Marcy Solis: Sleep deprivation and the agony of a ticking clock
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 23 with Marcy Solis.
"It's not so much a problem that we can't pay attention. It's more like we don't have control of the wheel. The car is going, but we can't steer where it's heading."
Marcy is a 35-year-old, non-binary parent who was diagnosed with ADHD last May. Looking back over their life, they knew they thought and functioned a little differently from everyone else. But it wasn’t until their daughter was born that gave them the push they needed to learn more about themself in order to be the best parent they could be for her.
Now, they advocate for other ADHD parents who want to do the same!
We talk all about effects of sleep deprivation on a parent’s emotional regulation and anxiety — especially during the newborn years — and how it always felt impossible to follow the advice “just sleep when the baby sleeps.”
And we also talk about being distractible — and the agony of a ticking clock in the room — as well as the myriad questions surrounding when to go on — or off — any kind of psychotropic medication.
I found Marcy after listening to them give a video talk on parenting for a Camp ADHD online event this past January. I highly recommend you check it, as well as the many other fabulous ADHD-related videos available on the Camp ADHD YouTube channel. Enjoy!
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| 1:02.9 | Because it's not so much a problem that we can't pay attention. |
| 1:06.6 | It's more like we don't have the wheel. |
| 1:09.6 | We don't have control of the wheel. The car's going, but we can't |
| 1:12.9 | steer where it's heading. We might be able to grab it and slow it down a little bit. You know, |
| 1:18.9 | we might be able to put the brake on. We might be able to give it a little turn. But, you know, |
| 1:23.7 | at the end of the day, there's just something there that I think for a lot of ADHD |
| 1:28.2 | years, you just, you can't make that full turn and you can't redirect it exactly where it |
| 1:36.3 | needs to go. |
| 1:41.4 | Hello and welcome to the Women and ADHD podcast. |
| 1:45.8 | I'm your host, Katie Weber. |
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