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

Hey everyone, it's Susan Coffin and you are listening to Attitude Magazine's ADHD

experts audio. The topic today is emotion and emotional stress, specifically the

emotional sort of firestorms that come along with life with attention deficit disorder.

And our guest speaker is James Ochoa, who is a licensed counselor and therapist who has worked with ADHD adults for almost 30 years.

And during that practice he has observed and written about a phenomenon that he calls

Emotional Distress Syndrome, which is comprised of anger, low self-esteem, emotional firestorms, and he's

going to tell us a lot today about what this syndrome looks like as he's observed it in

people with ADHD, how it can affect

like post-traumatic stress disorder can affect your everyday life and your well-being and

give us as well strategies for weathering emotional storms for building and maintaining

healthy self-esteem and self-identity so thank you so much for joining us today

we're super grateful to have your time. James Ojois runs a Center in Austin, Texas, where he's worked with ADHD patients, as I mentioned, for many years.

He is the recent author of a book called Focused Forward, Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD was published in February and a very

frequent speaker at a large number of ADHD training sessions and conferences

around the country and recently an attitude author so we will welcome him to our fold.

For more information, lots more information, visit his website James Ochoa.com, that's James Ochoa

com.

You'll see a form there where you could contact him

for further information or more questions,

site up for his newsletter

and lots of great information.

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