Adult ADHD Basics

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This category contains blog posts especially helpful for the beginner—but likely useful to everyone!

Adult ADHD Basics

ADHD and Sleep: Puzzling The Pieces

ADHD and sleep.  It’s like any other ADHD-related topic:  complex and variable with the individual. But maybe you’ve already figured that out: Nothing about ADHD is simple—or cookie-cutter. Good for you. That said, we can

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Adult ADHD Basics

How Is The Adult ADHD Diagnosis Made?

This is perhaps the #1 question I receive about Adult ADHD:  How is it diagnosed?  To answer it in part, I offer this post, adapted excerpt from my book Is It You, Me, or Adult

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Adult ADHD Basics

ADHD Hyperfocus: All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

We’ve all heard about the much-ballyhooed ADHD Hyperfocus.  Hollywood screenwriter and now author Frank South shares his personal take on the topic below. It’s an an excerpt from his new book: A Chicken In The 

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Adult ADHD Basics

Myth #10: “You’re Medicating Daydreaming!”

Now we come to ADHD Myth #10: The symptoms of inattention in ADHD are nothing more than “daydreaming.” This is one more aspect of an over-arching popular myth about ADHD: It “pathologizes normal human behavior.”

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Top 10 Posts: ADHD Roller Coaster 2015

What do Adderall, empathy, dopamine, and Concerta generics have in common? They featured prominently among my top 10 blog posts for 2015. But even well into 2022, these posts remain relevant. Unlike real-life roller coasters,

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Adult ADHD & New Habits for A New Year

You don’t need to wait for a New Year to develop new ADHD friendly habits around organizing your focus and energies. “I spent a lot of time wearing training wheels before I learned these habits.”

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