Dr. Micaela

higher rates of vehicle accidents for I'm sure all the reasons you can imagine.

And so it's not like, oh, I'm going to take a vacation on the weekends because I don't have school.

No, if you're driving, you better fucking take that med.

Same thing.

People take summer vacations from their stimulant medication because they're not in school or, oh, I'm going on vacation.

And so I don't need to be at work where I have to focus and do all the things.

But if you struggle with emotion regulation or impulse control or,

oh, I'm on vacation and I had all these things I wanted to do, but instead I slept until 12 and then I was on TikTok until four.

And then I only actually had four hours of sunlight to go explore this cool place that I visited.

Yeah, ADHD medication can help with that.

So when you're thinking about when to take medication,

don't just think about the way that specifically a lot of doctors might tell you, and I'm a doctor, so I'm not shitting on just like psychiatrists, but like all of the professionals, they're like, oh, you don't need meds if you're not studying or doing homework, wrong, okay?

So if there's other things that are going on that are problems for you that are related to ADHD, probably take the medication if you have it prescribed, okay?

Okay, so that's one of the things that I wanted to pull out from here.

And then the other thing is, and I'm only gonna do this really, really briefly, but there's a strategy.

I know you're gonna be like, what?

I've heard of that a million times.

The strategy called pros and cons that I know we all think about like, oh, pros and cons of taking which class, of buying which car, of dating which person, I don't know.

But when we think about pros and cons, I definitely...

Do want you to like physically write these out when I teach this or for for people to use this a you make a box so think about it like a four square okay so pros are one column cons are another column.