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I remember Dr Gabor Mate mentioning how ADHD is from childhood traumas and upbringing and it resonates with me. For me, it was a combination of my parents auth

I remember Dr Gabor Mate mentioning how ADHD is from childhood traumas and upbringing and it resonates with me. For me, it was a combination of my parents authoritarian parenting, and authoritarian school/environment, where teachers never checked in with me to see how I was doing. Psychedelics was the only thing that helped me, and I haven’t taken prescribed medications in over 10 years since my powerful experience which physically helped me feel love and safety for the first time; things I never experienced at home. More experiences with Ayahuasca over the past several years have helped me fully process most, if not all the traumas I remember (also helped me remember the ones I forgot!) and I’m now in a much better place mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. As a result, I think its fully possible to be neurodivergent without having disorders

randysalami 2y ago
My mother suffers from borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. My father is textbook narcissistic personality disorder. It’s easy to say my childhood wasn’t easy, but in a strange way. Along the way, I developed BPD symptoms impressed on me by my parents, suffered hospitalization multiple times, and ended up going through DBT. I am 24 now and I lucked out far better than my peers. I have a career in software, a loving partner of 6 years (which I definitely traumatized multiple times), and am even in grad school! For me, the biggest issues I face from a societal perspective are not the BPD symptoms, mostly regressed and which usually make me alluring to people, but the ADHD symptoms I developed along with BPD. I’ve read that these are often comorbid and that tracks with what you are saying because a BPD parent and BPD is trauma. Weed and shrooms also helped me get better. Not with the ADHD which definitely gets much worse on weed, but with the BPD symptoms. It made me slow down and let me get in touch with my empathy long repressed. I believe I was 19 when I first smoked and it’s been a journey but trending upward. Fun BPD story: by the time I was 18, I had over 60 sexual partners. I was a dorky guy who played video games over 8 hours a day every day.
- Rzor 2y ago
  When did you start to notice things were getting 'better'? Was it sudden (because of those psychoactive perhaps), or did it take a while?
tristanMatthias 2y ago
Came here to say both of these things. I’ve had very similar experiences. I think treating ADHD as a trauma response doesn’t have anywhere near enough attention (pun intended). I’m excited for the psychedelic renaissance that seems to be occurring. So much of this comes back to our internal mechanisms for feeling “safe”. If we weren’t taught that by our parents (which many don’t sadly) then it’s hard to find it later in life without very deliberate work. Glad you were able to heal yourself mate!

randysalami 2y ago

My mother suffers from borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder. My father is textbook narcissistic personality disorder. It’s easy to say my childhood wasn’t easy, but in a strange way. Along the way, I developed BPD symptoms impressed on me by my parents, suffered hospitalization multiple times, and ended up going through DBT. I am 24 now and I lucked out far better than my peers. I have a career in software, a loving partner of 6 years (which I definitely traumatized multiple times), and am even in grad school! For me, the biggest issues I face from a societal perspective are not the BPD symptoms, mostly regressed and which usually make me alluring to people, but the ADHD symptoms I developed along with BPD. I’ve read that these are often comorbid and that tracks with what you are saying because a BPD parent and BPD is trauma. Weed and shrooms also helped me get better. Not with the ADHD which definitely gets much worse on weed, but with the BPD symptoms. It made me slow down and let me get in touch with my empathy long repressed. I believe I was 19 when I first smoked and it’s been a journey but trending upward. Fun BPD story: by the time I was 18, I had over 60 sexual partners. I was a dorky guy who played video games over 8 hours a day every day.

Rzor 2y ago
When did you start to notice things were getting 'better'? Was it sudden (because of those psychoactive perhaps), or did it take a while?

tristanMatthias 2y ago

Came here to say both of these things. I’ve had very similar experiences. I think treating ADHD as a trauma response doesn’t have anywhere near enough attention (pun intended). I’m excited for the psychedelic renaissance that seems to be occurring. So much of this comes back to our internal mechanisms for feeling “safe”. If we weren’t taught that by our parents (which many don’t sadly) then it’s hard to find it later in life without very deliberate work. Glad you were able to heal yourself mate!