Amazon Re-introduces Discount — $14.36
A quick note to let you know that Amazon has just re-discounted Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder. The regular price is …
Tools & Strategies
A major part of learning to thrive with Adult ADHD is identifying tools and strategies that can help with your particular challenges. Not a stereotype’s.
ADHD Can Affect Sex, Sleep? Who Knew?
Maybe we so often associate ADHD challenges with schoolwork, paperwork, and housework that we don’t often think of ADHD putting a kink in, um, bedroom fun. Or, that activity that we assume most people can …
Driving to Destruction: Distractions Pile Up
A big ADHD Roller Coaster salute goes to The New York Times Silicon Valley-based reporter Matt Richtel (photo, right) for his ongoing coverage of the risks associated with driving while distracted (see selected headlines and links below).
Keep in mind: These risks ratchet up even higher when untreated ADHD takes the wheel. In fact, I devote a chapter to this topic in Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder.
(Read an excerpt here and, while you’re at it, catch the video of “Attention Deficit Disorder Man!”
ADHD Plus: Dr. Charles Parker On Thyroid, Diet, Hormones, SPECT — And ADHD Meds
Live a few decades not knowing that you have ADHD, and chances are you’re lugging around not only emotional baggage but also physical baggage — sleep debt, adrenal exhaustion, off-kilter hormones, allergies, and more. Yet, …
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Consumer Reports: Bad Advice on Generic ADHD Medications
You might turn to Consumer Reports when it comes to purchasing appliances or even automobiles. Yet, would you trust them for ADHD-related medical advice? I certainly hope not. Let me explain, in this updated version of …
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Two People With ADHD Who Didn’t “Fall Through the Cracks” Light the Path for Others
“If there is one mental health disorder that has captured the attention of the American public over the last few decades, it is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Some people joke about it; others take it …
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Father’s Mental Health Affects Children
This week, I’m preparing a presentation for the CADDAC conference on ADHD in Toronto May 30-31. Here’s the description from the program: “When The Acorn Falls Close to the Tree: Parenting when Both Parent and …
Statins: Worth Losing Cognition and Orgasms?
Physician and neuro-imaging specialist Douglas Bremner explains on his blog why driving down your cholesterol score with statins might not be such a bright idea (Do Statins Make You Stupid?) or a sexy one (Statins Interfere with Orgasm, Live Update from the American Psychosomatic Society Annual Meeting, March 5, 2009). He writes regularly about medical issues at his blog, an offshoot of his book Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry MIght be Bad for Your Health.
“Is It You, Me, or A.D.D.?” Amazon Bestseller – Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who has so generously received my book, Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder (August 31, 2008, 1201 Alarm …
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Gary Wadler, MD: Anti-Doper Doc Dopey about ADHD?
The internist who chairs the World Anti-Doping Agency on banned substances contends that ADD (as he calls it) is being overdiagnosed (more importantly, over treated) in major-league baseball. On what does he base this? The fact that he has rarely diagnosed the condition throughout his career.
