Some mornings, I can tell before he even speaks. The air feels charged, as if the world inside his head has woken early. My son moves fast, talks faster, and forgets things just as quickly. I whisper, “Slow down,” even though I know that phrase has never worked for either of us. He is my […]
Sometimes it rains in Northern California, where I practice psychiatry for adults with ADHD. The rain helps the grass and trees grow, a lovely metaphor for the therapeutic process of receiving comprehensive ADHD treatment and growing slowly into a new, relatively unknown, more mature self. But it’s also the simple reality of my office. It […]
