Thriving with Adult ADHD Quotes

“When dopamine and norepinephrine are working together, it’s easier to know what to focus on and what tasks need to be carried out. If you have ADHD, your brain’s inability to access these neurotransmitters in adequate amounts is part of what leads to distractibility and an inability to focus, which are hallmarks of the condition.”
― Phil Boissiere MFT, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“allows the brain to replenish the very important neurotransmitters needed for focus and productivity. The break needs to be an actual break. Simply stopping working on your taxes to surf social media and e-mail doesn’t count. During the break, you should get up, walk, stretch, meditate briefly, hydrate, or do something else different from what you were doing.”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“Regardless of your individual profile, one thing is true across the board: ADHD can be very frustrating. It damages careers, disrupts relationships, makes parenting harder, and can make people feel ashamed. The many challenges this condition presents can truly bring people to tears. The good news is that ADHD can be managed—and managed pretty darn well, at that.”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“•Exercise helps keep your brain fit and your memory sharp.”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“3On a separate page in your notebook, write down all the positive thoughts, feelings, and rewards that came from completing sections of the project. I recommend doing it as you go, in a list. How it looks isn’t important;”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“Start by breaking the task down into three tiers. •Tier 1 is the complete project, reflected in a target completion date. •Tier 2 is the large chunks and their target completion dates. •Tier 3 is the smaller subtasks that, together, make up the large chunks.”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“Steven Kotler, an elite performance expert and director of research at the Flow Genome Project, all people need to take a break at about 90 minutes.”
― Phil Boissiere, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning

“When we’re babies, the PFC is barely formed. Babies don’t plan, regulate emotions, or care about impulsivity—they do what they want, when they want, and how they want. Pulling on Grandma’s earring looks fun. Yank! Time for a bathroom break with no diaper on? Great! The couch looks like a perfect place to go potty. Feeling hungry? Shove Dad’s laptop to the ground and reach for your bottle. Feeling cranky? Just scream until you’re exhausted. Then take a nap and start the whole process again when you wake up. The lack of a fully developed PFC is why babies need to be monitored so closely—they can’t be trusted to manage themselves, because they don’t yet have the cognitive skills to do so. Fortunately,”
― Phil Boissiere MFT, Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning