Tara McGillicuddy and Linda Hillger discuss how to Overcome Overload and Over Stimulation with ADD / ADHD. Linda share”s a “cheat” to get past overload and over stimulation from Clutter She also talks a bit about the upcoming Adult ADD BootCamp | Organized and In Control.
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For over 20 years, Linda has been coaching and training people in many areas of Personal and Professional Organizing and Efficiency Systems. Specializing in “Easy Systems for Managing Your Home or Office” she offers frequent public conferences and is a regular guest host on internet and radio talk shows. Linda is a professional organizer, regular guest on ADHD Support Talk Radio and the leader of Adult ADD BootCamp. She is a regular speaker on a variety of subjects related to Efficiency and Organizational Systems. She also regularly speaks home, office and work organization
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The first installment of What in the Q & A answers three questions from some of my twitter followers:
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3. Can I take days off from my medication?
Each question is answered in detail and I explain the science behind stimulants vs non-stimulants, as well as the mechanism of action for adderall and vyvanse. You may also find some helpful tips for people who are just beginning their ADHD treatment journey.
Everybody is different so what I talk about may not be applicable to you. However, I do discuss ways to improve the effectiveness of your medications, foods, and drinks, as well as your options for treatment after you have been diagnosed with ADHD.
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Hoarding used to be a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A person would have persistent thoughts of collecting or acquiring things, or rituals of holding on to items.
But research using functional brain imaging has shown that different areas of the brain are affected with hoarding than with OCD. So with the 2013, 5th edition of the diagnostic manual, hoarding and OCD were pulled out of the anxiety disorder section and hoarding became it’s own disorder under the compulsive disorders section of the manual along with OCD, hair pulling, skin picking and body dysmorphia.
Other conditions associated with hoarding are being indecisive, Perfectionism Procrastination And trouble planning and organizing tasks
Animal hoarding is an unofficial subtype of hoarding where you accumulate a large number of animals but fail to provide minimum standards of nutrition and sanitation for the animals.
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Hoarding used to be a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The person would be obsessed with collecting, acquiring or maintaining a certain ritual of keeping things.
Functional brain imaging research has shown that hoarding is more common than OCD. With the 2013, 5th Edition of the diagnostic manual, OCD and hoarding were removed from the anxiety disorder section. Hoarding was now a separate disorder in the compulsive disorders subsection.
Additional conditions that can be associated with hoarding include being indecisive, Perfectionism Procrastination It is difficult to plan and organize tasks Animal hoarding, a subtype of hoarding in which you have accumulated large numbers of animals and failed to provide adequate nutrition and sanitation, is an unofficial form of hoarding.
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Dissociation is an experience where your attention and emotions are disconnected from the present moment. It’s like you’re here, but your mind and emotions are somewhere else. This is a general term and experience. I talked in a previous video about depersonalization and derealization. Those are specific kinds of dissociative experiences. With depersonalization you feel detached or disconnected from yourself so you may feel like you’re observing yourself. With derealization, you feel disconnected from your environment. You may feel like the room you’re in isn’t real or that you’re in a different place than you really are.
An example of this is experiencing a car accident where you smelled the burning rubber of your tires. Then whenever you are riding in a car you think you smell the rubber again.
That is an example of a dissociative experience you can have after the trauma experience. But sometimes you can dissociate during a traumatic event. This can be your mind’s way of protecting you from a situation where there is no escape.
This is pretty common during physical or sexual trauma when you can’t get away. In order to endure the assault, you brain turns down your response to pain and numbs your emotional response. In your mind you may go to another place such that it feels like it’s really not happening to you.
During the traumatic experience, that kind of reaction helps you survive it. But then sometimes dissociation becomes a built in defense mechanism that you employ in other situations that are unrelated to trauma.
For example, you can be triggered to feel disconnected or numb in response to something that reminded you of the trauma, even if you weren’t consciously aware of the trigger. You can just feel empty all the time and not know why.
Smells and sounds can remind you of the trauma in a way that your body responds with anxiety and fear, but you don’t always put it together why you’re feeling anxious. It’s like the fragmented memories can come flooding back in response to sights, sounds and touch.
Anxiety is another trigger that can send you into a dissociative state. So let’s say you are under a lot of stress at work. You can have trouble relating to people at work because with the added stress, you start zoning out at work. Or you start withdrawing from people because you feel like you’re a stranger and your coworkers make you feel uncomfortable.
What can you do about this? The best treatments are trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy, prolonged exposure, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
One self-help approach is to use grounding techniques.
Grounding techniques bring your awareness back to the present moment where you ARE safe. It’s like getting your bearing and refocusing. You can use sensory grounding or cognitive grounding. Sensory grounding uses the five senses to bring you back to the present moment and cognitive grounding uses your thoughts to remind yourself that you ARE in a safe place.
Sensory grounding exercises:
The 5-4-3-2-1 sensory exercise.
Use a grounding smell that can bring your attention back to the present.
Carry a sensory grounding object in your pocket.
Splash cold water on your face and neck.
Cognitive grounding exercises:
Show yourself that you’re safe.
Orient yourself to time and place.
Repeat an inspiring quote or saying that’s comforting to you.
Say coping statements like I can handle this, my situation is so much better now, these feelings with pass, etc.
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