“Does Everyone Have ADHD? No. And Why It Hurts When Neurotypicals Claim an ‘ADHD Moment’”

Prevention explains that it can benefit you physically, mentally, and spiritually. Here are ten classic poses for you to try.You can reduce stiffness in your spine and hamstrings and boost flexibility with this simple pose. It’s easier to do the seated option rather than the standing one.

Infidelity can probably be ranked in the top 10 fears of most people. The notion of loyalty is one that we as human beings, do not take lightly.

The ache in my hands and legs kept me awake most of the night. When my first alarm starts playing Adele’s, “Hello,” I already know the type of day I’m facing. I silence the alarm and put a pillow in front of my face to block the glare from the smart light that turned on with the alarm.

We are the parents of the forgotten. Our kids have complex medical issues. We hook them up to IV pumps or feed them through tubes.  They use every ounce of energy they have just to get through the day and then at night we hook them up to technology- life support to sustain them for another day. They are brilliant, hilarious, mature kids who have been through much more in their short lives than most adults.

February 23 is Pink Shirt Day and February is also Kindness Month. Both get lots of coverage at schools and in the media. The growing awareness of Pink Shirt Day has shone a spotlight on bullying. But has it moved the needle in preventing bullying?

A new report by GLAAD found that the number of series regular characters with disabilities counted on primetime broadcast TV decreased, down to 2.8% (22 of 775) from a record high of 3.5% last year and 3.1% the year before. The number of characters counted also fell, from 27 to 22. Since Variety VIP+ reports that Americans spent 4.6 hours a day watching video on streaming services and traditional TV in 2021, this representation is vitally important to how people see – or do not see – disabled individuals in society.

Not many people think of adults having trouble with haircuts. As an autistic adult, I don’t like my hair being cut because of sensory issues and the anxiety of a change happening to my current hairstyle. Everyone has had a bad haircut at some point, but being on the spectrum, a drastic change to my hair can send me into a meltdown. However, it is necessary to trim and cut my hair to keep it healthy.

PsychAlive, Dr. Lisa Firestone explains that their relationships thrive when couples share activities and companionship. It’s about respect and equality, says Firestone.

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About two years before I had June, I left a career in public relations in Washington D.C. and moved back to St. Louis with Matt, where we both grew up. He was going to law school at night, and I decided to pursue a master’s degree in counseling. I wanted to work with children and families going through a divorce. My parents divorced when I was 12, and I really struggled with it and the blended family dynamics that followed. During my first course in graduate school, Personal and Professional Development in Counseling, we were required to participate in counseling with a practicum student a few years ahead. “Every good therapist sees a therapist,” my instructor said. “You need to get yourself and your issues out of the way so you can help someone who is coming to you for support.”

“This seems a little dramatic.”

“When it comes to the future, I mean it’s good to be hopeful, but you don’t even need to be hopeful. You just need to be curious and let that curiosity drive you into wanting to see what happens next.”

My dissociation almost ruined my life.

PR Newswire, at least 64 percent of Americans say they’re happy in their relationship. It takes love, loyalty, and a lot of work to have a fulfilling relationship that can last a lifetime.Happy couples understand that they are composed of body, mind, and spirit. If any of these components are out of balance, it can compromise your relationship.

Eat, Pray, Love) are so popular. Mark Twain once said that Learning about other cultures and individuals doesn’t just teach universal lessons and introduce us to new ways of thinking, it creates common ground. It can literally calm you.

Every person can benefit from micro expression training. It can help people connect better with friends and family, challenge oneself with a new hobby, or boost a resume with impressive skills by learning how to read micro expressions and increase emotional intelligence.Micro expressions are facial expressions that occur within a fraction of a second.

I’ve been on the front line.

About two years ago, I noticed an increase in discussions concerning the topic of “trauma.” Trauma therapy has been around for years, but it felt like suddenly, this word was appearing everywhere. I checked Google trends, and it was no surprise the word “trauma,” in regards to people and society doubled from 2016 and continues to increase. If the media was saying everyone had endured some sort of trauma from their childhood, then why is it significant to the field of mental health?

I had a “Woo-hoo” moment yesterday when opening an email that stated I no longer had to obtain a medical provider certification to renew my medication card. I thought “Yes! I don’t have to have this hassle (and expense) every couple of years.”

overthinking or need something to do in your free time, these activities are beneficial and fun.Choose one or two of the activities to start with, and then implement more as you desire. As you do these fun things to occupy the mind, your life will improve, and you’ll experience joy. You might also discover a new passion that you can delve deeper into.

Q: My son has always had an IEP for learning disabilities and ADHD, but the four-year college he’ll be attending next year is requiring a new evaluation. My friend’s daughter attends a local community college, and they accepted her testing and gave her accommodations based on her high school IEP.

January 31, 2022 COVID-19 has disproportionately damaged the lives and behaviors of children with ADHD, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1 Though children with ADHD are no more likely than their peers to test positive for COVID-19, they are more likely to experience pandemic-related sleep problems, family conflict, fear of infection, and academic setbacks, the research found.A groundbreaking study on the broader mental health implications of the pandemic, the research examined 620 youth with ADHD and 614 individually matched controls who participated in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study to determine their risk for COVID-19 and their differing experiences with pandemic life, among other factors.Though their caregivers reported observing significantly more COVID-19 symptoms, children with ADHD were no more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than were children without the disorder.  When compared to controls, children with ADHD were more likely to break rules related to COVID-19 restrictions and to experience the following:No significant differences were found between the two groups regarding using screens, engaging in physical exercise, and following a daily schedule.The authors of the study found that children with ADHD were less responsive to protective environmental variables like parental monitoring and school engagement, and they concluded that students with ADHD may need more specialized support during in-person school.

January 26, 2022Memory is impaired in both older adults with ADHD and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, distinctions do exist; those with MCI experience a storage deficit (indicated by relatively smaller hippocampi) and those with ADHD encounter an encoding deficit (indicated by frontal lobe thinning.) This finding comes from a new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders that also found reason to question previous findings that ADHD may be a risk factor for dementia.1ADHD is not well-recognized in older adults, in part because patients’ cognitive difficulties are often mistaken for MCI.

Starting a new job can be exciting and scary, and these new job quotes capture all the emotions you might feel.

The Blind Side, however, Anthony Trucks most decidedly did not go on to a long and in the NFL. In fact, for all the hardship of his upbringing, the most difficult part of his life only came after he put on a professional uniform.Now a motivational speaker, podcast host, author and founder of , Trucks was originally placed in foster care at age 3. For more than a decade he would be shuttled from home to home around California’s Bay Area, leaving him and unworthy.

in 1976, the month of February offers a chance to recognize the accomplishments of black Americans in every aspect and era of history. At SUCCESS, we want to honor those who paved the way toward equality and those who still actively challenge injustice today.

If we’re not challenged, we get bored — and boredom is kryptonite for a person with ADHD. Second, it must be an activity that captivates us, that enchants us, and that is in our wheelhouse.For many of us, it happens in childhood — we fall in love with an idea, with cars, with a person, with a sport, with a musical instrument, with a subject or an activity, with a figure in history, with a book, with a particular cuisine, with a place in nature, with an animal, with geometry or math proofs, with arguments or poetry, or with a single blade of saw grass — and it changes our life.[Set Your ADHD Brain on Fire]Our wheelhouse is the repository of all that we love — all the people, activities, ideas, bicycles, and bolts that combine to create our own particular garden of delights.

sleep problems are practically the rule, not the exception, for this group. It’s an issue that frustrates and concerns many parents, who come to me after they’ve run out of ideas for getting their child to fall and stay asleep.Here are some strategies — from fundamental sleep hygiene habits to ideas for quieting a racing mind and more — that I’ve found particularly helpful in getting children with ADHD to sleep soundly.[Get This Download: Sound Sleep Solutions for Kids with ADHD]Many children with ADHD have trouble slowing down their brain enough to fall asleep.

leading summer programs to explain the strategies they use to hone kids’ social, behavioral, and academic skills. Here are their tactics for you to try at home.1. Host a game or project hour. “Invite over a very small group — one or two friends — rather than a large group that’s going to overwhelm.

Not available February 22? Don’t worry. Register now and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your convenience.Tips and strategies for overcoming ADHD challenges abound, and they often work. But what about when they don’t?Should we assume the strategy is wrong or ineffective? Or probe deeper and question whether the real problem is buried in the root cause of the challenge? This is when “aha insights” about the ADHD brain can reveal important truths and move you forward.

sensory overload is exhausting. It impacts our sense of wellbeing — we don’t seem to glide through life easily as others do. And we never know what will trigger us on any given day.The good news is there are plenty of ways to manage our sensitivities and lessen — or even prevent — sensory overload.

Q: “I have multiple checking and savings accounts for personal use and for two small businesses. I do not know a great way to keep these accounts balanced. I have been using the old-fashioned techniques of pencil and pen in my registers, but it takes me half a day to complete for all my accounts.

Do you like the sound of music boxes? Then you will love the sound of the kalimba. I had never heard of a kalimba until just recently. It is also commonly called a thumb piano, originating in Zimbabwe and part of the mbria family of instruments. It is growing in popularity because of the many YouTube tutorials available, covering popular songs from all generations.

I recently read this article from The Child Mind Institute addressing two common conditions that often get mistaken for each other: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and trauma. As someone who has been diagnosed with both, I found it quite validating to see how similar the two are, and reflected on how they both manifest differently and similarly in my life.

“Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’” ~Brené Brown

My mom’s mom, my grandma, used to save money and she would jokingly say that it was for a trip she would take to Bermuda. Then when an emergency would come up, if she had to use her vacation money, she would say, “There goes my trip to Bermuda.” I was little, she was ill and I didn’t know what or where Bermuda was or what it meant. Now I know she was talking about meeting the moment.

Lori G. Clark is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her encouraging approach. Her coaching is more than just a discussion with her clients. She guides them to find new perspectives and see their situations in a new way that […]

ADHD, who may interrupt too much, speak too quickly, or space out unintentionally and miss key elements of a conversation. As a result, many individuals worry that they will say something stupid in conversation, or that they’ll try so hard to appear “normal” that they end up looking strange. The task becomes so daunting, people may question their ability to engage in naturally flowing, comfortable conversations.There’s a general assumption that people know the unspoken, unwritten, and often mysterious rules of social engagement.

January 20, 2021Just 19% of American youth diagnosed with ADHD are receiving medication treatment, according to a review and meta-analysis published in The Journal of Attention Disorders.1 Findings from the study suggest that, for every overtreated or improperly treated American youth, there are three more undertreated youths with ADHD.The study rose from a debate over whether pharmacological treatment for youths with ADHD is overused or underused in the U.S. Researchers screened more than 25,000 potentially relevant studies, and retained 36 studies of 104,305 individuals.

You can read all about it in this blog.)Finally, we agreed on one thing: It was time to get some proper professional help, and so I reached out to Lara Cannon, a licensed professional counselor and ADHD specialist, with this question: How can families cope with divergent attitudes, especially when it comes to behavior and discipline, about their children with ADHD?Below, I’ve summarized Cannon’s essential strategies to reduce disagreements at home. She didn’t give advice on how to dole out consequences to our child for his peccadillos.

college students (many of whom have ADHD) that there’s a tendency to skim through course syllabi.Even though most courses are on the college’s Learning Management System (LMS), it’s still important to actually read the syllabus closely before your first lecture. The few minutes spent on this will help you avoid a lot of unpleasant surprises and oversights.

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Check out these inspirational Victor Hugo quotes on life, love, and existential thought!1. “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.” – Victor Hugo2. “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.” – Victor Hugo3. “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo4. “As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.” – Victor Hugo5. “The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.” – Victor Hugo6. “There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.” – Victor Hugo7. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” – Victor Hugo8. “This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.” – Victor Hugo9. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo10. “Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.” – Victor Hugo11. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo  13. “You who suffer because you love, love still more! To die of love, is to live by it.” – Victor Hugo14. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo15. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo16. “There are thoughts which are prayers.

And if you want even more inspirational quotes for the difficult times then check out this post with quotes for when life is hard and this one with timeless tips for overcoming adversity.“Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day.

Anyways, this particular test follows the second school of thought. Take a look at the image. What is the first word your brain comes up with? Don’t think too much about it, go with the first thing that comes up.