ADD Overwhelm: ADHD TV Episode 6
In this video, I interview Jennifer Koretsky of the ADD Management Group.
We met at the ADDA conference in the summer of 2008. She presented at that meeting about how to overcome chronic overwhelm with Adult ADD.
I thought you would benefit from her presentation, so here is an interview, covering some of the major points:
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Hello, my name is Dominique, I have been diagnosed with ADD last year. I am 44 years old. Everyday is a challenge foe me and today it was the first time I listened to the podcast with Jenifer Koretsky. what a breath of fresh air. You made me cried because I do feel guilty to take down time. Thanks to give hope to many of us ADDEr. Me too, I feel like my life is an ever-ending to-do list. Now, I will be able to enjoy my evening out with my friends and my beloved husband. Thank so much!
Great video podcast! I really agree with the need for enjoyable activities!
Very informative. Sounds like my every day things. Concentrating on adult ADD. Thanks Dr. Handelman. Somethings help me get a grip.
Very impressive and insightful! The thing is . . . I’m often intimitated in a sense by the prospect of having a spontaneous kind of down-time because it often becomes this self-indulgent joy-ride that results in a dozen or so ideas about projects I can’t wait to sink my teeth into. I’ll start off anxious about it and then - poof - I’ve slipped into something that becomes a project. Sometimes a “to-do-list” type of lifestyle is exactly what the over-focused brain needs. I’m a parent and a teacher, but give me an hour to compare bass-lines in prog-rock and I’ll take two more to boot. Without meds, or at the end of a long day the inner-monologue won’t stop until the analysis is complete. Keeping my “down-time” oriented around socializing with friends and family certainly helps. It also helps that my job requires a lot of introspection - it balances things out before I go home. Just the same - any thoughts on how I can approach “down-time” in a more mature anxiety free way?
Thanks very much for taking the time to record this interview with Jennifer at your seminar. I can definitely identify with the guilt, constant need for achieving long-term goals, and even that house on the beach.
Thanks for the information. I am wondering if you could do a couple of episodes on parent’s of an ADHD child relationship with their teachers especially in the junior and senior high school. Also how to work with the education system to create an environment that is condusive for learning for an ADHD child in older grades.
How about an episode on teaching ADHD teens to be more organized. What is normally disorganized and what is a problem and how to address it.
Thanks for all the info and glad you are in Canada. So many of the resources are in the US.
Thanks for the suggestions, Wendy - I will keep those in mind.
Dr. Kenny
Hey, thanks! My husband was diagnosed with ADHD last year and we do take downtime seriously at our house. We feel like we accomplish a lot less than many of our friends, but feel like this is simply reality for us. We need margins. Thanks for the affirmation on our choices. We have sometimes struggled with taking downtime when our to-do lists feel so large.
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