Here’s a funny video of a comedian who’s gone public with having ADHD. Jeff Allen, a Christian comedian talking about his ADHD children at school and his own experience at school with ADHD. Can anyone relate?
I think many comedians have ADHD both the paid ones and the ones that do it for free:)
Some comedians have gone public with having ADHD ie Patrick McKenna and Rick Green who made the great ADD and Loving It movie on Adult ADHD and the website Totally ADD. Howie Mandel has also gone public with having ADHD.
There are many comedians that some people think have ADHD, who may or may not actually have it and have never claimed publicly that they had ADHD. Some of those have dyslexia or bipolar and are mistakenly put on lists as having ADHD when they don’t. That being said, you can have ADHD and dyslexia and bipolar. It’s not just one or the other. Comorbidity is the norm for ADHD Read more...
Do you know of any official ADHD strategy by any Canadian Province or US State?
8-10% of children and 5% of adults have ADHD, I hope at least a few provinces or states have an official ADHD strategy, especially for the many undiagnosed and untreated Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Please let me know of any by posting a comment with a link to the strategy.
Some provinces or states have an official strategy paper on depression or other mental health conditions.
16 to 31% of adults with ADHD also have major depressive disorder. Dysthymia, a milder form of depression, has been reported to occur in 19 to 37% of clinic-referred ADHD adults, ADHD in Adults What The Science Says p 207. Yet backwards BC’s government doesn’t even mention ADHD anywhere in their depression strategy. Read more...
Here’s some notes from my discussion at my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group Meeting, Tuesday April 3rd on how ADHD Adults can more effectively manage distractions. Thanks for Vivienne for taking the notes. Here’s a list of previous meetings where someone sent me notes.
Topic: How ADHD Adults Can Better Manage Distractions
List 2 or 3 examples of feeling the urge to act on a distraction, but you were able to stay present and resist. Discuss individually in small groups.
Check out Shannon Dooling’s blog where she’s looking for stories on how adults in BC had trouble getting diagnosed for ADHD. Read more...
I’m in this weeks Georgia Straight a Vancouver based weekly newspaper along with Dr. Margaret Weiss ex BC ADHD clinic chief commenting on the $3 million dollar BC children and adult ADHD clinic donation scandal. Matt Burrows wrote the story. We need an inquiry into this scandal.
It’s scandalous that desperate ADHD adults and parents of children with ADHD can’t find people properly trained in diagnosing ADHD in BC. Of the few who are trained in diagnosing and medically treating ADHD, many do not even have wait lists, and those who do often have very long wait lists. Read more...
Pamela Fayerman, the Vancouver Sun’s medical reporter wrote an excellent investigative story on this. Check out her Blog Medicine Matters, TwitterFacebook. But unfortunately, her 1675 word investigative story complete with a staff photographer photograph that looks like it’s written for the print edition is posted instead in her blog, not the print edition.
Why? Was it spiked? Blog spiked? It’s a great story. Did it offend the powers that be at the Vancouver Sun? Their connected friends or organizations? Vancouver Sun managing editor Harold Munro apparently made the decision. Please ask Harold why an excellent story like this is not in the print edition? Here’s his email address email hidden; JavaScript is required ADHD gets ignored or stigmatized in BC far too much. Read more...
