244 | October Q&A

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This episode is the recording of October's live Q&A. The questions answered in this episode were submitted by listeners of this podcast, both ahead of time and live. Brendan Mahan once again joins me on this Q&A. On this episode, you will hear Brendan, and I talk with a few listeners and read some questions that had been submitted. We talk about ADHD and substance abuse, a child with ADHD who becomes emotionally sensitive with redirection, and something we label, "procrastappointment." You can listen to our live Q&A sessions on the second Tuesday of every month at 1:30 pm Eastern. Join Brendan Mahan and me as we answer your questions live. You can register at http://ADHDreWired.com/events. Connect with Brendan Mahan ADHD Essentials Podcast You'll Learn: [11:26] - Erica brings up the topic of ADHD and substance abuse. Brenden and I share our experiences as smokers. [24:04] - Sarah asks if there is a term for her type of procrastination. We invent one called "procrastappointment." We share some tips on getting out of this pattern, including not taking appointment cards! [33:38] - Marisol recently had parent-teacher conferences. The teacher asked about her daughter's emotional sensitivity. Brendan shares some of his expertise with this situation. [40:49] - Marisol wonders how to teach her daughter that redirections are not a failure. [47:20] - Rachel asks about self-guided learning and online classes with an ADHD brain. I share that I consider this to be "registering for good intentions." Brendan talks about how to create the structure to be successful in this type of endeavor. [51:07] - Sarah asks if we have figured out how to slow down our lives. I believe she has taken the first step by asking that question. I encourage anyone in this situation to decrease overwhelm by saying "no" like we are passing out candy on Halloween. Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: http://www.audibletrial.com/ADHDreWired ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group Our next registration event for the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group is this Thursday, November 15th at 11am Central. This session starts January 7th. To learn more or RSVP for the group registration, go to http://CoachingreWired.com. Support the podcast on Patreon Patreon allows listeners like you to support content creators like me. With a monthly contribution, you can get access to different levels of perks. One perk example is our Patreon-only Adult Study Hall. Learn more at http://patreon.com/adhdrewired ADHD reWired Facebook Group: If you would like to join the ADHD reWired secret Facebook group, go to EricTivers.com/community and fill out an application. Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live! These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30 pm. Go to http://erictivers.com/events. Want to be a guest? Hey, What about you? Do you have a story? Are you a Coach? Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions and you'd like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call here.

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0:00.0	I want to talk about ADHD and substance abuse. Is it true A that people with ADHD are more prone to abuse of substances?
0:11.0	My recent phrase is ADHD is life on hard mode. That's good. When you're traveling through life on hard mode, sometimes you want to numb that pain. Are you saying because of the dopamine as well? Like that's a numbing agent as it were?
0:26.4	It's a feel-good agent. Dopamine is sort of that reward chemical in our brain that kind of
0:32.0	drives us to do the things that feel good.
0:34.4	I mean, as mammals, we are dopamine seeking creatures.
0:38.3	I don't make a doctor appointment because she wasn't available for another month, but I also didn't make an appointment with someone else.
0:47.0	A month later, I'm kicking myself that I still haven't made an appointment.
0:51.0	And then she asked, how does she get out of the pattern?
0:53.7	When it comes specifically to appointments, one of the things that I learned to do is, when I'm
0:58.1	trying to get an appointment soon, and there's nothing available soon, I make the appointment
1:02.3	anyways because I know there's a
1:04.9	pretty good chance that I'll probably procrastinate on following up and so my
1:09.6	future self will thank me for just getting something on the books because you can always
1:13.9	cancel later if need be. My daughter feels like everybody's looking at her and
1:21.6	seeing oh you know she's getting in trouble when in fact really no one's looking at her.
1:27.1	So we often over-identify how much people are thinking about us because they're really not.
1:34.4	Sarah asked, have any of you successfully slowed down your life?
1:41.4	How?
1:42.4	It's a really important question.
1:44.6	You know, I think that it's so easy to get on a hamster wheel
1:48.8	and then not know how to get off.
1:50.9	And bookending this, right, bookending this entire episode. Hiding inside of the hamster
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