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Most of us are stressed most of the time. A stress disorder is defined by something else: what has happened to your ability to...
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Everyone Is Stressed. Not Everyone Has a Stress Disorder.
Most of us are stressed most of the time. A stress disorder is defined by something else: what has happened to your ability to manage it. Sometimes that looks like everything is too much. Sometimes it looks like feeling nothing...
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Time Blindness Is Real, and It Is Not About Being Late
Why every planner you have bought is still in a drawer ADHD readers, or anyone whose attention is already drifting: the condensed version is...
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...
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...