Why One Clinician Says ADHD and the Next One Says No
You cannot buy a diagnosis. You can absolutely buy a document. The difference shows up the first time it meets a school team, a...
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Why One Clinician Says ADHD and the Next One Says No
You cannot buy a diagnosis. You can absolutely buy a document. The difference shows up the first time it meets a school team, a disability services office, or a second opinion. New on the blog: why one clinician says ADHD...
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He Can Do It When He Wants To: What ADHD actually looks like from kindergarten through college, and how to tell it apart from ordinary forgetfulness
He can do it when he wants to. She is bright, she is just not applying herself. Parents hear these sentences at every conference...
AuDHD, or What It Is Like to Want Two Opposite Things at Once
AuDHD is shorthand for having both autism and ADHD in the same person. Until 2013 the diagnostic manual did not allow you to have...
Why Your Kid Holds It Together All Day and Falls Apart at Home
Your child holds it together at school, then falls apart over something small at home. This pattern may reflect the accumulated effects of hunger,...
Why ADHD Hides in Girls
A woman in her late thirties sits across from me and lists everything she has tried. The planners she bought and abandoned. The habit...
Psychiatric or Psychological? Screening or Comprehensive? A Plain Explanation of Evaluations
Someone tells you that you need an evaluation. Maybe it's the school. Maybe it's your doctor. Maybe it's your spouse, who has been watching...
Why Matching With Your Therapist Matters (And Why You Are Allowed to Leave)
Why Matching With Your Therapist Matters (And Why You Are Allowed to Leave) It is the third of July, and by tomorrow the whole...
Is It ADHD, or Is It Perimenopause? You're Asking the Wrong Question
ADHD or Perimenopause? Why You're Asking the Wrong Questioncenterforbalancedliving.com › blog › adhd-perimenopauseADHD and perimenopause overlap, but they're not the same. A Delaware psychologist...
The Difference Between Clinical and Just Being Hard
Where the words “neurodivergent” and “high functioning” came from, why they were never clinical, and what gets lost when we use them to describe...