In This Article The Either/Or Trap The AND Reframe Reframes Are Essential for ADHD Brains All or Nothing Thinking with ADHD: Next Steps A few years ago, as my daughter was in the middle of a crisis, I completely lost it. I was scared, reactive, and couldn’t tell where my fear ended and hers began. […]
Dr. Isaiah Crum M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist in New York City specializing in the mental health of young professionals. He grew up in a community that treated a fast, curious mind as a problem to be corrected. He became a psychiatrist anyway, making his life’s work out of what others once called his flaw. […]
My entire life, I believed two things about myself: I was anxious, and I needed to try harder. Try harder to stay organized, to remember friends’ birthdays, and to bring muffins for Teacher Appreciation Day. Try harder to stop losing my keys and my train of thought. Try harder to stay focused and stay in […]
Society expects a man to be strong, stoic, tireless, independent, and unshakeable. Many of us, especially men with ADHD, have followed that script straight into burnout, resentment, and emotional shutdown. The world teaches us that masculinity is measured by the burdens we carry without complaint, the hard work we do without resting, and the silence […]
Dr. Isaiah Crum M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist in New York City specializing in the mental health of young professionals. He grew up in a community that treated a fast, curious mind as a problem to be corrected. He became a psychiatrist anyway, making his life’s work out of what others once called his flaw. […]
Our guest today, Chris Douglas is the founder of Big Red Dog Marketing with degrees in Applied Psychology from UNC-Charlotte and an MBA from East Carolina University. With over 15 years of experience in Marketing Technology, Local SEO, and Email Marketing, he’s passionate about helping startups and small businesses scale and reach their potential. A […]
After a lifetime of feeling like a blue crayon in a red box, I was finally diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 28. For most of my life, I’d tried to squish myself into neurotypical spaces, explaining away my quirks, masking where I could, and turning up charm or humor where I couldn’t. I wasn’t […]
Our guest today Douglas Katz is a West Point graduate, disabled Army veteran, inventor, and entrepreneur. He is the creator of NULU, an adaptive kitchen knife designed to align cutting tools with human biomechanics, and continues to pursue other innovations focused on improving how people interact with everyday tools. In addition to his work as […]
Telling people I have ADHD always makes me squirm. I can sense the inner eye roll. Here we go again. Everyone wants a label these days. I worry the person I’m talking to will doubt I’ve really got it or mistake my revelation for a declaration of specialness. I get why they might hear it […]
Today we welcome Conner Kinney! He is a 22-year-old, full time real estate investor who has built a multi-seven-figure real estate business with a core focus on acquiring and scaling long-term rental properties primarily through seller-financed acquisitions. He is the founder of his own real estate company, Kinney Property Group, and currently owns a 37 […]
Like many others, I learned that Alysa Liu had ADHD after her captivating, joyful free skate performance at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics that earned her gold. Better yet, I learned that she’s really open about her diagnosis. She told ESPN: “I have ADHD, and I love situations that I’m not expecting. It gives me […]
Raising not one, but two children with ADHD should be easy for me. I’m a special education teacher and I have ADHD myself. I also have a deep well of strategies, research, and professional experience to draw from. Sometimes, all of that helps. Often, it doesn’t. Having knowledge doesn’t mean that I have endless patience […]
