I think I speak for most ADHD-affected households when I say, sometimes we don’t bring out the best in each other. In his book Healing ADD From the Inside Out, Dr. Daniel Amen makes a list of games people with ADHD love to play. One of them is, “I bet I can get you to hit me or yell at me.” Sound […]
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Why I don’t commiserate with friends about my ADHD partner
It can seem like a favorite pastime for the over-30 set: we commiserate with friends — almost always same-gender, often accompanied by alcohol — about our spouses’ foibles. We’ve all done it, and we’ve all nodded along while someone else aired their grievances. In the sober light of day, we might wave this grousing off as harmless. It’s not, […]
I’ve accomplished nothing…or maybe I’ve just forgotten.
I end a lot of days feeling like I got nothing done. Like my efforts were not enough. Moms with (or without, let’s be honest) ADHD: I bet some of you can relate. I push back against this feeling all the time. It’s important to me to feel like I’m enough, but my sense of industriousness […]