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Children with true ADHD who are treated with appropriate doses of prescription sympathomimetics show far better performance in school, general focus, and long-term life outcomes compared to untreated children, with treated children also having lower likelihood of developing addictive behaviors in adulthood.

Gen's clinical supervisor told her she needed to encourage the atheist professor patient to take pain medication, but Gen had already asked and the patient refused because medication would prevent her from actively preparing meals for her husband—indicating a conscious choice of meaningful activity over physical comfort.

Gen was grateful when she finally encountered what appeared to be natural death of the woman who lived for 27 hours after loss of vital signs, which was a 'normal death at home,' and she felt something leave even in that case.

The atheist professor's death was 'quite remarkable' and 'pretty smooth,' and her compassion—not medical intervention or pain management—was the reason her death was 'pretty much pain-free,' according to Gomlam's clinical assessment.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longest study of the same people ever done, following people since 1938 from adolescence through old age and now following all of their children, thousands of lives.

Researchers initially disbelieved the data showing relationships affect physical health and had to wait for other studies to replicate the findings before accepting that warm relationships actually get into bodies and shape health.

Good relationships act as stress regulators, allowing people to return to equilibrium when stressors occur, whereas isolated and lonely people lack these stress regulators and remain in chronic fight or flight mode.

While we cannot guarantee that any one person will stay happier or live longer if they have better relationships, better relationships act as protective ingredients for health, similar to how not smoking, not abusing alcohol or drugs, exercising regularly, and getting regular health care protect health.

People who have good, warm connections to others turn out to be the happiest and healthiest across hundreds of people studied over their entire adult lives.

Illness is not a unique isolated event in an isolated separate physiological organism or organ, but a manifestation of a life lived in a certain context, reflecting the interconnected nature of biology and environment.

When illness comes along and people are willing to be curious about it—to look at it not as random misfortune but as manifesting something about their life—they learn a great deal about themselves; the speaker knows many people who have regained authenticity through the experience of serious illness, though this is not a recommended path to learning.