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Many people believe that if someone can sit for hours and play video games, then they are faking their ADHD. I’m here to tell you that this is not true; in fact, gaming is more beneficial for the ADHD brain than you might think.

Some might call this a bluff, but there are people who prefer gaming over taking ADHD medications.

People with ADHD often face challenges such as difficulty focusing, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior. They may struggle with organizing tasks, managing time, and maintaining relationships.

This is where ADHD medications come into play. Although they do not cure the condition, they help maintain dopamine levels in the brain, so the reward system will react as strongly as it does in others.

But in 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that, for the first time, they would allow a video game to be marketed as a therapeutic tool for children with ADHD. This video game is called EndeavorRx. Studies found that this game improved the attention span of children with ADHD with a low risk of side effects.

You might wonder, Why video games? What makes them so special that they have become part of therapy? What’s the psychology behind it?

One of the biggest reasons video games keep us hooked for hours is that they operate on a feedback loop. Everyone loves feedback, but the ADHD brain thrives on it.

I made an animated video to illustrate the topic after reading research studies and articles. If you prefer reading, I have included important reference links below. I hope you find this informative. Cheers!

Why people with ADHD prefers gaming over meds

References:

https://www.nature.com/articles/30498 

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-permits-marketing-first-game-based-digital-therapeutic-improve-attention-function-children-adhd 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500%2820%2930017-0/fulltext 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-023-01215-7 

https://www.akiliinteractive.com/news-collection/akili-announces-publication-of-akl-t01-adhd-pivotal-study-results-in-the-lancet-digital-health 

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/8/1172

https://www.additudemag.com/positive-reinforcement-reward-and-punishment-adhd/ 

https://www.adhdcoaching.org/post/2018/06/09/the-neuroscience-behind-video-game-addiction-adhd 

https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/adhd/adhd-and-video-games-whats-the-connection/ 

There's various communities that think nootropics can enhance things like memories and focus in people without neurological or psychological conditions. Is this true ? I don't think any of this is real but I haven't seen any counter examples

I have been treated horribly by his field. I shouldn’t even have to be on this earth. As I'm stuck here I figure there may be some positive things I can still do. Whether it be sharing my negative experiences for awareness, or things that helped mitigate problems I have. While there are many things I don't know the answer, I have overcome shame and developed decent self esteem. I figured it may of some benefit to people here. I have also tried to encourage others here struggling with self doubt to beleive in themselves. Not saying I'm some great person, but why not if I think it can help? I don't think it will completely fix everything, but maybe would help a bit.

I also wanted to talk about the problems with the mental health field. I think that was part of why I was silenced out of nowhere in the Livestream. It said timed out, but now I am banned. He doesn't like me being honest about the abuse in the name of helping people who tried to unalive. I probably will eventually unalive. I don't want to end up back in intensive care or psych wards though. For now, I'm trying to share ideas that are helpful, but I've since been silenced.

Random,Possibly Doesnt Belong

QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT: 1.How do you think Johnny Depp and/or Amber Rose feel watching Lily Rose in THE IDOL? 2.DID they watch? 3. And did YOU? How did YOU feel?

**If this is improper forum, could you please direct me to the right one?

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https://youtu.be/eoF3CN8vohw Ross Ellenhorn’s words are empty. I told him I wanted to switch treaters, because the one I had were causing decline in my well being. He had the authority to change this. He chose to do nothing. Partnering with patients, and having us guide treatment is meaningless apparently

Idk if this fits the sub since there's no article or screen shot but I thought you could share in my pain.

I teach a medical related class at the local university and on the first day of the quarter we do a "Getting to Know You" ice breaker(not my idea but the director likes it). You draw quadrants on a piece of paper and fill them in with descriptions of family/friends, a place you would like to visit, a hobby, and a fun fact. We let the students have 5 minutes to go around and share with each other, getting initials from people who they shared with and whoever gets the most shares wins and everyone claps.

After the students are done, the teachers and T.A.'s share the ones they drew themselves on the chalk board. We get down to this one T.A. who I can only describe as an excitable golden retriever. Always smiling, polite, eager to be helpful but not the brightest bulb. He goes through his family/friends, place to visit, hobby and then gets to fun fact and says, "I didn't really know what to put for a fun fact but I'm a psychology major so I put my favorite philosopher Jordan Peterson. You all should read his 12 rules to follow. He is the Stephen Hawking's of psychology."

There was a lot of murmuring in the class and before I realized what was happening I laughed and said, "Maybe just to you." I was caught off guard and was so shocked that he would say something like this and not understand the layers of controversy he just spouted in a simple ice breaker.

I just needed to share this with someone because a lot of my coworkers had never even heard of Jordan Peterson so they didn't understand why I laughed and said what I did.

Maybe we need to head back to the days of Behaviorism because the commenters on this post seems to imagine that they can infer why a Bumblebee is rolling a ball around.

The experiments described here involved giving bees the option to take a path straight to a food source or taking a detour into a room with colored balls. The bees would roll the balls even when not rewarded. Additionally, in later experiments where rooms were color-coded as having balls or not, the rooms colored to indicate that they contained balls were more likely to be picked by the bees.

However, its worth keeping in mind the way this experiment was designed. This wasn't the researchers putting a hidden camera in a hive to watch the baby bees toss a ball around while the adults gossiped over fermented honey. The rooms were short enough that the balls took up the most of the height of the room. For that reason, a bee could not have possibly landed on top of the ball, meaning the ball would become unbalanced when a bee landed on the side and roll in the direction of the bee. It may have merely been the case that the bee was trying to land on the ball, and the rolling was an unintended side effect.

The fact that they interacted with the balls at least once isn't an indicator of much. Animals, especially bees that need to find food sources for the hive, explore their surroundings, and are especially attracted to brightly-colored flowers. With colored balls on a plain white background, what else would the bee have landed on? Instead of play it may have been an instinct to look for colored objects in search of food.

The second formulation of the experiment does seem to indicate that something about the balls was reinforcing, but the assumption that the reinforcement was 'playing' is unwarranted. Food-source-searching is equally possible.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Men don’t have a conscience.😐"
• "“Physically hold her close even if she resists or turns aggressive” and other sage advice from Marriage.com" by u/lettucecropchilds
• "Simply because white people comitt more suicide doesn't mean they are more persecuted." by u/ryu289
• "Nassim Taleb's nuclear take on a paper investigating human biases" by u/Excusemyvanity
• "If your customizable character in a video game resembles you, it is a sign of drastically low self-esteem." by u/RonnieShylock
• "That isn't how sexual attraction forms." by u/ryu289
• "Gender Dysphoria is not the cause of other kental health isdues!" by u/ryu289
• ""Clearly they were maladjusted and " bullying" means they were unpopular!" This is one hell of a hot take." by u/ryu289
• "The Curious Case of ‘Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder’ on Wikipedia" by u/AlanWahn
• "What is the deal with Trish Leigh and Porn Brain Rewire?" by u/snowdrone

The recent posy in /r/badhistory about Dave Grossman's On Combat made me wonder if it (and On Killing) gets the psychology right, atleast for a lay person trying to understand the psychological impact of warfare and killing.

Is anyone familiar and able to comment?

From here:

Take The Gender Fairy. This popular book tells infants “only you know whether you are a boy or a girl. No one can tell you.” Any child psychologist worth their salt will tell you that infancy is a critical time for boys and girls to individualise — for boys to begin to associate with and connect to the masculine and for girls to attach to the feminine. To sow weeds of doubt at this critical stage in the wheat field of an infant’s identity is nothing short of criminal.

Why do they assume boys will be automatically masucine and such if left on their own?

Then there is The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived, for 5 and 6-year-olds which looks at a knight-in-training who “follows his heart and chooses the boy instead of the girl at the end of his journey”. This is a deliberate distorting of what should be a healthy stage of development for any young boy, which should include healthy friendship-attachment to his own sex as he explores and roots himself in his core identity. But no, the rainbow agenda requires a perverted and eroticised manipulation of all that is healthy.

They do know that sexuality is inborn right? Likewise they don't realize the logical conclusion of their statement, i.e. making boys fall in love in girls using narratives instead of letting them choose.

It's almost as if these conservatives believe in the blank slate theory of the mind...which was debunked yes?

hi ... I just wanted to post a warning to psychology students considering a final/external placement at a university counselling clinic (not at their own university's internal one). Based on my brief experience, placement in this setting was not exactly psychological work, as the focus was on providing their clients with internal information (e.g. academic admin process, looking for external referrals, presentation recordings). Getting client contact hours was also limited at the start and other counsellors even pushed back when you approach them about viewing their sessions. Lack of flexibility and very high expectations ...you are told exactly what to do, how and when to do it, no questions asked. Counsellors (including supervisors) appeared highly stressed and on edge, which made them dismissive and unapproachable. If you've recently scored a placement interview, I suggest to ascertain the following:

* How will they meet your client contact requirements
* What are the presentations of their clients, e.g. how complex, how much work to expect
* What's their orientation and training like to support your learning at the beginning

They are obviously marketing their placements to you, and banking on the desperation and competitiveness of psych students for clinical placements. But don't be complacent; be rightfully picky because it is your learning to competently practice for future clients that matters here. xx

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From here

Focusing only on the pedophile aspect of recruiting blinds us to the bigger and more dangerous phenomenon. The LGBT pedophile is focused only on satisfying their own perverse sexual cravings which are, of course, terrible crimes that must be prevented if possible, and harshly punished if not. But it is limited to just those children they get their hands on through grooming. The much larger agenda of the long-term LGBT vision is to recruit ALL the children into the ideology of sexual anarchy in which there are no boundaries to sexual conduct, and in which homosexual experimentation with EACH OTHER is the means to determine one’s own “sexual identity.” And given that one’s first sexual climax is the human psychological equivalent to “imprinting” among birds, the percentage of children who then decide they are “gay” grows (and has grown) exponentially.

Hasn't he ever heard of watching porn?