- In this video we're gonna be talking
about everybody's favorite couple,
Jenna Marbles and Julien Solomita.
But, this is going to be a great video
for anybody who struggles with symptoms of ADHD
as well as anybody who might have a loved one
who struggles with symptoms of ADHD.
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What is up everybody?
This is Chris from The Rewired Soul
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but focus on the solution.
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Or, how to help somebody you know
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to the 10,000 follower goal,
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And, a lot of people, like I just posted this picture
with my beautiful girlfriend Tristan,
(popping) we went to go see that movie Glass, ooh hoo hoo.
Great movie, no spoilers, go watch it.
But anyways, a lot of you are like,
"Oh, there she is."
She's in a lot of my pictures,
just go scroll through my feed, you'll find 'em.
But anyways, let's talk about
Jenna Marbles and Julien Solomita.
So, after my last video about Jenna Marbles and Julien,
people were saying, like, you'd get more insight
to their relationship if you listen to their podcast.
So, I'm like okay, so Tristan and I, we were helping
a friend pack up 'cause they're moving.
And on the way back home I was like,
oh, okay let's listen to
this new Jenna Marbles' podcast with Julien.
And, um, so, we started listening to it,
and they were like looking up, like,
like Google's most searched questions about them.
And, it was funny.
Those two are hilarious.
But anyways, one of the top searched questions
for Julien is, does Julien Solomida have ADHD, right?
So, they started talking about it.
And here's that clip.
- Does Julien Solomita (laughing) have ADHD?
Um, not diagnosed, per se,
but I think I might have a little bit?
- No.
- A little, like um--
- Maybe ADD, but you do not have ADHD.
- Yeah, maybe ADD.
I've actually been told by people
who can say that sort of thing,
that I have, not like diagnosable levels of ADD,
but I do have, like, a little bit of it.
- So, the first thing, the first thing
that we're gonna talk about
is symptoms verse diagnosis, alright.
Symptom verse diagnosis.
So, about a month ago, I think it was,
I made a video talking about how everybody
has Borderline personality disorder.
And basically what I was talking about
is how even if you're not diagnosed
with Borderline Personality Disorder,
a lot of people can relate to these symptoms.
So, when we're trying to increase awareness
and decrease the stigma when it comes to mental health
it's important to understand that a lot,
a lot of people can identify with the symptoms
of various forms of mental illness,
even if you don't have a diagnosis, alright?
For example, for example, you might have a lack
of motivation, this is a symptom of depression,
but it doesn't mean that you
would be diagnosed with depression.
So, this is the beautiful, little DSM,
which is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
which mental health professionals use
to diagnose people with mental illnesses.
So you have to meet a certain amount
of symptoms to be diagnosed with a mental illness.
So, again, you might have a symptom of depression.
But you wouldn't be diagnosed with depression.
It's much like physical illness.
For example, if you sneeze,
that is a symptom of having a cold,
but that doesn't mean that you have a cold.
Or, I get a lot of comments like this one
(popping) which could be a symptom of being a dick,
but I would never diagnose that person with being a dick.
(dinging bell)
But anyways, let's look at some
of the symptoms from the DSM of ADHD, right?
So, one of 'em is inattention
and then there's hyper activity and impulsivity,
but under inattention,
there's a bunch of different like little categories,
like often fails to give close attention to details,
or makes careless mistakes,
or often has difficulty sustaining attention
in tasks or play activities.
Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
and there's a whole bunch of 'em in here, alright?
So, something that they brought up,
which was, you know, ADHD verse ADD.
And this is something that's
been kinda changing in the dialogue
or the naming of ADHD or ADD.
So there's some people who don't
even use the term ADD anymore, right?
But, ADD what they say is like a subtype of ADHD.
So, ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyper Active Disorder,
this is somebody who's like fidgety and moves around
and all that kind of stuff and then there's ADD,
which is just Attention Deficit Disorder,
where most of it is, you know, the inability
to maintain their attention, right?
But, again, some mental health professionals
don't even use the term ADD anymore.
One of the best channels, by the way, on YouTube
about ADHD, like, I get a lot of people who ask me
about managing symptoms of ADHD,
go check out the channel, How To ADHD.
She is awesome, runs an amazing channel,
it's all about ADHD.
She is somebody who lives with it
and she like brings like different like doctors
and things like that and psychiatrists
to discuss ADHD and what'll help
and she's really fun, go check her channel out,
How To ADHD, right?
But anyways, something that I think is really important
to understand about ADHD, and this is something
that I learned when doing research about it,
is that, you know, a lot of people have this misconception
that ADHD means that people cannot, you know,
hold their attention or those focus on something, right?
So this is why Julien talks about having symptoms
of ADHD and him and Jenna Marbles talk about this, right?
Because it seems like he's kinda like all over the place
and he can't hold his attention
on something and things like that.
Like, if you watch their videos where they're like cooking
in the kitchen or they're doing something,
like, you see it, right?
But anyway, something that I learned about ADHD
which helped me understand the concept
of it a little bit more is ADHD
isn't necessarily a lack of attention,
it's actually having like a hyper focused attention,
just not on what you should be focusing on, right?
So, people with ADHD actually have a lot of amazing skills,
when they have something that they're interested in,
they hyper focus on it, right?
So, the problem is, especially when you look at,
you know, young people who are in school,
or whatever, they're just not interested in that subject.
So say they're in an English class, right?
And they don't really care about English
or History or whatever it is,
but they're really into Science, right?
So, when they're in a Science class,
they might be like the perfect child
because they are hyper focused on Science
because that's something that gets their attention.
So, something that people with ADHD struggle with
is executive functioning which comes
from that prefrontal cortex I keep teaching you all about,
so they hyper focus on something.
So, typically what happens when they're supposed
to be focusing or paying attention on something,
it's like they have this itch
that they need to scratch, right?
So, they have to do something else,
and this is like a feeling that they get
and it can start to make 'em very antsy
unless they do that thing.
So, remember, ADHD isn't necessarily a lack of attention,
it's just hyper focusing on something
that isn't the task at hand.
Now, Jenna and Julian just did
a video over on Jenna Marbles' channel
about doing abstract painting,
and by the way, this is something that like Tristan loves,
she absolutely loves it.
She says it's very calming and relaxing,
like, so, I don't know, like, if you're into that,
like go check it out.
Like for me, I'm just sitting there, I'm just like huh?
But, everybody has different ways of like calming down,
relaxing, whatever it is.
So, like, if you wanna check it out, go check it out.
But anyways, Jenna and Julian decided to do it themselves
and they said something very, very interesting.
Or, Julian, rather said something very,
very interesting when they started making these paintings.
- I really like all of yours,
we can hang yours in the house,
mine are not allowed to be hung in the house.
- Why would you say that?
- I don't know, 'cause I needed to make them
and get them out of my consciousness,
but they're, I'm all set.
- You used these paintings as an opportunity
to let out your inner out of control.
- Mm hmm.
- I was the exact opposite, like it honed me down
into a normal, well-behaved person while I was painting.
- Exactly, exactly!
So, if you are somebody who struggles with symptoms of ADHD,
or you're diagnosed with ADHD,
it's important to find activities
like this that calm your mind, right?
Again, ADHD, it hyper focuses on something.
So, do you know what they were doing?
Do you know what happened to Julien
in that moment right there?
He was being mindful, alright?
So the definition of mindfulness
is paying attention on purpose in the present moment,
you know, without judgment, right?
So, what happens is is you're like in this zone, okay?
And it could be with anything,
that's what I'm trying to teach you guys.
Like, mindfulness meditation isn't necessarily
a formal meditation where you sit
with your eyes closed, okay?
Like, this can be anything where you get into that zone
and you're just fully attentive on something.
So what Julien was talking about was doing this,
he was fully focused on it, and it was calming him down.
So, my suggestion to all of you is find different activities
that help you get in that zone.
Like, if you're somebody who is like fidgety
and sitting down and doing a formal meditation
isn't your thing, find something else.
Like, here's the thing that you need to understand,
many, many, many studies have proven
that mindfulness meditation on a regular basis
in whatever form you choose helps
to decrease symptoms of ADHD.
This is one of the reasons why it bums me out
that so many kids, like doctors just throw medications
at 'em and say, "Here, take some Adderall.
"Here, take some Ritalin,"
without trying these other methods first.
Now some doctors do, I'm not saying all doctors,
but there are many ways to train the part of the brain
that is responsible for concentration.
One of my favorite meditation teachers,
his name is Shinzen Young,
and we talked about mindfulness meditation,
one of the key skills that you develop
is concentration power, right?
So, for example, even a boring meditation,
it's not boring for me, but when I say it,
it sounds boring, focusing on the breath, alright?
Focusing on the breath and every time you get a thought,
you focus back on the breath.
Thought, breath, thought, breath, thought, breath, alright?
The analogy I give is I think about my mom.
My mom has this gigantic dog named Emony,
a huge dog, right?
And when I first got sober, I had to walk this dog
and she's huge and she's like half German Shepard
and half like Black Lab or something like that, big dog,
and she was a puppy back then,
like I think like a year old.
But anyways, I would go to walk her,
and she would lead in front of me
and yank the leash and things like that.
So, when she would do that,
I would just give it a little tug, right?
And she'd be like, whoa, right?
And then I was walking her regularly like every day
for a few months and what I started to notice
was rather than her leading me,
she started walking right beside me.
This is a lot like meditation, right?
You have to train your brain.
So when you're doing like,
when you're noticing a thought
and you bring it back to the anchor,
thought, anchor, thought, anchor,
the anchor being your breath,
what you're doing is you're tugging on that leash
and eventually what's happening is you are training
your brain to walk next to you
rather than leading in front of you, right?
I know right now you're thinking like dang, Chris!
You find some sick analogies!
Don't worry baby, I know, alright?
But anyways, anyways, I wanted to use this
as an example to show you that anything
that you're already like able to get in the zone on
or pay very close attention to,
this is a form of mindfulness meditation, alright?
Mindfulness comes in many, many forms,
find the form that works for you
and start training your mind, alright?
But anyways, if for anybody out there
who either A, struggles with symptoms of ADHD,
or B, has a loved one who struggles with symptoms of ADHD,
let's have a conversation down below
about what helps with managing those symptoms, alright.
But anyways, that's all I got for this video.
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