Dr. Russell Barkley

And that's why they clamp down on them and all the paperwork.

And then you're going to run into the occasional pharmacist who, you know, believes in Tom Cruise and Scientology and may lecture you about the evils and the wickedness of the prescription you're trying to fill.

Let me tell you, I've had families call us and say, you're not going to believe what this pharmacist is telling people.

And it's like, well, then switch pharmacies.

We're not going to deal with Tom and his disciples here.

So there are the people who think this is just a myth and you're using this as a crutch and it really doesn't exist.

And all of which is so naive, it goes without saying.

I mean, every time I hear somebody say, this is a myth or it's just so trivial, it reflects to me a stunning ignorance.

of the real science, of the hundreds of thousands of research papers.

And it really tells me more about you than about the disorder.

So that said, so can I walk through just what I think are the five things you really got to do to deal with this disorder?

And I'll make them very quick because I know we have other things to chat about.

But number one is get a proper diagnosis and identify the various disorders that may be there because there's often more than one.

and we have to treat them all.

So I call it, you know, evaluation.

That's step one.

Oh, okay, great.

Step two, education.

Read, read widely.

David Lindsay, the novelist, had a great phrase in one of his novels, truth is an assembled thing.