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Advice on surviving four years from a current college student. For a student with ADHD, college can be a minefield of distractions. Everywhere you turn there is another club, another friend, another chance to get off campus for a burger. With all the things to do it can be easy to forget that college is – at least […]
Menopause is hardly a walk in the park for most women. Hot flashes, emotional outbursts, and loss of memory are only some of the varying symptoms women experience at that point in their life. Some of the most detrimental losses to cognitive ability from menopause affect executive functioning (i.e., Attention, memory, problem solving, and organization). However, a new
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The phrase “conscious uncoupling” may be a relatively new term in most people’s vocabulary; however, the act of unconscious uncoupling itself is not such a new phenomenon. In more recent news – most particularly celebrity headlines, the term “conscious uncoupling” has been thrown around to describe the separating of partnerships between two people. The big
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“My wife is the Jekyll & Hyde of New York. She can go from lovely to livid in seconds. Sometimes I think our three-year-old has greater frustration tolerance than she does.” — Jack, New York. Jack’s wife has ADD/ADHD. The traditional view of ADD/ADHD as a problem of attention and focus has broadened in the
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When it comes to ADD/ADHD, impatience may be the one symptom that frustrates husbands and wives equally, although perhaps for different reasons. The wife sees a husband who may not be able to sit still, rushes to interrupt, or moves from one thing to the next without coming up for air. The husband, though, is driven to this
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Do you remember being read the many stories of Aesop’s Fables? One of the most well-known is that of The Tortoise and the Hare. Using the two main characters in this story helps us to better understand the two main characteristic traits of people that suffer from ADHD. Which category do you or someone you know
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As a psychologist with a private practice focusing on young adults, I watch “The Kardashians” reality show through a different lens than my peers. Some devour the show like cotton candy, stuffed into your mouth and savored like a drug. “You can actually feel the pleasure hitting your brain,” said one friend. Others see a
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Characteristics of Adult ADD Individuals with ADD are more prone to being disorganized, easily distracted, forgetful, irresponsible, and often communicate poorly or over-react emotionally. Due to these deficits in functioning, control, and processing, such behaviors can bring about negative – and even blameful – accusations from the partner without ADHD when neither partner has a
