Larry Letich, LCSW-C

Is ‘Hidden’ ADHD Ruining Your Marriage?

LarryLetich — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:32:24 +0000

“Am I crazy? Am I too demanding? I feel like I’m going crazy, I can tell you that!” Veronica, a 36-year-old nurse and mother of two, was talking about her husband Jerry. “He’s sweet, he’s affectionate, he’s supportive, he’s a good father, he doesn’t stay out late or run around on me. My friends all think he’s a wonderful guy. They don’t get why I’m so upset.” “But something must be upsetting you,”…

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Does Your Spouse Have ADHD?

LarryLetich — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:14:28 +0000

ADHD is a lot of little problems that add up to one big problem. If you are the spouse of a person with untreated ADHD, whether it’s the Predominantly Hyperactive (PH), Predominantly Inattentive (PI) or Combined (C) type, there’s a good chance you feel angry, critical, burdened and over-responsible. You feel like you’re constantly nagging your spouse to do the simplest things. And if you are the…

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My ADHD Story

LarryLetich — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:10:43 +0000

See the photo? That’s my dad, Abraham “Al” Letich, the day he graduated college at the age of 60. It was one of the proudest days of his life. He never knew it, but I can tell you with 99 percent certainty that he had ADHD-Predominantly Inattentive type, or more simply, Inattentive ADHD. It’s the kind I inherited from him. And though my paternal grandfather died long before I was born, from what I’…

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Why Do So Many Therapists Overlook ADHD?

LarryLetich — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 10:58:42 +0000

This is a huge problem in the field of psychotherapy. Unsurprisingly, people with every type of ADHD frequently end up in therapists’ offices. But even though it’s not that difficult to assess for ADHD, too many therapists never look for it. Worse yet, even when someone has already been diagnosed with ADHD, many if not most therapists do not treat it as a therapeutic issue. Why does this happen?

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I Was “Drifting”

LarryLetich — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:28:29 +0000

Are you (or someone you love) very, very smart but way behind your friends and the people you know in your work and career? And way behind where you yourself thought you’d be at this point? Do you have fantasies about what you’re going to be but somehow never get much closer — yet still tell yourself and everyone else that you will do it? If you answered “yes” to the first question…

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Is ADHD Over-Diagnosed?

LarryLetich — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:03:24 +0000

I’ve had a lot of clients tell me that they’d been told they “can’t” have ADHD. This angers me. It seems to me that the existence of ADHD is questioned more than any other mental condition. Right-wing critics think it’s just another excuse for irresponsibility, lack of self-discipline and disrespect for…

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Seven (Wrong) Things People Say About ADHD.

LarryLetich — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:14:52 +0000

People with ADHD, especially when they first begin to wonder whether they have it, get told all sorts of interesting things about it from others. Much of what they hear is well-meaning but misinformed. Here are some typical things that are said – and here are the facts. Studies show that only 65 percent of boys and less than 30 percent of girls with ADHD exhibit significant symptoms of…

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