Living With ADHD in Relationships Most articles about ADHD and relationships are written for your partner. They explain what it's like to live with you. They offer tips on patience and communication and managing expectations. They tell the other person how to cope. This isn't that article. This one is for you. The person with ADHD who is trying. Who has always been trying. Who forgets things and misses things and says the wrong thing at the wrong moment, and then lies awake a

Here's the thing about parenting with ADHD: we're supposed to be teaching our kids how to manage their emotions, how to regulate when things get overwhelming, how to pause and respond instead of react. But for those of us with ADHD, emotional regulation is one of our biggest struggles. We feel things intensely. We go from zero to a hundred in seconds. We have emotional dysregulation baked into our neurology. So how are we supposed to model something we're still figuring out o

When I was first diagnosed with ADHD, I didn’t realize just how much I’d been craving connection with people who truly understood me. That changed when I joined a few online communities...there were people who “got it,” not just in theory but in lived experience.

Navigating ADHD Together: A couple holds hands, standing resilient against a chaotic swirl, symbolizing the strength and unity in...

One universal struggle for many ADHDers is avoiding uncomfortable emotions. Let’s explore why this happens and how to address it.

Day 2 of the International ADHD Conference 2023 in Baltimore, MD. I talk about meeting with some big names and what I learned from sessions.

ADHD is highly genetic, so even if you think your child MIGHT have ADHD, rasing them as if they did can help your children just the same.

We've tried to work on communication, but sometimes we just aren't able to salvage a relationship. DBT teaches us how to walk away if needed