Welcome to a Cadre original series from creator Evan Lieberman, MSW LICSW LADC, therapist, addiction counselor, and Cadre Creator. In this video, Evan introduces us to his series on managing adult ADHD, "ADHD Roadmap: Navigating Life with Adult ADHD." Come check out this video and learn about all the topics he will cover in this comprehensive masterclass on a pivotal issue for so many individuals.
5% of adults suffer with ADHD. The disorder affects almost every element of your life. This series aims to share tips and tricks to help you better manage your condition.
ADHD attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder is, unfortunately, one of those conditions that often goes unnoticed or undiagnosed. Often, professionals don't even take it all that seriously, even though 5% of adults, probably even more so, suffer with it. Over the past few years, I've dove really deep into this topic to try to better understand how ADHD affects me and the lives of my clients. And what I've realized is that a disorder like ADHD affects almost every element of your life, whether whether it's emotional regulation, our ability to perceive time, to do tasks, and even manage our relationships.
So I wanted to put together this comprehensive series to share some of the skills with tips and tricks to help you better manage your condition and your specific set of symptoms. One of the reasons ADHD is a little more controversial than some of the other disorders, and why a lot of people may not believe in it, is that when you look at the symptom set of ADHD, people can relate with many of the different symptoms, even if they don't have ADHD. But ADHD is a disorder that's about extremes. And for people with ADHD, the symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and all the other ones that go with it, that may not even be listed in the diagnostic manual, have such a profound impact, and it's associated with so many different negative outcomes, which we will dive into later in the series.
Therefore, I want this series to be as comprehensive as possible. I want this to be able to address all the different issues of what impacts individuals with ADHD, how to better manage those symptoms. So here are some of the topics we're going to cover. First, we're going to dive into some of the history of ADHD and how we got to where we are with our understanding of the disorder. Then we're going to tackle some of the problems associated with ADHD, as well as looking at the brain and neurochemistry of ADHD and why it impacts us in the way it does.
Then the rest of the series is going to be about different skills that are researched to help these various symptoms and various problems associated with ADHD to help you better manage the disorder. And I may throw in a comedy video to break things up a little bit, because I find that folks with ADHD, as hard as the disorder can be to live with, there's a lot of humor around it. We can be really funny people, and the disorder can affect us in some funny ways. I really want this series to be more than just tips and tricks for being more efficient and productive at work or at school.
Yes, that is a big part of the disorder. However, it impacts every single area of our lives whether we realize it or not, whether it's emotional regulation, our relationship. So I want to have these skills address all of these different issues in all of these different areas of life so that you can better succeed. So whether you're an adult who has ADHD, maybe you have friends or family or a child who has ADHD, I think you're going to find this series helpful. I'm also going to provide some resources for those who struggle with some of the symptoms and they don't know whether they have ADHD or not.
I'm going to provide some resources. I'm going to talk about how you get assessed. So I'm really going to try to dive in and give you as much knowledge as I possibly can so that I could help you best manage your ADHD. So let's take this journey together.
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