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How can you be blindsided by an ADHD diagnosis? It’s easy. Our culture serves up alternate explanations for virtually all ADHD-related challenges. Moreover, even in this 21st Century, the public
Katherine, a young woman I’d met at a conference, wrote to me: “Gina, I was addicted to meth for 5 years until I was diagnosed with ADHD.” You would never
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
“Money issues within my marriage are what drove me to the ADHD spouses support group, and what drove my husband to treatment. This season in our dual-AHDD marriage was long,
Here’s a little-discussed phenomenon: The Automatic No. It sabotages Adult ADHD relationships of all kinds. I seem to have coined the term, writing about it first in 2014 in an article
Let’s briefly talk about three ADHD relationship strategies — all designed to counter three common challenges. If only my husband and I had a clue that we needed ADHD
Even if you view just one of these short videos, you might experience several “a-ha” moments. A shift in perspective about your relationship. Including your relationship with yourself! But viewing
Two videos went “viral” among my Facebook friends this week. I share them with you here because who living in these rancorous times couldn’t use a little sweet-natured humor.
More germane to this blog’s brain-based focus, however, I was struck by how each video demonstrated qualities of empathy. Yes, I know. Recently, some politicians have publicly scorned empathy — perhaps because they mistakenly equate it with weakness. But , as a third video explains, leading neuroscientists say that our society depends on empathy. In other words, we’d do best to nourish empathy, not castigate it.
Could studying a genetically linked population shed light on a link between ADHD and Alzheimer’s Disease? That is just one question researchers ponder in studying the Paisa people of Colombia.
We hear it a lot: Modern life makes us all ADHD’ish. It can indeed seem that way. But there’s a difference between ADHD and ADHD’ish. Living in the accelerated 21st
