ADHD Focus with David Pomeroy, MD

Do you worry that other people will discover you are not as competent as you appear to be? Are you aware of how much energy it takes for you to appear that way? Do you feel you have to “perform” at work or at social events, then crash when you get home? Masking is a survival skill, a way of dealing with discomfort and shame. It costs persons with ADHD or ASD a huge amount of cognitive and emotional effort, more than it does neurotypical folks, and it can have serious consequences. Join my guest Evan Monez (MonezADHDcoaching.com) and I as we discuss how it happens, what it costs, and how to start dealing with masking itself, to reduce its impact on your life. Listen and learn! 

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Evan Monez is an ADHD coach dedicated to helping adults with ADHD find more balance and ease in work and life through tailored support and strategies. Evan is a “recovering” attorney, and was not diagnosed with ADHD until she was a practicing lawyer. She is particularly passionate about working with late-diagnosed adults in demanding careers, many of whom may appear to be doing well on the outside but are privately struggling.

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Have you ever heard someone say “ADHD isn’t real, those people are just lazy, no willpower.” Ever seen a post or an article which says “ Taking stimulants will cause children to become addicted to them, everyone knows amphetamines are dangerous”.  Guess what? Both of those statements are WRONG. A person who wears glasses can’t take them off and read better by trying harder, just as a person whose brain works differently than most other people can’t succeed by trying harder to make it work the “normal” (most common) way. The child who takes appropriately prescribed medication after a careful evaluation showed they have ADHD is actually LESS likely to develop a substance use disorder in their teens than a child whose ADHD is not treated. 

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Join my guest, psychologist Ari Tuckman, and I as we expose those and other myths and misinformation about ADHD.  Ari is a psychologist with a private practice in the Philadelphia area, the author of a number of books about various aspects of ADHD, and a presenter at many conferences on ADHD. His most recent book, The ADHD Productivity Manual, addresses one of the most common challenges faced by persons with ADHD, getting things done.  Listen and learn!

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Girls can have ADHD too. For a variety of reasons that fact may not be so evident as in boys, which often results in years of self-doubt, shame, and significant life difficulties for women, challenges which are different than for men. FINDthe ADHDgirls is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to getting the word out to parents, educators and health professionals about the problem. I recorded an interview with their founder, Cynthia Hammer, MSW, a tireless and positive force in the field of ADHD for many years. I hope you will listen and learn about the work she is doing and to consider donating to FINDtheADHDgirls. This work helps close the gap for girls with ADHD who are too often missed and bear significant negative consequences as a result.

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If you’ve ever wondered whether your daughter might have ADHD, FINDtheADHDgirls has a free checklist used by thousands of families. It takes10 minutes and could change everything.  www.FINDtheADHDgirls.org/checklist  

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What is your biggest ADHD challenge? Getting started? Finishing the task? Getting out the door (aka One More Thing)? Not enough motivation? All are variations on the same theme and all are significant challenges, usually more than one each and every day! Join me and my guest Tamara Rosier as we coach you through conquering each of these challenges, and reveal how we cope with them – no secrets, we have ADHD too! 

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Tamara Rosier Ph.D. is an ADHD Coach, founder of the ADHD Center of West Michigan, author of Your Brain’s Not Broken and You, Me, and our ADHD Family, and a treasured resource in the world of ADHD. Find her at ADHDCenterofWestMichigan.com , connect with her on LinkedIn at  linkedin.com/in/tamara-rosier-phd and catch her on Instagram @Dr.TamaraRosier. 

Emotions are the keys to unlocking motivation; how do you find the motivation to get started, finish up, get out the door?  First steps? Stop. Take a breath, roll your shoulders back and down away from your ears, take a few deep breaths, and then think it through. Talk through the steps to arrive at solutions to these challenges – persons with ADHD think best when we are “think out loud”.  Talk it through with a friend, a coach, a colleague, with Alexa or Gemini or your favorite Ai, even just out loud with yourself or, as engineers call it, “rubber ducking”, as if one were talking to a rubber duck on your desk. (No, not in the bathtub, your notes will get all wet.) And be kind to yourself along the way, give yourself credit for approaching any one of these bugaboos in a different way. Listen and learn!

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Finding Motivation. The ultimate quest for persons with ADHD. My patients often tell me “I’m not motivated” or “I need more motivation”.  Actually, they have plenty of motivation…to do whatever they are doing, which often is not what they know they need to be doing, and on some level want to finish (or start).  Sound familiar?

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My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD coach and Chief Engineer of Cognitive Ergonomics, a new paradigm for addressing the primary impairment in ADHD –  Executive Functions which don’t function well.

We have to “solve problems/figure things out” many times each day. Ones like balancing schedules of 3 kids in 3 different schools with getting errands done, and getting home in time to make dinner (or to take it out of the box before it gets cold). Or how to get out the door to not be late to whatever. Or planning for college/finding a job/finding a new job

The key to finding/having motivation is to reduce the effort it takes to problem-solve. And that is the topic of today’s show. See? You’re in the right place!

Join Jeff and I as we dive into the details of finding motivation.  Listen, and learn!

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Inaccurate and negatively-biased information about ADHD bombards us from all sides, in public and professional media alike. Sad to say, most of it is just plain wrong. One recent review of information posted on TikTok concluded that only 40% of it is accurate, 60% is not. Selected stories about negative effects of medications, presenting statistics in a way that magnifies negatives, repeating outdated beliefs which have no basis in fact, examples are too numerous to count. 

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How can you find reliable accurate information? There is now an easy-to-find source, the ADHD Evidence Project – adhdevidence.org – founded by Dr. Stephen Faraone, one of the foremost researchers in the field of ADHD over the past 30 years. Join Dr. Faraone and I as we dive into the backstory of the Project and discuss how it makes accurate and reliable information about ADHD available to you. Listen and learn! 

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Find out more here about Dr. Faraone!

After earning his Masters and PhD degrees Dr Faraone began a career in psychiatric genetics in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University in 1985. He rose steadily through the academic ranks, gaining promotion to full professor in 2002. in 2004 he moved to SUNY Upstate Medical University where he is now Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 

The goal of the ADHD Evidence Project is to improve the lives of people with ADHD by selecting, organizing, distributing, and promoting well-researched and evidence-based conclusions about the disorder to patients, families, and clinicians. 

The basis for it is The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement published in 2021 and authored by eighty (80) world-leading ADHD experts. The Statement is comprised of 208 statements about different aspects of ADHD, from how it affects people and society to diagnosis to treatments, all supported by well-researched evidence. It points out that most cases of ADHD are caused by the combined effects of many genetic and environmental risks, that there are small differences in brain structure and function between people with and without ADHD, that untreated ADHD can cause a multitude of adverse outcomes, and that neglecting to recognize it and treat it effectively costs society hundreds of billions of dollars each year worldwide.

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Do you (if you have ADHD) find it is easier to “think out loud”, to process your thoughts by talking them over with someone? Or even just a rubber duck perhaps? If you know someone with ADHD, have you noticed that they tend to talk through their thoughts? There is good neuroscience and “ADHD science” to explain why it works so well, much of it rooted in Dr. Russell Barkley’s model of Executive Functions. Some of the toughest challenges for people with ADHD are solving problems which have many parts and are ambiguous. The goal of accommodations at work or school, to make it easier to try harder to think like a neurotypical person, are not ideal. What if that were turned upside down, and the accommodations enabled people with ADHD to use their brains in the way they function best?

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My guest today is Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach Extraordinaire, known for his ability to dig deeper and find root causes of impairments so they can be resolved. He is a Professional ADHD Coach, certified by two ADHD Coaching organizations, consultant, speaker, and enthusiastically committed to being a valuable resource for persons with or affected by ADHD. Jeff has developed a model of how to accommodate the ADHD-thinking brain which respects and preserves its amazing quality of associative thinking: Cognitive Ergonomics.

This is cutting edge info, a new way of helping those of us with ADHD brains problem-solve in the ways our brains work best! Listen and Learn!

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Find out more about Jeff’s work at www.digcoaching.com ,
in his podcast on Attention Talk Radio: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/attention-talk-radio–6403326
And on Attention Talk Video: https://www.youtube.com/attentiontalkvideo?themeRefresh=1
Note: use this link to access the chart we discuss in the podcast: https://digcoaching.com/PDF/ExecutiveFunctionEngagementContinuum.pdf

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Do you shudder when you hear the words “financial planning”? How do you answer the question “what would you like to be doing in 20 years? “ Do you wonder how you are going to be able to afford to retire and travel/have a big garden/have a woodworking shop/spend more time with family? (Pick any or add your own!) My guest today has developed strategies that fit the way our ADHD mind works; today you get to see and/or hear how to get started with one of them.

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Simi Mandelbaum, CEO of PROSPR Financial Wellness, is my guest today. She founded PROSPR in 2019 to provide education and tools for people to use in order to reduce the stress and anxiety they feel around money and reach financial success (as they define it).  (PROSPR has no “E” on purpose – no Excuses.)

ADHD minds work well with visual representation of thoughts and ideas – diagrams, pictures, maps. The PROSPR model starts with visualization of your financial success, in much more depth and detail than just a picture floating around in your head. Watch or listen (or both) as we demonstrate how the process starts, with Simi in her role as a Certified Financial Therapist (CFT) and myself as someone aiming for retirement. Listen and Learn!

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As a parent advocating for your ADHD/neurodivergent child at their school, have you found it difficult to jump through all the hoops required by our school systems in order to get help? If there was a way to develop and maintain a collaborative approach with your child’s teachers, with the goal of helping your child succeed in school, would you want to know how to do it? Great! You are in the right place! My guest Frances Coppa, an ADHD Coach, parent of a child with ADHD, a person with ADHD herself, a former SpEd teacher and school principal, has developed a model which leads parents and teachers through the process of working together in creating a supportive environment and structure to enable your child to succeed in school, not simply in academics but in the social aspects of personal development as well.

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Visualize a tree, with roots, trunk and branches all visible. This is your Tree, your life past and present, ready to grow more branches, the ideas and plans and things you create with your life. The roots are the experiences you have had in your life, some good, some not so good; what have you learned from them? How have they shaped who you are today? They are the foundation for your core beliefs/passions/values, which are the trunk of the tree. The branches are the directions your life has taken with new ones growing all the time as new ideas develop into plans, new experiences give rise to new ideas…you get the idea.

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Join Michelle Raz, of RazCoaching, and I as we examine how this Tree of Life concept works. Learn how it can give shape and substance to our neurospicy ADHD lives, how you can harness the power and the vision of the Tree of (your) LIfe to shape your life into one that matches your core self and enables you to grow. Listen and Learn! 

Learn more about Michelle’s academic and personal coaching businesses at www.razcoaching.com , connect with her on LinkedIn at coachmichelleraz

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