Unleashing the Power of ADHD Heroes in Healthcare

Dr. DIana Mercado-Marmarosh: Come join me May 1st through the sixth, so that you can rest, rediscover your strengths, reconnect yourself and those physicians like you who are ready to leave, work at work and re-energize. This is the invitation for you. 2023 your year. Join me in Costa Rica in this really amazing, non-judgmental, intimate decision community.

I am gonna show you how to rest and how to recharge. Let's transform your brain up so that you can start to dream the life that you always wanted this year in 2020. I can't wait to learn all about what kind of year you're gonna have after this conference. Take care. Hello. Welcome to Beyond ADHD, a Physician's Perspective.

I am Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my adhd, but I now. See it as a gift that helps me show up as a person. I was always meant to be both in my work and in my personal life. In the past two years, I've come to realize that unlearning some of my beliefs.

And some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Hello. Hello. I am so excited about today's topic. It is called Unleashing the Power of A D H D, heroes and Healthcare. It is a topic that is obviously very dear to my heart because. I am one of those A D H D health providers and also I work with a D H D clients who are physicians who are healthcare providers.

I actually use that type of information to apply for a conference in Rome that I got selected to, to go speak about in July. So I'm super excited about that. But anyways, today, We wanna talk about why. I really think when we lean into those healthcare providers or physicians who have adhd, it is so important to do and again, we all know that when we step into a room where the community just gets us, it makes a world of a difference. It's having that real life experience that can really make a difference. Between how you handle whatever you're going through and how the other person handles whatever they're going through.

The A D H D hero has been in the trenches battling their own symptoms coming out on the top, and when they share their real life experience, it just, Becomes obvious that they have superpowers and strategies and they can use this to show others. They too are on a journey. A D H D is a lifelong condition and it can get easier if you know how to deal with it because you understand it firsthand.

I always tell my own patients just because I'm talking to them about it, it doesn't mean like I have all the answers and it doesn't mean I'm a hundred percent. Got it under control because it is a journey. One day you show up fully, a hundred percent charge. Another day you show up. 20% charge based on the task that you're having at hand is how you are going to deal with whatever comes your way.

But having real life experience makes a big difference because you can just almost tell them exactly what they're thinking because it's your brain that is so similar with theirs. But again I also wanna point out that there is a spectrum. So it's not like a hundred percent of everything that I tell you that I'm doing is you're gonna do.

I'm always very careful with that because it. It almost becomes like gaslighting, right? Instead, it's important to ask yourselves what usually works, what doesn't work, so you can start to create some insight with that. I don't know if you're aware or not, but the AMA released a survey in 2016. It actually stated that 30% of US medical students.

Had disclosed that they had H adhd. It is very likely in your healthcare team you have somebody with H adhd. So it's important to point them out if they want to, right? So that they too can relate to each other and come up with a community to support each other. Brain power, like they get to tap into their brain power with their ADHD brain.

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