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Perfectionism and ADHD
Dr. Carol Robbins discusses why you put an enormous amount of time and energy into trying to be perfect. She offers tips on getting “unstuck” and becoming more confident with yourself and your accomplishments.
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Coping with Change
ADHD and executive function impairments can make it difficult to deal with life transitions. What helps people with ADHD process and embrace changing circumstances, and how can an ADHD coach assist them?
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Social Media Can Be a Poor Tool for Self-Diagnosis
Learning more about ADHD online can be helpful but be sure to evaluate trending posts to see if they contain evidence-based approaches.
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Who Are the Social Media Influencers Reducing ADHD Stigma?
Who are you following on social media? Popular influencers can help to shape your understanding of ADHD.
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Time Unbound: Managing Time Blindness at Work
Viewed from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, consistent time-related struggles are a sensory difference that can be appropriately supported, managed, and accepted by everyone involved.
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Always Have an Exit Plan
For an adult with ADHD, the impulse to avoid uncomfortable gatherings can be high—but some of these events in your life are important. A thoughtful plan allows you to go with grace.
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Women in Midlife and ADHD
For many women with ADHD, especially those who don’t have a diagnosis or whose ADHD is untreated, midlife presents struggles made more complicated by the hormonal changes they experience during this stage of life. They often have the greatest demands on their time and energy and end up feeling overwhelmed, inadequate, misunderstood, and distressed. Women diagnosed in adulthood are more likely have symptoms of depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, eating disorders, and substance use. Far too many women have a low sense of self-esteem.
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Cultivating a Meditation Practice
How can cultivating a meditation practice help people with ADHD manage symptoms and improve their quality of life? Meditation teacher Adam Coutts discovered he had ADHD as an adult. He explains how to ease into a meditation practice and develop strategies for meditating effectively even while experiencing the symptoms of ADHD.
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Healthy Eating and Meal Planning with ADHD
Do you, like many adults with ADHD, struggle with symptoms that create barriers to eating a healthy diet? Kim Arrey, a registered dietitian nutritionist, offers practical strategies tailored for people with ADHD, along with guidelines for healthy eating and meal preparation.
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The Relationship Between ADHD and Trauma
ADHD symptoms such as executive function deficits, inattention, and emotional regulation deficits increase the possibly that a person will experience trauma during their lives. Tonya L. Miles, PsyD, discusses the different types of traumas, how trauma co-occurs with ADHD, and how the conditions influence each other.
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Mindfulness, Stress, and Emotion
Studies suggest that mindful practices can create brain-based changes in focused attention, stress management, emotional regulation, and even compassion. Mindfulness can help to develop various cognitive traits through direct practice over time, and through those changes supports all aspects of ADHD care.
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Executive Function Issues and ADHD
As awareness of executive functions has migrated from the scientific arena into popular discussion, so has confusion about what the term means. Let’s clear that up.
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Can I Have a Do-Over?
An empty-nester diagnosed as an adult shares her reflections on motherhood and ADHD.
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Strategies for Dads with ADHD
What happens when boys with ADHD grow up and become husbands and fathers with ADHD?
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Managing ADHD Can Begin with Stress Awareness
April brings a special focus on the stress in our lives and how it can affect ADHD symptoms and our health.
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You’re Not Too Old for an ADHD Diagnosis
Adults in their forties and fifties share what it’s like to finally be able to put a name to their challenges.
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Webinar: ADHD and Toxic Relationships
CHADD Webinars
Learn how to protect yourself from people who don’t have your best interests in mind. In this webinar, you can learn how to identify a toxic relationship and why people with ADHD are at higher risk of experiencing abuse.
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The Interaction of Hormones and ADHD
Many women struggle with undiagnosed or untreated ADHD. These struggles can be amplified by hormonal changes during midlife, often spanning two decades. Denial of ADHD in high-functioning women—often by physicians, mental health practitioners, and even family and friends—can worsen their problems. These women frequently get the runaround, and are treated for stress, anxiety, or depression without any recognition of the underlying neurological condition.
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Reignite Your Resolutions
They are so appealing at first, but so hard to hold onto. Want this year to be different?
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Can You Really Multitask?
Doing too much at once is less productive, though you may not realize it. What have researchers learned about the effects of chronic multitasking?
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Is It Part of Being Older, or Is It ADHD?
An increasing number of older adults seek an evaluation for ADHD when they realize it’s something more than aging that is affecting their executive functioning.
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Black Adults Who Live with ADHD
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Black History Month 2024: Celebrating Strengths and Creativity
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Heading Off Seasonal Depression When You Have ADHD
Adults with ADHD often cope with seasonal depression as well. Experts note steps you can take to reduce symptoms.
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Promoting Mental Health for Black Communities
Dr. Harolyn Belcher discusses the root causes of health disparities related to mental health conditions and treatment. She offers culturally responsive solutions to help promote mental health and wellness for Black children, youth, and families.
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Living Black with Undiagnosed and Untreated ADHD
How do we encourage conversation about mental health issues and educate culturally insensitive educators and healthcare providers?
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African Americans, ADHD, and Dysregulated Eating: What's Going On?
This month CHADD focuses on improving the lives of Black Americans who have ADHD and their families by highlighting information and resources that address their needs.
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Black Adults Who Live with ADHD
Cultural concerns need to be addressed for Black adults to receive proper evaluation and effective treatment for ADHD.
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Black History Month Playlist: ADHD and Black Culture
CHADD’s ADHD and Black Culture playlist focuses on awareness among African Americans about ADHD and related health challenges. Podcasts selected provide information to educators, healthcare providers, and other professionals about the challenges and concerns Black Americans who have ADHD contend with on a regular basis.
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ADHD and the “Just-Right” Relationship
Transformation starts when both partners understand the role ADHD plays in their difficulties and the importance of non-defensive listening.
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Your Keys to a Happier ADHD Relationship
Most of us aspire to a relationship of working with our partner. So how do we get there?
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The Quest for Clinical Practice Guidelines for ADHD in Adults
The absence of clinical practice guidelines for adult ADHD in the United States presents a significant gap in mental healthcare. CHADD and APSARD have joined forces to change this.
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ADHD and Financial Therapy
Do you experience stress and difficulty addressing thoughts, feelings, communication, and actions related to money? Learn about a resource that can support the financial well-being of adults with ADHD.
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My Big Fat ADHD Holiday
Three Attention readers share tales of surviving celebrations gone awry.
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B4LLIN 4 CHADD: Basketball Player Is Raising Funds to Support CHADD
Kendall Munson of the Portland Vikings is using the basketball court to help other teens and young adults who have ADHD.
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Finding Your Holiday Spirit Through Self-Care
Whatever your joy of the season, be sure to add your own well-being to your calendar.
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How to Recover After a Social Faux Pas
Do holiday gatherings and social blunders seem to go together for you? Here are five steps to help when those unintentional missteps rob your joy.
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#ADHD2023 Conference Provides Practical Support and Guidance
This year’s conference, themed “Connect. Learn. Thrive.,” will feature sessions presented by renowned ADHD clinicians, researchers, and coaches, trainings for healthcare professionals during Professional Day, educational presentations and workshops, peer-to-peer discussion groups, interactive activities, networking opportunities, an exhibit hall, a talent show, and much more.
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Retirement and Estate Planning for Adults with ADHD
Adults with ADHD often experience difficulties with navigating life during retirement without the structure and the support offered by their former workplace. Many people find estate planning especially challenging. Rick Webster, the founder and CEO of Rena-Fi, shares his expertise on how you can organize and manage your wealth-building journey and retirement life.
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Cultivating a Meditation Practice
How can cultivating a meditation practice help people with ADHD to manage symptoms and improve their quality of life?
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ADHD in Adults at Midlife
While most of the available information about ADHD deals with how it affects children and teenagers, we know it is a lifelong condition. How does ADHD affect people who are age fifty and older? Why are diagnoses increasing in this age group? What special challenges do they face, and how can they improve their daily lives?
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Strategies for the Sandwich Generation
Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, a published author and licensed mental health counselor who has been in practice for more than twenty years, discusses the ways in which being part of the sandwich generation is different for people with ADHD. She shares tips on how to identify stressors and create healthy habits to deal with them, avoid burnout, and create and uphold boundaries.
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Reduce End-of-Year Stress
The year is quickly winding down as the calendar gets shorter and winding up as we enter the gift-giving season. You can embrace the holidays and reduce the stress they often bring.
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There’s Art to Creating a To-Do List
Everyday tasks seem to mount up, and it can be hard to know just where to start. Jotting things down and crafting a to-do list will ease your mind and give you a place to launch.
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Cultivating a Meditation Practice
How can cultivating a meditation practice help people with ADHD to manage symptoms and improve their quality of life?
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Starting Over: Giving College a Second Chance
When their first experience is disastrous, young adults with ADHD may abandon all hope of a college education. Improved executive function skills—and time to mature—can make all the difference.
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Those Lovely ‘Mones: The Intersection of ADHD and Hormones
More than fifty hormones are hard at work in the human body, but to date only a handful are implicated in ADHD.
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Conquering the Three Mental Enemies of Adults with ADHD
You can overcome discouraging thought patterns such as negativity bias, cognitive distortion, and perseveration.
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ADHD and Online Higher Education Programs
College students with ADHD may experience both benefits and setbacks from online courses. Success in these programs depends on where they are in their academic journey.
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ADHD Medication Shortages: What to Know and Do
Perseverance, flexibility, and creativity are key to success in dealing with the ongoing shortage of various ADHD stimulant medications. Here are some helpful tips and strategies.
This article has been published online before appearing in print in the upcoming October issue of Attention magazine.
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Drivers with ADHD Can Get Caught in DUI Laws
Traffic laws meant to discourage impaired driving don’t always take research on medication and safe driving into account.
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Improving Executive Function Skills
Brandon Slade, CEO of Untapped Learning, will discuss executive function and how to develop better skills to complete tasks and reach your goals.
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ADHD in Adults at Midlife
While most of the available information about ADHD deals with how it affects children and teenagers, we know it is a lifelong condition. How does ADHD affect people who are age fifty and older?
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Strategies for the Sandwich Generation
Many people between the ages of thirty-five and fifty-four care for both children and aging parents. This double load of caregiving responsibilities may cause them to neglect self-care, which can take a toll on their relationships and physical and mental health. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, discusses the ways in which being part of the sandwich generation is different for people with ADHD.
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Live in Harmony: Tips for Understanding a Partner with ADHD
When your partner has ADHD and you don’t, you may misunderstand one another’s point of view. This can be a breeding ground for all sorts of miscommunication, leading to disagreements, arguments, and hurt feelings. Susan Tschudi offers suggestions on what you can do to increase positive interactions, help your partner with ADHD to be more aware of your needs, and find a common ground to strengthen your relationship.
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Evidence-Based Coaching for Adult ADHD
Learning to live well with ADHD is a lifelong pursuit. Though the road can be bumpy, coaching provides proven methods that can help pave the way for an enjoyable journey.
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Disclose Your ADHD? What to Consider First
Relationships of all kinds do best with the right level of disclosure.
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What to Do When Your Loved One Doesn’t Want Help
Sometimes, what is obvious to you is not clear to the person closest to you, especially when ADHD symptoms are involved.
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Why ADHD Is More Challenging for Women
ADHD in women was once dismissed as a milder version of ADHD. Research and lived experience show a very different reality.
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Join the “Three Micro-Connections a Day” Challenge
Are you one of the many people who struggle with being social? Try taking these small steps toward more pleasant interaction.
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Chris A. Ziegler Dendy, ADHD Advocate
It is with sadness that we share the passing of Chris A. Ziegler Dendy, a longtime CHADD volunteer and co-founder of CHADD’s Teacher to Teacher training program.
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#ADHD2023 Conference Hotel
Check out the Baltimore Hilton Inner Harbor Hotel, the conference in-person convention location.
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Improve Your Workplace Social Skills
Social skill deficits can harm your career. Recognizing that ADHD symptoms can make it difficult to learn and practice the people skills necessary in the workplace can help you find ways to improve those skills.
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Breezing into Summer with ADHD
Will you be in the office or on vacation—or a little of both? Here’s how to ease the seasonal transition.
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Try a Goal-Oriented Summer
You may find it’s a perfect season to set and reach goals you can’t focus on during the rest of the year.
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Doing Too Much At Once Is Less Productive
Can you really multitask? Many adults with ADHD claim they can, but researchers are not so sure it’s possible.
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Strategies for the Sandwich Generation
Many people between the ages of 35 and 54 care for both children and aging parents. This double load of caregiving responsibilities can take a toll on their relationships and physical and mental health. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, discusses the ways being part of the sandwich generation is different for people with ADHD.
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Beware These Sneaky Energy Vampires
Awareness—and a few actions—will help you counter those things that drain or consume your fuel tank each day.
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Flipping the Script on ADHD: Find Your Strength in the Workplace
Many people have found careers they love that are different than those said to be “right” for someone with ADHD.
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ADHD 365: Managing Finances with ADHD
Why do people with ADHD struggle with money management? And how can their romantic partners or family members support their efforts to achieve their financial goals?
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ADHD 365: Mothers and ADHD: Permit Yourself to Breathe
Women with ADHD who are mothers often face challenges in their everyday lives. For these moms, daily life becomes even more difficult when they struggle with procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, and being disorganized as well as distracted. Terry Matlen discusses strategies for coping as a woman and a mother with ADHD.
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Telemedicine Changes for ADHD Following End of Health Emergency
Many people who have been receiving telehealth care for ADHD and other mental health conditions will have to work with their providers to meet new regulations for treatment and stimulant prescriptions.
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Symptoms 101: An Overview of Comprehensive Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
Janina Elbert Maschke, PhD, will explore the symptoms of ADHD during this webinar and how they manifest in individuals across the lifespan. A clinical psychologist and ADHD coach, she will discuss the criteria used to diagnose ADHD and the importance of a comprehensive evaluation process.
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Enough Is Enough: The Adult ADHD Guide to Saying No
Do you agree to do things and feel resentful later? Do you “go along to get along” all too often? This happens to everyone occasionally. For adults with ADHD, saying no can be a challenge.
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Worried and Preoccupied? You Can Reduce Anxiety and Live More Confidently
Here are five steps you can take to change your relationship to anxiety and reduce negative thinking.
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CHADD’s NRC Library Shines During National Library Week
Both CHADD members and the public benefit from the library’s vast resources of information on ADHD and current research on a variety of topics.
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Live in Harmony: Tips for Understanding a Partner with ADHD
When your partner has ADHD and you don’t, you may misunderstand each other’s points of view. This can be a breeding ground for all sorts of miscommunication, leading to disagreements, arguments, and hurt feelings. Learn what you can do to increase positive interactions, help your partner with ADHD to be more aware of your needs, and find a common ground.
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Trends in Stimulant Prescription Fills Among Commercially Insured Children and Adults
A new CDC report shows a greater than 10% increase in stimulant prescriptions for adults in first year of COVID-19 pandemic. This sharp increase highlights the need for ADHD clinical practice guidelines to address diagnosis and treatment in adults. The CDC works with its partners, including CHADD and its National Resource Center on ADHD, to build public health capacity to promote optimal health and development for people with ADHD. The CDC is exploring opportunities to fill gaps in knowledge of ADHD in adults, including additional studies of healthcare claims to answer questions not addressed in the current report and using national survey data to explore the relationship between adult ADHD and other health conditions, health risks, and protective factors.
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Why Can’t I Do This? ADHD and Overwhelming Emotions
Awareness of stress and its origins can help you determine what to do with it.
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The Rethink Stress Program
Your mindset can affect the impact of stress on your health, productivity, and well-being.
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#ADHD2022 Conference Sample: Women, Executive Function, and Emotional Labor
A professional organizer examines the connection between women, emotional labor, and executive function.
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Women in Midlife and ADHD
Women not diagnosed with ADHD until adulthood are more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms, anxiety, sleep disorders, eating disorders, substance use, and low self-esteem. In this episode, Dr. Carol Robbins provides an understanding of the challenges women face in midlife with ADHD.
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Frenzied, Frazzled and Overwhelmed: The Interaction of Hormones and ADHD in Women in Midlife
Many women approaching menopause experience hormone changes that can fuel underlying ADHD, which can make milder forms of ADHD less manageable. These women are left wondering why they now feel so overwhelmed and like the are “losing it.” They worry about early onset Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of memory loss. It’s ADHD squared—the combined effect of low estrogen plus low dopamine.
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Women’s History Month and ADHD
ADHD affects women and girls but research in the past often excluded them. During Women’s History Month, it’s important to recognize the researchers who are increasing our understanding and finding better ways to improve the lives of women and girls.
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Anxiety, Perfectionism, and ADHD
When you think about ADHD, perfectionism may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but many describe adults with ADHD as being perfectionists. This webinar will help you better understand why you put an enormous amount of time and energy into trying to be perfect. Learn ways to get unstuck and move forward with confidence.
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Bias About ADHD Leaves Many Women with a Late Diagnosis
Why do so many women receive a diagnosis for another mental health condition long before being accurately diagnosed with ADHD? We asked an expert on adult ADHD.
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Inattentive Women with ADHD
Much remains to be done to teach the mental health community—and the world—to better understand the very real challenges women with ADHD face and how best to help them reduce stress and live calmer, more satisfying lives.
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If Not Now, When? ADHD in Women of a Certain Age
It's never too late to learn about yourself. You can even retell your history with a more accurate, compassionate understanding.
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Women and Girls with ADHD Podcast Playlist and Resources
“Break the Bias” has been the theme for Women’s History Month 2022, and toward that end, CHADD offers a variety of resources.
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Resources For Women and Girls with ADHD
Updated resources on ADHD and support for women and girls.
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How the Gender Gap Leaves Girls and Women Undertreated for ADHD
Girls with ADHD often go undiagnosed until adulthood, while boys with ADHD are often prescribed stimulant medications earlier than girls, researchers have found. The gender gap in diagnosis and treatment frequently leaves girls and women floundering. As a result, girls often struggle with their ADHD symptoms longer than boys do before receiving a diagnosis and treatment.
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Healthcare Disparities and ADHD
By coming to a shared understanding, caregivers, providers, and advocates can continue working collectively to reduce barriers to ADHD diagnosis and disparities in treatment.
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Awkward in Social Situations?
A social skills coach offers tips for those challenged by discomfort or anxiety when it’s time to socialize.
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How to Build and Maintain New Habits
Try these strategies to help you make just one small daily lifestyle change at a time, and then repeat it until it becomes automatic.
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A Fresh Start for the New Year
Big changes are not needed to kick off 2023, just a few little habits.
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The Twelve Days of ADHD
Classic lyrics with a creative twist… the ADHD advocacy gift of the year.
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Angels & Demons
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Comics That Educate and Validate
Sometimes the best way to educate others about a disability, disorder, or difference is through humor and simplicity.
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Awards Presented at #ADHD2022
CHADD continued its tradition of honoring outstanding service and dedication to the ADHD community during the Annual International Conference on ADHD held in Dallas, Texas, from November 17-19, 2022.
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Excellence in Emerging ADHD Researchers
Learn about the selection process for the 2022 Young Scientist Research Awards, and then read summaries by the recipients of their groundbreaking ADHD research.
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How to Build and Maintain New Habits
Consistency is so hard! These strategies will help you make just one small daily lifestyle change at a time, and then repeat it until it becomes automatic.
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How to Say the Right Thing at the Right Time
Have a history of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time? Try these tips to tame that tendency.
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Connecting in Dallas #ADHD2022
The ADHD community meets this weekend—in Dallas and online—in a truly global hybrid gathering.
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Where Does ADHD Come From?
Some people have more ADHD-related traits than other people do. How do we understand the involvement of genes and the involvement of environmental factors together?
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Meditation and Adult ADHD
A longtime meditation teacher who has ADHD shares how the practice can improve life skills and happiness and shares tips to help you get started.
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Getting What I Need
For years she considered You Can’t Always Get What You Want the song of her life. Addressing her ADHD, particularly her distractibility, made all the difference.
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Our Shared Experience: ADHD Awareness Month
ADHD Awareness Month focuses on what the members of the ADHD community have in common and celebrates the uniqueness of the individual person.
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ADHD on TikTok
Social media videos often share misleading content about ADHD. Some ADHD experts are joining in to spread facts and effective strategies.
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Flipping the Script on ADHD
Find your strengths in the workplace and dispel the myths along your path.
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CHADD Announces New Chief Executive Officer
CHADD’s board of directors has selected Laurie Kulikosky to provide leadership for the foremost ADHD organization for families and adults.
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Webinar: Hormones and ADHD in Women in Midlife
Many women approaching menopause experience hormone changes that can fuel underlying ADHD, which can make milder forms of ADHD less manageable. This presentation will help participants understand the effect hormones have on ADHD symptoms and learn strategies to optimize brain functioning, and make lifestyle changes to improve their overall well-being.
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Podcast: ADHD and the Struggle with Suicidal Ideation
Talking about suicide, suicidal ideation, and self-harm with a loved can be challenging. Dr. Roberto Olivardia discusses the risk factors in children and adults who have ADHD, and preventive measures you can take to help someone you think may be considering self-harm or suicide.
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Interoceptive Awareness and ADHD
Often more externally oriented, people with ADHD can be unaware of important internal cues that are essential to healthy functioning.
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Small Talk Is Painful
While it can be an Achilles heel for adults with ADHD, making chit-chat is a critical life skill and the foundation for all friendships.
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When Emotions Overwhelm You
Emotional intelligence and self-regulation can pay off for adults with ADHD when confronting intense feelings.
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Pesticides Could Play a Role for Some People with ADHD
Are pesticides a factor in the development of ADHD in some children? Research shows strong evidence but no firm conclusions.
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Podcasts for National Minority Mental Health Month
July is National Minority Mental Health Month. We have collected podcasts that address mental health concerns in diverse communities.
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Young Scientist Awardees Announced
CHADD’s annual award program recipients are researching preschool ADHD interventions and attention control.
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Will ADHD Symptoms Improve with Marijuana Use?
Two experts consider the anecdotes, the evidence, and the current state of the research.
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Try a Goal-Oriented Summer
Summer grants you a perfect time frame to accomplish things you can’t focus on during the rest of the busy year.
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Breezing Into Summer with ADHD
Transitions—even good ones—are difficult for adults with ADHD. Here are some ways to smooth your way into easy-living season.
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There’s STRENGTH IN CONNECTION, However You Connect
The largest ADHD gathering of the year will be a hybrid event. What does that mean?
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Busy Puppy? Researchers Describe ADHD in Dogs
Dogs and people seem to share similar behaviors that could be symptoms of ADHD. Researchers are exploring canine ADHD to better understand ADHD in humans.
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Men’s Health Month Promotes Awareness, Prevention, Education, and Family
ADHD affects all parts of a man’s life, including his health and well-being. Managing ADHD is an important part of a man’s responsibility to himself and those who care about him.
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I Can’t Stop Thinking About It
These five daily strategies can help you deal with negative and intrusive thoughts.
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Keeping Organized Goes Beyond a Task List
Visual working memory, self-regulation, and advocacy play important roles in team organization, especially for adults with ADHD.
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Adult to Adult Free Course: Navigating College with ADHD
College is dramatically different than high school, with increased academic demands, differences in teaching methods and grading procedures, and less available accommodations and supports.
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Men: Treat ADHD to Improve Your Health
ADHD symptoms easily get in the way of wellness. So, how can men keep themselves healthy and while also addressing ADHD? Two experts in ADHD and men’s health weigh in.
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Where Can Adults with ADHD Find the Best Treatment?
Here’s what to consider when choosing the right type of specialist to help you manage your symptoms.
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Stop Taking Things So Personally
Since our brains are hardwired to protect us from danger, we tend to focus on the negative stories we tell ourselves.
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Could a Body Double Help You Increase Your Productivity?
Having company while you work could help you stay on task and offer immediate accountability.
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Will ADHD Symptoms Improve with Marijuana Use?
People report that marijuana use helps improve their ADHD symptoms. But does it really help? Or does it mask a person’s ability to care about their problems rather than work to solve them? What are the benefits and downsides to using marijuana if you have ADHD? CHADD's resident expert Dr. Gene Arnold and guest Dr. Maggie Sibley discuss the research on the therapeutic role of marijuana, the potential downside of using unregulated drugs to help with ADHD symptoms, and why more research is needed.
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April is Stress Awareness Month: Playlist
CHADD has complied podcasts and other resources that offer strategies and skills to help you and your loved ones manage stress and make it easier to live with ADHD.
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ADHD and the “Just Right” Relationship
The symptoms of ADHD can have profound effects on intimate relationships. Even though ADHD is present, it doesn’t mean that the person with ADHD is the sole cause of problems. Transforming your relationship starts with both partners understanding the role that ADHD plays and nondefensive listening. Melissa Orlov provides tools to help couples create a responsive relationship that feels “just right” for both individuals.
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Frenzied, Frazzled, and Overwhelmed: The Interaction of Hormones and ADHD in Women in Midlife
Physicians often fail to recognize the underlying neurological condition at the root of the distress these women experience.
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Inattentive Women with ADHD
There are as many variations on this presentation of ADHD as there are women who have it.
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Stimming and Fidgeting Helps Some People with ADHD to Pay Attention
Some children and adults find that repetitive behaviors can help them have a sense of both calmness and focus. Often, they’re doing these behaviors without realizing it.
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ADHD and the Effects of COVID-19 on Health and Education
Researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected the health and education of people who have ADHD.
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Will ADHD Symptoms Improve with Marijuana Use?
People report that marijuana use helps improve their ADHD symptoms. But does it really help? Or does it mask a person’s ability to care about their problems rather than work to solve them?
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Improving Social Executive Function Skills | A webinar for parents
Ryan Wexelblatt will provide parents with an understanding of how to help build social executive function skills in their children.
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Everyone has a better life than I do
Social media can help you connect with friends and other people who have similar interests; it's an easy forum to share the highlights of your life. Yet for many women who are struggling with ADHD symptoms social media adds another layer of stress.
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I’m Pregnant. Should I Still Take My Meds?
When you find out you’re pregnant—particularly if it’s unexpected—the next few months are filled with questions. You’ll be on the receiving end of many suggestions about how best to take care of yourself and your developing baby.
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Women Often Diagnosed with ADHD Later In Life
Can an adult be diagnosed with ADHD even though she didn’t have symptoms of the disorder in childhood or adolescence? There is growing evidence that ADHD is emerging for the first time in adulthood for some people.
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Planning or Hoping for a Pregnancy? Talk About Medication with Your Doctor
Medication during pregnancy is discouraged. Women who are considering pregnancy need to know the risks and benefits of medication and their options to continue treatment.
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Routines for Times of Uncertainty
Coping during the ongoing global pandemic requires flexibility, and individuals with ADHD will find that routines actually help them to adjust and function successfully.
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ADHD in the African American Community
During Black History Month and beyond, CHADD aims to increase understanding, dialogue, and access to resources. Read more about the organization’s efforts and outreach
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Improving the Health and Wellness of Black Americans with ADHD
This month CHADD focuses on improving the lives of Black Americans who have ADHD and their families by highlighting information and resources that address their needs.
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5 Essential Ways to Have a Balanced and Healthy Relationship with Your Partner | Thriving with Adult ADHD
Sharing a relationship with a partner who has ADHD can be very fun and exciting—especially in the beginning. As time moves on and the relationship starts to grow, there are times where you may feel alone, overburdened, unheard, and unimportant as a result of your partner’s ADHD symptoms. That’s when the relationship becomes difficult or can even end.
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Beyond Black History Month: Addressing Barriers in ADHD Care for People of Color
In honor of Black History Month, CHADD focuses on the importance of cultural awareness and competency in diagnosing, treating, and caring for Black children and adults with ADHD.
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Myths About ADHD Can Cause Our Early Deaths
The seven most harmful myths about ADHD prevent identification, diagnosis, and treatment during childhood.
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Your Lifestyle Will Determine Your Future
Takeaways from the keynote address by Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, at the 2020 Virtual International Conference on ADHD highlight the path to satisfying, functional, and healthy living for adults with ADHD.
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Pursuing Your Passion or Purpose When You Have ADHD
ADHD symptoms don’t have to prevent you from following your passion or purpose where it leads.
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ADHD Benefits in the Workplace
There are times when ADHD symptoms can help you in your career. A strengths-based approach to treatment can help your talents shine.
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Podcast Highlight: ADHD and Working from Home
During the past two years, many people have found themselves working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic? Just like you, many people have been trying to adjust to this different way of working, either for the first time ever or for a long period of time.
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Find Your Theme or Dream for the Year
Resolutions are hard to keep, especially for those with ADHD. Instead, set a theme or a goal to guide you through 2022.
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Prioritize Your Sleep for Good Health
Missing out on a night’s rest not only leaves you feeling sleepy, but it can also make your ADHD symptoms much worse.
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Webinar: Live in the Present, Don’t Dwell on Your Past Mistakes
Dr. Arthur Robin will outline the major domains of daily life and give examples of the kinds of mistakes in these domains that adults with ADHD dwell on, and illustrate how to translate these mistakes into reasonable goals for change in the present. He will suggest cognitive strategies they can use to build a more positive present and future.
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Webinar: Live in Harmony—Tips for Understanding a Partner with ADHD
When your partner has ADHD and you don’t, you may misunderstand each other’s point of view. Learn what you can do to increase positive interactions, help your partner with ADHD to be more aware of your needs, and find a common ground.
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Coping with Sensory Overload
For people with ADHD of all ages, overstimulation amid social situations can be painful and problematic—especially during the holidays. Five strategies can help them stay connected.
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ADHD: Music to My Ears
Steven Sharp Nelson, world-renowned cellist from The Piano Guys, shares his ADHD-powered journey through storytelling and song.