The ADHD and Depression Connection
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Thirty percent of people with ADHD will have a depressive episode, or a mood disorder. If you have ADHD, your risk of developing depression is four times greater than it is for those without the disorder. That's because of ADHD-specific risk factors including differences in brain chemicals and how you process emotions.
In this video, from his ADDitude webinar titled "The ADHD-Depression Connection in Adults: Understanding the Link, Distinct Symptoms, and First-Line Treatments," Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D., explains why these commonly comorbid conditions - ADHD and depression - overlap.
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I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with ADHD. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
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its so weird to be dead and numb and slow all the time and then suddenly this spike in dopamine gives me this insane hyper-ness to talk forever and run around my house and laugh at nothing. My parents told me I couldn't be depressed because of these sudden bursts of energy, its really frustrating because I have been diagnosed with both and deal with both all the time.
Sounds similar to a mood disorder like bpd as well
The same exact thing happens to me
Dude I’m so glad I’m not the only who feels that way. Thank you for sharing
I relate to this so much
Not a professional, but this sounds like bipolar disorder, which is commonly misdiagnosed as depression. I'd look into getting evaluated for BD if I were you.
Got depression at 11 years old, and now I know I have ADHD so it explains it a bit better. My home life wasn't even thaaatttt bad, but ig the off balance in my brain made it so much easier to get depressed. I used to blame myself for being depressed without having a tragic sad villain backstory lmao.
Fr same like my life was just normal and good I guess so I felt really selfish for having depression like this when there were people way worse off than me.
@@ummmmno411 totally agreed. Sometimes I got so confused why am I so depressed?
i could never understand why i was so sad, and i hated things that suddenly lifted my mood without a discernible and/or sustainable reason
omg me too this is extremely awakening!!
I became really sad at the age of 9 or 10, but I didn’t know what depression was. I had facial dysmorphia… but real depression started from the ending of last year till now. I’m 75% sure I have ADHD, but it’s not confirmed. And people won’t believe me, so I just keep it to myself.
Every once in a while I just get this short burst of happiness where I feel high in the sky and like everything is great, but then it feels like every week or every few days I feel numb and depressed for no apparent reason. I usually can sleep it off and I bounce back to myself in the morning. I have ADHD.
Same
Same bruh
Same
described me to the T.
Same here haha
Thank you. I'm gradually coming to understand how a lifetime of personal challenges are looking like undiagnosed ADHD.
That’s what it ended up being for me I found out at 36
I'm totally in the same boat
It even worse then normal depression because you have EVEN LESS idea what to do with yourself. Yea end up in this awful limbo of depressed and HIGHLY bored it maddening
I'm tired and I feel frustrated trying to tell my doctor that I think my adhd causes my depression... I feel like crying....cause I feel useless and that I'm just the problem.
I feel pretty similar but don't feel that way. I'm trying to train myself and asking god to help me to see that Adhd is NOT my fault. It's not YOURS either. Our brain chemistry is just different with less Dopamine. We can't help it. We were probably born that way. Having it is extremely frustrating and is an everyday struggle I know but please try not to put yourself down that will make it worse. Best Wishes. Hopefully your doctor will understand. If he or she is a good doctor then he will.
I'm having difficulty with my ADHD and depression myself, I be getting lonely and be losing focus when it comes to my purpose in life. I think the best way to do is to connect with God first, then yourself and then understandable positive people to help you to heal even if it's a slow process don't give in to discouragement.
@@sullyson I agree. Good advice. This helps me: Phillipians 4:6,7:" Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your mental powers by means of Christ Jesus." Sometimes all I can do is pray. When I do that I always receive the strength I need to keep going. Best Wishes!😊
@@princessniamarie8024 do you ever want to keep in contact by email just in case you need someone to talk about anything
I’ve told my doctor twice now that I’m depressed when I’ve gone in to see him for my ADHD meds and he pretty much tells me that I’m not.. I just want to scream at him that i feel like hurting myself!!!
I feel what may be the most depressing thing is the feeling that are performance is inconsistent. I know that if I don’t take my meds I won’t be able to function at work
I cant buy meds. My parents will know, they'll kill me if they know. How do i function without meds ? I just want to feel and function like a normal person.. how do I do it without meds? Rn it's very Difficult, i can't concentrate. I can't even write a sentence without thinking about it for hours or just procrastinating it for hours....
@@DESTINY.104if you go see a psychiatrist they can prescribe you the medication they think will best help
Usually I'm happy go lucky but sometimes I can shoot into this spiral of depressed thoughts and now I know why
Same
Not being medicated really does take a toll on me I haven't seen a behavioral health dr or anyone in that field in 10 years and to everyone else I'm just stupid ,I don't care , it's really hard you want to pay attention but you can't retain information easily as everyone else and no one really wants to take the time to help you understand and it makes you feel alone and unwanted like you're just a burden to everyone you cross paths with it really does lead to depression and suicidal thoughts when not treated I struggle to say what things sometimes but this video really explains it in words I can't really say myself
I feel like I'm on the wrong medication but when I speak of this, ny doctor just increases my dose. Will also not acknowledge or treat my adhd and I 100 percent have it
Thanks for the pop ups on the side. Helps to stay focused
Thats actually so true
I would be leaving the video wondering what I just watched
It really does help allot to keep track of whats being said !
Sarcasm? Cause I actually did find seeing the words he was speaking easier to follow what he was saying.
I developed a lot of ocd growing up bc of my ADHD. I wasn't capable of being function like a normal person, so I would go wayyyy deeper into the organization and anxiety of trying to get stuff done. With time, I truly believed that I could be someone great and I had so many ideas for that.
It hurts so bad when you want to be alive but you are uncapable of living, ADHD did that to me, ADHD made me feel like I could never be anything, it didn't matter how organized, motived I was, I couldn't do the work.
Bc of this feeling I had a pretty long depress episode (4years) and I'm still in the process of being diagnosed with ADHD rn with 19years old. I really hope I can get better
For me the thing that bothers me the most is being so slow for no reason. Like i can not even follow along with a conversation. Its really annoying and im not sure if this is because of adhd?. Im in the process of getting diagnosed now at 20 y/o and hope to get decent treatment if this indeed is adhd.
@@KK001SAME man. sometimes Im caught up by my own thoughts and not even capable of normal and simple tasks. Like u said, conversations too. So I lock myself in the room more often as I grow up and have social anxiety too rn.
Reading comments on this video and doing constant research about state of myself while being depressed over 5 years now, Im really sure that this is ADHD related. Lets get outta this stage of life someday together. Lets get better :)
I literally can never put this into words and u did😭
All of this I can relate to. Sometimes I think that maybe it's not ADHD and I'm just emotionally unstable. But then I look at my erratic behavior and inability to focus on certain things, just losing interest and wanting to focus on other things very quickly. I would often put the blame on others whenever I'm feeling depressed when in reality I just don't know how to process my emotions sometimes. This video has given me the incentive to get a diagnosis, so thank you
i love that i zoned out the whole video thinking about the best way to end
End what?
@@theohuioiesin6519 life, theo
ending life
@@simonschmitt3598 please dont bro
@@yadig3709 yea no just thoughts, don’t worry bro
thanks for caring :)
@@simonschmitt3598 hey, don’t do it. Please don’t. I believe in you, you are NEVER alone. :)
If I'm going to spend my whole life dissapointing everyone I care about, then I don't want to live
There are still some people that are kind enough to love you regardless of what you “achieve” if you find one or two of those you will have an easier life. Hopefully you are alive to read this.
@@theohuioiesin6519 I've been much better, I appreciate it
In elementary i was having suicidal thoughts, I had trouble making friends and I usually played alone at recess and ate lunch alone. I was always excluded, constantly in trouble, my impulsive episodes were humiliating to say the least. I wish that I had friends aside from the ones on xbox live. Constant low grades and difficulty fitting in made me the weird one and It was always upsetting when we had to do group projects because I would end up having to work alone. I really am saddened
Me too, man. Me too ✌️
I'm in alot of emotional pain for literally no reason and I dont feel myself... I wanted to do research on what I have.
Hey! I feel you! But the best way to help yourself Is to go seek help , go see a professional!! I know it's been a year but I hope you are doing better!
It’s like feeling like no one understands me and it sucks I’ve noticed my symptoms are getting worse and lately my emotions are more vibrant and louder when I don’t wanna focus on certain bad things but the best advice I can give as just try your best to not live with the adhd label and do a lot of research on how you can control it instead of it controlling you I understand that judgement you get from saying your just lazy and knowing nobody around you has it or has the effects it has on you but understand if stay consistent and don’t allow yourself to be lazy when feeling unmotivated things will get better it’s nothing wrong with you or anybody with adhd don’t think just cause you have this brain disorder your automatically set back in life look at it is a gift just focus on bettering yourself each and every day and don’t allow yourself to fall into bad habits or addictions and stay consistent with improving yourself I wish anybody adhd good luck I’ve had it my whole and I know it sucks but it doesn’t make you or break you tell that to yourself everyday
This explains so much, what the Hell
You can actually feel dopamine like its a fluid or vitamin in the brain. I have had crippling depression most of my life and adhd makes it a horrible way to live. I didn't notice the physical difference until switching from antidepressants to amphetamine. I look back often and remember a state of mind that doesn't even feel like my memory. Its like being 2 different people and when the chemicals in the brain are correct i feel like myself. The connection between adhd and depression use the same method of function but are expressed differently.
Two minutes yes, but full of very important information. I never feel “at my best”.
My ADHD when I went to get help, I thought it was anxiety. I was shocked that I had MDD, not just mild..severe. Everyone if you describe me to call me a positive person, a person who gives good advice. In fact, in some of the groups I’m in they call me. Ms. positivity and Ms. sunshine. But I’ll come home and cry myself to sleep.
I am a engineer and while I was in the college I had trouble concentrating while studying... After few mins of studying my mind would wonder around on different thing for hours but I was able to concentrate during class maybe thats why I always passed my exam despite studying last min in the morning with hyper focusing (must be because I really wanted to pass the exam) I kid you not I literally was only able to focus on morning of the exam day. So I fell into depression thinking I was dumb cus I cant concentrate. I feel like ADHD and depression goes side by side.
Now how do we address the problem. How does one work on this?
Alena i’ve been wanted to know forever because i’ve been feeling this ever sense i’ve been in 3rd grade and i can’t find out the secret
Like, I came here for help, I’ve been crying since I woke up today. Seems like the only scape is the medication, I refused treatment bc I didn’t wanted to depend on it
@@anapaola7241 It's better with it than without. just be careful of the side effects and manage dosing and you can access a lot more executive function. It doesn't help me with controlling my attention though, only fixing it on whatever it lands on.
I reccomend meditation
my adhd keeps making me think I have depression as well cus of all the overlap xD
Yes
I have been prescribed Olanzapine. I knew as soon as he said it, that this was the WRONG medication, and I have again wasted an hr of my life at another drs appointment I've waited weeks for. I went to 2 different pharmacies to ask and get a different opinion. Both were shocked that this dr. prescribed me something that can inhibit dopamine. I do not have manic episodes. What I do experience is exactly what you said: If I am emotionally dysregulated, it takes me a long time to come back to center. I am over reacting, and bursting to talk in conversation. I absolutely have poor executive function, dishes everywhere. Disorganized home. The doctor, again, did not listen to me. It is so frustrating. I have ADHD. My daughter was recently diagnosed and she is on Concerta and I see a huge improvement in her behavior and mood. I would like to also try Concerta for my symptoms. Dr did not listen. At 41, I'm really tired of trying to get to the right professional.
I went without my antidepressant for a little over a week recently. I didn’t realize how bad my depression was until I wasn’t taking it. I just felt like crying a lot. While I don’t want to go through that again, I’m kind of glad it happened. Otherwise, I might not have realized just how much the medication was helping with my depression.
I have been ADHD my entire life. Although I was a straight a student and skipped a couple of classes I will still called stupid. The hurtful thing is everybody around me exploited my ADHD. Because academically I was gifted, but I was not hand-eye coordinated properly. I was exploited in that people will steal my homework, ask me to do their homework, people who are in college even though I was in high school, asked me to do their paper I would let me do it. But then they’ll call me stupid still. When I had a hard time listening because I have perforated eardrum’s that was always leaking, they thought it was because it was deaf. I was partially deaf in one ear. And they will say things about me in front of me thinking I’m not hearing. However, my hypersensitivity was so severe that I could hear, faucets dripping, people whispering about me in the next room. When I would confront people who were talking about me, they will lie to me and tell me I’m delusional. No one thought of taking me to the hospital or anything as a child. I wanted to please my mother who hated me because I looked like her mother in law, so I denied that I have a problem. I did everything in my power to please her.
I only got better when I left home I’ve got Help on my own. But then I met my husband who insisted I was perfect. I believe him, but he was just using me to become a US citizen. Eventually, the marriage ended. I was left alone with three kids. My depression was so bad it affected by kids. It was my son as a teenager insisted that I go get get help. He said you are super mom hardly sleep if you have three jobs. I told him it was because I need to take care of my kids. He said, please get help you are depressed. I don’t have time for it. He said you’re probably having anxiety is because your ADHD is not a super power, it’s a symptom of so much i went through.
When he was an adult and my teenage daughter get nagging me, I sought help at age 52. It breaks my heart when I think I should’ve gotten to help before I have children and this way they won’t be so stressed about their mother.
I was suicidal by 8 year old
And you still talk like you are
Same. Currently 28. I buy happiness that never helps long term
@@WiCapitalco always
Wtf
To be honest with you I can relate
My ADHD when I went to get help, I thought it was anxiety. I was shocked that I had MDD, not just mild..severe. Everyone if you describe me to call me a positive person, a person who gives good advice. In fact, in some of the groups I’m in they call me. Ms. positivity and Ms. sunshine. But I’ll come home and cry myself to sleep.
When I’m always happy to see you when I go to parties on the dancing people will say I’m high in something. I will tell them I’m high on me. I’m terrified of any drugs or alcohol, and I never touched any of those things. I don’t know how I would react if I’m under any influence. Yet people ask you that sometime or the other I was on drugs. I’ve never touched anything I’ve never even seen illegal drugs. Not even marijuana.
I was always looking at ways to heal myself through my behavior. Boopropria saved me.
The massive subtitles really helped me to keep focus until I was conscious of them helping me keep focus xD
This video answers the big question I keep asking in counselling. You just explained my life. I'll be starting medication soon. I hope it's the solution that finally works.
What medication are you taking?
Man I really need to get diagnosed, I started rubbing my face just feeling the short stubble and thinking "fuck I need to shave" and before I knew it I was halfway through the video
Oh super true!!!
Don't know if I have ADHD, but throughout my undergrad years I would be in my dorm feeling down for no good reason. I would think of activities to do, but my brain would reject every offer because they were "too boring." I had little motivation to do anything.
thanks for making this a minute long
You can talk all you want about neurochemicals and still explain nothing. The connection is (in my case and several people I know) pretty simple:
As you fail to act on and meet your academic/work goals, life expectations, etc. even for things you RATIONALLY know to be easy and straightforward, you can't help but to blame yourself for the failures and go on a downward spiral of guilt and despair.
There, I explained the connection without ever using the word "dopamine", like every neurobollocks hack out there.
100%!!! Depression caused by untreated adhd. Not accomplishing what you need to do and feeling low self worth because of it. Then things pile up and anxiety starts. I finally fixed my adhd through meds, exercise and meditation and boom my depression is gone because I’m accomplishing what I need to do daily now.
@@lm931 which meds did you take? And why?
@L M did you ever feel like you coudnt enjoy anything at all at certain times? Even things that should be enjoyable usually.
I have adhd and I can cry at will, I need to go back to cipralex
Ty so much for the video my mom has a hard time understanding why I am like this I’m going to show her
I feel horrible and this is why adhd i do a bunch of things at the same time and dont finish any of my tasks …. Is hooorrible and I am extremely depressed
It's was depression that lead me to seeing doctors that has lead to an ADHD diagnosis
I was diagnosed with adhd I’m a boy I’m 14 I feel like a zombie taking the medication it makes me want to give up I can’t eat all day I can’t sleep at night I can’t wake up early enough to go to school all because some teacher thinks that I’m too uncomfortable and not paying attention enough I’m a boxer not scientist I’ve filled my order to go to a athletics school that will let me get off of those zombiefy pills and let me focus on my future in boxing I’m only 14 a boy and have great potential
I recommend microdosing..it really helps esp teenagers alot
I'm on meds for my adhd but now that its winter time even those havent been enough to keep the depression away. I feel really sad at night when they wear off and find myself crying for no reason
You can actually cure depression and other mental illnesses , I was recommended to use psychedelic mushrooms to treat it, I micro dosed on it for a month since then I have been living a peaceful and happy, I get mine from an online vendor that specializes on the trade of psychedelic products
Send request to the telegram handle below to contact the vendor
*Formulah11*
Do the meds make you feel happier? Like small things like taking a walk outside feel nicer when medicated? Or am i dreaming of a pill fixing my life?
idky i watch these i do like six other things then forget whats happening
In my opinion as a person that suffers from add I feel as though the reason I became depressed was because of feeling stupid in school because I couldn’t focus
I have adhd i have lived in orlando fl for 24 years of my life i was born 96 and im just so tired of seeing the same thing know my world is only my zip code and thats it im
Going to get my cdl and travel the world im excited but i get extremely tired of things easily i hate doing things im not interested it and when i do things that are boring or not interesting it feels like complete hell while im doing it like it makes me feel so miserable
And that's exactly how adhd makes you feel man. You need to find that thing that makes you happy to dive into. And once you do really feel it out and if you get bored after a awhile just find other things. People with adhd are good at picking up things when they find its easier for their brains.
@@deluded2630 i never saw this comment now 7 months later my adhd has gotten way better and things have gotten better for me i know how to work and manage my adhd to my advantage im doing so much better now thanks for your comment
Was diagnosed with add and later mdd (major depressive disorder)
So I feel like I’m fighting and uphill battle lol
i’m getting exhausted 😞 im tired of chasing dopamine from sun up to sun down constantly.
I’ve been wondering why I have been depressed for almost absolutely no reason.
Ive been feeling numb, slow, and isolating myself more and more for the past 5 or 6 months.
Recently, i started to think that i might have adhd. Having a friend that had it diagnosed really helped, because i always used to relate to a lot of things that he was going through, and the way that we communicate, it feels like i cant get that level of understanding with anyone else.
Since i started getting so sad and unmotivated to do almost anything, like doing the thing i liked, felt almost like a chore, an obligation, and not like something to distract myself, well, ive been wondering what the hell was wrong with me, i couldnt get a clue about what was wrong with me.
Seeing this and realizing that im not alone in this, is helping a lot, im looking out to get an appointment with a psychiatrist and start to work on my problem.
(sorry if i have some orthographic errors, english its not my first language :p)
That sounds more like depression i think.
This looks depression
Same
i have adhd,depression and anger issues damn
I am suffering from ADHD and depression 😑
Please tell our doctor who just invalidated the psychologist's diagnosis because you cannot possibly have ADHD if you have depression.
I still don’t understand but okay
I never do but I pretend that I do
coincidence is my brother has ADHD and i have Depression
Dysthymia
I think that’s technically not a thing anymore, but I used to suffer with that
Yes yes exactly. When I was first depressed I noticed that I was kinda leaving it (most people stay depressed for 2 years but some stay longer), however I failed to recover. This was mainly because of my ADHD. I had trouble with concentration for a long time, and so I feel terrible and guilty all the time.
I'm waiting on a call from my doctor I have been getting severe morning depression! But I'm not ruling out dysthymia! Anyone know what treatment options are out there as I had been on an ssri and did not get on with it at all. And the side effects was like getting haunted with hearing the door knock and the sensation of getting slapped on the back of my head in sleep!
How do I find an ADHD specialist for my granddaughter , whom is 20 years old
I get depression on and off with my adhd it can come in it if nowhere
I'm actually getting worse day by day, almost anything sparks my interest no more
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Yeah, all of this!
Probably because after a while people with ADHD start to catch on to their own behaviors and they do not jive with expectations and desires, in turn, they become depressed. Rocket Science I know. . . .
That’s a word
What do I do to get out of a depression
Play games, talk to friends & work out regularly
All are high reward in terms of dopamine
@@Dearon_ wont work with people with adhd since adhd fucks your ability to produce reward dopamine.
@@greygoose8803 I have it myself.
So it comes from personal experience
No wonder I'm sad
I hate my brain
Took the words right outta my brain
Wish I could somehow figure out a way to cure all of us from this crippling disorder
Depresive episode? More like constant every day
You can actually cure depression and other mental illnesses , I was recommended to use psychedelic mushrooms to treat it, I micro dosed on it for a month since then I have been living a peaceful and happy, I get mine from an online vendor that specializes on the trade of psychedelic products
Send request to the telegram handle below to contact the vendor
*Formulah11*
Every time the meds wear off I get this huge wave of depression that comes over me and make me feel totally and completely useless like you would never believe I hate my life sooooooo goddamn much because of fuckin adhd
I'd love to give you money, but I just took out a mortgage to pay for my own son's food for the next 5 years.
But dw I'm religious so I won't take the cowards way out, but if someone hits me with a truck then great
I am not religious but I don't want to kill my self because I don't e ant to disappoint poepl but getting killed i wouldn't care
I don't and do want to die, but as in a sense of, if I could take over somebody else's life, I would do it.
I don’t want to make my friends and such upset so I won’t kill my self but if you offered to kill me I wouldn’t say no. Basically I’m on the life line known as friendship. It probably isn’t healthy considering the fact that whenever they don’t message me I get stupidly sad and think I did some thing wrong bUT HEY
Yeah I’ve got adhd and depression, suicidal ideation like I keep hitting bouts where I hope I just die somehow it’d be better than this shit
Same. That's the only reason I'm still alive :'')
I don't only have depression but adhd at the same time
🙂🔫
Oh....so that’s what happens. Basically biyearly......so that’s cute.
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