ADHD or Anxiety Symptoms, or Both
Do you have difficulty paying attention, experience excessive restlessness, or become nervous easily? Then if you’re like many people, you may have been told you may have ADHD (Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder). On the other hand, you may have been told that you have Anxiety. Here’s the thing: you might have both. ADHD and Anxiety […]
Executive Functioning and ADHD
Guest post by Gayle M. Pape, LCSW Daily life can be both complicated and simple. We might design an architectural blueprint (complex) and get to work on time (simple). The mental skills – executive functioning skills – to do those tasks are typically used without any awareness. Those skills […]
How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD
During the pandemic, were you one of the many people home all day with your children and begin to notice behavior issues that you hadn’t seen before? Did you begin to think that your child possibly might have ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) symptoms? You probably didn’t think about how childhood trauma could be […]