Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Systems 0 Comments
This morning I was planning to go out and buy Halloween decorations. I’m particularly partial to Halloween, only maybe partly because it’s my birthday. It is also just a pleasant holiday. So the plan was to go get my son one of those plastic jack-o-lantern candy buckets that I never had, because now I have […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Memory, Mommy 0 Comments
I had a little bit of a breakdown the other day. I had the intention of posting several times a week, and I couldn’t think of anything to write about. It felt like a writer’s block kinda thing, if I thought of myself as a writer. But I know that in all creative pursuits, it’s […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive 4 Comments
I want to talk about an inattentive experience I’m having today. It’s been a long while, luckily, since I’ve dealt with this one, but I must have just the right mix of fatigue, estrogen (big effect on the AD/HD), and piles of stuff to do. From working with my clients I think it’s an experience […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive 0 Comments
Thanks to Pete Quily and his blog for bringing my attention to this nice little video clip on WebMD about ADHD, which you can find here. This clip starts out showing ADHD boys with hyperactivity, but then talks about, to paraphrase Tom Brown in the video, girls not getting diagnosed because they don’t make enough […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive 2 Comments
Because I want to write about ADHD- predominantly inattentive type, I’ve been thinking I ought to do a bit more reading on what others have said on the matter. I’m attracted to the subject because (1) I have ADHD, predominantly inattentive and (2) not that many people seem to talk about it. It seems like […]
Becca Colao ADHD, Inattentive, Working 0 Comments
The other day I was talking to my sister about how I get work done, and how I used to get work done… I suggest to clients that they think about how they got work done in college, because sometimes that really gives some clues about what the optimal spot is for them to work. […]