57- Emotions and ADHD: How Adults and Teens Can Find Emotional Balance
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2014
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Shame, anger, guilt, hopelessness - feelings like these can take over and cause an ADHDer to get "stuck" at school, at work, or in relationships. Dr. Thomas Brown brings attention to the unrecognized role emotions play in our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Susan Coffin you're listening to Attitude magazine's ADHD experts audio. |
| 0:18.0 | We often talk about attention deficit disorder as a disorder of attention or of being too active, hyperactive or being |
| 0:25.3 | impulsive. But today's topic is emotion and the emotional side of |
| 0:29.9 | attention deficit disorder. We're very pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Brown back |
| 0:33.8 | again today as our speaker. Dr. Brown has been at the forefront of focusing on |
| 0:38.5 | this aspect of ADHD, the emotional side of regulation. You'll be talking about how our emotions can as he puts a gobble up all the space in our minds and lead us to overreact or underreact. |
| 0:50.0 | Frustration, hurt feelings, irritability, mood swings, emotional reactions of all kinds |
| 0:55.4 | that have not traditionally been associated with attention deficit disorder. |
| 0:59.8 | Dr. Brown is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. |
| 1:05.2 | He's the Associate Director of Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders. He's the author of a number of books, including his new book, |
| 1:13.4 | Smart but Stoc Emotions and Teens and Adults with ADHD. |
| 1:18.2 | So with that, let me turn it over to Dr. Brown. |
| 1:20.9 | Thank you again so much for being here today. You are one of our most popular speakers and we're really happy to have you. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:28.0 | My pleasure and I thank all of you who have tuned in to listen and watch this. |
| 1:33.0 | As Susan mentioned, the topic of emotion hasn't been talked about very much in |
| 1:38.0 | PD literature and it's not mentioned at all in the current diagnostic criteria for ADHD but those of |
| 1:47.0 | us who are involved in doing assessment and treatment for ADHD and anybody who has ADHD themselves |
| 1:56.0 | or who lives with or knows well somebody with ADHD |
| 2:01.0 | is likely to be able to recognize that emotions are a big part of what people with ADHD struggle |
| 2:09.2 | with and it's not that their emotions are different from the emotions that other people have, but rather |
| 2:16.5 | that there are some difficulties that impact their emotions as part of the ADHD. |
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