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COVID-19: Too Much Time to Think
Slights, mistakes, embarrassments, accidents, catastrophes. Are these things flooding your mind? Is your self-esteem in the toilet? Have you stopped to ask yourself why? Here’s the reason — COVID-19 is...
Today I Love People Who Open Their Hearts
Today I love people who open their hearts to others and accept them with an open mind allowing them the right to be who they are and waiting patiently for them to accept others....
My ADHD Inspired Life
There’s some things about my life that seem to be different from the lives of those I grew up with. And some of those differences are because I have ADHD....
Ridiculing the Experts Who Just Might Save Us: Why Is This Happening?
Years ago, when I was teaching a course on nonverbal communication, I read a research report on a topic relevant to that class. It had just been published. So that...
Improving Diagnostic Accuracy: One Disorder Generating Another
The last item we’ll examine in this series, for now, is the precision point of recognizing when something in one disorder evolves to require a concurrent diagnosis. It may seem...
Is There a Connection Between Sibling and Workplace Bullying?
This week’s guest author is Linda Crockett, an internationally recognized expert on workplace bullying. Linda and I connected over our mutual understanding that dysfunctional workplace dynamics often mirror dysfunctional family system dynamics and family scapegoating abuse....
How Do You Concentrate?
This might seem like a silly question to ask. After all, it’s not like those of us with ADHD simply need someone to explain to us how concentrating works and then everything will be OK....
Maintaining Sanity while Working at Home with Kids
I have been talking with neighbors, friends, and friends of my adult kids to see how COVID-time has impacted working parents with children. Some parents love working from home. They...
Coping with Voices
Like a lot of people with schizophrenia, I hear voices. I fully understand that these voices are one of the symptoms of my schizoaffective brain disease. Usually I hear these...
Parent Participation: Helping Parents to Become Involved in Their Child’s Treatment
Parent Involvement is Essential Research supports the idea that children have the most gains, particularly in developing adaptive behaviors and skills that last over time, when their parent is involved....
Closer Threats May Trigger More Primitive Fear in the Brain
If a perceived threat feels far away, people tend to engage the more problem-solving areas of the brain. But if the threat feels urgent and up-close, animal instincts take over,...
Too Much Sun to Head, Heat Stress Said to Affect Cognition
A new Danish-led study reveals the harmful cognitive effects of prolonged sunlight exposure to the head. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest that people working or engaging...
Repeated Exposure to Stigma May Reduce Brain’s Reward Sensitivity
In a new study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) investigated how negative stereotype exposure over time may affect the brain’s sensitivity to rewards. The findings, published...
New System Shown to Improve Early Diagnosis of Autism
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a new system to screen and evaluate children for autism spectrum disorders. The primary care-driven system will be implemented statewide with...
