Treating adult ADHD
from the inside out
Help for Adult ADHD
Is Your Adult ADHD Hurting Your Life?
It affects your very sense of time – your ability to tolerate tedious tasks – your emotional reactions – your relationships.
It makes you interesting – exciting – and sometimes very very frustrating.
It makes you passionate – and sensitive.
It can make you blow up at other people and practically forget about it a few minutes later. But other people remember.
It makes you wait until the very last minute to do just about anything.
It can fill your mind with brilliant thoughts and ideas that nobody ever gets to hear because you never write them down or act upon them.
It can make you feel so overwhelmed that you’re chronically stuck in “neutral.”
It can make you feel like a powerhouse, a veritable human tornado. And it can make it look like a tornado hit your house.
Others act as if it’s a minor problem that medication and a few time-management skills can fix. If only!
Many just want to work on your emotional issues – your anxiety or depression or low self-esteem — not knowing that your ADHD, and the way it affects you, is the primary source of your emotional distress.
Bottom line, ADHD is not a disorder of your emotions. And it’s not a disorder of your thinking. It may cause those things, but that’s not what it is at its heart.
It’s not really a deficit in attention. There are times when your concentration is positively amazing!
It’s a deficit in your brain’s ability to decide what’s important, what it needs to pay attention to.
And it’s a deficit in your brain’s hardwiring that affects your ability to consciously control and direct your attention where you want or need it to go.
It’s not all of who you are, but a part of who you are. It always was, and it probably always will be.
When you and the people around you don’t understand what ADHD truly is or how to work with it, it causes a lot of misunderstanding and heartache.
I Know Adult ADHD
I learned I had ADHD when I was forty. That’s now three whole decades ago. I’ve been treating people with ADHD for almost all that time.
I know the emotional effects of adult ADHD. The cognitive effects of ADHD. The relational and interpersonal effects.
I know the phenomenology of ADHD – how it affects what you think, feel and experience moment-to-moment.
I know the treatments that have been proven to work.
All that knowledge I’ve accumulated over thirty years, sometimes slowly and through trial and error, I can impart to you as we work on your life story, your goals and dreams, and your own deeply personal ADHD journey.
Currently I’m offering consultations and targeted, time-limited therapy and coaching modules for ADHD strivers and questers who want to accomplish a lot with their passionate ADHD life.
I also want to help ADHD parents of young children, especially fathers. Yours is a heroic task. I want to help you find your way.
Do you want to work with me? Then tell me. Let me know who you are and how I can help you in the contact form below.
(Read here Seven (Wrong) Things People Say About Adult ADHD)