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Blindsided by ADHD Diagnosis: One Wife’s Story

How can you be blindsided by an ADHD diagnosis?  It’s easy. Our culture serves up alternate explanations for virtually all ADHD-related challenges. Moreover, even in this 21st Century, the public and even the mental health […]

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Teamwork: Solving ADHD’s Double Whammy

  What is ADHD’s Double Whammy? I use that informal term to describe a common phenomenon. That is, ADHD symptoms themselves can impair self-awareness about problematic behaviors.  Even when there is ready acknowledgement, though, ADHD […]

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“I Was Addicted to Meth When I Was Diagnosed With ADHD”

Katherine, a young woman I’d met at a conference, wrote to me: “Gina, I was addicted to meth for 5 years until I was diagnosed with ADHD.” You would never take Katherine for a drug […]

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10,000 Toddlers Medicated for ADHD? Part 1

To the uninitiated, it sounds horrifying: Toddlers medicated for ADHD!  They’re drugging babies! Yet, if you understand the ADHD-associated range of physical symptoms—and physical risks—the reasons are obvious. If you still believe ADHD is a […]

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ADHD Marriage and Money — Financial Loop De Loops

“Money issues within my marriage are what drove me to the ADHD spouses support group, and what drove my husband to treatment. This season in our dual-AHDD marriage was long, and it was terrifying. It […]

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Adult ADHD and the Automatic No — and Automatic Yes

Here’s a little-discussed phenomenon: The Automatic No.  It sabotages Adult ADHD relationships of all kinds. I seem to have coined the term, writing about it first in 2014 in an article I wrote for CHADD. But […]

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How Is The Adult ADHD Diagnosis Made?

This is perhaps the #1 question I receive about Adult ADHD:  How is it diagnosed?  To answer it in part, I offer this post, adapted excerpt from my book Is It You, Me, or Adult […]

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ADHD Couple Interventions — Gina’s Nine Short Videos

Viewing just one of these nine short videos on ADHD couple interventions could create a pivotal “a-ha” moment. A shift in perspective about your relationship. Including your relationship with yourself!  But nine altogether?  Perhaps game-changing. […]

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ADHD Couple Interventions — Nine Short Videos

Even one of these nine short videos on ADHD couple interventions might create pivotal “a-ha” moments in your relationship. Including your relationship with yourself!  But altogether?  Perhaps game-changing. Picture it: Toronto, 2009, I’m giving my […]

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Myth #4: Modern Life Makes Us All ADHD’ish

We hear it a lot:  Modern life makes us all ADHD’ish.  It can indeed seem that way.  But there’s a difference between ADHD and ADHD’ish. Living in the accelerated 21st century, it’s easy to get …

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