Laura Sophia

What did I just listen to? According to the trainer at today's resilience training session, ADHD is a scattered mind resulting solely from trauma. According to him, it's a coping mechanism to not be alone with your own emotions, and it's not a mental condition. And he recommends everyone to read the book "Scattered Mind" by Gabor Mate.

And then he went on that depression is also just a coping mechanism and has nothing to do with brain chemistry. According to him, you just have to deal with your underlying emotions, and then you are no longer depressed. And to deal with the underlying emotions, you might have to take psychedelics in a controlled environment like DMT or ayahuasca.

Mar 9 at 5:44pmWeb
Show threadLaura SophiaMar 9
One article by him on LinkedIn on ADHD is also mainly WTF: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/adhd-canary-gold-mine-paul-sinclair-vdvsc/
ADHD: The Canary in the Gold Mine.

There is something exceptionally British about how we politely tiptoe around discomfort, like a piss puddle in a pristine hallway. And so it is with ADHD, a label tossed about like confetti at a diagnosis parade.

Show threadSetcabMar 9
@livho I suspect to have ADHD, my work concerns mining and this LinkedIn post feels engineered to annoy me specifically. Canaries weren't used in gold mines, the image is bullshit on every level and the thesis about ADHD is tired bullshit going nowhere.
Show threadcomputer mausMar 9
@livho w t f
Show threadLumiukkoMar 9
@livho thats incredible bullshit
Show threadpinkmoonMar 9

@livho

A member of the pharmaceutical lobby?

Show threadLaura SophiaMar 9
@pinkmoon No, a self-declared coach who took a few too many courses with Gabor Mate and was a marine engineer in the Royal Navy before.
Show threadpinkmoonMar 9

@livho

I keep asking myself whether I'm just living in the wrong world.

Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Mar 9

@livho What the hell

I mean psychedelics apparently are a surprisingly promising approach for depression but that has nothing to do with „dealing with the emotions“

Show threadKadseMar 9

@livho And autism isn't real either, because it's only bad parenting? Or is it the evil vaccination?

What the heck. Doesn't sound very professional the training this week

Show threadMandyMar 9
@livho ah, that last one reminds me of my old therapist. Wonder what he's up to.
Show threadEllejay Mar 9
@livho WTF
That course is getting more an more "interesting" 😮
Show threadLaura SophiaMar 9
@doppelgrau "Interesting" as a word seems more and more too weak for the course. Within the next days I will post something on the course's forum to warn other participants to not blindly believe the stuff they tell in the course. I more and more think that the course might actually be harmful.
Show threadEllejay Mar 9
@livho Yes, that sounds really awful.
You also might send an email to the people organizing this stuff, I hope that they aren't aware how problematic some stuff is.
Show threadLaura SophiaMar 9
@doppelgrau The trainer of today's session was the cofounder of the company offering the training and is the husband of the other trainer and cofounder. So even my message in the next days will not be welcome. But I will send an email to the ones at our university who recommended the training and pay for it.