Podcast 449: Addressing Adolescent ADD & ADHD with Child Psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi Part 2

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to child and adolescent psychiatrist, psychotherapist, professor, mental health advocate and author Sami Timimi about the dangers of pathologizing childhood, the myths surrounding ADHD, a better way to approach children’s mental health, and more. This is part 2 of a series I did with Dr. Timimi, so if you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, we recommend doing so before listening to this podcast.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

2:38 The manufacture of ADHD

7:50, 10:00 The genetic myths surrounding ADHD

9:47 Behavioral issues & the impossibility of disentangling nature and nurture

26:18 The failure of ADHD brain imaging studies

31:00 Where brain scans fall short: the debate between trait or state of mind

37:00, 51:30 The chemical imbalance myth & ADHD

57:00 There is hope!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr Caroline Leif and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Maintainment Miss.
0:11.0	In today's podcast I have a really important discussion with Professor Sam Tommini.
0:16.3	This is part two and we are discussing ADHD in Dips.
0:20.8	Professor Sam Tommini is a consultant child psychiatrist in the National Health Service
0:24.4	in the UK as well as a professor of child psychiatry and mental health improvement at
0:28.5	the University of Lincoln, UK.
0:30.5	He has published over 130 articles and many chapters and five books relating to mental health
0:36.3	and childhood.
0:38.0	In this podcast today which is part two, we dive into ADHD.
0:42.2	We talk about how the manufacturing of ADHD has come about, how there is no characteristic
0:48.0	genetic abnormality, how brain imaging studies have not uncovered any specific characteristic
0:53.5	of any other type of labelled as a medical ability of ADHD.
0:59.2	Nor characteristic chemical imbalance associated with ADHD.
1:02.4	We also talk about what we should be doing and the truth behind what is happening and
1:07.7	how we can help children that have been labelled with ADHD.
1:11.9	So join me in this podcast today.
1:14.5	Sammy, it's so wonderful having you back again for part two of this discussion where we
1:19.1	really got into diagnosis and the danger of diagnosis in the biomedical model which is
1:23.5	really not for psychiatry which is just not working.
1:26.7	Turning the psych...
1:28.7	The medicalisation of misery as Janemon Krief talks about it and you talk about this
1:33.3	energising childhood and how it's grown and you're a psychiatrist and you are very aware
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