CADDAC ’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups
This is great news by CADDAC and Health Canada to create ADHD and substance use disorder peer-led support groups in the fall. They’re looking now for peer support facilitators now with lived experience who are willing to be trained and run them. Will be offered a stipend for their time. Hope people with ADHD ask their MLAs to get provincial health departments to create ADHD and substance use disorder (SUD) peer-led support groups too. ADHD people are 4-8 times + more likely to have SUD. Provinces should also require ALL rehabs to screen for ADHD. Every BC rehab I’ve asked at community events in Vancouver does n...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - June 10, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Addictions Source Type: blogs

We All Have ADD Sometimes. It ’s Not A Thing. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. We All Have ADD Sometimes. Itâ€s Not A Thing. “I was up late last night not sleeping. Thinking about how to to describe ADHD to someone who doesnâ€t understand it or doubts it. The Stigma that comes with it. How do I respond to the all too often minimizing statement? “ We all are ADD. I have that too. What you experience is normal for everyone” Ok then: take a bad day. Youâ€re off day. You misplaced your keys, glasses, phone and you are panicking, running around and turning t...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 14, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

We All Have ADD Sometimes. It ’s Not A Thing. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. We All Have ADD Sometimes. It’s Not A Thing. “I was up late last night not sleeping. Thinking about how to to describe ADHD to someone who doesn’t understand it or doubts it. The Stigma that comes with it. How do I respond to the all too often minimizing statement? “ We all are ADD. I have that too. What you experience is normal for everyone” Ok then: take a bad day. You’re off day. You misplaced your keys, glasses, phone and you are panicking, running around and turning the place upside do...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 14, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

How Much Do Federal Liberals, NDP, Conservatives And Greens Care About ADHD?
There will likely be a Canadian federal election called tomorrow. I’m a political science major whose hobby is politics. I had to get a separate politics twitter account @pqpolitics because I was putting so much politics on my ADHD twitter account @petequily. So being the curious type, I did site search in Google for ADHD on each of the websites of Canada’s 4 main federal parties, Liberals, NDP, Conservatives and Greens to see how often they mentioned the word ADHD in their websites. Anyone can do #PretendingToCare about Mental Health, but what matters is policy. What are their actual policies on the biggest ment...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - August 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Politics ADHD related Source Type: blogs

Please Don ’t Count Me Out. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD.   Please Donâ€t Count Me Out. “In nature there is good, bad, defective, and different.  The brains of people with ADD and ADHD fall into the category of different.  Actually we fit into all of those categories in different ways and under different circumstances. Having ADHD is good in situations that require determination, thinking outside the box, empathy, sensitivity, understanding, and acceptance.  ADHD is bad when leadership, management, organization, memorization, interpreta...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Please Don ’t Count Me Out. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD.   Please Don’t Count Me Out. “In nature there is good, bad, defective, and different.  The brains of people with ADD and ADHD fall into the category of different.  Actually we fit into all of those categories in different ways and under different circumstances. Having ADHD is good in situations that require determination, thinking outside the box, empathy, sensitivity, understanding, and acceptance.  ADHD is bad when leadership, management, organization, memorization, interpretation, decisi...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

The Highest Compliment I Can Think Of Is What Happened When I Paused Coaching In Order To Save For Another Goal. My Boyfriend Immediately Frowned And Said
Another satisfied Adult ADHD coaching client. “The highest compliment I can think of is what happened when I paused coaching in order to save for another goal. My boyfriend immediately frowned and said that he was a little sad to hear it; coaching had been such a good thing. Not only did I learn tools like the Experiment Log that I still use, but I slowly started to accept behaviours that I never liked but couldn’t shake. They weren’t as harmful as I had always thought, and accepting them as part of having ADHD made me calmer than I expected it to. Thank you, Coach! I look forward to working with you again. :)” Jes...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - January 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Coaching Source Type: blogs

You ’ re Not ADHD If You Are Having A Rough Day. Live In My Head For At Least 30 Seconds. Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. You’re Not ADHD If You Are Having A Rough Day. Live In My Head For At Least 30 Seconds. When I try to explain that I’m living with ADHD, some people tell me, “We’re all ADHD”. It makes my stomach turn. I want to tell them, “Live in my head for at least 30 seconds, you’ll be begging for mercy”. People that I have dated in the past, couldn’t handle me. Others have shot down my self-esteem. I lost my career in the Navy, after receiving a diagnosis. Coworke...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - December 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Aim For The Stars. Avoid The Black Holes. Explain Adult ADHD
  Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. Aim For The Stars. Avoid The Black Holes. “ADHD gifts and potential can contribute positively towards meeting team requirements, where managers are trusted and ADHD aware.  I openly speak to line managers about my strengths and sometimes my challenges (ummm….such as taking breaks). I very much appreciate that these managers have spotted my potential to ‘deep dive’ into transformative projects and I have been actively encouraged to take on related responsibilities.  As a rule, wher...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

ADHD And Love (Or Lack There Of) Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. ADHD And Love (Or Lack There Of) Explain Adult ADHD “I am a 32-year-old woman who was diagnosed with ADHD just two years ago. They said I was a “classic case” of a young girl who struggled in school and life not really knowing why, only to be diagnosed as an adult. Everything that I have since learned about ADHD and how it affects my life and mind has been overwhelming, comforting, heartbreaking and liberating all at once. Particularly how it has affected my heart. Over the years I wasn’t able...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - March 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Do You Feel Others Don ’t Understand You? Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. Do You Feel Others Donâ€t Understand You?   “Do I feel others don’t understand me? Yes and no. In this instance, I’ll talk about the workplace because it is where I excel and thrive, so have no issue introducing it into the conversation with someone I’m likely to be working with for a while; puts me in context from the outset and lets them know what they’re dealing with. Being one of the extremely talkative ADHDer’s (that has a love of verbal and written lang...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Do You Feel Others Don ’t Understand You? Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. Do You Feel Others Don’t Understand You?   “Do I feel others don’t understand me? Yes and no. In this instance I’ll talk about the workplace because it is where I excel and thrive, so have no issue introducing it into the conversation with someone I’m likely to be working with for a while; puts me in context from the outset and let’s them know what they’re dealing with. Being one of the extremely talkative ADHDer’s (that has a love of verbal and written lang...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

You Still Can Focus And Be Creative And Productive With ADHD! Explain Adult ADHD
Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. You Still Can Focus And Be Creative And Productive With ADHD! Explain Adult ADHD “I feel that having adult ADHD doesn’t have to be a curse. Sure, there can be times when it seems impossible to focus. Or, we may indeed be productive, but we end up twenty steps away from the task we originally began. However, it can actually be turned into a great source of creativity. Our tendency to hyperfocus can be incredible when it comes to something like writing a book…so long as we’re not also...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - March 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

Just Like You. Explain Adult ADHD
  Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. Just Like You “I think something we ADHDers struggle with but, don’t talk about much is our sense of inferiority. Its true, we feel, somehow, like were “beneath” our peers. As if everything we’ve tried to accomplish and failed is on display on a billboard above our heads! We live with the shame of failure that most NT’s (neurotypicals) will never feel. We just want to see something, anything, through til the end. We wonder; how do you guys do it? How do you devis...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs

I Can Hardly See Anything. Explain Adult ADHD
  Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. I Can Hardly See Anything. “I can’t see. I don’t mean I am legally blind or that my glasses don’t work. It is like my brain is moving so fast that I can’t find objects right in front of me. Picture zooming down hill on a bicycle and everything you see flying past. It’s kind of like that, only my brain is the thing zooming. In the morning, before medications kicks in, I walk in circles forgetting what I was looking for and/or unable to see it when it is right in fr...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - June 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs