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Dr G's ADHD Chat
A show trying to make the world safe for ADHDers. Providing scientifically verified information about issues related to ADHD -- Parenting, relationships, education, health, behavior management, and adulting with ADHD.
Episodes
Dr G's ADHD Chat155. ADHD - Developmental Clues
Parenting an ADHD children is tough , at best. It’s even worse if you’re getting ADHD behaviors and you don’t know what’s going on. In this episode, I’ll be…
Dr G's ADHD Chat154.ADHD-Know What’s Really Going On
Much of ADHD behavior looks like something other than what it really is. What looks rebellious is more likely to be overwhelm. What looks like hostility is…
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148. ADHD-Your Child Isn’t Bipolar, It’s RSD
Many parents of ADHD have told me that the thing they’re most concerned about is the “temper tantrums” their child has. It’s so fierce and unexpected and out…
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147. ADHD-Building Resilience First When Raising an ADHD Child
The most important thing you can teach your ADHD child is resilience. Many of us start off trying to improve obedience and compliance and even increasing will…
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146. ADHD-Sibling Resentment, When one’s Child Gets All the Attention
Raising an ADHD child is very demanding and takes a lot of time and attention. Family systems are likely to get out of balance when one child gets more of…
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139. Raising your ADHD Child-Trust is the Foundation
Raisiong an ADHD child is very tricky and there are lots of ways to mess up. The central core issue that you must never screw up is Trust. Your ADHD child must…
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153. ADHD-4 Ways to Improve Your Child’s Learning
We all know the schools are not designed for ADHD brains. They are designed for neurotypical brains. ADHD brains work on interest-based learning. If it catches…
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152.ADHD-Why a 504 Plan Matters for an ADHD Child
ADHD children are allowed under the Americans with Disabilities Act to get Accommodations to make the educational environment more fair for them and their ADHD…
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150 ADHD-Learning Strategies II
This is the second episode outlining specific strategies to improve academic performance by your ADHD child or, if you’re a an adult with ADHD, these tips…
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149: ADHD-Learning Strategies I Because School Is Coming/ Here
Last episode we spent a lot of time on 504 plans because that’s one of the first things to consider when getting ready for back to school. Now I want to…
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151-ADHD-Back to School, Re-establish the Routines
!Back to School time is upon us and for ADHD parents this can be a time of anxiety and concern. It is also time to prepare for the school year. One of the…
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145: ADHD-The Late Diagnosis diagnosis, finding out in Middle Age that Your Whole Life Makes Sense
We are seeing a trend in this moment in time in which older people are asking for evaluation of posssible ADHD. There is increasing recognition of ADHD and its…
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144: ADHD-Kim, What Have You Done? Another Neurotypical Goes Down
In most of the family structures I’ve worked with, one of the parents also has ADHD (along with the child they brought in for evaluation) and the other parent…
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142:ADHD-Exciting news-3 Distinct Biotypes Discovered
Not everyone will geek out about this episode but ithis is important to all of us members of the ADHD world- Researchers have discovered 3 distinct biotypes in…
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143: ADHD-Staying Married if You’re the Neurotypical
In my experience, the most usual family structure is some number of children with ADHD and one parent with ADHD and one neurotypical parent. In my practice…
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141: ADHD-Raising your ADHD Child-Trust is the Foundation
Your ADHD child faces a world that wasn’t designed for him/her. Your ADHDer will find increasing difficulties as the pressure to perform increases as he/she…
Dr G's ADHD Chat140: ADHD- The Power of Routine
ADHD children frequently have difficulties completing tasks when told to do so. With their difficulties with working memory and executive functioning they…
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139: Most ADHDers Quit Treatment within a Year. Why?
While treatment for ADHD, especially medication is seen as one of the most effective treatments in all of psychiatry, a surprising 80% of all patients quit…
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138: ADHD-It’s not a Temper Tantrum, It’s Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
The thing that ADHD parents in my private practice were most concerned about was their child’s temper tantrums. I agree that these displays of anger were…
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137: ADHD-What if Summer was the Best Therapy Your ADHD Child Never Had?
Last week we discussed summer as a time of some trials and tribulation when your child could totally fall out of all those patterns of behavior that took so…
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136 ADHD-No School, No Structure, Parenting Through Summer
Summer causes a lot of questions and difficulties for ADHD parents. Just when you’ve got a routine established with school, now school is ending and you have…
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135 ADHD-Why Willpower Doesn’t Work
ADHDers, both parents and adults with ADHD will frequently blame lack of willpower when they have any difficulties secondary to ADHD. When they procrastinate…
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My Experience with ADHD Strengths
We members of the ADHDer world are used to spending most of our time and energy with the negatives of ADHD-the temper tantrums, the “lost”homework, the “I…
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132 ADHD- 3 Important Skills for Parents
Parents of ADHD children need to have 3 very important skills-resilience, Intention and self awareness. Resilience makes it possible for you to come back after…
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133-ADHD-To Neurotypical Spouses
If you are a neurotypical married to a spouse with ADHD, this show is for you. Be married to an ADHDer requires a special kind of patience and acceptance. I…
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131 ADHD-an Explanation Not an Excuse
It’s not easy having a child with ADHD, it’s not easy being a person with ADHD. How successfully we adapt to ADHD has to do with our attitude towards our…
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130 Why Coaching is Better for ADHD
Coaching is a system. Of helping people improve their performance that is particularly effective for ADHD. It is action-oriented and oriented to improving…
Dr G's ADHD Chat129 ADHD-Lifetime Employment for ADHD
After several sessions governing various aspects of employment throughout life for ADHDers. This is for parents of ADHDers and adult ADHDers trying to figure…
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128 ADHD-Best Jobs-Structured, Detailed
Another in our series on the best jobs for people with ADHD. This time we’re discussing Jobs that help and ADHDer generate more dopamine because they are so…
Dr G's ADHD Chat127 ADHD-Best Jobs-Naturally Intensive
In this episode in our series on the best jobs for ADHDers, we’re covering jobs that demand attention and boost dopamine because they are naturally intense…
Dr G's ADHD Chat126 ADHD-ideal Jobs-Independe’nt Action
Ideal jobs for ADHDers have many different characteristics. Today I’ll be discussing jobs that allow a lot of independent action. ADHDers don’t typically do…
Dr G's ADHD Chat125-ADHD-Jobs, Structured Type
We have been discussing the ideal jobs for ADHDers. We’ve established that high intensity jobs work well because the intensity stimulates dopamine production…
Dr G's ADHD Chat124 ADHD-Entrepreneurship-Ideal or not so much
`One of the big concerns ADHD parents have is whether or not their child will be able to find employments as adults. I just returned from a podcasting…
Dr G's ADHD Chat123 ADHD-Best Jobs for ADHDers
When my ADHDer was struggling with school amongst other things, I worried about how he would be ale to fit into society? What kind of work could he do? I did a…
Dr G's ADHD Chat122 ADHD: How I Do An Evaluation
Evaluating ADHD is a complicated procedure that requires a lot of experience mainly because there is not a single instrument that can determine ADHD. This…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Don’t Take It
ADHDers have a lot of difficulties adjusting to a world that doesn’t understand them. It’s even worse if the ADHDer doesn’t understand him or herself…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD Parenting - When You”re Overwhelmed
Being a parent is not easy. Being the parent of an ADHD child is even harder, yet most of the treatment advice we get is focused on the child. We, as parents…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD - Hobbies are Important
ADHDers tend to have difficulties with education as conducted in the United States. Therefore, it’s important for them to develop other interests. These can be…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Don’t Let Them Quit
One of the most important skills to teach an ADHD child is resilience. One of the quickest ways to sabotage your efforts is to let them quit easily. This…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Coaching vs. Psychotherapy
Coaching. Is not the same as psychotherapy. People can be coaches witthout without being psychotherapists. People can be psychotherapists without being…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Strengths and Positives
ADHDers get more criticism than neurotypical children and frequently have lower self-esteem. To help them develop resilience and better self-esteem, it’s…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Parenting an ADHD Adult
Parenting an ADHD child does not always end at adulthood especially in our current economic environment, not to mention (but I will) Covid and the disruptive…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-It Runs in Families
ADHD has been identified as having an 85% heritability index, which is incredibly High and indicates that if even only one parent has ADHD, it likely that the…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Parenting Tips III
This is the third in our series of tips for parenting ADHD kids. This time it’s presenting in a do this, don’t do this format. I’m terming to be aware that…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Holiday Reflections
This is a time of year for thinking about life, evaluating life, thinking about our decisions, our performance, our loved ones both living and, deceased. This…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD Holiday Survival
This the third podcast in a series about handling holiday for ADHD parents. This episode contains a series of things you can do to make it through the holidays…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Causes of Holiday Stress
In this, the second episode in our holiday stress series, I’ll be discussing the the reason why the holidays are so stressful. I’ll be identifying the specific…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Symptoms of Holiday Stress
The holidays are supposed to the time of” peace on earth, good will to all men.” So why is it so stressful? Why do the rates of mental illness go up? Why do I…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Tips for Parents II
Had so much interesting stuff, I decided I needed two episodes to include it all. ADHD is an increasingly researched diagnosis, so we get more and more…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Parenting Tips 1
Parenting an ADHD child is not for the faint of heart. Between the emotion regulation problems and the executive difficulties there is a tremendous amount of…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Good Morning Routines Start at Night
The morning routine is typically a problem time in an ADHD household. The problems of having everybody in the household having to get up, get ready and eat…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD- Alcoholism and Middlelife Struggles
Given the ADHD impulsivity and the difficulties with employment, careers and relationships over 40 to 50 years, it is not surprising that middle-aged…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Treatment of Alcoholic Teens
ADHD teens are more impulsive and adventure seeking than their peers. They are also more prone to experiment with different substances. The most common of…
Dr G's ADHD Chat109. ADHD-Alcoholism-Why So Common?
ADHDers have a higher rate of alcoholism than neurotypicals. Why should this be true? I’ll cover some of the reasons and some speculations about why this is…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD and Alcohol Abuse
Does having ADHD make one more prone to alcohol abuse? Is the rate of abuse higher for ADHDers than neurotypicals? I’ll cover these issues and more. I used to…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD and Females V-Summary
We have covered the significant differences between females and males in the last 4 episodes. In this episode I will summarize what the research has shown…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-Female IV Masking
Another difference in females with ADHD is that masking is more prevalent. Masking is just a different way of saying that the ADHDer is trying to act like she…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-FEMALES AND ADHD III-EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION
Female emotional dysregulation is different from male emotional dysregulation. Males typically have stronger reactions and are more likely to react with anger…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-ADHD and Females II Hormones
As If having ADHD wasn’t problem enough, Women have to go through further difficulties secondary to their menstrual cycles. The fluctuations in estrogen during…
Dr G's ADHD ChatADHD-ADHD and Females 1
Like many areas of medicine most of the research has been done on men. In fact for some time it was thought that women didn’t have ADHD. This was both because…