David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
ADHD and Anxiety: ADHD Looks Like OCD
by Dr Charles Parker
May 31, 2009
You can’t judge abook brain by it’s cover.
So much of our work with ADHD is based upon necessary, but limited pre-technology diagnosis. For years we had to rely on appearances, and didn’t have the means to measure function, much less see specific areas of the brain as they function. As a consequence of using only one set of glasses we still use phenomena as targets, and many critique valid, peer reviewed findings regarding hard brain evidence.
As you will see in this video, ‘anxiety‘ can take on many different faces - and cognitive anxiety, you heard it first here, is simply not in the books yet - strange, but true. If we don’t look for it, we just can’t see it - and so much of ADHD symptoms are associated with anxiety. I see so many who say they aren’t anxious, but suffer from complete mental shutdown from cognitive anxiety. You will get it with this video:
YouTube - ADHD 'Anxiety' Diagnosis? Brain Function Beyond Labels
Sign up either on the blog here for email updates or over at my Channel on YouTube to keep up with the many planned ADHD and CorePsych videos. Might as well stay posted for these small, but useful tidbits from years of ongoing office work, - evolved from when we couldn’t see what we were shooting at.
And, of course, not all OCD is ADHD, but with a history and significant additional findings we will get the medications dead wrong if we miss ‘dopamine‘ and only make the ‘serotonin‘ diagnosis.
by Dr Charles Parker
May 31, 2009
You can’t judge a
So much of our work with ADHD is based upon necessary, but limited pre-technology diagnosis. For years we had to rely on appearances, and didn’t have the means to measure function, much less see specific areas of the brain as they function. As a consequence of using only one set of glasses we still use phenomena as targets, and many critique valid, peer reviewed findings regarding hard brain evidence.
As you will see in this video, ‘anxiety‘ can take on many different faces - and cognitive anxiety, you heard it first here, is simply not in the books yet - strange, but true. If we don’t look for it, we just can’t see it - and so much of ADHD symptoms are associated with anxiety. I see so many who say they aren’t anxious, but suffer from complete mental shutdown from cognitive anxiety. You will get it with this video:
YouTube - ADHD 'Anxiety' Diagnosis? Brain Function Beyond Labels
Sign up either on the blog here for email updates or over at my Channel on YouTube to keep up with the many planned ADHD and CorePsych videos. Might as well stay posted for these small, but useful tidbits from years of ongoing office work, - evolved from when we couldn’t see what we were shooting at.
And, of course, not all OCD is ADHD, but with a history and significant additional findings we will get the medications dead wrong if we miss ‘dopamine‘ and only make the ‘serotonin‘ diagnosis.
