Brendan Mahan

Patients Vs. Profits A veteran psychiatrist shares his view of how private health insurance companies dictate — and limit — ADHD care in America.

"The only way to perpetually increase the profits demanded by shareholders is to deny legitimate claims or otherwise create obstacles that prevent or delay payments to providers." - Dr. William Dodson

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-treatment-costs-insurance/

And hopefully every other monopoly, too.

Yesterday, revenge sleep procrastination came up with half my clients.

I’m at the end of a school vacation week and two snow days making things busier than usual. So, I don’t want to do anything.

I’ve get a new term: revenge responsibility procrastination.

But, I’m still off to edit a podcast.

Thanks for the reminder. I’ll figure out that setting.

What’s wrong about my conclusion?

More Discrimination Against POC Children With ADHD, 46% Less Likely to Receive An ADHD Diagnosis - Adult ADD Strengths 69% lower odds of Black children to get diagnosed with ADHD vs otherwise identical white children. 50% lower odds of Hispanics & less rates of ADHD meds too

69% lower odds of African-Americans to get diagnosed with ADHD than otherwise identical white children.

50% lower odds of Hispanic-Americans

46% of lower odds of other ethnicities

More Discrimination Against POC Children With ADHD

adultaddstrengths.com/2016/02/29/d... #ADHDSky

Hiroshi Yasuda (f*EiÉS) e @Yash25571Ø56-5d "Post-COVID-19 cognitive dysfunction appears to follow a temporal course, evolving from acute focal deficits in attention, working memory, and executive function to more persistent multidomain impairments.. This analysis shows that several inflammatory and viral cytokines remain elevated beyond the acute phase and are associated with cognitive deficits.. The prevalence estimates [of cognitive dysfunction] vary depending on the methodology used and the time of assessment but generally range between 58% and 81% in hospitalized samples, reflecting a significant impact on cognitive function. In addition, a substantial number of patients, approximately 34%, report subjective complaints, mainly related to attention and naming.. Patients who experienced acute neurological symptoms such as headache, anosmia, or dysgeusia were more likely to show deficits in domains such as attention, memory, and executive functions.." Do you remember when you had a headache? 'Cognition, cytokines, blood—brain barrier, and beyond in COVID-19: A narrative review' mdpi.com/1422-0067/27/1... Cognition, Cytokines, Blood—Brain Barrier, and Beyond in COVID-19: A Narrative Review I MDPI . Vfolecular Sciena mdpi.com u 91 0 207

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41516418/

My buddies Shane Thrapp and Braden Young have started the DadDHD Podcast, and I'm helping them with their launch! So, I'm featuring episode 5 of their show where they interviewed me about fatherhood and ADHD. I hope you enjoy it.
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-qi9kc...

I hear you. It is painful. And unsettling!

I'm just saying that we so often talk about it like it's this unique thing when in fact it's a form of anxiety and that can help us address it more effectively.

psst...
Rejection sensitivity isn't some mysterious, unknowable thing. It's just a form of anxiety.
So anxiety management techniques will help.
Pass it on.

Raises hand.

Anybody just not wear their glasses on the weekend and during the summer?

(This is a post about ADHD meds.)

Most of the time when you clean a room, the mess gets worse before it gets better.

This post is both literal and a metaphor. Use it as you see fit.

Most of the time when you clean a room, the mess gets worse before it gets better.

This post is both literal and a metaphor. Use it as you see fit.

Does that mean that if you take your kid to watch women do professional wrestling you can be arrested?

In this episode of the ADHD Essentials Pod, I interview Bradley Smith II about how restrictions help ADHD & creativity thrive. We discuss the nature of creativity, ways that ADHD can lead to small scale mourning, and how to set useful limitations.

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-x2g8c...

Crush Your ADHD Summit Want more highly effective yet simple insights and strategies to help you be empowered and successful this year? Join the Crush Your ADHD Summit!

The 2026 "Crush Your ADHD Summit" starts tomorrow and runs all week. 25 experts, myself included, will be presenting on topics that are useful for adults with ADHD.

Mine talk is on how we can use planning for things beyond just productivity.

www.alanpbrown.com/a/2148208829...

Please do, because you're giving enough information to make me curious, but being so vague that I have no idea what you're talking about.

In which I discuss taking 16 years to accomplish not one, but two! five-year goals.

And share three takeaways from the experience.

www.podbean.com/eas/pb-zfemu...

I hear you. I was there nit that long ago, as you know. (And got hit with a stomach thing on Monday.) I'll try to be as light as lift as I can for you. Seems like we're gonna coast downhill for a bit anyway.

There isn’t a secret bonus final episode of Stranger Things, and you don’t hate the ending as much as you think. You’re just sad the show is over. And that’s okay. You’re allowed.

Thanks! I try to be.

Maybe take a picture of a few of them, and the use the picture you like the most? Let the pic decide?

Idea to stop doomscrolling:
Take a picture of what you'd rather do than doomscrolling - the book you want to read, the place you'd rather walk, whatever - then make that picture the lock screen on your phone.

It’s a short-term fun, but you can keep going back to it.

Got a Zipstring for Christmas. It’s a very ADHD-friendly toy. Surprisingly meditative.

This seems like the beginning of a thread?

We might have some Dr. Who cards we could ship you.