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By Team TotallyADD The Perfect Career For ADHD brings you the collected knowledge of leading Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder experts on […]
Adult ADHD
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By Ava GreenIf there’s one big theme to the mail we receive, it’s “I’m struggling and I don’t know why”. When I look at the many ways this feeling is expressed, there seems to be a pervasive and common experience of feeling alone, misunderstood and having unique problems—even though we may be surrounded by people, at work, in the grocery store, wherever we go. If this feels all too familiar…
Adult ADHD
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| Work & School
By totallyaddauthorIn our video, The Perfect Career For ADHD, the experts agree that it has to be something you are interested in. But not necessarily good at. At least so far.
YOUR PASSION MAY NOT BE SOMETHING YOU DO WELL. YET.
Nobody starts out good at anything. Remember learning to walk? Or to play piano? Or flirting with the opposite sex? Practice, practice, practice.
Adult ADHD
| Comedy + Holidays
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthorPerhaps it’s Valentine’s Day and those warm feelings that it engenders. Deep desire, ever-present love, overwhelming passion… for chocolate. Oh, and my wife. Who loves chocolate even more than me. Chocolate and great relationships seem to be on everyone’s minds….
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthorSaturday morning and I thought I’d been spammed. My Email inbox was filled with the same headline about ADHD and the NYTimes.
But each Email was from a different person.
Of course, it turned out that The New York Times….
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| The Science of ADD/ADHD
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthorMany of the college students who are not ADHD and were abusing ADHD medication, are doing so to get better grades.
Cause they think it will help them focus, learn better, be more alert.
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthor“Remember when you were at that age where everyone smoked weed?”
You hear that a lot from my generation.
Not everyone did. But almost everyone. I was one of the rare exceptions. All of my friends did, though….
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthor“Oh, I forgot we had this hot-air popcorn maker!”
“Oh, I didn’t know we owned all these old picture frames.”
“Hey, look! We have a single bed. I forgot about this.”…
Adult ADHD
| Medication
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthorCan we talk about substance abuse?
Specifically abusing ADHD medication.
I’ve never actually had anyone ask me to lend them some of my medication. (How do you lend someone medication? Don’t you mean give? Cause I can’t see a pill being a ‘loaner’ that I’d want back afterwards.) But when my son was at university, taking an incredibly challenging course called Physics-Engineering, fellow students, non-ADHD students, approached him about getting a leg up with one of his magic pills.
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By totallyaddauthorIt’s like the Sleep Fairy is sprinkling magic dust over most people, and sprinkling some kind of stimulant over the rest of us, the adults with ADHD.