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...

“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...