine, we know depression is going to go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

increased for many people and the structure decreased and that was sort of a perfect storm for creating more ADHD and what's really Interesting from a mental health perspective, at the very start of the COVID epidemic, public mental health figures said, we know if this is a massive epidemic and we're going to have to do quarantine, we know depression is going to go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

We know anxiety is going to go up. We know alcohol and substance abuse is going to go up. We know PTSD and domestic violence is going to go up. They claimed suicide would go up. That was incorrect, and we can get into that. But I think there's an ADHD reason why it didn't go up. Nobody that I heard was mentioning that ADHD would go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

We know anxiety is going to go up. We know alcohol and substance abuse is going to go up. We know PTSD and domestic violence is going to go up. They claimed suicide would go up. That was incorrect, and we can get into that. But I think there's an ADHD reason why it didn't go up. Nobody that I heard was mentioning that ADHD would go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

We know anxiety is going to go up. We know alcohol and substance abuse is going to go up. We know PTSD and domestic violence is going to go up. They claimed suicide would go up. That was incorrect, and we can get into that. But I think there's an ADHD reason why it didn't go up. Nobody that I heard was mentioning that ADHD would go up.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And part of it is because partly to hold on to its legitimacy as a real psychiatric diagnosis, both many patients and many researchers in the field hold so strongly to this is a biological condition. Why would it change, you know, I mean, we can understand why PTSD, more people are being traumatized. Uncle Joe just died from coughing his lungs out from COVID. You know, PTSD, it's easy to see.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And part of it is because partly to hold on to its legitimacy as a real psychiatric diagnosis, both many patients and many researchers in the field hold so strongly to this is a biological condition. Why would it change, you know, I mean, we can understand why PTSD, more people are being traumatized. Uncle Joe just died from coughing his lungs out from COVID. You know, PTSD, it's easy to see.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And part of it is because partly to hold on to its legitimacy as a real psychiatric diagnosis, both many patients and many researchers in the field hold so strongly to this is a biological condition. Why would it change, you know, I mean, we can understand why PTSD, more people are being traumatized. Uncle Joe just died from coughing his lungs out from COVID. You know, PTSD, it's easy to see.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

Or depression, you've just lost your job and your whole industry, you know, you're a restaurant worker, that's not coming back.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

Or depression, you've just lost your job and your whole industry, you know, you're a restaurant worker, that's not coming back.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

Or depression, you've just lost your job and your whole industry, you know, you're a restaurant worker, that's not coming back.