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ADHD Insights: Mind Science Misses The Time Factor

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If you don't inject time and thus context into your ADHD assessments, you will miss the boat more often than not. No this isn't particle physics, but Heisenberg did get it right in 1927: Time matters, even in particle physics. If time matters in that physical reality, it matters every day in the human condition. To deny time relevance is to remain in the ADHD Dark Ages. Denial, as you well know readers, is terribly painful if you are on the receiving side of ignorance.

Thanks to field theory, particle physics covers more territory accurately: comprehensive explanations beat short sighted guesswork every time.

Missed ADHD diagnosis is just that: many more years of shame, anxiety, confusion, and struggles with self management. Why not consider the details?

ADHD Occurs In Circumstances at Differing Times, Not 24X7

If assessments don't include time they miss this other important fact, still disclaimed by serious ivory tower label makers: Take Note: ADHD is NOT a 24X7 diagnosis. Labels seek to dispel the complexity of time and context – they dumb it down. ADHD does exist in time frames and in context. In fact, timing, as they say in the streets, is everything.

Just what are the times and circumstance that will corrupt working memory?

  1. Increased Variables,
  2. Decreased Structure,
  3. No Stimulating Focus.

Any or all of these at once can freeze thinking, create impulsive behaviors or encourage serious avoidance [all outlined in detail in New ADHD Medication Rules – (Digital Links)] Each one of these characteristics of reality CHANGE can create ADHD difficulties with “developmental arrest” based upon inability to stay with change over time. The ADHD frozen response is a prefrontal cortical reaction to changing  circumstances, based on diminished executive function in that context, that circumstance – not all day, everyday.

For a review of excerpts and multiple testimonials about New ADHD Medication Rules: http://adhdmedicationrules.com

More coming on relationships, ADHD, time and change – here on Wednesdays, stay tuned.

cp

PS: I'll be away from the computer for a few days, so replies to comments will be delayed. – Family in town from California!

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2 Comments

  1. Marty Floyd says:
    May 31, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    Dr. Parker this post is right on target….Tony maps this exactly just like matter…particles…..physical reality.

    Though his co-morbid features are additive all testing has come up with exactly what is in this section. His spotty functionality makes his test scores look odd with IQ testing varying more than 20 points, testing showing he has basically fairly limited short term, long term, and working memory. One estimate showed him in the bottom half of the lowest percentage point….yet he has tested at an IQ of 102. It is so obvious to me that context is key. He shows great “capacity” sometimes but “freezes” and has a locked up executive function. Focus can drive you up the wall when reason just is not receptive when the one-track “got-to” drives blindness in hyperfocus. Got to get your book now. Keep up the electronic stream! Take care.

    • Dr Charles Parker says:
      June 1, 2013 at 3:30 PM

      Thanks Marty,
      Surprising that reality and context are completely overlooked in the current diagnostic “bible.” My point from an article years ago: beware, if you do think DSM 5 is the new bible, – you will not be saved.

      Only neuroscience evidence changes thinking. Speculation and labels don’t qualify as antique, but as primitive folk art.
      cp