Laura SophiaMar 9

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.

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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.

Mar 9 at 8:03pmWeb
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.