ADHD During a Pandemic

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

People with ADHD, and those they live with, can be under enormous amounts of stress even without a pandemic. But as quarantine life drags on, an even darker side of ADHD is emerging. In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen take a Brain Warrior look into recent current events to help shed some light on how we can achieve and maintain our brain and overall health, even when some of the chips seem to be stacked against us.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.
0:19.0	The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, where we have been transforming lives
0:26.0	for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your
0:32.0	brain.
0:32.6	For more information, visit Aemon Clinics.com.
0:36.0	The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD
0:39.7	where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.
0:45.3	To learn more, go to brainMD.com.
0:48.9	Welcome back.
0:49.9	We are now well into 2021, and we are talking about brain in the news today.
0:55.3	So I want to start off with the dark side of ADHD, suicide and the pandemic.
1:01.3	Wow.
1:02.3	We're into 2021, pandemic's not over. Very important to really
1:07.4	discipline your thoughts and focus on your mental health because that is going
1:11.0	to be the thing that really helps you. But the
1:13.8	dark side of ADHD adults with ADHD were much more likely to have attempted
1:18.2	suicide than those without. So one in four women with ADHD have attempted
1:22.4	suicide 60% yeah 60% of the
1:26.6	association between ADHD and attempted suicide was attenuated when lifetime
1:31.8	history of depression
1:32.9	and anxiety disorders were taken into account,
1:35.4	probably meaning maybe they didn't get help, I'm guessing.
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