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
Meet a powerful player in the “How Can I Get my ADHD Medication” game: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs). Few consumers know about them. Yet, they represent a huge and growing factor in limiting access to
Much is being written online about ADHD relationships but few offer in-depth support and knowledge. That’s where this blog-post series is different. Welcome to the first post in the You, Me, and ADHD relationship discussion group.
In this post, we share our own results from genetic testing for ADHD medications. We hope this helps make the information a little more concrete, less abstract. My husband, Dr. Goat, and I share many
Is that all it takes — six key ADHD management tools? Not exactly. But they can create a pivotal foundation. Highly organized people are made—not born. At least that’s what I’ve observed. And guess what?
I’ve seen them: Yellowed school report cards that might as well be ADHD report cards — if teachers and parents had known how to “translate”. In this post, I’ll share the report cards from one
Here’s a little-discussed phenomenon I’ve long observed that can vex ADHD-challenged relationships of all kinds: the Automatic No. (In fact, I seem to have coined the term, writing about it first in 2014 in an
An ADHD Drug holiday, they call it. As if stopping to take ADHD medications guarantees a fun, freedom-filled break from tedious routine. On a recent trip to Hawaii, my friend John decided to not take
Yes, for many ADHD-challenged individuals and couples, a weekend without ADHD meds can be a very big deal. This first-person story speaks to two common reader questions: Is ADHD a real thing? Do the
Here’s one example of ADHD Snake Oil—the idea that stimulant medication makes you a drone of the “normal” world. Historically, the term snake oil describes a worthless pseudo-medical remedy promoted as a cure for various
