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ADHD Weekly -- Being Social and Making Friends as an Adult with ADHD

Sometimes you may feel that oversharing gets in the way of making and keeping friends. Two experts offer suggestions on improving your social skills. Read...

Sometimes you may feel that oversharing gets in the way of making and keeping fr...

KarenADHDWeekly

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Clonidine for rejection sensitivity

Has anyone here had any experience with Clonidine? I've read that it helps primarily with irritability and rejection sensitivity (which are my worst...

Has anyone here had any experience with Clonidine? I've read that it helps prim...

•4 years ago

Impulsive shopping

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and for the most part I know how to manage my ADHD well as an adult, but recently I've realized my impulsive shopping...

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and for the most part I know how to manage ...

•4 years ago

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Lack of sleep and adhd

Newly diagnosed w adhd and am taking 20mg adderall and my biggest issue is the lack of sleep or only a couple hrs sleep,cant stay asleep for the entire nite,...

Newly diagnosed w adhd and am taking 20mg adderall and my biggest issue is the l...

•4 years ago

I need a good MD in Berkeley Area

I have had untreated ADHD all my life! The nuns used to throw me in a closet for 30 minutes when I was too busy. In the 60's and 70's no one knew what this...

I have had untreated ADHD all my life! The nuns used to throw me in a closet fo...

•4 years ago

Anyone have an ADHD coach in SoCal?

Does anyone have any resources for ADHD coaches. IS coaching better/worse than talk therapy? Financial concerns are important to me. But so is getting the help...

Does anyone have any resources for ADHD coaches. IS coaching better/worse than t...

•4 years ago

Did the right thing

Hi guys it’s Shnookie again. Fortunately, the woman who I wrote to, responded back to me. She doesn’t want to commit suicide right now but is extremely...

Hi guys it’s Shnookie again. Fortunately, the woman who I wrote to, responded ba...

•4 years ago

Hope I did the right thing - Suicide Prevention

Hi guys. I have been part of the ADHD support group and have found its members to be supportive and helpful. Besides having ADHD, I was also diagnosed as...

Hi guys. I have been part of the ADHD support group and have found its members ...

•4 years ago

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ADHD Freshman!

Hello everyone! My name is Kayse, and I'm new to HealthUnlocked. I'm 24 years old and have ADHD, and I hope to chat and get to know others like myself! More...

Hello everyone! My name is Kayse, and I'm new to HealthUnlocked. I'm 24 years o...

•4 years ago

Online classes

if anyone is a student like me, online class have been so tough to focus. What are somethingsthat you do?

if anyone is a student like me, online class have been so tough to focus. What a...

•4 years ago

Depression/anger/frustration

I was diagnosed with adhd over 20 years ago and it’s daily evolving struggle for me to deal with the symptoms and everything that comes with being an adult...

I was diagnosed with adhd over 20 years ago and it’s daily evolving struggle for...

•4 years ago

Frequently shifting hyper focus

Does anyone else find that they get excited by things and hyper focus on something for say hours to days, but then circle back to the same thing later and...

Does anyone else find that they get excited by things and hyper focus on somethi...

•4 years ago

Book about Inattentive type ADHD

Lifting the Fog by Michael Carr This book tells about the differences between Inattentive type and the others.

Lifting the Fog by Michael Carr This book tells about the differences between I...

•4 years ago

Adhd and hyperhydrosis

It's been a few months since being diagnosed with adhd and I'm impressed by the honest and true support given to all levels of this issue by all the members....

It's been a few months since being diagnosed with adhd and I'm impressed by the...

•4 years ago

Entrepreneur w/ Adult ADHD - Searching for a good Doctor in Tempe/Chandler, Arizona - ASAP

I'm an adult male entrepreneur in Tempe/Chandler area of Arizona. I was diagnosed with ADHD many years ago. I've had the same Internist for ADHD for more than...

I'm an adult male entrepreneur in Tempe/Chandler area of Arizona. I was diagnose...

•4 years ago

Life's challenges

Now that I am practicing driving , I am more hopeful. Someday I will do it solo. It could happen. It has been a long road. Anyone else get butterflies when...

Now that I am practicing driving , I am more hopeful. Someday I will do it solo....

•4 years ago

Video Games

How I manage procrastination when it comes to doing things I enjoy such as playing video games?

How I manage procrastination when it comes to doing things I enjoy such as playi...

•4 years ago

Counselor with ADHD

What is like to be a counselor and have ADD and how do you manage it ?

What is like to be a counselor and have ADD and how do you manage it ?

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Where did I Put it ? De ja Vu all over again. Rest In Peace Yogi Berra

Hi guys ! It’s Shnookie. I have been forgetting to. take things with me I purchased like the coffee from Starbucks and finally realized in my car today in...

Hi guys ! It’s Shnookie. I have been forgetting to. take things with me I purch...

•4 years ago

New here looking for answers.

I've always had little fidgeting problems or the need to move a lot. I've also grown more tiresome with talking to people because sometimes I feel the need to...

I've always had little fidgeting problems or the need to move a lot. I've also g...

•4 years ago

Always had trouble having a conversation

Ever since I was very young I would get anxious and forget what I wanted to say when in a conversation or responding to someone else's comment,ect. I have...

Ever since I was very young I would get anxious and forget what I wanted to say...

•4 years ago

Not sure where to start...

Probably need therapy, maybe meds. I am a mess of issues. 51, very likely ADHD combined, ACOA (adult child of an alcoholic), anxiety and stress like crazy....

Probably need therapy, maybe meds. I am a mess of issues. 51, very likely ADHD ...

•4 years ago

Are there any RN's on here with ADD?

I am a nurse and looking for a job that is not so stressful and doesn't have so much paperwork. Right now I am in home health and all I do is work. Oh and...

I am a nurse and looking for a job that is not so stressful and doesn't have so...

•4 years ago

Calling UK readers.... UK adhd / uk add experience

Hi Folks, Great community, thankyou! Any UK readers? Any experience of private psychiatrist for private diagnosis and initial treatment? I have to wait 2 years...

Hi Folks, Great community, thankyou! Any UK readers? Any experience of private p...

•4 years ago

I'm crazy, so?

I write this post with the question "what else, runs through the mind of a 'norm' or nuerotypical when they call me crazy?" I think. Ehhm, should I go for a...

I write this post with the question "what else, runs through the mind of a 'norm...

•4 years ago

Opposite sleep issue!

I have never had the problem of not being able to fall asleep. Instead, my sleep problem is different and is embarrassing at times. There have been numerous...

I have never had the problem of not being able to fall asleep. Instead, my sleep...

ScientistWithADD

•4 years ago

Psychiatrist's practice office issues

Don't know if the question is appropriate here but I am going to shoot anyway. My experience with my psychiatrist has not been bad overall, except the...

Don't know if the question is appropriate here but I am going to shoot anyway. M...

ScientistWithADD

•4 years ago

Group support is very helpful

Hi. It’s Shnookie. Want to thank U guys 4 your support. I’m Jewish and wasn’t quite sure about how to face the Jewish New Year for the first time without...

Hi. It’s Shnookie. Want to thank U guys 4 your support. I’m Jewish and wasn’t ...

•4 years ago

💡 A Question for the Neuro-Typical Spouse 💡

Hey guys! I had a conversation with my husband last night and he posed this question: ➡️“How can I get from surviving to feeling like this relationship is...

Hey guys! I had a conversation with my husband last night and he posed this ques...

•4 years ago

Feeding the black hole

My therapist told me that aspects of ADHD mimic obsessive-compulsive disorder in that there's an area of my mind that hyper-focuses on whatever it sucks in and...

My therapist told me that aspects of ADHD mimic obsessive-compulsive disorder in...

•4 years ago

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