(Continued from On Mental Wellness, Part One) The sad thing is that unless this is properly diagnosed and understood to be what it is—the actual inability to change one’s behavior after appropriate reflection because of a chemical inability to identify what’s going wrong in order to make different choices next time so that a different outcome can be obtained—it can look simply like stubbornness: ignorant, selfish, and foolhardy stubbornness that flies in the face of all reason. Speaking of social obligations: another common trait of ADHD sufferers is their inability to “read” the emotional cues of others. Recent studies have [...] Read more »

It is surprising, disheartening, and amazing to me that mental illness remains as controversial a topic as it does in the supposedly enlightened society in which we live. As someone with friends and a spouse who struggle with various forms of mental illness, I find that the judgement, denial, silence, ignorance, and fear saddens me more than I can say. With mental illness, as is the case with many other serious medical issues, lack of proper treatment can eventually lead to death, either by the hand of the sufferer themselves or by factors both directly and indirectly related to the [...] Read more »