emotions come out of nowhere for us
Here’s a classic scenario I hear from a lot of ADHD women, and experience myself. You’re going about your day, you think you feel pretty good, when all of a sudden you have a big emotional response to something. Maybe you burst into tears at a TV commercial. Or you snap at your spouse.Or you […]
don’t fix your sensitivity
There’s a phase many ADHD women go through when they first find out about RSD.A phase I hope you will skip! (If you don’t already know, RSD stands for Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It’s a phrase researchers use to describe a particular ADHD pattern of “extreme” emotional sensitivity to rejection.) In this phase, an ADHD woman’s […]
your ADHD mask
Do you know about ADHD masking? “Masking” refers to the false persona that neurodivergent people put on in order to navigate neurotypical expectations. Masking shows up in a million different ways that are personal to each ADHDer. It could be pretending you don’t need help when you do. Working way more hours than everybody else […]
ADHD weekends are awful
Over the long weekend, I hope you kicked back, filled with a sense of quiet accomplishment about the work that you did the week before, and enjoyed some well-deserved rest and recreation. …but I bet you didn’t! As an ADHD woman myself, I know it’s way more likely that you spent the weekend: – Running […]
horrid perimenopause/ADHD cocktail!
Perimenopause absolutely destroyed my previous ADHD strategies. Before perimenopause, I compensated for my ADHD energetic “lows” by hyperfocusing and overworking during my ADHD highs. When I hit perimenopause, I no longer really had highs. I was tired all the time, and I could no longer count on my ability to overwork. This was hard to […]