Dr. Kathleen Nadeau: Adulting and aging with ADHD
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 179 with Dr. Kathleen Nadeau.
“One of the best ways to help women with ADHD is in groups. We heal each other by understanding each other, laughing together, and not expecting the same perfection we feel the outside world expects of us.”
Dr. Nadeau is a clinical psychologist and founder of The Chesapeake Center, as well as an internationally recognized authority on ADHD.
She is the author or co-author of over a dozen books related to ADHD across the lifespan, from her best-selling book for children, “Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention”, to her latest book “Still Distracted After All These Years,” which addresses the many factors of growing older with ADHD (because as we all know, you do not outgrow ADHD).
We discuss some of the strategies laid out in Dr. Nadeau’s latest book, such as the importance of maintaining structure, connection, and support as we age. We also address some of the myths and misconceptions about stimulant medications for the over-60 population, and the need for better understanding and treatment of ADHD in older adults, as many healthcare professionals dismiss or minimize the struggles faced by this population.
And we talk about “failure to launch” in younger adults and how difficulties with early adulting skills might lead to a lot of anxiety around aging with ADHD.
Finally, we discuss her upcoming book, “A Clinician's Guide to Women with ADHD: Diagnosis and Treatment” which she is co-writing with Dr. Patricia Quinn, MD, and Dr. Michael Morse, MD. Although there are many books for and about women with ADHD, there is a great need for a clinician's guide to diagnosis and treatment. Women continue to have great difficulty finding knowledgeable physicians and therapists to treat them. This long-overdue book due to be published in 2025 will provide a very straightforward treatment guide for medical and mental health providers.
Website: thechesapeakecenter.com
Instagram: @thechesapeakecenter
Links & Resources:
Still Distracted After All These Years: Help and Support for Older Adults with ADHD by Dr. Kathleen Nadeau
The Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth about Men and Women in the 21st Century by Stephen Marche
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| 0:00.0 | one of the best ways to help women with ADHD, one of the best ways to treat women with ADHD is in groups that we help heal each other. |
| 0:12.0 | We heal each other by understanding each other and supporting each other and laughing together and not expecting perfection from each other as we feel |
| 0:25.6 | the outside world expects of us. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, |
| 0:41.6 | and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, |
| 0:48.8 | jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens, and it has been nothing short of overwhelming. |
| 0:55.0 | I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD, |
| 1:03.0 | and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally. |
| 1:12.9 | All righty, before we begin, I would love to share with you this review from a listener named |
| 1:18.1 | NBCder. It's entitled My Favorite ADHD Podcast. The host, Katie, has a great ability |
| 1:25.5 | to cover a wide variety of areas with each guest while |
| 1:28.8 | keeping things balanced and centered on the topic. The content is very practical and each |
| 1:33.7 | week there's plenty of laughs and stories I can identify with when it comes to both ADHD |
| 1:38.0 | and parenting. I love this podcast for its ability to touch on heavy topics while never |
| 1:42.8 | feeling like we're digging too deep or making |
| 1:45.0 | things uncomfortable. Thank you for making this podcast. Well, thank you very much, NB. One of the many |
| 1:52.2 | gifts of women with ADHD is how we tend to get straight to the heart of the matter. We skip the |
| 1:57.6 | small talk and get right to the trauma. I often call it sorting through the |
| 2:02.0 | trash, and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. So thank you for appreciating that fact and for |
| 2:07.8 | coming along for the ride. And of course, I really appreciate the time and effort it took to stop |
| 2:12.6 | what you were doing and write that review. So thank you. And if you're out there listening to |
| 2:17.0 | this podcast and you have found these interviews to be helpful, a wonderful way. So thank you. And if you're out there listening to this podcast and you |
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