Sasha Hamdani

It came about during that time, and I was like, this is the worst part of my ADHD, my emotional dysregulation.

This is the thing that will bring me to my knees every time.

If I can't focus or if I can't do things, I'll make a hack around it or I'll delegate.

I can't delegate someone to take care of my emotions.

And so I'm like, there has to be a better way to think about this and learn about it and talk about it.

And I think that's why I have so much beef with the DSM.

By the way, Europe changed their criteria in 2019 to include emotional dysregulation as part of a core component.

We haven't.

And so I look at it like, say your diabetes is so bad that you started to lose your vision.

Now, instead of someone being like, oh, OK, well, let's fix your diabetes.

They're like, no, no.

OK, let's just give you glasses.

Let's treat anxiety and depression instead of treating the underlying diabetes.

The underlying diabetes is ADHD.

And the anxiety and the depression and the rejection sensitivity and the emotional dysregulation, that's what's causing the vision loss.

Right.

It's a symptom, not the cause.

It's a.

core part of it.

It's not a separate diagnosis.