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I grew up with a mother that suffered from depression and mental illness and I was the oldest of three. So I took care of my younger siblings quite often while my mom would disappear sometimes for hours at a time.

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I have ADD. Maybe you have ADD or as I like to say maybe you live with someone who has the gift of attention deficit disorder. Maybe you love someone who has attention deficit disorder.

In this episode I'm going to share with you some of the ways that I learned to cope with it for 45 years before actually getting a diagnosis.

And I hope some of these things will help you or a loved one.

Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times bestselling author celebrity fitness trainer and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Growing up I was not a very good student. I had a difficult time paying attention. All of the classic symptoms and struggles of someone with attention deficit disorder.

Now when I was growing up and going to school it wasn't as common of a diagnosis and it certainly was less so for girls.

Once I did have a formal diagnosis my symptoms my experiences it just kind of seemed so obvious that I had attention deficit disorder.

You just didn't realize it. If you've listened to any of the previous episodes I've done on this topic.

Well I should say this if you haven't I encourage you to go back and listen to those and I've placed links and quick descriptions of those in the show notes for quick reference for you because

it is really important you understand some things first of all that there are seven different types of attention deficit disorder that really many experts believe there's only two types of attention deficit disorder which benefit from medication.

The other five the symptoms are often made worse and or it's associated with so many other side effects from taking the medication because our brains work differently.

Where we receive blood flow and how our brains work are different depending on what type of attention deficit disorder you have and so I just want to start this episode off with a reminder that the most important organ you have in your body is your brain.

And it would seem prudent that a doctor treating your brain would want to look at the brain.

I think all too often we just allow physicians psychiatrist to ask a few questions to assess just from the answers to your questions whether or not someone has attention deficit disorder frankly it's like asking a series of questions about what it is you can see.

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