How to ADHD with Jessica McCabe

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

ADHD is one of the most common - and most misunderstood - conditions out there, and today we’re setting the record straight with author and YouTuber Jessica McCabe. Jessica joins Forrest to explore her journey with ADHD, dealing with common challenges like self-criticism, shame, and sensitivity, and how we can work with our unique brain, not against it. About our Guest: Jessica McCabe is the creator of the popular YouTube channel How to ADHD and author of the new book How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain, Not Against It. Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:15: Jessica’s history with ADHD, and how she wrote her book 7:15: Stigma, pride, self-criticism, and letting others help you 12:05: Dealing with shame 14:55: Self-advocacy, self-acceptance, and asking the right questions 24:40: Believing in your experience 27:45: Common misconceptions about ADHD 31:40: The relationship between ADHD and emotional sensitivity and regulation 36:05: Creating a sense of community 39:25: Advice for partners, family, and friends of people with ADHD 47:25: Recap Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website

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0:13.7	Hello Brains. Welcome to Being Well. I'm Forrest Hansen and today I'm joined by a very special guest author and youtiver Jessica in the Cape so Jessica it's great to meet you thanks for doing
0:17.2	this today nice to meet you and hello Baines if you're not familiar with
0:22.3	Jessica's work she's the creator of the YouTube channel
0:25.0	How to ADHD, which is over one and a half million subscribers, which is totally incredible,
0:30.0	and she's also the new author of the wonderful book, How to ADHD, an insider's guide to working with your brain, not against it.
0:37.0	Her stuff is fantastic.
0:39.0	My partner, Elizabeth, is a therapist who was diagnosed with ADHD later in life actually and your stuff is one of the first that we went to once you received her diagnosis and it was super helpful for us.
0:49.0	That's awesome.
0:50.0	Yeah, I mean, that's what I kind of hope that I can help on board people to this diagnosis because when I started the channel, I did not understand anything about my ADHD. I knew that I had trouble getting distracted and there was this medication that can help me focus, but that was it. I had a lot of
1:04.0	misconceptions about it and stuff and so everything I learned personally about ADHD I
1:07.8	put on the channel and so I think for a lot of people it's a good place to
1:11.6	start especially if you started the earlier videos you can kind of learn along with me.
1:15.0	So you were, I think, 12 when you got diagnosed, right?
1:19.0	Yeah, I was actually diagnosed for 20 years before I had any idea what that diagnosis meant. I was
1:24.4	diagnosed at 12, I was told that I had trouble focusing, I was given Ritalin and
1:28.1	that was it, you know ADHD solved. I did better in school and that really was all anybody was concerned about so you know I
1:36.6	continue to struggle with life for another 20 years you know I trouble planning and
1:41.0	prioritizing and sustaining effort toward long-term goals and I got in so many car accidents that the insurance company threatened to told my dad that they were going to have to uninsure all of us.
1:51.0	Oh my God. You know, I had like disordered eating stuff. I was really
1:56.0	impulsive with relationships. I mean there were just so many things that I
1:59.6	struggled with that I didn't know had anything to do with my ADHD for 20 years.
2:03.9	For 20 years I was going to a doctor every month or every three months depending on the doctor
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