Someone who spends hours on Internet, social media, YouTube, or playing video games to the exclusion of interactions with family and friends, isolating and at times violently opposing any request to stop – even for Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS dinner! These are signs of a possible addiction to the electronic world. It affects teens and young adults most commonly, with very serious impact upon their lives and brain development. Like all addictions, it req...
Dec 18, 2017•31 min
There are so many sources of information and myth – information about medications for ADHD it is hard to get reliable information. Dr. Ted Mandelkorn began working with children with ADHD in the mid-1970s in his Mercer Island practice (near Seattle) and continues to do so. He is a pediatrician who saw many of his patients, and their families, struggling with the behaviors and impairments of ADHD, and recognized the critical importance of treating the neurochemical imbalance of ADHD with medicati...
Dec 04, 2017•31 min
Roberto Olivardia, PhD – Body Dysmorphic Disorder Do you know anyone who absolutely hates some aspect about his/her body? Enough to obsessively try to change it? Some do with cosmetic surgery, but many do with behaviors – hours of exercise daily, extreme diets, etc. These people check the mirror daily if not more. And as a group 20% of people who suffer from BDD commit suicide. 20% !! Listen as Dr. Roberto Olivardia, an expert in the field of eating disorders and BDD, tells us about this conditi...
Nov 20, 2017•32 min
Do you struggle to parent your ADHD child? Does your ADHD child resist, dismiss, rebel against your requests, advice, guidance, and rules? This is a podcast you will not want to miss! Cindy Goldrich explains how an ADHD mind works, and why your child appears to defy reason, logic and you. Starting with “parent the child you have”, she explains 8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD (also the title of her book), and how to go about developing a collaborative relationship with your child. Communic...
Jun 26, 2017•32 min
How can kids learn to identify their feelings, and to read social cues to identify how others are feeling? Feelings are facts to the one doing the feeling, and many are uncomfortable or scary; what tools can one use to cope with them? My guest today is Anna Vagin, PhD, a Speech and Language Pathologist, whose work in the past 30 years has been in the field of social learning. She has developed a process by which kids can learn about emotions – their own and those of others – and how to deal with...
May 22, 2017•30 min
Are you a woman with ADHD? Do you know one? You need to listen to this show with Kathleen Nadeau, a psychologist and pioneer in the field of ADHD in women. She began her clinical practice over 30 years ago working with children, then with parents of those children, and then concentrated on the issues faced by women with ADHD. She has written many books on aspects of ADHD and continues her clinical practice at the Chesapeake ADHD Center. We discuss how ADHD in women is often missed in diagnosis a...
Mar 27, 2017•32 min
Organization – a word that brings a shudder of shame and guilt to all with ADHD. We know we don’t do it well, even though we may have read all kinds of books and tips. There is an approach which holds hope for us, and that is “marginal gains”, progress that comes from making incremental changes. Organization is not just “arrange the clutter”, it also applies to managing time. That may be the aspect of it that leads to many of the frustrations of ADHD. Simple changes one or two at a time can redu...
Mar 20, 2017•30 min
Baking, get cards sent out, family dinners, Santa pictures, decorate the house, get the lights up, finish the costume for the play… presents? Oh no, I’ve got to get some for the kids to give to Aunt Gladys, and…and…and…. In one way or another most of us have been there. What are some things parents can do to create and celebrate family traditions, include their children in the planning and doing, and give themselves the gift of self-care along the way, so they can satisfy their desire to give th...
Dec 19, 2016•31 min
Lose your keys again? Up too late doing “one more thing”? Down on yourself because “I got nothing done today” when only 3 of your 18 items on the to-do list got done? My guest on this show is Doug Puryear MD, a psychiatrist who discovered at age 64 that he had ADHD, and he set out to change the ways ADHD had interfered with his life. His book Your Life Can Be Better outlines many strategies you can use to do exactly that. He also has 2 blogs on ADHD issues, at www.ADDadultstrategies.wordpress.co...
Dec 12, 2016•31 min
Does “screen time” on Smartphones, laptops, tablets etc affect my child’s brain? If so, how? Is she losing anything, or not developing some skills because she’s on YouTube and Netflix and Facetime so often? How much screen time is OK, and at what age? Listen to this show with Dr. Mary Burke, psychiatrist in San Francisco who has studied, written and lectured about these questions. One crucial skill everyone needs is the ability to read emotions from facial expressions, and that is based upon fac...
Nov 28, 2016•31 min
Have you ever wondered with your child or a family member might have bipolar disorder, in addition to or instead of ADHD? Do the rages your child exhibits always represent bipolar disorder? This can be a difficult distinction to make for health care professionals and yet it is an important one to make, due to the serious nature of bipolar disorder. In today’s show my guest Dr. Robert Olivardio and I will discuss how parents and family members can provide information to the health care profession...
Oct 31, 2016•32 min
Do you get knocked off balance by unexpected events in your life? While you are going about your business does life come along and interrupt? For those with ADHD these events can knock us out of action, unable to function well, and our ADHD symptoms come roaring back in spite of medications, our own coping strategies, coaching, counseling, whatever had helped before. My guest today is James Ochoa, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Austin TX and Director of the Life Empowerment Center in Austi...
Oct 17, 2016•33 min
Are you often late for appointments? Is your task list hours long but the time in your day disappears before the 3rd item is done? Is there time for yourself in all the busyness of the day? Most ADHDers would answer Yes/Yes/No. My guest today has great ideas on how to turn those answers into No/No/Yes. Denise Allan, is a Certified Professional Organizer whose business, Simplify Experts, is in the Seattle area. She has added accreditation in the field of ADHD from the Institute for Challenging Di...
Oct 03, 2016•32 min
Do you plan out your day? Do you have a good idea on how long a task will take you to finish? Do you have an ADHD accountability partner? For answers to these questions and more, listen to my conversation with Eric Tivers, LCSW, MSSW. Eric is a nationally recognized expert in the field of ADHD and productivity. In his private practice he works with clients of all ages; he also has a “public practice” using online approaches in a variety of ways. His website is www.ADHDreWired.com . On it you can...
Sep 12, 2016•33 min
Do you put things off you know you have to do? If you don’t, you may not have ADHD, though many neurotypical folks probably do it as well. But for ADHDers this is a MAJOR issue. My guest for this show is Rick Green of TotallyADD.com. After he was told he had ADHD, Rick’s background in TV and broadcasting enabled him to put together documentaries on all aspects of ADHD. ADD and Mastering It! was the second one, the “now what do I do?” part, with many tips for getting past the major stumbling bloc...
Sep 05, 2016•32 min
Are there effective treatments for ADHD issues which do not involve medication? How can I overcome the negative self-talk I use when my ADHD gets in my way? Listen to this segment to find out! My guest is Dr. Russell Ramsay, an expert in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD. He is a psychologist, co-founder and co-director of the Penn Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program in Philadephia, Associate Professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Univ Pennsylv...
May 30, 2016•32 min
What are Executive Functions anyway? What do they have to do with ADHD? Are there ways to get them to function better? Listen up, answers to these questions and more are right here! My guest today is Dr. Ari Tuckman, a clinical psychologist who specializes in the field of ADHD. In addition to his private practice, he has a podcast with over 100 episodes, has written three books and gives presentations on ADHD diagnosis and treatment. His websites are www.tuckmanpsych.com and www.adultadhdbook.co...
May 16, 2016•32 min
Would having a coach for some of your ADHD issues be helpful? How does a coach help with some of the challenges of ADHD that medications cannot? You will want to listen to this show to hear answers to these questions, and to hear of a unique approach to the day-to-day challenges we face as ADHDers. You will learn how to understand your unique ADHD challenges in ways you probably have not heard before, enabling you to develop solutions to remove the barriers that keep you from living into your po...
Apr 25, 2016•31 min
Do you struggle with organization, time management, getting started on tasks, not following the squirrels (aka getting distracted)? If you have ADHD, you know that these are challenges you face every day, among others. My guest today is Alan Brown, an entrepreneur, ADHD/productivity coach and host of CrusherTV (www.CrusherTV.com). He is the creative force behind ADD Crusher, an award-winning video series for ADHD teens and adults. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, he found it difficult to learn c...
Apr 11, 2016•37 min
What is the “central mystery” of ADHD? What do “executive functions” have to do with ADHD? My guest today is Thomas Brown PhD, one of the foremost clinicians and thinkers in the field of ADHD today. Dr. Brown is the Associate Director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders and has a private practice in Hamden CT as well. He says of his 40 year career “All I know about ADHD I have learned from listening to my patients”, and he shares some of that knowledge here in this show. His l...
Mar 28, 2016•33 min
Have you, or your ADHD child or pour ever gone into a rage or withdrawn from others over nothing? What triggers ADHD’ers into instant rage or expression? Dr. Bill Dodson and I discuss Rejection Sensitivity – a common issue with ADHD. When one with ADHD perceives she or he has been rejected, discounted or unheard … watch out! You need to know about this! It can be destructive to relationships! Bill dodson, MD is the founder of Dr. Dodson ADHD, a clinic in Denver, Colorado for the evaluation and t...
Mar 14, 2016•30 min
Parenting an ADHD child takes parenting to a new level way beyond the usual parenting challenges. You are now playing in the big leagues, so having a coach to guide you is a necessity, not an option. The best foundation for building a healthy child and healthy family relationships is effective parenting, which with ADHD children often runs counter to usual parenting efforts. With coaching you can prevent problems which can develop in the future and take much more work as a parent and family to c...
Feb 29, 2016•32 min
In this show I explore that question with Rick Green of TotallyADD.com. We talk about some of the quirks that are often part of ADHD but may not be recognized as such, even by the one who has ADHD! Rick’s documentaries on ADHD and all of its aspects, as well as webinars with experts on ADHD, are on www.TotallyADD.com . Rick is a comedian by experience, a fellow ADHDer, and now a man passionate about helping others understand ADHD. Join us! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcas...
Feb 15, 2016•27 min
