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Social media has made ADHD a household term, but the lived reality is a lot messier and more human than a checklist or a trending label.

Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk honestly about how attention and distractibility show up across a lifetime. From restless kids labeled as troublemakers to adults juggling work, relationships, and nonstop stimulation, the conversation keeps coming back to a simple question. When does difficulty focusing become a disorder, and when is it just part of being human?

They reflect on how ADHD often starts in childhood, why it can feel louder in adulthood, and how identity, self-esteem, and life stress all get tangled together. There are real stories from clinical work, moments of dry humor, and a lot of nuance about creativity, hyperfocus, impulsivity, and the ways people learn to compensate or struggle when they cannot.

This is a grounded, experience-based conversation about attention, overload, and what happens when something goes unnamed for too long.

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Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross spend time on the parts of mental health care that don’t show up in textbooks or research papers. The human side. What it actually feels like to sit with a clinician. How hope gets communicated without being promised. Why optimism, sincerity, and presence matter just as much as any method or treatment.

They talk about how people often arrive feeling stuck, discouraged, or convinced nothing will ever change, and why logic alone rarely shifts that belief. Experience, consistency, and genuine care tend to do more of the work. Stories of people who have overcome deep adversity come up, not as inspiration, but as reminders that change is possible even when it feels unimaginable.

The conversation moves through ideas of hope, resilience, self worth, and how early life experiences shape the way people see themselves and the world. They reflect on the consulting room as a place of safety, acceptance, privacy, and active engagement, where people can question long held beliefs and begin to rebuild their internal shock absorbers for life.

At its core, this is a grounded conversation about why therapy works when it works, and what really makes a difference over time.

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Dr. Andrew Rosen and Dr. David Gross talk through why choosing a type of therapy can feel so confusing and why so much of the work comes down to the beliefs people carry with them from earlier in life. They reflect on how psychotherapy evolved from rigid models into approaches that focus more directly on how people think, interpret events, and act on those interpretations.

The conversation spends time on irrational beliefs and expectations that quietly shape mood, motivation, and self worth. They use everyday examples, clinical stories, and a few familiar metaphors to show how people can get stuck believing that one failure defines a lifetime or that happiness is something external that will eventually arrive.

They also explore how depression can grow out of mismatched expectations, negative self talk, and faulty assumptions about the future, and why noticing what is already present in life can be surprisingly difficult. Throughout, they return to the idea of therapy as a safe space to question long held beliefs and experiment with thinking and behaving differently without judgment.

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