As an adult with ADHD, you may find that you struggle on a daily basis to manage emotions. Certain circumstances may make you feel out of control and overwhelm you, leading to outbursts or emotional breakdowns. Whether your ADHD diagnosis is recent, or if you’ve been living with it long term, emotional issues are a side […]
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Ty Pennington, star of TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the current Trading Spaces reboot, shares parts of his personal story in a new book out this month. If you’re a fan of home improvement shows, you are probably familiar with Pennington and his seemingly boundless energy. But you probably didn’t know that he went
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Everyone gets angry. In the appropriate situations, anger can even be a healthy emotion. Some people, however, have a hard time controlling their anger. We see this a lot with ADD in adults. It’s not just anger. ADD in adults is associated with difficulty controlling a range of emotions – from anger and anxiety to
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Could an ADHD test for adults be the first step on your path to success? Bring Change to Mind – a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health, and to raising awareness, understanding, and empathy – established a Men’s Mental Health Campaign https://bringchange2mind.org/mens-mental-health with the goal of challenging some of the common misconceptions men have
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According to the Wall Street Journal, some 10 million American adults suffer from ADD/ADHD. Even worse, less than 25 percent of these individuals know they even have it (but their wives probably do!). Typically, the symptoms of ADD/ADHD first show themselves in childhood. However, as we mentioned, many, if not most, never receive a diagnosis or
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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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My husband tends to have a very child-like disposition at times. He can be very non-confrontational, and often lets himself get taken advantage of, especially in work situations. It’s very convenient for others to write him off or throw him under the bus because he simply doesn’t assert himself enough. Also, there have been times
I was watching this movie the other day where a man intends to take his love interest out for a night on the town, and of course leaves the proverbial red dress on the bed for her to wear. I’ve always been cynical, and liked to think that I was beyond all the superficialities of