The topic here is prescription Adderall. Specifically: Adderall is too often prescribed badly. Adderall effects on personality can include irritability, anger, lowered empathy, and self-awareness. Moreover, reckless prescribing patterns have intensified public and political
Is there a connection between ADHD and this phenomenon called gaslighting? Potentially. But, as with most ADHD-related topics, it’s complicated. In this post, I examine the topic from a few angles. I’m seeing more talk
3 Introducing the first ADHD Couple Therapy professional guide, Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy: Clinical Interventions. The goal? Nothing short of a revolution. Training couple therapists. Teaching ADHD-challenged couples. Online. In your space, at your pace.
Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy™. Why create a special modelfor Adult ADHD-challenged couples? What’s wrong with standard couple therapy? Why not just provide Adult ADHD therapy and recruit the partner as the executive assistant……no, definitely not
Before I began writing Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?, I’d spent several years facilitating an online support groups for the partners of adults with ADHD. This all started around 1999. When my husband
How Can I Help? With 25 years expertise in this field, I offer courses, group support, books, and more! Choose your own adventure of working with me to maximize Adult ADHD strategies, especially (but not
Living with undiagnosed ADHD, in a loved one or in oneself, can feel like being lost in the fog—often on a roller coaster. In fact, after the term roller coaster, the word that people most
To the uninitiated, it sounds horrifying: Toddlers medicated for ADHD! They’re drugging babies! Yet, if you understand the ADHD-associated range of physical symptoms—and physical risks—the reasons are obvious. If you still believe ADHD is a
Now it’s time to examine the second loop-de-loop on the ADHD Roller Coaster—Managing the Unmanageable. In the previous post, we examined the first loop-de-loop: Explaining the Inexplicable. Over eight years of researching ADHD and relationships
Is there an association between Adult ADHD and infidelity? That is, are ADHD Partners more likely to cheat on a romantic partner? Or, as one reader asked, “Can a man with ADHD be faithful?”
