2025-12-27
25 分钟ADHD.
Yeah, okay.
I don't feel like I don't even have to ask a question here, but just to set the stage,
the reason why I'm so compelled by this is just this, I have to say it,
the shocking rise in diagnosis and prescriptions over the last 10 years.
Between 2000 and 2018, ADHD diagnosis is in the UK rose approximately 20 fold.
Yes.
Among boys aged 10 to 16 diagnosis increased from 1% roughly to about 3.5% in 2018 and in men aged 18 to 29 there was a nearly 50 fold increase in ADHD prescriptions during the same period and the same applies to the United States where an estimated 15.5 million adults in the US have been diagnosed with ADHD approximately one in nine US children have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point,
with 10.5% having a current diagnosis.
I don't know where ADHD was, but the conversation around it, the prescriptions,
the diagnosis seemed to have really surged into culture in a really, really big way.
What's going on?
So ADHD was one of the factors that drove me to write being there.
Because I was seeing this huge uptick in ADHD diagnosis and children being medicated so, so early.
Do you know what the fight or flight reaction is?
That's when the sympathetic nervous system starts to kick into action and...
Yes, so well, it's basically our evolutionary response to a predatory threat.
So if a sable-toothed tiger was chasing you,
you either stood and fought, fight, or you ran for your life, flight.
So when our children are under stress, they go into fight or flight.