shame

Rejection Sensitivity Is Worse for Girls and Women with ADHD

Too many women with ADHD choose isolation to avoid the emotional pain of rejection — an unhealthy...

Few adults with ADHD are strangers to chronic shame – whether stemming from the decision to take...

The stages of ADHD diagnosis and understanding are different for everyone. On the path to my son's...

“People who judge me, my therapist reminds me, should be cut off. They enforce that cycle everyone...

“My husband and I grew up as 'overachievers,' but our daughter struggles with everything — and that...

Adults with undiagnosed ADHD may come to believe that we are fundamentally flawed. This shame impairs...

“Think of ADHD as a marathon, not a sprint,” says esteemed ADHD psychologist and author Michele...

The ADHD brain gravitates toward black-or-white, all-or-nothing thinking. The problem is that human...

By the time he reached kindergarten, my son was convinced that he was a bad student, undeserving of...

"For many people with ADHD, shame arises from the repeated failure to meet expectations from parents,...

You're hard on yourself, we know. But harsh self-criticism never helped anyone. Instead, learn to...

The stigmas that those with ADHD face for not fitting into the traditional system can be more harmful...