ADHD in Adults
| Adult ADHD
| Emotional Journey
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDMany adults who have ADHD, myself included, don’t feel we worry too much or are highly sensitive, anxious, moody, mercurial, easily upset, or quick to anger. We don’t feel that our emotions are a problem.
But talk to our friends and family. Hear what they say. (Awkward clearing of throat.)
ADHD in Adults
| ADHD Myths
| Adult ADHD
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADD“Everyone is ADHD. It’s the internet and smart phones.”
“These days everyone is ADD.”
“Yeah, everyone thinks they have it.”
Uh… No! Sorry, friend, but the whole world is NOT suddenly suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
ADHD in Adults
| Adult ADHD
By Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CSTADHD is a neurological condition. Simplistically, it’s about productivity—except that people aren’t simple.
Adult ADHD
| Emotional Journey
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDMastering ADHD challenges is an ongoing project. Always improving. Never perfect. My success requires an arsenal of mutually supporting tools. However when one strategy stopped working well for me, I would ‘try harder.’ And we know how that works…
Adult ADHD
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADD“I don’t believe in ADHD.”
“It’s made up by Doctors and big Pharma.”
“ It’s lazy teachers and weak parents who refuse to discipline their kids.”
“ It’s just a fad. It’s because parents have to work these kids run wild in the street…”
And on and on….
Adult ADHD
| Medication
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDSomething has been bothering me for a while. Stewing away.
And I think the seasonal question of “Have you been naughty or nice?” has brought it to the fore.
It’s something I was asked a long while ago.
“How do I tell what’s ADHD, and what’s simply bad behavior?”
Adult ADHD
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDIs it just me, or are more and more people confusing their beliefs with facts. Perhaps people have always mistaken their opinions for the truth. I don’t know.
What I do know, for sure, is the universal challenge you face after getting an ADHD diagnosis is whether or not you should tell anyone about it. Who you should take into your confidence? Who probably doesn’t need to know? And who definitely should never find out?
Adult ADHD
| Life With ADHD
| Most Popular
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| TotallyADD Blog
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDThis quiz is as scientific as I could make it. Which is to say, I put on the lab coat I used to wear when I was a teacher at a Science Centre many years ago.
Adult ADHD
| Rick
| TotallyADD Blog
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADD‘Oh, everyone thinks they have ADD nowadays. It’s over-diagnosed. It’s the internet. And cell phones. And everyone’s trying to do 9 things at once. Fifty years ago there was no such thing as ADHD.’
Adult ADHD
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| TotallyADD Blog
By Rick Green - Founder of TotallyADDAsk most kids what they want to be when they grow up and you’ll get very clear answers. Which may change from week to week, depending on the video game they’ve played. I had no idea.
“What do I want to be?” From age 8 to about the time my first marriage ended, that question invariably triggered a snowstorm of ideas, then brain freeze. I didn’t have an answer.
Then I realized what I wanted to be: Happy…