Distracted with Mark Patey, ADD/ADHD

Even today with all the information available, doctors are still over-prescribing medications.  Also, was masturbation really used as an example to make a point about ADHD in this episode?  Yes, yes it was, and nobody giggled.  Plus, by popular demand, the “Uneducated Segment” is back and tackles protecting our children.    There was even more, but possibly forgettable as it’s not coming to mind.  

Mark is invited as the keynote speaker at the annual Utah Valley University ADHD Conference.  THIS IS NOT THAT SPEECH . . . but rather Mark and Miah talking about highlights and lowlights of the event.  Miah almost chokes on his drink.  Don’t worry, rescue personel were not required.  ;)

Suicide.  The worlds talking about Robin Williams, some chosing to bring light to his beleaved stuggles with ADHD.  Mark and Miah give thier thoughts on this subject in  a more serious then normal podcast.  

Boredom as a form of depression could be particually dangerous for the ADHD mind.  How it sets in and some ideas on how to snap out of it.  Also, an “uneducated” segment on what REALLY breeds success.

ADHD 16 What Are The Gifts of ADHD?

Our super-heros, Mark and Miah, take on the new year.  News Years goals are a bi#@!.  Where does motivation come from?  What’s success?  Beliefs are Taught, Bought, or Caught.  AND another “Uneducated” segment to upset the masses, while somehow propelling you forward with a new perspective.  

Two winners of previous giveaways are announced and new contest is explained.  Share with us your ideas for how we can improve the show to win a GoPro Camera.  Also, please leave positive feedback on comments section in iTunes.  

Giving away $200 for someone who does the best thankyou to thier Equal Opposite.  Also reviewing and talking about the impact on contestants in the ADHD Genius contest. 

Dec 18 Christmas Giveaway $110 plus free copy of ADDicts and Millionaires.   Show us your favorite distraction to win.  Listen for details.  Send entry to mark@ADHDgift.com  

Send in a photo of you with “ADHD Genius”  writen down with an arrow pointed at yourself.  Winner picked midnight Dec 17th.  Email it to mark@ADHDgift.com to enter to win.  Listen for details. 

Opening distraction, three months left to live.  Then onto the topic from a callers questions; what to try before using meds.  Also an “Uneducated” segment about turning your passion into your career.  

Missing Miah, but joined by another wonderful person, Mark discusses ADHD diagnosis with Therapist Christy Kane.  Trends in therapy, finding normal, bricks in a wall and something about tattoos and Harleys.  Also, is it possible that America itself was a grand ADHD experiment? 

Dr Bill Powell D.O. joins Mark and Miah for a look at ADHD, Executive Function, and Diet through Osteopathic Family Practitioners Eyes; and why not talk about gas as well? 

It wouldn’t be like Mark and Miah to not eventually do a show about handcuffs; so the real question is, who’s blindfolded and handcuffed?  Also, 4 types of people are discussed, what type are you?  Then, common advice given to those with ADHD is put to the test in the UN-Educated Segment. 

Hosts Mark Patey and Jeremiah Johnson try to be serious, and fail; yet somehow they manage to relate rusty tools to life and ADHD.  A caller from Africa requests help with ADD and ADHD within a culture that doesn’t accept it seriously.  Then, Placebos and their place, or not, within the ADHD world.  Finally, for the “Uneducated” segment, our heroes tackle “The Calm Before the Storm”

Getting high with ADD ADHD medications, Searching for a possible suicide, and what the British Medical Journal has gotten so worked up over in ADD ADHD diagnosis.  

Our hosts invite Steps Recovery owner, Mike Jorgensen, onto the program to talk about ADHD and addictions.  Uneducated segment… Are people lazy?  Also, does Miah have a third nipple? Tune in and not find out on this episode. 

A plane crash and how it is related to ADHD.  More you didn’t know about your hosts, including Miah’s epic ADHD moment at work at the worst possible time.  Also, Mark and Miah take a question from Sergio, a listener call-in concerned about ADHD in social settings.  Then in the “Uneducated” segment our hosts take on cluttered desks as a sign of a cluttered mind.

Mark and Miah take on an article about ADHD diagnoses in preschool children.