Tools & Strategies

Adult ADHD tools and strategies categories of posts at ADHD Roller Coaster

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

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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!”

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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

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Tools & Strategies

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.

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