Lyme Rage: Why Your Calm Kid Suddenly Became Someone Else
About this episode
Dr. Chris Motley explores the connection between Lyme disease and sudden personality changes in children often misdiagnosed as ADHD.
A child is doing fine, doing homework, laughing easily, getting along with everyone, and then over a few weeks they become someone else. Explosive anger over nothing. Can't sit still. Can't focus. Grades fall off a cliff, and the school has one word ready: ADHD. In this solo episode, Dr. Chris Motley asks the question almost nobody in that meeting asks: what if the personality change didn't start in the child's personality at all, but with a tick bite nobody noticed? Dr. Motley explains why a sudden, overnight personality change in a child, explosive anger, isolation, loss of focus, deserves a second look before accepting an ADHD label. He breaks down why Lyme disease is called "the great imitator," the biology behind "Lyme rage," how to build a timeline that helps your pediatrician rule infection in or out, and which labs and herbs he trusts in his own practice. Timestamps [00:00:00] - The child who became someone else [00:01:46] - A mother's story: normal one week, unrecognizable the next [00:04:16] - The tick bite nobody noticed [00:05:13] - When ADHD becomes the label, and the guilt that follows [00:08:00] - Knowledge as relief: what the lab tests actually found [00:09:10]…
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