My Life with ADD - Rick Green

most of the media coverage about ADHD has been very biased in the media, it's a bit like I want to understand what's going on in the Middle East and I'm seeing shot after shot of planes crashing into the World Trade Center, so mythology about ADHD that it's nothing or that it's just kids or that it's just hyperactivity or that it's a choice or it's a lack of willpower, all of that is what I found when I was first diagnosed 15 years ago People around me's reaction was awesome when I told them that my thyroid was out of control and that I had to take some thyroid medication.

They were all fine when I told them I had ADHD, you don't have ADHD, they just realized that, you just have to concentrate more. you know, and it's a bit like you don't need glasses, you just need to concentrate, yeah, I have a problem with concentration, well, you don't need a crutch, you know, just willpower, anyway, so what I discovered very quickly was that everything I knew ADHD was wrong and then as I became educated and interested and discovered the difference that actually dealing with it made me understand what was going on once I started addressing it, everything changed eight years ago, we did a documentary with Pat

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McKenna adds and he loves it and I think five or six million people have seen it and they go to the Totaladd.com website and you can't see them cry, but they say it.

I'm crying, thank God. I've been watching my whole

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I thought it was weird I thought it was stupid My whole family whatever and suddenly they're online That's why I'm forgetful That's why for me I've often written, acted and directed 700 radio and television episodes in the last few 35 40 years and yet my taxes were always late now, when I fall behind on paying my taxes, I pay another fine again and another 200 that could have gone to my children's education, goes to the government in a fine, what? I'm going to think maybe it's my neurotransmitters and I'm wired differently or I'm going to think that the selfish, lazy bad dad can't even do his own taxes, everyone does their own taxes, so suddenly knowing that this This is what I do really well and this is what I didn't do particularly well, it changed my

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if I had known this 40 years ago, everything would have been different every day, there's another email from someone and they just say thank you, I've lost life, I'm in my third marriage. going through my fourth bankruptcy I was already fed up, I bought some pills that I was going to take for two weeks on Friday since my lawyer said we would finish the paperwork and by chance I saw your TV show about ADHD and I threw the pills in the bathroom and I was in my doctor's office yesterday morning at eight demanding to see him and he gave me something and everything is changing thank you how can you top that yeah?