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7 Keys to Living a Happy Life with ADHD

By Edward Hallowell, John Ratey — 2021

Happier living with ADHD means unwrapping and exalting your gifts. Begin by using these 7 strategies tailored to your brain’s special ways and engineered to transform your ADHD into a life-enhancer.

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“Perfect Is a Myth”—and Other Self-Esteem Boosters

Small ways to build up your confidence while accepting your imperfections—not their limitations on your life.

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Ari Tuckman
2021
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From Deficit to Superpowers: Is It Ableist to Focus on Neurodivergent Strengths?

Let’s move beyond superpowers but not forget to keep promoting our strengths.

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Nancy Doyle
2021
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Stop Fighting Your Child’s Neurodiversity: A Step-by-Step Plan for Parents in Diagnosis Denial

Your child is wired differently, and that means his life may not follow the path you envisioned. Before you can help him thrive, you must give yourself space and time to recognize the emotions that a neurodivergent diagnosis brings. Here’s how to get started embracing your new “normal.”

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Deborah Reber
2020
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The Importance of Self-Discovery: Why Your Child Needs to Probe Her Neurodiversity

Give your child the self-esteem and skills to become a self-actualized adult who embraces self-discovery. That is every parent’s goal, but it is especially challenging—and important—when your child is neurodivergent. Use these four steps to help your child on that journey.

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Deborah Reber
2021
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How Adults With ADHD Can Boost Their Confidence and Self-Esteem

Research has found that people with ADHD can be highly resilient and may be able to adapt constantly, so no matter what your history is, change is possible.

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Jacqueline Sinfield
2020
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The Extra Stigma of Mental Illness for African-Americans

Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.

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Dana Givens
2020
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Exploring the Mental Health Stigma in Black Communities

The Black community is more inclined to say that mental illness is associated with shame and embarrassment. Individuals and families in the Black community are also more likely to hide the illness.

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Amy Morin
2020
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Marginalized Mental Health Matters: What Experts Want You to Know

Seven professionals from across the US sat down with Verywell Mind to share insights about how they are improving the mental health discourse to better address the needs of marginalized groups.

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Krystal Jagoo
2021
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