I Have ADHD
Anxiety Bites
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 666 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Jen talks to ADHD coach Kristen Carder about the 8 Executive Functions that people with ADHD struggle with, why ADHD-ers often get later in life diagnosis, and why you hate doing laundry.
To learn more about Kristen's workshops and her podcast "I Have ADHD" go to her website: https://ihaveadhd.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | This is the Anxiety Bites podcast, and I am your host, Jen Kirkman. |
| 0:20.5 | I have ADHD. |
| 0:23.1 | Oh, sorry. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to another episode of Anxiety Bites. |
| 0:25.9 | I am your host, Jen Kirkman. |
| 0:28.3 | My guest today is Kristen Carter, and her website is I have ADHD.com. |
| 0:36.4 | But I'm also announcing I have ADHD and it's been such an interesting |
| 0:42.7 | unraveling of figuring out that I had it, not believing it for so many years because I didn't |
| 0:51.5 | seem to have the typical symptoms that I'd always heard about. |
| 0:55.1 | And my diagnosis came right on the edge of when a lot of this information was freely available |
| 1:00.6 | on the internet. |
| 1:01.4 | And so I thought, I mean, I do think I have it. |
| 1:04.4 | And you hear me talk about it in this episode that I was actually diagnosed by someone |
| 1:09.0 | I live with who thought that I was having bizarre |
| 1:12.0 | emotional regulation issues around, you know, meeting deadlines, treating the laundry as though |
| 1:17.5 | we're launching a nuke. And when I talked to my psychiatrist, because I always had one for, |
| 1:25.6 | I had the same one for 20 years. |
| 1:32.5 | He would prescribe antidepressants as needed and anxiety medication as needed for flying. |
| 1:40.3 | And when I brought this ADHD potential diagnosis to him, he said, yeah, I think, you know, |
| 1:42.7 | from what we've talked about, you definitely have some symptoms of it. And I took the very long questionnaire. And I came up as someone who has it. But it wasn't really resonating |
| 1:50.7 | with me yet because I kept thinking, well, but I, you know, I didn't have trouble paying |
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