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July 18, 2015
Chapter 3: Deconstructing Your Coaster—Why Each Is Unique
By Taylor J. Welcome to Chapter 3 of the “You, Me, and ADHD Online Book Club,” based on Gina’s first book: Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? We all need that friend that we can trust, the one who can tell us that we have a piece of spinach stuck between our teeth, or […]
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Chapter 3: The You, Me, and ADHD Online Book Club
Chapter 3: Deconstructing Your Coaster: Why Each Is Unique By Taylor J. Welcome to Chapter 3 of the “You, Me, and ADHD Online Book Club,” based on Gina’s first book: Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? We all need that friend that we can trust, the one who can tell us that we have […]
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July 15, 2015
Post 7: Gene-Testing To Inform ADHD Drug Therapy
Welcome to the final post in this series on gene-testing to inform ADHD drug therapy. Dr. Goat and I greatly appreciate your enthusiastic response. To celebrate, let’s have a contest! The maker of the gene test we used for this series, Harmonyx Diagnostics, has offered three free test kits for ADHD Roller Coaster readers. To […]
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July 11, 2015
“I Was Addicted to Meth When I Was Diagnosed With ADHD”
From this week’s mailbag, posted with permission: —Gina Pera Hi Gina, First off, I had already been a fan of yours for a few years and after reading your first blog post about DNA and ADHD meds, I’m an even bigger fan. I’m not sure if you remember me but I met you at the […]
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July 8, 2015
Part 6: Gene-Testing To Inform ADHD Drug Therapy
Welcome to post 6, the next-to-last post in this series on gene-testing to inform ADHD drug therapy. This blog series began with a single post in mind: Hey, wouldn’t it be interesting for both of us to get gene-tested for ADHD medications-response and to share the results with ADHD Roller Coaster readers. By both of […]
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July 4, 2015
Chapter 2: The You, Me, and ADHD Online Book Club
Chapter 2 “Laying the Track’s Foundation: What Is ADHD Anyway?” By Taylor J. I just reviewed my personal journal entries from 2007 and 2008. Nearly all of them had the same theme: Why can’t I finish these projects? Why am I having so much trouble making decisions? Why is it so much easier for my […]
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July 1, 2015
Part 5: Gene-Testing to Inform ADHD Drug Therapy
Welcome to post 5 in the series: Gene-Testing to Inform ADHD Therapy. This week’s theme is: You can’t stay warm in the winter, even if your heating system is functioning perfectly, if your house has are air leaks, there is no insulation in the attic, and the windows arern’t caulked. To Recap: Part 1 provides […]
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June 27, 2015
Vive La France! But Adieu To Its Abusive “Psychiatry”
You thought ADHD awareness in France was bad. Well, it is. But the autism situation might be worse. Two documentaries and a former French-trained psychoanalyst call out the hidebound thinking that, among other things, blames autism on the mother. Even though the focus is autism, not ADHD, the indictment of the dominating French psychoanalytic theory […]
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June 24, 2015
Part 4: Gene Testing to Inform ADHD Drug Therapy
Welcome to Part 4 of the ADHD Roller Coaster’s six-part series: Gene Testing to Inform ADHD Drug Therapy. We could call it, “Goldlocks finds that sweet spot between too high a dose of medication and too low a dose to find the just right dose” My husband (“Dr. Goat”) and I put our neurons […]
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June 22, 2015
Quick Tips for Students: Getting, Staying Organized
“Executive Functioning”—it’s not just for executives. It’s for everyone who wants to set and realize goals, including students. Here is a formal definition of Executive Functioning: The executive functions are a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. It is an umbrella […]
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