ADHD Chat with DrG Newsletter
Coping with ADHD as a parent and/or an ADHDer yourself presented by a neuropsychologist who is also the parent of two ADHD kids and married into an ADHD family.
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64. ADHD Neuropsychology #3: Why Motivation Comes and Goes
Why an ADHD brain can struggle with one task and become completely absorbed in another
This is one of the great mysteries of ADHD.
You...
63. ADHD Neuro #2 ADHD Executive Brain: Why Knowing Isn’t Doing
Why intelligence and good intentions don't always translate into action
One of the most frustrating things about ADHD is this:
You know what to do....
62. ADHD Neuropsychology #1: What Makes the ADHD Brain Different?
Why ADHD Is a Difference in Brain Function—Not a Defect in Character
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"People with ADHD don't have a deficit of intelligence. They have a...
61. ADHD-#10 Executive Functioning- Starting Strong, Finishing Never
The project was 90% done three weeks ago. It's still 90% done. The energy that carried it most of the way vanished right before the...
60. ADHD #9 Executive Functioning-Filure to Adapt When the Situation Changes
You had a plan. You had worked on it for weeks and evaluated every possible solution and now you have the perfect plan. BUT. some...
59. ADHD #8 The Missing Pause-Controlling Impulsivity
You said it before you thought it through.
You bought it before you decided to.
You interrupted before you meant to.
Afterward, you knew —...
58: ADHD Executive Functioning #7 - The Focus Fix
You want to focus. You are trying to focus. And your attention keeps sliding off the task like it's coated in oil. Ten minutes in,...
57 ADHD Executive Functioning #6 Emotions that Overhwelms Cognition
You had the plan. You had the schedule. Then something happened — a critical email, an offhand comment, a small setback — and the entire...
56: ADHD Executive Functioning #5 Clutter-The Pile Isn"t the Problem
The desk is buried. The inbox has four thousand unread messages. The garage has three "systems" layered on top of each other, none of them...
54: Where Did The Time Go?
You sat down at one. You looked up and it was five. You have no idea where those four hours went, and the one thing...
55: ADHD Executive Problems #4-When Everything is Equal, Nothing Is
Your list has fourteen items on it. All fourteen feel critical. By 10 a.m. you've touched six of them, finished none, and added three more....
53: ADHD Executive Function # 2 - Stuck at the Starting Line
You know what needs to happen. You've known for days. The task sits there, fully understood, completely undone. You're not confused. You're not lazy. You're...