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“The initial feeling of RSD is as if you've been punched in the head and are struggling to regain...

“Gaslighting is deeply personal and driven by reinforced shame, which the victim usually works to...

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...