shame

“Why Do I Feel Different? How I Stopped Hiding (and Started Celebrating) My ADHD Differences”

“At the age of 49, I was diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. After being told and believing for so many...

When you believe that you’re broken because of ADHD, you focus on your weaknesses and become blind to...

“Self-compassion allows you to be good enough as you are, with your warts, with your foibles,...

Access the video replay, listen to the podcast episode (#375), download the slide presentation, and...

“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...