Gil Newburn

And that can happen at all kinds of levels.

School becomes a noxious environment.

That girl comes along miserable, depressed, out of sorts because she's been socially excluded.

Another stressor.

And she presents with depression, anxiety, maybe even cutting herself at 13, 14, 15.

And people start focusing on the depression, the mood disorder.

Or does she have a personality disorder?

Because that's the default when people are cutting themselves.

But really, it's nothing to do with any of that.

And even then, within that context, cutting themselves is often a real sign of that salience network dysfunction.

It's doing in a practical, conscious way what the salience network should be doing pre-consciously on autopilot, but isn't because it's lost connections.

Those are the ones that are the hardest to answer often, believe me.

No.

Yeah, the brain has been said to be the most complex thing in our universe.

One of the major issues, I think, around the management of people, and we must remember this is about people.

Hei tangata, hei tangata, hei tangata.

The moment we get away from that, we're getting it wrong.

But, you know, we tend to look at diagnostic groups, slot people into boxes, and that misses the whole point of the individual.

Now, it doesn't mean we can't have certain generalizations about function, but each person is different in understanding those processes.

for the person in front of you is so much more important than can I tick a series of boxes to say, yeah, this person has autism spectrum disorder and that person has ADHD.