Your Brain & ADD with Dr. Daniel and Tana Amen
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
4.7 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today’s question for the Kwik Brain community is how do you know if you have ADD, and what can you do about it?
Dr. Amen’s book Healing ADD has sold half a million copies and helped countless people. Dr. Amen and his wife Tana—who is also a bestselling author and lives with ADD—join us today to help us understand where to start when we think someone we love might have ADD.
In this conversation, we’ll define ADD, bust some common myths about ADD, and explain how the disorder can play out in everyday life. We’ll give you some practical resources you can use to help a loved one with ADD, and some ideas for steps you can take towards healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:09.0 | Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:16.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:21.0 | I know Kung Fu. Show me. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back QuickBrain. So here's your question for today. This is a big one that we get often posted in our private Facebook group. |
| 0:34.7 | How do you know if you have A.D. or someone you know has A.D. and what do you do about it? |
| 0:40.4 | And I'm really excited to have this conversation here today because we're here with New York Times best-selling authors, Tana Aeman and Dr. Daniel Aeman. So the question is, we're talking about AEDD. Is it AEDD or is it just living in the 21st century in the age full of distraction. |
| 0:56.0 | If somebody's struggling with this for themselves or someone that they know, where do we start? |
| 1:00.0 | So when we had our first grade... |
| 1:02.0 | I totally did not... So when we had our first day. |
| 1:03.0 | I totally did not believe AEDD was a real thing, first of all. |
| 1:08.0 | I thought you just needed to work harder, pay attention, like, dig in. |
| 1:12.0 | Okay, so that was more than 13 years ago and then we found not only did |
| 1:15.3 | she have it but everybody and her family had it from her mother and her uncle and |
| 1:19.7 | her dad would actually been diagnosed with it and he didn't have it. |
| 1:24.1 | And so ADD or ADHD, you know it's had both names through the years, |
| 1:30.3 | is a neurodevelopmental disorder where over time, |
| 1:38.0 | so it's not something you just have for the moment |
| 1:40.4 | because you're tired. |
| 1:41.9 | Over time, you have a short attention span. |
| 1:44.8 | You're distracted. |
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