"Healing ADD - See And Heal The 7 Types!" with Dr. Daniel Amen

Unfortunately most people cannot afford the treatments and, like myself, have struggled their whole lives with depression, anxiety and add. A few wins and then losses. Up and down. Struggling to maintain even getting by. Loss of jobs and struggling businesses and finances. Difficult some days to accomplish basic things. And the predatory world doesn't seem to care at all. Today is a hard day. Overwhelmed is the word.

"The harder she tries the worse it gets." My whole life in one sentence!

I cried several times during this video... especially when he said his patient said "so it isnt my fault?" ..... I just recently found out i have add, but I had no idea there were so many.... I definitely felt like I am somewhere between classic and anxious add. I love learning about my brain and like he said.... it just kills me inside knowing how much I struggled and beat myself and cried as a child over these things that could've been fixed.. makes me wonder how much smarter I would've been now had I known. Because I had a horrible time in school. Just hurts my heart.

This video literally helped me with the core of the problem of my whole life, I swear, and to be honest, this guy needs Nobel prize, ADD is no longer a joke, people truthfully suffer from it, the more it is ignored, the more it endangers the people.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

13:02 Type 1. Classic ADD 28:08 Type 2. Inattentive ADD 38:29 Type 3. Overfocused ADD 49:00 Type 4. Temporal Lobe ADD 54:16 Type 5. Limbic ADD 54:53 Type 6. Ring of Fire ADD 57:43 Type 7. Anxious ADD 00:00 You should watch the whole video, though!

I know I have ADHD because i can't get through a single online lecture but this is hour five of intently watching Dr. Amen talk about ADHD

I'm so glad I made myself watch this entire video, I was loosing interest, then realized why.

I'm looking forward to seeing my doctor's reaction when I tell her I've diagnosed myself with ADD from a YouTube video.

I wish that we could all get brain scans to check the type of ADD, but so many insurance companies would probably not cover it. I have dealt with depression & anxiety all of my life, in addition to being very talkative, sensitive with a short attention span & a feeling of being stuck & ruminating about past failures. I suspected that I had ADD & was finally diagnosed with ADHD in my 50's. I tried medication for ADHD, but it made my heart race. Now I know that we're all not meant for medication. I've dealt with my issues by over eating & gaining a lot of weight. Also, in recent years, clutter at home has piled up. Dr. Amen's videos & shows on PBS give me hope that diet, supplements & exercise can help reduce symptoms.

I watched this video and cried my eyes out but not from sadness from relief and hope. I've been treated for depression for years without success. Just recently it was suggested I may have inattentive ADD. I finally feel like I may be able to be pulled from this knee deep mud I have been trying to walk through my whole life. I really feel like the poster child for ADD now but at least I FINALLY have some hope. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. Going out now to get your book <3 Patty

13:02 type 1 23:15 treatment 28:10 type 2 38:00 treatment 30:46 type 3 47:39 treatment 49:07 type 4 54:06 treatment 54:20 type 5 54:39 treatment 54:55 type 6 57:32 treatment 57:46 type 7 58:16 treatment 59:30 if you have more than one type 1:04:12 get it give it away keet it forever change the world 1:04:54 physical health and mental health connecting together 1:05:41 protein vegetable shake 1:08:13 wants your brain 1:11:35 bipolar

I ve watched tones of videos on adhd in last 3-4 days and it is the most informative video on youtube i wish i had chance to make scans

Every teacher needs to see this video. For 5 years, I worked in a Elem. Catholic School and the students had to fit the cookie cutter. Boys are sometimes naturally antsy in their seats. It doesn't mean they need a drug. To watch this video and to see the different types of ADD, not one medication fits all. I cried when Dr. Amen discussed Brianne. It wasn't her fault and then she soared. As a father, it must have been hard to watch, but you were in the right field to help her. The story about the couple was fascinating. Their child must have been finally able to breathe and relax at home. The diet at the Salvation Army and the connection to the prison rate. These are all miracles. Thank you for sharing this video.

I basically ate pasta, potatoes, and drank Mt. Dew for two decades. Never really at meat, even as a child, and was a vegetarian for 10 years. I NEEDED carbs. Would feel "out of sorts" and then would eat some mashed potatoes or rice and would feel better. Last year I stopped carbs and most sugars. I only ate almond butter, eggs, and a protein shake with blueberries and yogurt. One piece of whole grain toast everyday with a few dried apricots. I drank lots of water. EXERCISED every day. About 15 minutes of intense cardio a day. After 3 weeks of this I started taking St. John's Wort. On the third day of this it was like a switch had been turned. For the first time in my life I felt like nothing else was controlling me. I would pick up something and throw it away that had been sitting there for months. But with no effort or struggle to do so. I would get in my car and didn't feel COMPELLED to turn on crappy radio music or smoke a cigarette to focus my racing mind. I didn't fantasize or daydream anymore, well not obsessively. I didn't get lightheaded anymore. I slept 7 hours every night without waking up. My house was clean but with a sense of permanency and not that it will be trashed again in a couple of weeks and my mind buried underneath the rubble. I felt normal, clear, and light for the first time in my entire life. I WAS IN CONTROL. Previous to that for 40 years it was a struggle everyday. Everything had to end up in crisis because I couldn't deal with it whether it was a trashed house, utilities being turned off, being in debt, etc. etc. During this "normal" phase though it wasn't about me anymore. It was about things outside of myself and I was interacting with the world. I felt connected. If this had never happened I would not realize how screwed up I am. Throughout the day I would notice all the little things about the way I used to be and then it spanned out to my entire life. To being a little kid and not being able to sleep because my thoughts were racing. To my bedroom being trashed and all through my life my houses and apartments looking the same trashed way. Even this new awareness was not overwhelming or upsetting. It was literally like everything that was wrong with me was gone. No anxiety, no weighted feeling of just being me. Dealing with more than one person at a time wasn't overwhelming. Within days of this feeling "normal" I started planning a road trip and then actually did it. Sounds like no big deal but considering I hadn't traveled in over ten years and was just disappearing as a person in my house in solitude it was HUGE. It didn't feel like something artificial had been added. I felt like me just without all of the tics and flaws. So I had figured out the source of my problem and then cured it, so I thought. Then I guess I didn't replenish all of my vitamins and supplements. I went back to soda. Stopped the St. John's Wort. I went back to opiate pills and then a few months later I'm back in the struggle. Like a switch. I am trying to get back. I tried St. John's Wort again but it caused anxiety, I think maybe because I was still on the opiates. Obviously I didn't cure all of my symptoms and relapsed. I will figure it out though. Now I am nearly definitely sure it's ADD. At the time my "cure" was a complete accident. I was trying to deal with aging both in appearance and health, that's it. Turned out the supplements for that were also very beneficial for my brain. I read that St. John's Wort deals mainly with dopamine and noroepinephrine. Years ago I took Wellbutrin to quit smoking. After 7 days I quit and it was like I had never smoked. All my compulsions were gone. I didn't drink soda or eat crap. But I didn't have the money to pay for it as a non-prescription so I was only on it for a month and then eventually went back to smoking and the fog and the struggle. I believe Wellbutrin also deals with those two neurotransmitters. Can't be a coincidence that I felt so very different on both St. John's Wort and Wellbutrin, but in both cases I had cleared my body of carbs and drugs. I wonder though if I was just dealing with symptoms or comorbidity and without dealing with the ADD I just slipped back. But I swear that month where I cut out all of the sugars and THEN got on St. John's Wort it was like a switch turned on (or off). I was completely new. Never felt like it before or since. It lasted for about a month. But a month is pretty much the duration for me to stick with anything really. I have immediate problems with concentration but also have tried many new things but only stay with them for a month. When I was younger it lasted quite a bit longer but I would never "finish". Unfinished college. Unfinished learning to play the piano. Unfinished portraits in my drawing pad. Unfinished crossbow making. Unfinished books. A giant mountain of unachieved goals and the weight of the guilt bearing down on my thoughts. Anyway, it's both good and bad that I've learned so much about my issues lately. Good because I can "focus" on specifics. Bad because I worry and get a little scared that I won't be able to fix it. Now that I know what it feels like to be free it can get very upsetting thinking I will never get back to it. So now all my issues seem magnified. Things seem so dire. I think, just get up and exercise or just go back on that diet but I can't connect to the actions of doing it.  I'm sitting there knowing what will dramatically help me, possibly save me, but separation is there. The knowing and the doing completely severed. It's like a membrane between me and life that I can't penetrate, sort of like in a dream where you swing as hard as you can but the punch won't connect. It's VERY frustrating and for me very shameful.

The irony is most people with ADHD will never finish this video. I’m definitely going to loose focus about 3-5 minutes in and that’s being generous.

I had my general practitioner try to give me anti-depressants in my 20s. I refused them...I didn't know what was going on with me, but I knew the depression was a symptom, not the cause. At 33 I was diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. I'm an introverted man.

I went to college, studied to be a teacher, and I’ve completed one full year in the classroom. I left education after that year, I came back the following year and lasted a month (different school) took an office job for 8 months, went back to education and lasted one month (another different school), now I’m at another office job for three months and in the process of getting diagnosed. I love teaching. I can’t stand office jobs they’re so boring and I feel so lifeless. But with teaching, I get so overwhelmed so quickly which makes me quit and I did twice very impulsively with no job lined up. Very selfishly only thinking of myself and not the kids I left behind who needed me. Next year I’m determined to go back to my very first school!!!(which was the most supportive, there just hasn’t been a vacancy) Hopefully with I can pursue my career

I’m reading his book. Wish I knew about this when i was 20. But better late than never. Thanks.

So glad he says low fat is bad - at last!!! 👏👏👏