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Rhyme and Reason: Intellectual and Emotional Curiosity Curiosity comes easily for people with ADHD. That’s good. Really. People with ADHD have this perception that curiosity breeds distraction, and that therefore they need to keep it in check. Not necessarily. I think it’s possible to channel curiosity, to use it to calm emotional distress.

character self-assassination comes naturally to people with ADHD. Berating ourselves, questioning our very right to exist in civil society and talking to ourselves in a sneering, sarcastic way can feel oddly natural and right. Make

Consciously reject the voice of the Hired Killer. When you talk to yourself, be honest, curious and compassionate. It may not come as naturally, at least not at first, but stay with it. Support yourself with self-talk instead of tearing yourself down.

he installed a deep pool of cool water that was magically protective.

something gets to you. Later on, after the storm has subsided, you might be able to trace the precipitating problem to your ADHD, to discover how you jumped to a skewed conclusion. But you don’t make those connections in real time. You really can’t—you’re not really thinking clearly. At times like these, you’re not very analytical, to put it

feelings are bad, so you try to make them go away. You eat or drink or snort or swallow…something. You find a messiah, a person, a theory or a system to follow, as blindly as possible. You sleep a lot, or not at all. You change jobs, spouses, cities, wardrobes, cars or religions.

—— The Emotional Distress Syndrome —— The Emotional Distress Syndrome (EDS) is the cumulative effect of the neurological processing differences and behavioral challenges associated with ADHD. It’s a chronic state of emotional stress directly related to the struggle to live life with ADHD, a stress that breaks down emotional tolerance, stamina and

Thriving is different. It’s about the ability to know yourself, to understand how you operate, how you organize things, what you’re good at and what you need help with. Thriving begins with getting connected to yourself.