EP. 194: ADHD & Trauma

ADHD and trauma overlap quite a bit in how they affect the brain, so much so that clinicians often misdiagnose one for the other.So how do clinicians distinguish between ADHD and trauma when both impact the same areas of the brain and can cause similar symptoms?And moreover, what happens when ADHD and trauma co-occur, which they so often do, due to the inherent trauma of growing up with a differently wired brain?This solo episode I’m diving into the research on how trauma impacts the brain an...