Coping with your ADHD (rebroadcast)
Hacking Your ADHD
William Curb
4.7 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this rebroadcast of Hacking Your ADHD, host William Curb returns to the fundamental concept of coping—redefining it not just as an emotional reaction, but as a proactive problem-solving toolkit designed to mitigate predictable ADHD mishaps. Curb explores the critical shift from "reactive" stress management to "proactive" strategies, such as building calendar buffers and utilizing visual organization systems like hooks and "point of performance" reminders. By distinguishing between effective tools and maladaptive habits like self-defeating humor or impulsive spending, the episode emphasizes that the ultimate ADHD coping skill is "giving yourself slack" and building systems that work with, rather than against, your unique brain.
If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/120
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This Episode's Top Tips
- While ADHD coaching and therapy can seem similar, they are distinct practices, with therapists often focused on healing in the past and present and coaches more focused on future-oriented goal setting.
- When seeking out help in either of these domains, it is important to remember that they do not work like magic, and you are going to have to put in work to see results. Additionally, the individual you see will usually become much more important than their profession.
- Accountability is a tool that we can use to take ownership of our actions, and when used in conjunction with others, it can help create salience and clarity in what we are doing to follow through with our intentions.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. |
| 0:05.1 | On this podcast, I dig into tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, team, this week we're talking about coping, which is our ability to help ourselves through stress-stress-suitations with our thoughts and behaviors. |
| 0:21.2 | And more specifically, though, we're going to be talking about how we can work on coping |
| 0:24.3 | with our ADHD and the stressful situations that it creates. |
| 0:28.6 | When we're coping with something, we're just trying to figure our way through a tough situation. |
| 0:33.8 | And when we're trying to cope with our ADHD, it's often less about our emotional response, although that is important too, but more so how we're using our problem-solving skills to alleviate some of our ADHD mishaps. |
| 0:45.5 | If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hackingyouradHD.com slash coping. |
| 0:52.4 | All right, keep on listening to find out how you can cope with all the bad dad jokes I |
| 0:56.4 | keep coming up with. |
| 1:02.8 | When we're coping with something, we're finding a way to deal with an adverse situation. |
| 1:08.1 | Or more generally put, we're finding our way through when things get tough. |
| 1:12.0 | The idea is that our normal or typical behavior isn't enough for the situation. We need |
| 1:17.0 | something that's different than what we usually do. Coping skills are the thoughts and behaviors |
| 1:21.4 | that help us manage these situations. While there is no universally agreed upon classification |
| 1:27.3 | for coping strategies, they can be broken |
| 1:29.5 | down into four subcategories. Problem focused, emotion focused, support-seeking, and meaning-making |
| 1:35.6 | coping skills. But these categories of coping skills aren't that important because often we're |
| 1:41.1 | going to be implementing numerous strategies at the same time. |
| 1:47.8 | When we're trying to get out the door on time, we don't just put our keys in the basket by the door and call it good. We also have alarms and other means to help get us going |
| 1:51.8 | when we need to go. Additionally, we can think about coping in terms of reactive and proactive |
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