Do You Have ADHD? | Dr. Mark Bertin
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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The difference between ADHD and human distractibility, and strategies for managing ADHD that can improve your focus, even if you don't have it.
Today's guest is Dr. Mark Bertin, a developmental pediatrician who specializes in ADHD and developmental disorders. He's the author of How Children Thrive, Mindful Parenting for ADHD, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD, and The Family ADHD Solution, which integrates mindfulness into pediatric care. For more information, please visit his website at www.developmentaldoctor.com.
In this episode we talk about:
- The difference between ADD and ADHD, and the subcategories: hyperactive and inattentive.
- Whether ADHD is a new condition brought on by the distractions of a modern world, or one that's always been around.
- The difference between being human and distractible, and having ADHD.
- Strategies for managing ADHD that can be used even if you don't have ADHD.
Episodes Mentioned:
Kryptonite for the Inner Critic | Kristin Neff
Self Compassion Isn't Always Soft | Kristin Neff
The Scientific Case for Self Compassion | Chris Germer
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host, your boy Dan Harris. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello, everybody. Here is a thing you hear people say all the time, at least I hear it all |
| 0:24.6 | the time and maybe you've actually said this thing. Here's the thing. I'm so ADD. We throw |
| 0:30.8 | this term around a lot, but what is it really? What's the difference between ADD and ADHD? |
| 0:36.5 | How do you know if you have it or if somebody you love and maybe even your kid has it? |
| 0:40.7 | And what do you do about it? We're going to answer all of these questions today and the |
| 0:44.0 | good news is that on that last question, what do you do about it? The answers are going |
| 0:48.1 | to be useful not only for people who have ADD or ADHD, but everybody. My guess is Dr. |
| 0:54.2 | Mark Burton. He's a new friend of mine. In fact, we live near each other. He's a developmental |
| 0:58.8 | pediatrician and author of several books, including How Children Thrive, Mindful Parenting |
| 1:04.0 | for ADHD and the Family ADHD solution to be clear. This interview is not focused just |
| 1:09.5 | on children or parents. It's for everybody. We talk about the difference between ADD and |
| 1:14.3 | ADHD and the subcategories, hyperactive and inattentive. Weather ADHD is a new condition |
| 1:21.4 | brought on by modern life for something that's been around forever. The difference between |
| 1:26.6 | being human and distractable and having ADHD and strategies for managing ADHD that can be |
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