Shauna Pearson

Just staying focused for some people might be all they need, but for most people, you need to know what you're focusing on.

You need to know about your priorities.

And in order to know about your priorities, you need to know what you ultimately want.

You need to know how to follow through and go from point A to point B without stopping and getting derailed and going on to something else, which a lot of us do.

You need to learn how to communicate in ways that you're matching people rather than always being off and always being misunderstood or getting into arguments.

You need to be able to manage your moods because people who have ADHD tend to have a difficult time regulating their emotions.

These are all things you need to learn how to do that the medications don't

teach you.

It doesn't come with this like little lingo thing.

And this is how you manage your ADHD the other one day.

All they do is they help you focus.

That's it.

They don't help you focus on what you need to be focused on.

And they don't tell you how to do what you need to be doing.

So it's two completely separate categories.

I think the medications can be very helpful.

I'm not against medication at all, but they are definitely not all you need.

Especially like we had a couple of years ago or no, not a couple, probably three or four years ago, we started getting a deluge of people coming to us because there was a shortage of Adderall or like a lot of the ADHD medications.

And so they just couldn't even get them.

That's going to happen.