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Episodes
145: ADHD-The Late Diagnosis diagnosis, finding out in Middle Age that Your Whole Life Makes Sense
We are seeing a trend in this moment in time in which older people are asking for evaluation of posssible ADHD. There is increasing recognition of ADHD and its prevalence in our society. It used to be that my most...
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144: ADHD-Kim, What Have You Done? Another Neurotypical Goes Down
In most of the family structures I’ve worked with, one of the parents also has ADHD (along with the child they brought in for evaluation) and the other parent is a slightly (or strongly) compulsive individual who is...
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142:ADHD-Exciting news-3 Distinct Biotypes Discovered
Not everyone will geek out about this episode but ithis is important to all of us members of the ADHD world- Researchers have discovered 3 distinct biotypes in the ADHD world. They are hugely different from what we...
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143: ADHD-Staying Married if You’re the Neurotypical
In my experience, the most usual family structure is some number of children with ADHD and one parent with ADHD and one neurotypical parent. In my practice, most of the time the neurotypical parent was the Wife and...
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141: ADHD-Raising your ADHD Child-Trust is the Foundation
Your ADHD child faces a world that wasn’t designed for him/her. Your ADHDer will find increasing difficulties as the pressure to perform increases as he/she gets older. The key to getting through all the criticism and...
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140: ADHD- The Power of Routine
ADHD children frequently have difficulties completing tasks when told to do so. With their difficulties with working memory and executive functioning they frequently forget steps in tasks like getting ready for bed,...
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139: Most ADHDers Quit Treatment within a Year. Why?
While treatment for ADHD, especially medication is seen as one of the most effective treatments in all of psychiatry, a surprising 80% of all patients quit within a year. If it’s such a wonderful and successful...
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138: ADHD-It’s not a Temper Tantrum, It’s Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
The thing that ADHD parents in my private practice were most concerned about was their child’s temper tantrums. I agree that these displays of anger were sometimes scary and some parents were thinking their child’s...
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137: ADHD-What if Summer was the Best Therapy Your ADHD Child Never Had?
Last week we discussed summer as a time of some trials and tribulation when your child could totally fall out of all those patterns of behavior that took so long to establish during the school year.I’ m going to...
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136 ADHD-No School, No Structure, Parenting Through Summer
Summer causes a lot of questions and difficulties for ADHD parents. Just when you’ve got a routine established with school, now school is ending and you have to establish a new routine. In the next few episodes I’ll...
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135 ADHD-Why Willpower Doesn’t Work
ADHDers, both parents and adults with ADHD will frequently blame lack of willpower when they have any difficulties secondary to ADHD. When they procrastinate, when they forget about doing something, when they fail to...
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My Experience with ADHD Strengths
We members of the ADHDer world are used to spending most of our time and energy with the negatives of ADHD-the temper tantrums, the “lost”homework, the “I forgots”, the dreaded morning getting ready for school on time...
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