110 | A Healthier Relationship with Medication

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Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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110 | A Healthier Relationship with Medication guest Stephen Tonti Stephen’s primary focus is writing and directing for film and various other multimedia projects. On top of being a film director, Stephen also tours as a public speaker advocating for men and women diagnosed with ADHD. In 2013, Stephen was selected for the Carnegie Mellon University TEDx Student Speaker Competition. He gave his first speech on the subject there, in front of over 700 fellow students, professors, and various educators. His talk is on YouTube and has gathered almost 680,000 views to date. Stephen is yet unsigned, but will begin giving an updated version of his TED talk on tour later this year. Stephen graced the ADHD reWired virtual studio this past January. Stephen is quite a character. Stephen, like many ADHD people is quite stubborn, to the tune that he while having an argument with his girlfriend about whether he was ADHD or simply had ADHD, he proceeded to give a public talk to further affirm his point of view. This lead to the end of that relationship. Stephen has since grown in his knowledge of ADHD. Once believing that medication was only a last result for adults only, he now does not advocate one way or the other. Stephen states that medication alone is no guarantee of success, and that medication too often gets the credit. Stephens’s ADHD life philosophy is: DISCOVER Discover it exists UNDERSTAND Understand and research to find out what ADHD is. Get the whole picture ACCEPT ADHD is real. You have ADHD. ADHD is not made up SSUPPORT Get support for your ADHD. Support others who have ADHD. Give ADHD. Avoid shame at all costs! Today it is quite normal to see and/or hear Stephen Tonti talking to himself. That is talking to himself out loud. He does this even if others are around. There is no need to be frightened this is just one of his own methods he uses to coach himself. If you would like to contact Stephen you can reach him at

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0:00.0	The core of my evolution and thought surrounds this notion that at the time of saying that my
0:11.6	crosshairs, my bullseye was on medication because it was a short-term
0:17.2	solution to my angst over a roller coaster ride of feelings about how Ritalin was affecting my day-to-day life,
0:30.7	creativity, my emotional state, etc. I think it was easy to point the crosshairs at that
0:37.2	because it's so black and white it's very clear. However a favorite quote of mine is if you're trying to solve a problem that's
0:47.2	solvable in your lifetime you're not thinking big enough. 80-HD rewired episode 110. This is the show designed to help those of us who have really good intentions and a slightly wandering attention.
1:09.0	My name is Eric Tivers. I'm a licensed clinical social worker, coach, and consultant.
1:15.1	We know that starting can be the hardest part, so let's get started.
1:21.3	But first, let me thank our sponsors.
1:23.6	Did you hear this week's episode of the Tom Nardone show, the one on a marriage?
1:31.6	He announced that sales of his book
1:33.7	Chasing Kites is up and he credited you. The ADHD rewired community. So let's see
1:39.4	here how a little peer pressure works. All your friends are doing it. Don't be the only one in the
1:44.6	ADHD rewired community not to have read chasing kites. Go to ADHD rewired
1:50.9	dot com and click on the chasing kites image at the right side of the page or
1:55.0	go directly to townneradone dot net get his book chasing kites.
2:00.0	Hi my name is Nisha Subramanian. You heard me on episode 98. I was also part of Eric's last coaching group.
2:09.7	And ever since the coaching group bound up,
2:12.7	I have been helping out with the next two coaching groups.
2:17.9	We have some nerdy titles that have been given to me.
2:20.6	I've been called the group moderator, systems administrator, and some other
2:26.1	titles. But mostly I feel like I've been watching a whole group of people going through
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