For the families, or when they ask us, what do we do, specifically with the rage issues, what I've been asked, like, how do I talk to them when the smallest thing will make them angry? When they're at that angry state, how do I talk to them to kind of bring them down? Is there any recommendations at that point to kind of help redirect them or anything?

Yeah, it's hard.

I think it's going to be very specific to the family, the child, the situation.

So I would say in general, as clinicians that work in behavioral health, we are you know, very in tune to wanting to do some verbal de-escalation, sometimes people just need space.

So if the parent and the child have had a conflict and the child is very upset, continuing to talk through what's happening might not be appropriate at that moment.

It might be give some space and then let's regroup and try to understand what's What was happening? Why did they feel that way? So that's one thing I would recommend is maybe in the heat of the moment, you take a break as a parent.

Take a moment, make sure your child's in a safe place and you give yourself a moment to recollect your emotions and thoughts as well.

I also, I

Why don't we talk about the prevalence of it, because that changes a bit, and there's a sex difference, which we should talk about, and then we can dive into some of the core features.

Yeah, great.

So yes, there's a lot of news media coverage probably hitting recently about changes in prevalence of ADHD.

And that is what we're seeing in papers that are coming out in terms of what is the prevalence.

There are reports that span from 5% to close to 10% of the population.

And part of that change in representing people with a diagnosis or that meet criteria of ADHD is due to probably recognition of the disorder.

So more people are identifying it.

As someone doing research in it, as an expert in it, how do you respond to those people?