The Truth Behind ADHD

I became a passionate advocate in the ADHD community for one reason and ONLY one reason. I wanted to make sure that people were getting the right information from the right people. It had been my experience through graduate school and while training to become a psychologist (which I stepped away from*) that most people [...]

After a brief hiatus, our monthly live Q&A with psychiatrist and ADHD expert, Theresa Cerulli M.D., returns next Wednesday, February 11th at 8 PM EST. Ask Dr. Cerulli provides you with an opportunity to ask your questions (or be a fly on the wall) as I interview a psychiatrist who doesn’t just believe in medication [...]

Last night I had the great pleasure of being involved in a health and wellness fair at a local area school.  I had been invited to be the guest speaker, to a group of parents, about anxiety in elementary school children. It was a really fun event, and while I hope that I was able [...]

I know it can feel like it, but we don’t just wake up one day and find ourselves suddenly surrounded by struggle – stress – and frustration in any part of our lives.  Quite to the contrary, getting to these point starts with a chain of events that quite carefully lead up to the point [...]

One of the biggest MYTHS or conspiracies about ADHD is that it is an American invention.  Whether it’s the belief that ADHD was created by pharmaceutical companies to make a lot of money or the need to excuse poor parenting or bad behavior in children — the inaccurate information about ADHD can be incredibly overwhelming. [...]

Before leaving the office last night, I took a few minutes to just “shoot the breeze” with Dr. Cerulli.  Our schedules very rarely overlap, and it’s always nice to catch up and talk about things unrelated to ADHD. Anyway, we were talking about how things are going and what both of us are juggling at [...]

It’s official!  President Obama has been sworn into office. You might be wondering – what does this have to do with ADHD? In some ways, it has absolutely nothing to do with ADHD, and yet at the same time, it has everything to do with what children with ADHD face every single day! Watching the [...]

This post is a bit of spin off of an Examiner article I came across today.  The author suggests that some of our “bad habits” might actually be good for us – citing some Zen philosophy.  Seriously!?! I actually agree with quite a bit of what is said here, and I want to go one [...]

It is a widely held belief that children with ADHD are generally a behavioral problem.  But that’s not entirely accurate.  Just because someone has been diagnosed with ADHD, there is no formula for how they will behave or what characteristics he or she will display. From where I stand, ADHD and bad behavior are two [...]

Here is a fascinating concept that has finally been put into a context where I finally feel comfortable talking about ADHD as a step in the evolutionary progress of man.  It’s not that this is new to me, but rather there is a connection to a real investigation versus someone making wild claims without being [...]