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April 27, 2016
“How Did You Learn Your Partner Might Have ADHD?”
Only 1 in 10 U.S. adults thought to have ADHD are diagnosed. Wow, eh? That research is a few years old; the number could be greater now. Exactly how are today’s adults with ADHD discovering that they have it? Let me count the ways. There’s always the classic method: Their child is diagnosed. Upon learning […]
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April 20, 2016
What I Did Over My Spring Vacation
A reader wrote to me last week, “Gina, where are you??? Are you okay? Or, has something happened to my ADHD Roller Coaster blog subscription?” Have you been wondering the same? Please accept my apologies. The fact is, after 8 years of steady blogging here, I needed a break. So, I took one. Quite unexpectedly. In January, my […]
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March 2, 2016
Chapter 15: Reaching Through ADHD “Denial”
ADHD and Denial. In previous chapters, we learned about what ADHD is, how it affects the brain, how it affects our relationship with our partner, and that our partner may genuinely not be able to see the problems… …well…now what do we do? We find ourselves at the book’s third chapter on reaching through an ADHD partner’s […]
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Chapter 15: Reaching Through “Denial” of ADHD
ADHD and Denial. In previous chapters, we learned about what ADHD is, how it affects the brain, how it affects our relationship with our partner, and that our partner may genuinely not be able to see the problems… …well…now what do we do? We find ourselves at the book’s third chapter on reaching through an ADHD partner’s […]
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February 24, 2016
Myth #10: “You’re Medicating Daydreaming!”
A popular myth about ADHD is that it “pathologizes normal human behavior.” Consider then Myth #10, that the symptoms of inattention in ADHD are nothing more than “daydreaming.” When a website called The Farmacy posted this misleading and stigmatizing “meme” (above) on Facebook, my new Egyptian friend Madiha responded with the essay below (she’s granted […]
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February 17, 2016
Chapter 14: ADHD & Brain-Based “Denial”
“Denial” of ADHD symptoms hurts everyone. But we compound our hurt when we wrongly attribute this denial in our ADHD partners to stubbornness or willfulness. Sometimes, that is the case. Many times, however, “ADHD denial” springs from ADHD neurobiology itself. No one was talking about this “brain-based denial” in 2000-2008. That’s when I was deeply enmeshed in […]
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February 10, 2016
Getting A “Second Opinion” on Adult ADHD
Need a second opinion on ADHD? Please check out—and share—this excellent, 25-minute overview of ADHD. It’s from the PBS TV show Second Opinion. Thanks to American Public Television and the University of Rochester Medical Center. Second Opinion host Peter Salgo, MD, talks with: —Former Hollywood scriptwriter Frank South talking about his late-in-life diagnosis and receiving a “second […]
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February 3, 2016
ADHD and Relationships: 3 Simple Strategies
I call it the “Bad Old Days.” Those years when my husband and I were careening around what I came to call the ADHD Roller Coaster—but didn’t know it. Our learning curve was steep, and painful. The good news? We learned lessons the hard way so you don’t have to. Recently, I wrote about some of the emotions involved in […]
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January 27, 2016
ADHD, Empathy & “Raising a Narcissist”
In all the misguided online chatter around “drugging children” for ADHD, this gets lost: Compassion for these children. Many suffer impairments far beyond the classroom. They suffer impairments that distort any reasonable person’s idea of a “happy childhood.” Impairments that, in fact, threaten to negatively shape the course of their entire lives. Including deficits in empathy. In this post, Taylor J, the […]
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January 20, 2016
A Plea From A Friend With ADHD, in Jail—Again
It’s a tragic fact: People with poorly managed ADHD are over-represented in the prison population. Some of these people are my acquaintances who have reached out for help before, during, and/or after their incarceration. I do what I can. Recently, I received an e-mail notifying me that one of my friends had ended up in county jail on what could […]
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