In his lectures, neuropsychiatrist Daniel Amen often says that, before one of his children marries, he wants to examine a brain scan of the spousal candidate. Why? Because brain deficits aren’t always obvious. Sometimes mental illness reveals itself only over time, and with stress. In fact, we often initially misperceive a person’s brain deficits as positive qualities. Much to our peril.
For example, consider the “decisive decision-maker.” Golly, you think to yourself, someone so cocksure and confident must know the score, right? You know that you could never act so confident unless you had the goods, right?
Many of us banged our head against the wall for years, never knowing that we were even dealing with Adult ADHD. The problem wasn’t just our ignorance. No, worse than that, the problem was that we believed the myths — totally wrong ideas about what Adult ADHD is and isn’t.
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