Roberto Olivardia
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1,143 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2020
last heard Aug 2024
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developing a mood disorder, for example.
And there is neurobiological research showing this, that the emotional processing in an ADHD brain makes it harder sometimes for people to self-soothe or to inhibit from acting on an emotion.
So it's not that an ADHD person's emotional response is overactive per se.
Studies will show that they're reacting initially similarly to
to let's say emotional or provocative stimuli as someone without ADHD.
The difference is the non-ADHD group can soothe themselves and properly distract out of that negative emotion better and faster.
And they're more likely to connect to their frontal lobe that says, oh, this teacher is making me mad.
I want to swear at them, but I'm not because that could get me into trouble.
An ADHD person's brain has a delay
in that connection to the frontal lobe.
And if you think about it, with emotions, even a three-second delay can be a huge difference
situation manifests emotionally.
And people with ADHD often will score higher on and rate themselves as being more emotionally sensitive as individuals, particularly rejection-sensitive individuals.
And I think the upside to that is that we can also be seen as more empathic.
But as a kid with ADHD, I mean, I remember like, okay, I like that I'm empathic and I like that I'm an emotional person.
But I need some way of filtering this
can be drowned in this like very, very easily.
It was very apparent to me at a very young age.
I had to figure that emotional storm out.
So it's so important with, I would say, compared to virtually every other class of medications that
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