A Psychiatric look at ADHD with Dr. Nesrin Abuata Beyond ADHD: A Physician’s Perspective

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I am Dr. Deanna Mecado Mar. 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. Well, hello. Hello. I am so excited to be sharing with you a very nice friend, colleague that I've been chatting with before we started, and I probably should have just hit record because that conversation was amazing already.
But I am so excited that she's here. She. All the things. And so hopefully I'm not gonna mess up her name. We practiced, but I'm gonna try. So, Ms. Reen Abk she is actually a family medicine physician. She's a psychiatrist, but she's an integrative addiction psychiatrist. Yoga instructor, Reiki energy healer, and the list goes on and on and on and on.
And guess what? She's an amazing person with adhd. Oh my god, I found the unicorn. Right? Sounds crazy. But as you guys know, we tend to be multi-passionate and multi curious, and we are lifelong learners. And so I am so excited to have her here today because she's gonna talk to us about the relationship that A D H D and trauma can have.
And I was just explaining to her that, you know, the more and more that I look into it that's why now I'm actually getting. I didn't tell her, but I'm working towards getting my certification also for trauma so that I can in further integrate into my course because I, I try to be very careful with my teaching because I don't want you to feel like, you know, everything I'm saying is exactly one size fits all.
There's not such thing, and I want you to try all the tools and walk away with the ones that make the most sense. But I am so excited to have her here. I would love for her to share a little bit about her story and then she can tell us a few things about trauma or anything she wants to tell us. I'm so excited.
Dr. Nesrin Abuata: So thank you Diana, for having me. I just as you said, I got training in, I'm a family medicine doc, a psychiatrist, and I feel like my life story, the overarching theme is all about integration and how do we connect the mind and the body. I am originally from Israel. I was born there, grew up there, and then I came out here from my medical training.
If you've ever been to Israel or heard on the news, we're always unfortunately making it on the news. There's a lot of trauma and. Trauma, big T trauma or small T trauma. So Big T trauma is things that are obvious that everybody sees it on the news and they're small Ty trauma, that it's the experience of what you undergo that puts your nervous system at a risk and not feeling safe.
That's a small ttra, so having grown up in that kind of place, I was just telling Diana as we started, when you're a fish swimming in the water, you don't know that you're in the water until you step out of it. And my growing up, I grew up in, in a lot of trauma without knowing it or understanding it. what you would think of as abnormal here because it's not everyday kind of life over there.
Growing up it was ki part of my life, and as I was going through med school an