Dr. Adam Dorsay introduces SuperPsyched and interviews ADHD coach and author Dr. Tamara Rosier about ADHD, emotions, and daily strategies for healthier functioning. They discuss how people with ADHD are criticized far more than peers, may feel “broken,” and often have impulse-control challenges, heightened emotional intensity, high sensitivity, and sensory issues tied to a sensitive nervous system, making environmental fit and nervous-system regulation important. Rosier argues ADHD isn’t inherently a “gift,” but benefits can emerge when energy and emotions are managed, including choosing where attention goes and treating feelings as informants rather than facts. They emphasize sleep as foundational, covering difficulties with sleep onset, maintenance, and desire, the importance of deep sleep for the brain’s glymphatic “cleaning” system, and how time blindness and “rabbit holes” interfere with routines. Rosier closes with a wish that people understand human interconnectedness and accept themselves without constant proving.

00:00 Welcome to SuperPsyched

00:26 ADHD and Emotional Bruises

01:11 Meet Dr Tamara Rosier

02:48 Why ADHD People Click

04:21 Not a Gift Managing Energy

05:45 High Sensitivity and Nervous System

08:12 Sensory Overload and Regulation

08:41 Behavioral Basics Beyond Meds

09:50 Sleep Struggles with ADHD

11:47 Glymphatic System Brain Cleaning

12:19 Beliefs About Sleep Drive

14:50 Reframing Sleep with Clients

15:01 Sleep as Necessary Evil

15:26 Bedtime Sabotage Habits

16:19 Time Blind Rabbit Holes

17:55 Why Sleep Runs Everything

18:33 ADHD Emotional Engine

20:34 Feelings Aren't Facts

24:04 Curious Not Furious

24:41 Default Mode Network Explained

26:16 One Skill for Humanity

27:31 Connection Story and Farewell

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