Kick Some ADHD

The holidays can be really hard on people with ADHD. There are loads of "shoulds" and "gottas" and pressures that pile up on top of lives that might already be running on the edge. How can we make the holidays more enjoyable and less stressful? We discuss that and much more in this episode!

People with ADHD tend to earn less that neurotypical peers for a variety of reasons. This creates yet another "tax" we can end up paying. This week, we take a shame-free look at the causes of underearning so we can evaluate what to do about it.

Money challenges with ADHD are incredibly common. Handling money is intertwined with so many prevalent ADHD symptoms that it's presumed you'll struggle at some point. This week, we continue an important conversation to help you make peace with money.

The holidays are here, which means for many of us with ADHD its time to hang on to our wallets! Impulsive spending can be a big problem. Today we talk about ways to approach it all year long!

As people with ADHD, we need to have fun in our lives in order to thrive. But hobbies are an interesting subject because we tend to collect them and some of us never engage with them. Today: all about hobbies and ADHD!

Self-medicating is usually considered negative—using substances or behaviors to increase focus and mask ADHD symptoms. But is it always bad? We ask this question in this episode!

Note: this episode is about how to work with your ADHD Manipulation Matrix, the tool for tracking your brain care to manage (manipulate) your ADHD that we described in Episode 71.

The key to manipulating your ADHD to your advantage is to be able to figure out which of the pieces of brain care help you reduce your ADHD symptoms the most.

How do we do that? With what Dana calls "One-Rat Studies."

What's a One-Rat Study? It's an experiment you run on yourself to see how various factors affect your performance with ADHD.

We need to perform experiments on ourselves—and track the results (FOR SCIENCE!)—because each of us is unique. Our ADHD symptoms affect us in different ways, and the various brain care techniques have different results for each of us.

In this episode, we work through some examples to show how to fill in your ADHD Manipulation Matrix and determine what works best for you in different circumstances so that you'll have a guide for addressing ADHD symptoms that's tailored just for you!

WARNING: Keep this simple. Go for the obvious, big wins.

And remember: if your brain isn't working, you're not working.

What questions do you have about the ADHD Manipulation Matrix? Let us know in the comments for this episode!

Tired of being manipulated by your ADHD? It's time to turn the tables and start manipulating IT instead! In this episode, we set up the "matrix" you can use to do exactly that!

Today, Dana checks in on how David's doing with his habit of taking on other people's crises and coaches him (and us) through several key elements. She also asks a very interesting question—how you answer it might surprise you!

There's so much focus on the bad parts of living with ADHD that we thought we'd talk about some of our unique personal strengths. Do some of these sound familiar?