Dr. Micaela (Dr. Michaela)

So I think...

Who knows?

But yeah, these like there are kernels in here that I can connect with that are like, oh, yeah, that I think relates to ADHD.

But when you put those three things in particular together, you are actually talking about a very different mental health condition.

Well, there are a lot of zoomed out, like, similarities, right?

So instability in relationships is a hallmark feature of BPD and is something that can definitely happen with people with ADHD for really different mechanisms, right, of how we understand how that's happening.

typically.

And so I think that right there, right?

So labile emotions, like really intense mood swings, right?

Also happens in ADHD.

I don't know that the mechanisms are super different, but the development of those mechanisms, right?

We understand as different, like how a BPD person develops that like really intense labile affect versus what a person with ADHD like

born with the core deficits in the frontal lobe that then is what is regulating emotions, right?

So I think that there are these kind of like on the surface, and that's why there's so much value in the information that's out there on the internet or that anybody can access.

And I love the free access to so much information, but I think sometimes

then the professional component gets discounted of, no, but look, I check these boxes, therefore I have these things.

And there's not the like, oh, but let me help you understand those things and how it doesn't necessarily check those boxes or how the better boxes to check, but a different thing.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly.

And so I think that for a lot, she's kind of saying it's because you're constantly switching interests and you're, you know, you're you start a project and don't finish it until you move on to the next project.