The Queen of Distraction Quotes

“Being overwhelmed can lead to procrastination, which often leads to being chronically late for deadlines and appointments. Being chronically late can take a toll on your self-esteem and damage your relationships. You’ve probably heard your whole life that you are uncaring, selfish, immature, or worse. Executive function impairment is tied directly to a distorted sense of time and a struggle to manage it.”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

“You’ve probably heard comments such as these your entire life: “Why can’t she put her stuff away?” “Doesn’t she care how it affects the rest of us?” “Why is she so lazy?” “What a pig!” And you have most likely internalized these painful, derogatory, negative remarks over the years until they have slaughtered your self-esteem, making you wonder What is wrong with me?”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

“Clutter and chronic disorganization combine to create a virtual hellhole for women with ADHD, a seemingly endless abyss that threatens to suck them down on a daily basis. The compromised executive functioning of the ADHD brain makes all things weigh in as equally important, thereby making sorting, selecting, and tossing a real challenge.”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

“Too many adults, especially women, are misdiagnosed as having depression because many of those symptoms overlap with ADHD—or you might have depression in addition to your ADHD because your life has been filled with chaos, underperformance, and low self-esteem from repeated failures in certain areas of your life. Since ADHD rarely travels alone, there is a good chance you may have a coexisting condition, such as depression, anxiety, or addictive behaviors, that also needs to be addressed.”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

“there isn’t a deficit of attention but rather an inability to control it.”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

“These symptoms exemplify how impairing ADHD can be to a woman because they encompass just about all the facets of her life. Though “executive functioning” and “self-regulation” sound like terminology straight out of a college textbook, suffice it to say that these seemingly “absentminded” behaviors are, in fact, brain based, and there is a perfectly rational explanation for why you “do the things you do.”
― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done

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― Terry Matlen, The Queen of Distraction: How Women with ADHD Can Conquer Chaos, Find Focus, and Get More Done