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6 Ways to Build and Sustain Healthy Relationships in the New Year
The sometimes unpredictable ebb and flow of people entering and leaving our lives may baffle us, triggering symptoms of rejection sensitive dysphoria, social anxiety, and loneliness. This is true for...
View ArticleTop 10 ADHD News & Research Headlines of 2024
1. Adult ADHD Guidelines Forthcoming The diagnostic criteria for ADHD are largely based on studies of young white boys — and do not reflect the lived experiences of many adults with the condition. This...
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33 Ways to Prioritize Your Mental Health in the New Year
We make time for everything and everyone but ourselves. We consistently prioritize the needs of others. We feel guilty erecting boundaries. And this struggle to carve out space for our own wellbeing...
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31 Ways to Work Out the Kinks in Your Workout Plan
Exercise is hugely beneficial to ADHD brains. It can also be pretty boring. And tiring. And inconvenient. And expensive. All of which makes exercise a game-changing and seldom-used tool for ADHD...
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40 Ways to Eat Healthy and Resist Impulsive Snacking
“I know how to eat healthy; it’s just so much work to plan, shop, cook, and clean up. Opening a bag of chips is so much easier.” About half of adults with ADHD say that finding time to prepare healthy...
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17 Secrets to Making — and Keeping — Adult Friends
In a recent survey of 1,883 ADDitude readers, only 3.5% said they have no challenges in their relationships and friendships. The remaining respondents reported difficulties with meeting new people,...
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[Self-Test] Screen and Phone Addiction Screener
The average American checks their phone 205 times a day — about once every five minutes during waking hours.1 Nearly 45% of people report experiencing phone addiction, and about 40% of people feel...
View Article“I ‘Eat the Frog’ on My To-Do List”
From sorting piles of mail to folding last week’s laundry, some lingering tasks require more time and motivation than our ADHD brains can reliably muster. Our to-do lists may never be fully liberated...
View Article“ADHD Is an Actual Condition. You Can’t Beat It Out of a Child.”
U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), during a confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services Director nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., last week said this: “We have an attention deficit problem...
View Article“Where I am the Gas, He Is the Brake”
They say opposites attract, but so do similarities. Recently, 246 ADDitude readers in neurodivergent relationships told us how they complement their partners, and vice versa. Many readers shared that...
View Article“Energy Drinks Were a Huge Contributor to the Nightmare Side of ADHD”
From frozen coffee drinks and teas to sodas and energy drinks, caffeine is ubiquitous in teen culture — and its effects are poorly understood. Conflicting and paltry research on caffeine and ADHD...
View Article“Is My Child’s IEP in Danger?”
February 12, 2025 The U.S. Department of Education (DoE) is now sustaining a rapid-fire succession of cuts and changes spearheaded by President Donald Trump and a team within his administration dubbed...
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“I Nearly Destroyed Myself Mentally and Physically Working at the Wrong Jobs”
Wanted: The best jobs for ADHD brains. Applicant Requirements: Must be creative, energetic, hands-on, intensely engaged (aka hyperfocused), and demonstrate outside-the-box thinking and ingenious...
View Article“I’m Truly Scared for What This Could Mean”
March 12, 2025 Access to prescription ADHD medication continues to burden — and preoccupy — patients with ADHD. The prescription stimulant shortage that first disrupted treatment for millions of...
View Article“I Don’t Want My Son to Become a ‘Stoner’”
People with ADHD are three times more likely to use marijuana than their neurotypical peers1. And the likelihood of developing cannabis use disorder is also two times higher for those with ADHD1. Teens...
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