Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

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2019 Year-in-Review and Listener Q&A! Dec 17, 2019

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It’s been an amazing year around these parts. Our community is growing and we’re all the better for it. This week on the show, we’re looking back a bit with some reflections on highlights from the last year, and taking a set of questions submitted by YOU that you said you’d like to hear more about. From RSD to the ADHD job hunt to the best fidgets, we’ve got it all this week!

This is the last show of 2019 as we take a little time off over the holidays and do our planning for 2020. We’ll be kicking off the January session with a series on ADHD in the workplace so, for those of you who submitted work-related questions for this Q&A episode, don’t worry! We got you… we’ll see you in January.

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(00:00) - This is The ADHD Podcast
(01:10) - New Year Schedule Housekeeping
(02:53) - Support the Show! Join the community at Patreon.com/TheADHDPodcast
(03:42) - ADHD Group Coaching!
(05:27) - 2019 Reflections
(12:58) - Q1: How do I handle criticisms of my ADHD symptoms?
(18:44) - Q2: How do you mealplan for 1?
(26:18) - Q3: Do you recommend any job strategies that are ADHD-friendly?
(34:53) - Q4: Follow-up on RSD?
(40:09) - Q5: Let's talk about fidgeting

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Game Time: Games to help the ADHD Brain Tune up and Tune In! Dec 10, 2019

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Looking for a little game night fun for friends and family? You've come to the right place. This week on the show, we're talking all about games that may — or may not — improve the ADHD (research is thin!). But they're a lot of fun and might just help you build some new connections for the cold winter nights ahead!

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(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast!
(00:43) - Nikki's Big Day
(11:20) - Join the ADHD Community!
(13:01) - Listener Question: How do you find your hobbies?
(19:34) - Let's talk about games...

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Nikki's Take-Aways from the 2019 ADHD Conference! Dec 03, 2019

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Nikki’s back from the Annual 31st International Conference on ADHD and she has lessons to share! This week on the show we’re talking about motivation and ADHD, lessons from the author of The Explosive Child, and ADHD and girls and women, each of which served to enlighten and shape the way we do our work here at Take Control ADHD and The ADHD Podcast.

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(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast!
(00:58) - Support The Show!
(06:40) - Big Acronyms Mean Big Lessons! (BAMBL)
(11:26) - ADHD and Motivation
(24:10) - Dr. Ross Green — The Explosive Child
(32:33) - ADHD Girls & Women
(34:42) - #RAF (Resting Attention Face)

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7 Things Everyone Needs To Do To Be Socially Successful with Caroline Maguire Nov 26, 2019

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Caroline Maguire is back! Caroline is an ADHD coach, author, teacher, and speaker with a special focus in social skills supporting kids — and parents of kids — with ADHD. Her book is OUT NOW, Why Will No One Play with Me?: The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive and we’re thrilled she’s back to talk to us about social success today… Caroline Maguire welcome back to The ADHD Podcast!!

And make sure to check out the new merch in our TeePublic store including the Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel Podcast gear!!

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(00:26) - The Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel-Squirrel Podcast Merch!
(01:11) - Support The ADHD Podcast
(02:31) - Caroline Maguire is Back!
(06:12) - A quick review of the book
(08:16) - A review of the seven things
(12:38) - Knowing what to do versus doing what you know
(19:23) - Becoming a "social spy"
(22:06) - Emotional Regulation
(25:10) - Anxiety and social cues
(25:51) - What is a "Social Problem"?
(38:19) - Find "Why Will No One Play With Me?"

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Creating Change In Your Life Nov 19, 2019

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Back in the late 1970s, two researchers developed a model for evaluating those suffering through addiction in their journey toward health. The Transtheoretical Model, or more colloquially, Prochaska’s Stages of Change, went on to help social workers and therapists treat those suffering with transformational diagnoses for decades. As it turns out, the Stages of Change model works pretty well for us, too, as we think about our relationship to ADHD.

This week on the show, Nikki introduces the Stages of Change with an eye on ADHD, and how you can use it to train yourself to better adapt to the world around you.

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Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward by James Prochaska

(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
(03:20) - Support the Show - Become a Patron!
(04:27) - The Steps to Change
(10:15) - The Five Stages
(10:46) - Stage 1: Precontemplation
(12:26) - Stage 2: Contemplation
(16:01) - Stage 3: Preparation
(19:47) - Stage 4: Action
(23:41) - Relapse
(27:11) - Pay Yourself First
(33:11) - Stage 5: Maintenance

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November Emotions Feedback! Nov 12, 2019

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It’s been an emotional month here at The ADHD Podcast. With guests and topics all targeted at the emotional centers of our ADHD, you can be sure our fantastic community has come to us with feedback and questions. So, this week we embrace and extend the November theme of Emotion and ADHD and take on your thoughts about rejection sensitivity, emotional storms, sex, plus a bonus dose of seasonal affective disorder, to boot!

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(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
(04:14) - Support the show, join The ADHD Community
(05:45) - It's SAD Season
(17:15) - Pushing past RSD
(22:18) - The Ochoa Audible Storm
(25:38) - After Dark with Ari Tuckman
(28:10) - Two ADHD Partners and healthy sex questions
(29:42) - Cascading challenges spreading through different areas of life
(35:11) - Unable to let arguments go
(42:02) - The ADHD Unified Singularity Formula

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Creating Through ADHD with Dani Donovan Nov 05, 2019

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We are gearing up for November here at The ADHD Podcast. November marks the start of national novel writing month, 30 days of fiendish exploration of words happening at keyboards around the world. But what happens if your brand of ADHD throws a wrench in your desire to create your masterpiece?

This week on the show, illustrator and designer Dani Donovan joins us to talk about her creative process. Dani is the pen behind many fantastic ADHD comics floating around your social media feeds. She tells us how she got started, leading to her emerging identity as a vocal leader of the #NeuroDiverseSquad online. She’s a wonderful talent, and we hope you find her work and process inspirational as you seek to shape your own creative process.

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About Dani Donovan

Dani Donovan is a purpose-driven designer and illustrator who creates ADHD comics. Her first infographic, “Storytelling Flowchart,” went viral within hours, amassed over 100 million views, and has been reposted by celebrities such as Mindy Kaling. In a few short months, Dani’s relatable comics and her #NeurodiverseSquad hashtag helped her quickly become a prominent voice in the online mental health community, with her content reaching millions of viewers each month. Her graphics, jokes, and Twitter threads aim to help those with ADHD understand themselves, feel a sense of belonging, and better explain their invisible struggle to loved ones. Her influence has helped hundreds of people to seek diagnosis and treatment. Dani uses her outgoing nature to reach out and cultivate friendships between women content creators on Twitter, including Jessica McCabe (How to ADHD), Erynn Brook (writing), ADHD Alien (comics), and more. She currently works as a full-time designer at Gallup and lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband and two cats.

(00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
(01:47) - Support The ADHD Podcast
(03:11) - Introducing Dani Donovan
(13:36) - Practical process of creating
(24:19) - Managing the emotion of creation
(29:44) - Constraints in creation
(40:04) - Find Dani
(42:08) - #NeuroDiverseSquad

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Sex & ADHD with Ari Tuckman Oct 29, 2019

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This week we’re hosting a frank conversation about sex and ADHD.

Our guest is Dr. Ari Tuckman, a psychologist and certified sex therapist, not to mention one of our favorite expert sources who somehow we’ve never had on the show. Today, Ari is here to talk to us about the impact of ADHD on a couple and how the sexual relationship — and our relationship to sexuality — functions in light of ADHD. The book is the result of years of research and survey responses thousands strong of those living with ADHD reporting their candid experience, and it’s documented in ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship.

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(01:36) - Support The ADHD Podcast
(02:53) - Ari Tuckman 'After Dark'
(05:30) - Survey Background
(08:27) - Relationship Satisfaction and Sexual Satisfaction
(09:45) - Positive and negative attending
(12:42) - Sex and RSD
(15:08) - Teamwork
(19:39) - ADHD and the sexual encounter
(23:55) - Any sex surprises? Stimulants and more
(25:24) - What are 'happy couples' doing?
(32:56) - Pornography and sex addiction
(39:22) - Sex and self esteem
(45:06) - ADHD and same-sex, trans respondents?
(47:14) - 2 ADHD partners?

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Facing the Emotional Storms of ADHD with James Ochoa Oct 22, 2019

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Straight from the Life Empowerment Center, James Ochoa is back today to share a story of his own emotional storm and the strategies he employed to move through it.

This is one of those important episodes. Important, not just because of the lessons and strategies we share for moving through your own emotional ADHD storms, but for the example that James puts on display. He is, after all, a leading voice in healthy living with ADHD, and he’s suffering publicly through a career-defining storm of his own. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. There is no shame in the battles we engage with our ADHD.

Thanks to James for sharing his story (which you can read in full in the links below).

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(00:00) - This Is The ADHD Podcast
(02:33) - Join The ADHD Community
(03:42) - James Ochoa is back!
(05:12) - The Emotional Distress Syndrome: A Primer
(06:36) - What are Emotional Storms?
(08:44) - The Ochoa-Audible Emotional Storm
(19:03) - Focus Strategies
(21:45) - What's next for James: Mindfulness, ETT, and beyond
(29:40) - Get 'Focused Forward' on Audible for free
(30:52) - Share your "Storm Story" with James

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Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria: Dr. William Dodson brings new insight to Emotional Regulation Oct 15, 2019

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There aren’t many practitioners writing about today’s topic. Unless, that is, you look up the collected works of Dr. Bill Dodson. Dr. Dodson is an award-winning board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in adult ADHD and his contributions to the study of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria bring him to the show today. According to Dr. Dodson, nearly all those living with ADHD live with some level of rejection sensitivity, and thanks to the poor training on the ADHD connections to the condition, patients are going misdiagnosed and mistreated as a result.

Today on the show, Dr. Dodson joins Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright to discuss Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and provide new language to frame a state those living with ADHD know all too well.

About Dr. William Dodson
Dr. Bill Dodson is a award-winning board-certified psychiatrist and specialist in adult ADHD. While Dr. Dodson has been on the faculties of Georgetown University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center he is primarily a clinical practitioner who tries to combine evidence-based practice techniques with practice-based evidence. In addition to being named a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and recipient of the national Maxwell J. Schleifer Award for Distinguished Service to Persons with Disabilities, Dr. Dodson is one of two experts from the US to the World Anti-Doping program for the development of guidelines for the use of ADHD stimulant medications in the world’s athletes.

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