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Parenting ADHD Kids: Care for You and Your Child

When I was diagnosed with ADHD late in life, a series of tumultuous emotions washed over me, from relief to regret, from anger to embarrassment, from shame to sorrow. It was several years before I realized how undiagnosed ADHD might have affected my beleaguered adoptive mom.

Not being a mother myself, it was a bit of a leap to put myself in her shoes. As a young adult, I’d had to focus on dealing with an oversize heap of emotional baggage of my own via a hit parade of assorted therapists. Ps...

‘Twas Four Days Before Christmas

‘Twas four days before Christmas, I sat in my house

My cat was still sleeping, ignoring her stuffed mouse;

My friends’ stockings were hung by the new wooden stairs

I sat in my office in my old office chair.

At ten in the morning, my first morning call;

I chatted as per usual, not suspecting at all.

When out in the front room there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my chair to see what was the matter.

As I stood up, my head it started to ring;

To my dread and my horror, it could be only one thing!

The...

New Year���s Resolutions? Forget ���Em

A towel rack for someone who loves double-entendres.

The calendar days are dwindling down. Winter Solstice will soon be upon us and once more, the light will return.

Still, I procrastinate.

All year I’ve told myself, Tomorrow, I���ll go swimming. With the New Year fast approaching, I���m starting to panic. What if this year closes, and I haven���t started on my goal?

Why not make it a New Year���s resolution? I thought, seduced by the age-old tradition of setting our sights on a fresh star...

New Year’s Resolutions? Forget ‘Em

A towel rack for someone who loves double-entendres.

The calendar days are dwindling down. Winter Solstice will soon be upon us and once more, the light will return.

Still, I procrastinate.

All year I’ve told myself, Tomorrow, I’ll go swimming. With the New Year fast approaching, I’m starting to panic. What if this year closes, and I haven’t started on my goal?

Why not make it a New Year’s resolution? I thought, seduced by the age-old tradition of setting our sights on a fresh start in the New Ye...

7 Great ADHD Gifts I���d Like to See

���Tis the season of giving. The perfect gift for me would be something to help me with the day-to-day circus that is life with ADHD. Something like, say, these fine (and fictitious) products. If only!

Mood-detection gifts

1 ) Emoti-glasses

Reading other people���s facial expressions is a crap shoot at best. Emoti-glasses would do the work for me, flashing ���happy,��� ���angry,��� or whatever accordingly for a few seconds across the lens.

This would give me time to gear up for an exchange o...

7 Great ADHD Gifts I’d Like to See

‘Tis the season of giving. The perfect gift for me would be something to help me with the day-to-day circus that is life with ADHD. Something like, say, these fine (and fictitious) products. If only!

Mood-detection gifts

1 ) Emoti-glasses

Reading other people’s facial expressions is a crap shoot at best. Emoti-glasses would do the work for me, flashing “happy,” “angry,” or whatever accordingly for a few seconds across the lens.

This would give me time to gear up for an exchange or, alternatively,...

Holiday Abundance and ADHD

Kevin Dooley via Compfight

Christmas is a time of abundance. This may be especially true for those of us with ADHD.

Yes, there is more chocolate (always a good thing). But there’s also more impulsivity and more serious consequences for the future. Unless you want a diet, an overdrawn bank account, and emotional burnout in your post-holiday future, heightened impulsivity will not serve you well at this time.

Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, or nothing at all: there’s more.

Mo...

Psych Central ADHD Webinar Roundup

I’ve been hosting webinars for Psych Central for a while now. Did you know we have a growing library of archived webinars?

A number of experts, both in-house and special guest experts have covered a wide variety of topics in addition to ADHD, such as codependency, narcissism, the psychology of success, mindfulness and more – so please check our YouTube Channel if there is another subject that interests you.

In today’s post, I’ll be sharing links and information about ADHD-related topics that we...

ADHD Time Management: What Will It Take To Get You There On Time?

Brandon Warren via Compfight

“What will it take to get you here on time?”

I cringed when I heard that question.

It wasn’t directed at me, but it had been in the past. I cringed with recognition. I cringed with embarrassment for the person it was directed at. And I cringed because I knew, had I been asked a decade ago, I’d have no answer.

No answers, but questions came when I’d been asked in the past. Why couldn’t I get there on time? Shouldn’t I be able to do it like everyone else? Why was I alw...

ADHD Awareness Month Road Trip

In spite of ADHD, Zoë presents about ADHD

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have to explain ADHD at all. Just watch me live my life, and you’ll pretty much have it.

I don’t mean “have it” as in have it. ADHD, thank goodness, is not contagious (as far as we know, but to watch some people’s reactions when I tell them I’ve got it, you’d think it was).

My life is in and of itself a pretty good crash course on how ADHD looks to the outside world.

Let me share with you some, we’ll call them “highlights” al...