Personal Struggles with ADHD and Panic Attacks

the exercise too because if i if i have somebody who's addicted to exercise they're doing that in a lot of cases because it's filling in the gap of something you're missing they're like for me uh when i've done my genetic reports i don't make dopamine like i'm supposed to i don't transport it like i'm supposed to and then my receptors don't work well which is probably why i have adhd and why i have to take my bands keep my brain level and if i don't take that i fall into deep depression i have panic attacks and you know twice over the last uh six months or over the covid thing i ended up in the emergency room in texas because i thought i was having a heart attack uh then i had another one uh when i got home because we bought the gym and immediately had to close it so i started feeling depressed i didn't know why um i had a heart attack I had three or four days where I didn't sleep and I started hallucinating I was having auditory olfactory and visual hallucinations and then I start freaking out thinking I've got a fucking brain tumor so and the doctor here tried to put me on one of the strongest antidepressants you can get and at the highest dose and I went no I'm not taking this I'm like just give me some diazepam for the in case I feel panicky and then put me back on my ADD drugs that I stopped taking like eight or nine years ago that I'm supposed to be on, and that's fixed everything. So people need to understand it's willpower is dictated by neurochemicals. Your perception and your behavior is dictated by neurochemicals. Love is dictated by neurochemicals, right? So when those chemicals get out of balance, or when you have genetic issues where they don't work appropriately, well, you know, you're going to fall into a pattern of using exercise to replace an addiction, or booze or cocaine or sex or whatever, right? All at once. All at once, like I used to do one in my 20s. People need to understand that, man, it's really, you know, it's kind of your fault, but it also kind of isn't your fault. It's a lot of people's fault for not regulating their stress, but they just simply don't know. There's not enough people talking about that connection, and your doctor doesn't know. Their solution is to put you on 20 milligrams of Lexapro, which is insane to start someone on that, right? They're going to tell you to diet and exercise, but that's not very helpful because it's not giving you a path of what type of diet and exercise is correct for me personally at this time and how does that change. And then most trainers don't know how to bridge the gap between what's happening with someone's physiology and neurochemistry and what the doctor is saying versus what needs to happen in the gym. but their solution is to just keep dieting and be more exercised and usually the wrong type of exercise for that person at that time that's actually cool where you talked about genetic um dopamine receptors and stuff because i've seen research before where um i think they've done it on obesity and it just addictive and things in general where some addictive quote-unquote personalities have less like d2 dopamine 2 receptors in their brain and then obviously you want to feel that more through addictive things and that comes back one of the things actually written here is that although he may seem like a hard ass which is good but yeah because you're so knowledgeable you still have um silent level of empathy with that because you understand the mechanisms what's going on rather than your fucking normal pt who just shout to the client that they're not motivated enough so so just touch on that um briefly about some of the genetic stuff i know you have a course on trauma the psychological aspect that way um with addictive and things and people using food for that to fill that void