Excessive Behavior

Sometimes living life with ADHD can lead to excessive behavior – overeating, over spending, too many drinks (alcoholic or not), maybe even too many pills. Excessive behavior of any kind isn’t healthy. Even if your excessive behavior is going to the gym too many times a week. People with ADHD have poor impulse control. An […]

Spending and ADHD

The challenges that ADHD presents can be especially challenging when it comes to money. Not paying attention, being forgetful, lack of organizational skills – these can really impact your financial situation if you are the one in charge of the money. Depression or low self esteem can cause trouble when it comes to credit cards […]

FREE Call: Back to Basics – Managing Life with ADHD

I know this is short notice, but I wanted to let you know that I am doing a FREE call on Monday, September 13 all about getting back to basics and learning to manage our lives with ADHD. I will be covering things like keeping the house clean, managing paperwork, managing your time, organizing and […]

Setting Goals

It’s almost the end of the year; have you been thinking about setting some goals or New Year’s resolutions? Seems like everybody thinks about those things when a new year begins. I’ll bet a lot of your goals for 2010 are the same ones you set for 2009. I know mine are. Let’s see if […]

Women and ADHD

I read an interesting article today about women and ADHD at Help 4 ADHD. Although most of it wasn’t news to me, I still found it worth sharing. Here is one of my favorite parts of the article: Some women seek treatment for AD/HD because their lives are out of control — their finances may […]

Shopping and ADHD; Part 2

Shopping can be an overwhelming experience when you have ADHD. It can get even worse during the holiday season when there are so many shoppers in the stores and so many decisions to make. Yesterday we talked about making grocery shopping easier; today we’re going to talk about the mall. Whether you’re doing holiday shopping […]