ADHD Adults
Adult ADHD is real. And ADHD symptoms such as distractibility, impulsivity, disorganization, and emotional sensitivity impact everyday life. Here, find good strategies for managing time, health, relationships, and more with adult ADD.
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Emotions & Shame
How to Control Your Anger When ADHD Emotional Reactivity Kicks In
Yes, the ADHD brain is wired to overreact and to feel emotions intensely. But you are not your ADHD...
Sleep Disorders
ADHD and Sleep Problems: This is Why You’re Always Tired
Does ADD make you tired? Sleep disturbances caused by ADHD have been overlooked for a number of...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
8 Illuminating Insights Into ADHD: Making Sense of Your Brain
Understanding ADHD and how it affects everyday life often means questioning everything you think you...
ADHD-Friendly Jobs
“I Love What I Do:” Jobs That Reward People with ADHD
The perfect job does not exist… or does it? We asked ADDitude readers if they love their jobs. Those...
Exercise & Health
The ADHD-Dopamine Link: Why You Crave Sugar and Carbs
Mainstream weight-loss plans don't work for us. ADHD brains lack and crave dopamine, which sugar and...
Home Organization
40 Little Life Hacks from ADHD Gurus
Run-of-the-mill organization strategies don't work for adults with ADD. Our ADHD brains — and...
Emotions & Shame
7 Emotions That Knock Us Off Our Feet
Nearly a third of adolescents and adults with ADHD list emotional instability as one of the most...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
“OMG, So That’s Why I Do That?!”
"The ADHD world is curvilinear. Past, present, and future are never separate and distinct. Everything...
Free Downloads
Free Resource: Get Control of Your Life and Schedule
Keys-wallet-phone. It's our get-out-the-door mantra, and it really works! Here are more systems that,...
Stop Procrastinating
The Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting Things Done
Everyone procrastinates sometimes. You do it more. Maybe you’re a perfectionist. Maybe you get...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
Why ADD Makes You Feel. So. Much.
The volatile (and sometimes destructive) emotions associated with ADHD can manifest as frustration,...
Marriage
Married with ADHD: How Real Couples Make It Work
We surveyed more than 700 partners with ADHD to find out how attention deficit impacts their marriage...
Emotions & Shame
6 Tips To Mitigate Self-Compassion Deficit Disorder
Adults with ADHD tend to be self-critical. When you fail to follow through with what you had planned,...
Typical ADHD Behaviors
The Mystery of ADHD Motivation, Solved
Why do adults and children with ADHD or ADD have strong motivation and executive function for some...
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Free Resource: Understanding Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
The emotional response to perceived or real failure can be devastating to people with ADHD. Learn why...