When I see ADHD trending on social media, I perk up my ears. Today, it’s the release of new study results supporting behavior therapy as a first-line treatment for children with ADHD. This raises important questions. It also fans the flames of controversy among those opposed to medicating ADHD in children. I see this study as an […]
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For a better to-do list, just add context.
I hate knowing I have tons to do, yet blanking when I try to think of specific tasks. This feeling defined my mid-20s, just before I started learning about and treating my ADHD. I existed in a constant state of stress and anxiety, but I couldn’t articulate — even to myself — what exactly I needed to do. […]
Want to remember everything? Write it on the wall.
People with ADHD forget a lot — a lot of things, and very often. We frustrate ourselves. Even worse, we frustrate, hurt, and disappoint the people we love. ADHD is cruelly egalitarian, in that we forget our spouse’s birthday as easily as our dry cleaning. Even if we lived in total isolation, we’d still generate the same […]