I started listening to the podcast some time ago and found it both useful and quite funny - all in one. Moreover, the topics and content you've been bringing to the public are incredibly interesting and relevant right now. It also helps me realize that I'm not alone in facing similar mental and emotional battles.
Love this podcast , so interesting and so true. Once you're diagnosed as neurodivergent it takes the pressure off and gone are the days of beating yourself up! Maggie talks a lot of sense. Well done to you both.
In regards to diagnoses with ADHD and other neuro-divergent dispositions becoming more and more prevelant, modern humans "bad habits", and whether or not there's a connection, I've always wondered if our increasingly technology-driven way of life and our general over-stimulation just make the symptoms more prone to be triggered?! The slower, less overwhelming pace of "the old days" could've provided better circumstances to adjust, even if one was neuro-divergent, which made it a bit easier to adapt?!
I really have no idea, but this is a highly interesting topic and I can imagine that there have always been a significant number of people who's brains just function differently, but could assimilate with less difficulty...
This makes so much sense. The kind of overwhelm that affects me now compared to the past is an entirely different beast. My panic attacks are more frequent and intense, often exacerbated by being online and a ton of over-stimulation. I've always had trouble focusing on my reading and immersing myself, and increasingly I'm more and more jittery and jumpy, fidgeting, heart racing, thoughts racing, panicking if I try to sit and 'relax'. It's concerning, to put it mildly.
There's a different culture out there now, a different planet and political landscape too. Simply aging also makes a difference. Our hormones (for both men and women) change, our bodies change, and of course our environment changes too (parents aging for example). But the fact that we are getting bombared with notifications and ads etc doesn't help.
Same here, unfortunately. There's just this general sense that I was better able to "manage" as opposed to now and in more recent years and it concerns me too.
Yep, our brain type has always been around, but we were doing a lot of things that 'accidentally' helped manage our less productive traits. And I believe that the ADHD brain is finding it harder than the neurotypical brain to adapt to our world, the way it is today.
I started listening to the podcast some time ago and found it both useful and quite funny - all in one. Moreover, the topics and content you've been bringing to the public are incredibly interesting and relevant right now. It also helps me realize that I'm not alone in facing similar mental and emotional battles.
Thank you for your effort!
Love this podcast , so interesting and so true. Once you're diagnosed as neurodivergent it takes the pressure off and gone are the days of beating yourself up! Maggie talks a lot of sense. Well done to you both.
Maggie does talk a lot of sense, she's the perfect counterbalance to my nonsense!
Thank you Francis ☺️
Thanks, Francis 🙏 It made a huge difference for me!
In regards to diagnoses with ADHD and other neuro-divergent dispositions becoming more and more prevelant, modern humans "bad habits", and whether or not there's a connection, I've always wondered if our increasingly technology-driven way of life and our general over-stimulation just make the symptoms more prone to be triggered?! The slower, less overwhelming pace of "the old days" could've provided better circumstances to adjust, even if one was neuro-divergent, which made it a bit easier to adapt?!
I really have no idea, but this is a highly interesting topic and I can imagine that there have always been a significant number of people who's brains just function differently, but could assimilate with less difficulty...
This makes so much sense. The kind of overwhelm that affects me now compared to the past is an entirely different beast. My panic attacks are more frequent and intense, often exacerbated by being online and a ton of over-stimulation. I've always had trouble focusing on my reading and immersing myself, and increasingly I'm more and more jittery and jumpy, fidgeting, heart racing, thoughts racing, panicking if I try to sit and 'relax'. It's concerning, to put it mildly.
There's a different culture out there now, a different planet and political landscape too. Simply aging also makes a difference. Our hormones (for both men and women) change, our bodies change, and of course our environment changes too (parents aging for example). But the fact that we are getting bombared with notifications and ads etc doesn't help.
Same here, unfortunately. There's just this general sense that I was better able to "manage" as opposed to now and in more recent years and it concerns me too.
Yep, our brain type has always been around, but we were doing a lot of things that 'accidentally' helped manage our less productive traits. And I believe that the ADHD brain is finding it harder than the neurotypical brain to adapt to our world, the way it is today.