ADHD Hyper-focus, Hyperactivity, Struggles & Success - Dr Hendelman
Channel: Starts With Me
Date: 02/05/2023

How to channel your hyper-focus and manage the external challenges of life!

ADHD, Hyper Focus, and how you can cultivate your superpowers to succeed, and some barriers that prevent people with ADHD from achieving and pursuing their goals and the impact on other areas of people's lives.

Watch the full episode here - https://youtu.be/JrFI0Ma7ZWM

On today’s episode I am speaking with Psychiatrist Dr Kenny Hendelman who is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who is an expert in ADHD. He is board-certified in Canada and the US and is the founder and medical director of The Centre for Integrative Mental Health – a clinic that assesses and treats ADHD across the lifespan.

He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University.

Dr. Handelman is the best-selling author of Attention Difference Disorder, a book for parents of kids and teens with ADHD.

Dr. Handelman speaks internationally on ADHD and has taught doctors and other healthcare professionals in 20 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. He is regularly interviewed by the media, including CBC Newsworld, CTV, the Toronto Star and more. He has an ADHD Podcast which has had over 300,000 downloads worldwide.

He also has Adult ADHD himself.

my name's Kenny and I have ADHD I'm also a doctor a psychiatrist I'm currently in my early 50s I got diagnosed with ADHD at 40. going back I finished medical school at 24 and my Psychiatry residency at 29 so yeah I as you said I powered through not knowing I had ADHD so from an early age I realized I was interested in being a doctor and was quite driven toward it now I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Great Schools I had great parent support I went to schools that were academically enriched they really captured my attention I had the opportunity to be involved in a whole bunch of things so my hyperactivity was being on swim team debating in Model United Nations and school newspaper like I used my hyperactivity for good things because I was in a great school that captured my attention you know I had a tremendous ability to hyper focus when I needed too.

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