Tag: Self-Care
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Enslaved to the moment
Sooner or later, we learn that we aren’t always the masters of our own ship. The very concept of “self-control” implies that we are two entities: the self who is controlling, and the self who is being controlled. For those of us with ADHD, not only do we have trouble steering the ship, but we…
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Can “brain hacks” cure ADHD?
For most of my ADHD life, I have focused on treating my condition behaviorally. Using the principle of brain plasticity, I’ve gradually trained myself to adopt different habits, develop more self-discipline, and structure my time and my external environment in ways that compensate for my deficit of internal structure. As a musician, I’m used to…
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Driving the ADHD Brain
The other day, while browsing the psychology shelves of my local bookstore, I saw a book about ADHD entitled “Faster Than Normal.” For better or for worse (probably both, in different ways), this is the opposite of my experience. If I were to write a memoir about my own ADHD, I would call it “Slower…
Divergent Daydreams 