ADHD Myths, Time Optimism, and the "Never-Boring Guarantee" with Gary Johnson, Ph.D:

In this episode with Dr. Gary Johnson, we talk about lawyers, common ADHD myths, time optimism, shame, and the Never-Boring Guarantee!

Even better, we talk about high IQs, ADD's “friends and neighbors” (the so-called “comorbidities”) and the single feature or ADHD that we’d like to eradicate from the planet (Spoiler alert: It's shame.)

Dr. Johnson is a psychologist specializing in evaluating and treating the “hard cases” of adults, children, and lawyers with ADD and ADHD.

Learn More about Gary Johnson

• Calm Clinic—The Center for Learning, Attention, and Memory
• Dr. Johnson's Email Address: gary@calm.us

Two Quotes

“If you have ADHD as an adult and it hasn’t been diagnosed, it is expected that you would either have some depression or anxiety that went along with it.”

“The older someone is when they get diagnosed, the higher the IQ.”

ADHD Resources in this Episode

• John Drozd, Ph.D, The Neuro Assessment Center, LLC
• The Godfathers of ADHD, Ned Hallowell and John Ratey
  • Driven to Distraction 
  • Delivered From Distraction
• Dav Pilkey, author, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls
• You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!, by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

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Chapters

• 1:47 Dr. Gary Johnson's Origin Story
• 5:24 ADHD Myths
• 5:47 Myth 1: Everyone has a little ADHD!
• 6:53 Myth 2: Adults can't have ADHD, silly!
• 7:15 Myth 3: If you're smart, you can't have ADHD
• 9:48 Inattentive ADHD in girls and women
• 11:48 “The older someone is when they get diagnosed, the higher the IQ.”
• 14:09 What is ADHD? (Boring, repetitive, and familiar)
• 16:14 Myth 4: The Medication Myth
• 18:52 Brain Scans, QEEGs, and schooling the Godfathers of ADHD
• 24:05 Proving Myself Wrong about Brain Scans
• 26:20 Why Brain Scans help me treat my patients
• 29:04 ADHD’s Friends, Neighbors, and Co-morbid conditions
• 31:38 “If you have ADHD as an adult and it hasn’t been diagnosed, it is expected that you would either have some depression or anxiety that went along with it.”
• 34:20 The Cart & The Horse. Does anxiety cause ADHD? Or does ADHD cause anxiety?
• 38:05 Marshall, the Time Optimist.
• 40:38 Time optimism, parenting, and Dav Pilkey
• 43:50 Building Margin
• 45:10 The singular focus of this podcast: 1,000,000 worry-free nights and weekends for lawyers with ADHD
• 46:04 Intangibles in Diagnosis: The primacy of frustration.
• 48:05 You’re not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy. Don’t start with bad data.
• 49:27 The Magic Wand Questions (“No question. Shame.”) (“The Never-Boring Guarantee”)