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Top 10 Posts: ADHD Roller Coaster 2015, Pt. 2

Last week, I shared the five top blog posts for 2015 here on the ADHD Roller Coaster.  Now for the next five. I was gratified to see they included two series, each designed to smooth your own personal roller coaster: A chapter-by-chapter online book club discussing my first book (Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?), […]

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Top 10 Posts: ADHD Roller Coaster 2015

Unlike real-life roller coasters, this ADHD Roller Coaster blog went only up, up, up in 2015!  Subscribers and views increased tenfold.  Thank you for riding this coaster with me. In 2016, may your lives go only up, up, up. Top 10 Posts for 2015: Part 1 So, here below are the top 5 Most-Viewed Blog Posts (or series) […]

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New Habits for A New Year

“I spent a lot of time wearing training wheels before I learned these habits.” That’s how my friend Frances Strassman introduces these new habits for a new year, below. She was 75 when she wrote this piece. Frances was a well-known professional organizer and executive coach in the Bay Area. Yet, she described her pre-ADHD-diagnosis life as “walking on a […]

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Myth #9: Medication Only for Most Severe ADHD

Myth #9: Medication  should be reserved only for the most severe cases of ADHD. You might have heard ADHD called a spectrum condition—that is, it exhibits in varying degrees of severity. Therefore, Myth #9 is partly true: Some people with milder ADHD find little need for medication. Instead, they opt to implement targeted strategies. Even […]

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A Must-Read About Girls With ADHD

  How much do I love and recommend the new revision of Understanding Girls with ADHD: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do? Here are the first few lines of my review on Amazon.com—followed by a personal essay from co-author Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, a longtime preeminent expert on ADHD, sharing some of the new research findings that […]

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Chapter 13: Psychological Denial, or The FEAR Factor

  By Taylor J. Chapter 13 is the first chapter under the #2 Success Strategy: Dealing with Denial. As such, it covers the common psychological reasons behind “denial” – that is for either partner denying that there’s any real problem going on. (Or, if there is a problem, it most certainly is not ADHD.) Most of […]

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The Evolution of the Desk

Let’s take a moment and consider how drastically different our desktops are today, even compared to only 10 or 20 years ago, and how that might affect our Executive Functioning. I cut my career teeth during the days of physical rolodexes, Selectric typewriters, paper planners and calendars.  Co-workers or employers didn’t call me at home unless there was a work […]

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Myth #8: Having ADHD Is No Big Deal!

  Myth #8: Having ADHD Is No Big Deal! Here’s the longer version: ADHD is only a difference in how you view the world. Why make such a big deal of it—or, worse, pathologize it? Sure, the ADHD diagnosis might sound trivial to anyone who hasn’t lived with it. Left unrecognized or poorly managed, however, […]

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Chapter 12: Solving ADHD’s Double Whammy

By  Taylor J. My husband: “I don’t have ADHD. I can’t have ADHD. I’m a super-important, intelligent, successful, capable person who couldn’t possibly have ADHD.” Me: “Yes, you’re super-intelligent. Yes, you’re super-important. Yes, you’re definitely capable. Yes, I love you with all my heart, and would never, ever want to live without you. My love, […]

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A Resource For Finding ADHD Expertise in U.S.

  Readers frequently write to me, asking if I know of ADHD care providers in their city.  As hard as I try to keep tabs on known clinicians worldwide, it’s a big world! Now I can refer folks to a convenient resource developed by the National Resource Center on ADHD. The good news is that […]

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