305- "I Thought I'd Be More Productive!" Why Women with ADHD Are Struggling During Quarantine
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What women with ADHD don't need during a pandemic? The pressure of internalized messages about being and doing "enough." Michelle Frank, Psy.D., reminds us that we don't need to be perfectly productive or organize our garages under quarantine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello everyone and we're glad you can attend Attitudes Weekly ADHD Experts' Webinar. |
| 0:19.2 | We hope that everyone is staying safe and staying well. Just some housekeeping before we get started. |
| 0:25.7 | If you've listened to one of our webinars before, you know we offer attendees a |
| 0:30.8 | certificate of attendance. |
| 0:33.0 | When the webinar ends, post-event survey will pop up. |
| 0:37.1 | It will list three questions about the quality of the webinar, |
| 0:40.0 | followed by three questions titled, |
| 0:42.8 | Required for Certificate. |
| 0:44.8 | If you would like a Certificate of Attendance, |
| 0:46.8 | email to you, you should answer those three questions. |
| 0:50.6 | If you don't want a certificate, obviously don't bother answering them. |
| 0:55.0 | So today's topic addresses why we are struggling so much, being so hard on ourselves while staying at home. |
| 1:02.0 | When we were asked while staying at home. |
| 1:03.5 | When we were asked to stay at home two months ago or so, |
| 1:06.8 | we thought that this might be a good opportunity to catch up on things. |
| 1:10.5 | Tackle decluttering projects, put in the spring flowers, get to papers in the back of the |
| 1:16.4 | closet we were meaning to get to, but things haven't worked out that way. |
| 1:21.5 | Getting through the day with all the stress and uncertainty is tough |
| 1:24.4 | enough. I know we've received lots of email from readers saying that they feel |
| 1:30.4 | so drained at the end of the day, and not because they are |
| 1:34.4 | and plowing through their to-do list. It's just a general fatigue. So what can we do |
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