Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon everyone is Susan Koffinette Attitude magazine. Thank you

for joining us today. We are extremely happy to have Peggy Raimundo with us.

She was a pioneer really one of the original writers on the topic of

ADD and adults and you probably heard of her book which was actually first

published in 1993 20 years ago. It's called,

You mean I'm not lazy, stupid or crazy?

It was co-authored with her friend and colleague Kate Kelly.

It's now in its second edition,

and it's just one of the classics in adult ADHD.

Peggy is going to talk about specifically how those of us adults with ADHD can manage the overwhelm that comes frequently

with this condition. She's going to give us some background about how our

brains work and then talk to some specific strategies, both for keeping the overwhelm from

getting started and then coping with it once it does.

Thanks again for joining us and let me turn it over to you now.

Oh, I'm happy to be here and welcome everybody who's here.

Of course, I was given five to ten minutes to do my intro and anybody who knows me well knows that that's quite a challenge.

So I will do my very best to stick to that time frame.

And also of course to remind everybody that in such a short period of time I will do my very best to address your questions but of course I'm going to have to keep those answers short just because an hour is not that much time.

So please forgive me if I don't completely answer your question.

I'll do my best. I put together a number of I guess five

different slides that we're going to take a look at the kind of capture

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