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Interview With Dr. Ari Tuckman on Adult ADHD

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Paying Attention, Organizing, Adhd, More Attention Less Deficit, Add, Adult ADD, Adult ADHD, Books, Ari Tuckman, Hyperactivity, Inattention, Organization, Tuckman, Healthy Living News

Ari Tuckman, Psy.D., MBA is a psychologist in private practice, specializing in diagnosing and treating children, teens, and adults with ADHD, anxiety, and depression.

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Speak Up for Kids Mental Health This Week

Dr. Harold Koplewicz | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, Child Mind Institute, Harold S. Koplewicz M.D., Adhd, Children's Mental Health, Add, Speak-Up-for-Kids, Parents News

The public perception of child and adolescent mental illness hasn't changed along with the possibilities that have opened up to treat or even prevent it.

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A Race Car Brain With Bicycle Brakes: One Vision of ADD With Edward Hallowell

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Psychotherapy, Wiring, Adhd, Parenting, Opposition, Hallowell Center, Add, Hallowell, Healthy Living News

For me, one way of thinking about children with ADD (adults deserve their own piece and the center deals with them too) is that they are more fiercely democratic than other kids who will easily adhere to strict rules and regulations with a passive attitude.

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Fast Ain't Necessarily Better

Michele Willens | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Cultural ADD, Pace of Modern Life, Shortened Attention Span, Add, Multi-Tasking, Speed-Dating, Short Attention Span, Speed Pitching, Women News

A man once explained he'd grown a beard because not shaving saved him ten minutes every morning. He then shaved it off because "it turned out I had nothing to do for ten minutes." I get it.

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ADDitions to Teaching, Parenting, Learning and Caring

Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Distraction, Parenting, Positive Psychology, Teaching, Add, Perfectionism, Oppositionalism, Education News

People with ADD are known for being oppositional but frequently (and I suggest is the case with the rest of us too) there is perfectionism lurking around the corner.

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Why It Bugs Me When People Say: "I Must Have A.D.D.!"

Lori Day | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Attention, Attention Deficit Disorder, Rudeness, Social Skills, Manners, Add, Adult ADD, Adult ADHD, Adhd, Faking ADD, Culture News

There seems to be an outbreak of self-diagnosed A.D.D. among individuals who simply have no manners. What is going on? Do I need to put Ritalin in my tic-tac dispenser and offer it to the afflicted?

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ADHD: The Medication Helps Daddy, Too

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: ADD Medications, Adhd, ADD Drugs, Add, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Medicating Kids, Children ADHD Drugs, Attention-Deficit Disorder, Kids ADHD Drugs, Children ADHD Medications, Adhd Medications, Medicating Children, Kids ADHD Medications, ADHD Drugs, Video, Parents News

We finally decided to try the pharmaceuticals available, only to be met with warnings from countless well-meaning people, none of whom actually had children with ADHD. I began to feel as if, in some small way, they were judging our parenting skills and finding fault.

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The Good News About ADHD

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: ADHD Drugs, Adhd, Adhd Precriptions, Add, Harold Koplewicz, Alan Sroufe, Parents News

The fact that the child's social context may play a part in causing the attention, focusing and behavior problems that we call ADHD can actually be interpreted as good news for parents.

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Maybe Private School Is Cheaper Than Ritalin

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Montessori, Mental Health, Adhd, Boys, Parenting, Hyperactivity, Adderall, Education, Stimulants, Psychotropic Medications, Add, School Adjustment, Charter Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Ritalin, Child Psychiatry, Education News

Your child needs to be learning in a place that will support his strengths rather than view him as a problem. For children who are bright or anxious, active or inattentive, simply changing how and where they learn can make all the difference.

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Do You Know Someone With Adult ADD/ADHD?

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Adults With ADD, Adhd, Adults With ADHD, Attention Deficit Disorder, Add, Ritalin, Fifty News, Adderal, Fifty News

Even when Tillie Feldman of Los Angeles was a child, she knew she was different than other kids. She feared nothing, showed no deference to authority ...

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WATCH: This Is Your Brain On ADHD

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Dopamine, Add, Video, Adult ADHD, Brain, Talk Nerdy to Me, Norepinephrine, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Science, Adhd, Attention Deficit Disorder, Cara Santa Maria, Drug Abuse, Ritalin, Adderall, Education News

Are more kids showing symptoms of ADHD? Or have they always had the disorder, but now more and more kids are being appropriately diagnosed?

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How ADHD Could Be Affecting Your Marriage

Melissa Orlov | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Adhd, Adult ADHD, Add, Relationships, Adult ADD, Relationship Advice, Communicating, After the Wedding, Communication, Weddings News

Yes, your spouse does love you, but because he or she is too distracted to pay attention to you, it sure doesn't feel like love, and that's a very real problem. If you don't fix it, there's no way you can have a healthy relationship.

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Applying To College With ADD

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: College Admissions, Add, American University, Yourtake, University of Denver, Lesley University, Learning Disabilities, Adhd, Dyslexia, University of Arizona, College Applications, High School News

Besides the usual stress over getting good SAT scores, writing a powerful personal statement, and making the perfect college list, having a learning d...

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Women With ADD

George Sachs, Psy.D. | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Adhd, Attention Deficit Disorder, Add, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Healthy Living Health News, Women With Add, Women With Adhd, Adhd and Women, Add and Women, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News

Women with ADD are often overlooked when they are young girls and, unfortunately, are not typically diagnosed with the disorder until they are adults.

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Entertaining Our Kids, Have We Gone Too Far?

Abi Cotler O'Roarty | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Spongebob, Simplicity, Parenting, Childhood, Children Attention Spans, Add, Parents News

If we choose to let a marketing department decide what's entertaining for our kids, we could unwittingly be playing a high stakes game that doesn't end until they go off to college with a laser show, just to be sure they're paying attention.

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Tea and the Art of Distraction -- 4 Simple Steps

Jesse Jacobs | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Add, Mental Health, Daydreaming, Focus, Ritual, Distraction, Samovar, Adha, Tea, Gtd, Cell Phone, Productivity, Healthy Living Spirit, San Francisco News

Whether it's tea or anything else you can find to wake up, I believe that we need all the weapons available to fight distraction. Distraction keeps us from living fully and making a real difference in the world.

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Are American Kids More Likely To Have ADHD?

www.nytimes.com | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Americans Adhd, Mental Disorders, Adhd, Diagnosing Adhd, Add, ADHD Kids, Parents News

Whether you call it hypochondria or American exceptionalism, the numbers are plain: Americans lead the world in diagnoses of mental health problems. ...

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A Prescription For America's ADHD Epidemic

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: ADHD Medication, Children's Mental Health, Adhd, Add, Adderall, Healthy Living Health News, Children and Add/Adhd, Mental Health, Children and Adderall, Healthy Living Mind, ADD Medication, Healthy Living News

The United States of Adderall will continue at least into the near future until our values change substantially or, more ominously, we experience some social catastrophe from the adult use of these drugs.

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A Day in the Strife of a Writer

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Creativity, Marriage, Habits, A.D.D., Jewish Mothers, Writers, Writing, Procrastination, Distraction, Homeowning, Avoidance, Cleaning, Books News

On my way to the studio I notice the path is partly blocked by an overgrown shrub, so I put the pliers down, go to the tool shed to get hedge clippers and trim back the intrusive plant. I go in and sit at my desk to prepare for the class.

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What Could -- And Couldn't -- Be Causing America's ADHD Epidemic

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: ADHD Medication, Adhd, Add, Adderall, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Healthy Living Health News, Over-Prescribing of Adderall, United States of Adderall, Mental Health, Children and Adderall, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News

I believe epidemic a fair description for a drug that has multiplied in use ten-fold from 1996 to 2009, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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The Ritalin Wars: Understanding America's Adderall Obsession

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Attention Deficit Disorder, Adhd, Hyperactivity, Add, Ritalin, Adderall, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

Children with extreme degrees of impulsivity, distractibility and hyperactivity are easy to diagnose with ADHD. However because these behaviors vary (from none to many) in a bell shaped distribution curve, most of ADHD diagnosed in this country is of the mild variety.

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7 Natural Ways To Help Your Child's ADHD

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Adhd, Add, Children's Health, Healthy Living Health News, Natural Ways to Help ADHD, ADHD Treatment, Strategies for Dealing With ADHD, Mental Health, Healthy Living Mind, Combating ADHD, Adhd Medications, Healthy Living News

About three weeks into the school year, I start getting calls from parents who are worried that their child might have attention deficit disorder.

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5 Tips For College Students With ADHD

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: University, Accommodations, Suggestions, Adhd, Add, College, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Tips, Attention Deficit Disorder, School, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

In many college classes, it is "sink or swim." You get with the program, or you get kicked out of the program. Not exactly conducive to the success of the college student with ADHD.

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The Girl Who Played With an Imaginary Rope

Shira Hirschman Weiss | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Children With Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, PL 94-142, Adhd, Add, Special Needs Children, Education Reform, Special Needs, Education News

Teachers need to empower students with confidence rather than creating an environment of "learned helplessness" by placing the majority of the emphasis on "weaknesses" and "fixing problems."

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Ask Your Doctor

Dr. Cheryl Pappas | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Pain, Television, A.D.D., Commercials, Doctors, Drugs, Depression, Emotion, Worry, Comedy News

Of course, you know by now that almost every television commercial is a drug company selling prescription anti-depression drugs and repeating the mant...

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