Sasha Hamdani

who are also anxious.

Here's a medication that's going to help with ADHD.

Well, it is a blood pressure medication.

So there's long acting formulations of blood pressure medications that can help with anxiety and ADHD.

Or you're doing an antidepressant, which is going to help with depression and anxiety and ADHD.

Or you can do something long acting that people take for shift work disorder.

So it really depends.

on what you need and what you're looking for and what else is happening at the same time.

But for a lot of people, when they're coming to the doctor, they're assuming, if I have ADHD, I need to be on a stimulant.

I need to be on Vyvanse.

I need to be on Adderall.

I need to be on Ritalin.

And 90% of the time, that's not the direction we're starting at.

Because I always tell people, we need to build skills.

So we need to work on that.

If that's not possible because your ADHD is dysregulating everything, we need to give a medication that's going to give 24-hour coverage as much as possible so that you have a chance to kind of see and build.

There's some people who just that diagnosis immediately lifts them.

It gives them the permission to study and make changes and do those things that they don't need to be on medication.

So it's not like an absolute you have to be on medication to treat your ADHD.

But there are a lot of people that in order to build and cement those habits, they need to be on medication.