Dr G's ADHD Chat

Dr G's ADHD Chat

Hosted by: Dr. Terry James Gingras, PhD

A show trying to make the world safe for ADHDers. Providing scientifically verified information about issues related to ADHD -- Parenting, relationships, education, health, behavior management, and adulting with ADHD.

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Episodes

ADHD-Parental Relationship MaintenanceI

As the parent of an ADHD child, your relationship is bound to be tricky. Sometimes you’ll be happy and enjoying your ADHDer’s sense of humor and antics and the next you’ll be upset and anxious because of a temper...
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ADHD-How to Control Emotions

ADHDers are well known for having difficulties with emotional regulation. In spite of ADHD being a neurologic condition, there are still measures that can be taken to improve emotional control. In this sessions I’ll...
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ADHD-What's more important than Inteligence?

It's probably the fault of our educational system that we all think that intelligence, as measured mainly by memory, is the most important skill for having a successful life. Success, especially for our ADHD kids has...
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ADHD-Path to Parenting Success II

This is a continuation of an earlier episode detailing some specific procedures ADHD parents can follow to help their child succeed and have a happier home life.
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ADHD-Path to Parenting Success

To successfully parent your ADHD trial the most important player is you. That is, you have to be able to control yourself and change your behavior to get the behavior you want from your child. You are the only part of...
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ADHD-Parental Stress

Being the parent of an ADHD child is, at best, a stressful experience. Parenting is generally stressful, parenting an ADHD child is even more so. In an ADHD family most of the attention goes to the child and the...
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ADHD- Family is Important

Family is always important when raising children. It is especially important when raising a child with ADHD. Family is where an ADHD child starts to develop self-acceptance and resilience. It is also where...
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ADHD - Determining Truth

In this internet era, anyone with an opinion can broadcast it to the world. Those of us on the receiving end have to be able to determine if this opinion is true. In this recent political situation with its “tell the...
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ADHD: MAHA Report - Reaction

The House and Human Services department under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently issued a report on ADHD that appears poised to radically change treatment options and thoroughly confuse the whole area of ADHD. This is an...
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ADHD- Boredom, Coping Strategies

One of the big problems for the ADHD brain is boredom. Unfortunately, many, if not most tasks at certain levels of both education and employment are just plain boring. Neurotypicals just have an easier time with these...
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ADHD-Other Diagnoses are common II

This is our second show about diagnoses that are frequently seen with ADHD. Some are associated with stress of having an ADHD brain in a society that is largely designed for neurotypical brains and some have more to...
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ADHD-No Surprise, other diagnoses are common I

ADHDers have a unique cognitive style, but the society they live in is not designed to reward or reinforce this cognitive. This causes a lot of distress, doubt, sadness and frustration. These sometimes approach levels...
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