This week: Jen talks about the little known flip-side of Rejection Sensitivity known as Recognition Response Euphoria (RRE) coined by Dr. Ned Hallowell. RRE is a euphoric and motivating feeling experienced by an ADHD-er who has been praised or encouraged - and how this is an important part of combating despair and maintaining resilience as a neurodivergent in a neurotypical world.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
Flip Side of ADHD RSD: Energy & Motivation (Video) - Dr. Ned Hallowell
Divergent Psychology - Article
The Default Mode Network & ADHD - LA Concierge Psychologist
Recognition Response Euphoria (RRE) - Dr. Ned Hallowell
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This week: Jen talks about Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. RSD affects 98% people with ADHD and is an intense emotional response caused by the perception that we’ve disappointed others in our life and will now be rejected, abandoned, unloved as a consequence. Jen talks about how RSD feels in her body and reads lots of comments from her listeners about they experience RSD. This episode will help you feel less alone!
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
Defining Features of ADHD That Get Overlooked (Video) - Dr. William Dodson
An ADHD Guide to RSD (Video) - Dr. William Dodson
Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria - ADDitude Magazine
Understanding RSD Download - ADDitude Magazine
RSD Coping Strategies Toolkit - ADDitude Magazine
Overview of RSD - Cleveland Clinic
This week: Jen talks about scientific studies on the links between ADHD and trauma. ADHD is not caused by childhood trauma but having ADHD in childhood can cause trauma which changes the chemistry of the brain. It’s complex, nuanced and a great example of “correlation does not equal causation.”
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
Adult ADHD & Trauma. Is There A Link? - Psychology Today
The Link Between ADHD & Trauma - Medical News Today
Why Gabor Mate is Wrong About ADHD & Trauma (Video) - Dr. Russell Barkley
Childhood Trauma & ADHD - ADDitude Magazine
ADHD & Trauma: Symptoms & Treatments - ADDitude Magazine
In this episode: Jen talks provides some expert methods to handle intense emotions. Topics include - building emotional resiliency, naming feelings, how to interrupt a possible blowup, and working with your ADHD nervous system.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
Deficient Emotional Self Regulation (Video) - Dr. Russell Barkley
Build Your Emotional Resilience (Video) - Dr. Tamara Rosier
Coping with Anxiety & Adult ADHD (Video) - Dr. Russell Ramsay
15 Ways to Disarm & Understand ADHD Emotions - ADDitude Magazine
Coping With Heightened Emotions - Psychology Today
In this episode: Jen talks about her personal experience with being emotionally intense and lashing out without understanding what was going on in her brain. Jen explains the science behind the ADHD brain and how/why neurodivergent brains get flooded, experience meltdowns, shutdowns, sadness, low self-esteem, getting carried away with emotion and not being able to tolerate feeling many emotions at once. Also explained: how emotions filter through a neurotypical brain and how they get jammed up in a filterless ADHD brain.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
Dr. William Dodson You Tube - Overlooked Symptoms of ADHD
Dr. Russell Barkley You Tube - Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation
ADHD Aware Magazine - Emotions & ADHD
ADDitude Magazine: Exaggerated Emotions - How ADHD Triggers Intensity
CHADD Website - Emotions Too Much? Could Be ADHD
VeryWellMind Website - Understanding Hypersensitivity in ADHD
Addept (Thriving With ADHD) Website - Emotional Flooding
In this episode: Jen gives her thoughts on what to do once you think you might have ADHD from how to get a diagnosis, shop for a therapist or psychiatrist or coach, and how to advocate for yourself when supposed professionals aren’t that up-to-speed on the most current ADHD findings.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
FOCUSED ADHD COACHING - with Kristen Carder
PSYCH CENTRAL - How To Get An ADHD Diagnosis
CHADD - Contact An ADHD Specialist
ADD.ORG - Finding an ADHD Coach
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY - Find a Psychiatrist or Therapist
DR. RUSSELL BARKLEY VIDEO - How To Treat ADHD
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - Assessing an ADHD Clinician
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - Find an ADHD Clinic
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - Who Can Diagnose ADHD?
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - Self Diagnose Test for Inattentive ADHD
In this episode: Jen talks about how New Year’s Resolutions don’t work with her ADHD, gives advice on how NOT to make resolutions, how not to set yourself up to fail, get out of fantasy and accept yourself, and rethinking how to see your year ahead.
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This week: Jen imparts wisdom from her research written by ADHD experts about the ADHD Iceberg, symptoms and types of ADHD, the definition of executive functions, what it looks like for an ADHD person with executive dysfunction, why ADHD is known as the “invisible disorder” and not functioning well in a neurotypical world.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
PSYCH CENTRAL - The ADHD Iceberg
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - ADHD Symptoms Checklist
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - What Is Executive Dysfunction?
DR. RUSSELL BARKLEY - Making The Invisible Visible
DR. RUSSELL BARKLEY - ADHD Major Characteristics
ADDITUDE MAGAZINE - Dr. William Dodson on the Curvilinear Mind
In this episode: Jen talks about how she was a chronic plans canceler until she realized that this came from her lack of executive functioning around keeping a schedule and with some simple (but not easy for the ADHD person) readjustments to how she organizes her time - she’s become someone who builds in time for the ADHD collapse ad avoids canceling on friends.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
DR. RUSSELL BARKLEY VIDEO - “ADHD is time blindness”
PSYCH CENTRAL - Why Are People With ADHD Bad At Planning Ahead?
In this episode: Jen talks about those weird things that she always thought were personality quirks or flaws but are actually very common ADHD traits like sitting on the floor, re-heating coffee all day long, sitting in strange positions in chairs, an existential dread about laundry and more!
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
WOMEN WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (book), author Sari Golden MS, LMFT
TOTALLY ADD WEBSITE - ADHD and Overwhelm. I’m Behind In So Many Things!
ADDEPT WEBSITE - How To Reduce Overwhelm With An ADHD Brain
CHADD WEBSITE - When Emotions Overwhelm You
SELF-REG (book), author Stuart Shanker
Jen talks about how the nagging feeling of being overwhelmed brought her to an ADHD diagnosis. Jen also discusses: the difference between actually having too much to do and the phantom feeling of overwhelm which can’t be solved with a to-do list and how to cope with overwhelm.
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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:
WOMEN WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (book), author Sari Golden MS, LMFT
TOTALLY ADD WEBSITE - ADHD and Overwhelm. I’m Behind In So Many Things!
ADDEPT WEBSITE - How To Reduce Overwhelm With An ADHD Brain
CHADD WEBSITE - When Emotions Overwhelm You
SELF-REG (book), author Stuart Shanker
Introducing my new weekly podcast - “You Are A Lot” (an adhd podcast) and I’m your host, Jen Kirkman. In my everyday life I’m a writer and in my every-waking-second-of-my-life, I’m an adult with ADHD. I was diagnosed in my 30’s and did nothing about it and re-visited my diagnosis in my 40’s and am now with therapy, medication, coaching, and reading everything that the experts write – I’m finally coping with ADHD in what I think of as a daily recovery.
On this podcast I’ll talk about my personal experiences with all of those behaviors, thought patterns, and feelings that I’ve lived with never knowing it was ADHD. I’ll also pass along what the top experts in the field of ADHD are saying – putting together research that you may not do for yourself. I want to help spread the word that ADHD is not just about productivity and focus but it’s a lack of Executive Function which impacts every aspect of our lives including relationships, and even our self-esteem. If you have been doctor diagnosed with ADHD, self-diagnosed, are ADHD curious or people have often told you, “Um, you’re kind of a lot”– this podcast is for you.
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