Sasha Hamdani

"When you have ADHD, it can be hard to stay on top of your wellness. Self-Care for People with ADHD is here to help! This book can help you engage in some neurodiverse self-care-without pretending to be neurotypical. You'll find more than 100 tips to accepting yourself, destigmatizing ADHD, finding your community, and taking care of your physical and mental health. You'll find solutions for managing the negative aspects of ADHD, as well as ideas to bring out the positive aspects"--

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Self-Care for People with ADHD

Grace McCarter

﻿People with ADHD often have difficulty interpreting their own internal environment. They can inadequately process emotional data, especially when it is coupled with robust physiological responses (rapid heart rate, facial flushing, muscle tension). For neurotypical people, this is a concerted performance that delivers data to your brain to guide behavior. In neurodivergent brains, this may be a staggered, erratic process that leaves you trying to interpret physical symptoms without understanding the underlying emotional trigger.

Alternatively (and perhaps more infuriatingly), people with ADHD deal with difficulty naming the emotion because all we feel is a sense of urgency. That makes it hard to figure out the appropriate course of action, as we may not know if we are fulfilled or bored, frustrated or disappointed, angry or embarrassed. Emotion involves interpreting physiological signals (elevated heart rate, for example). However, we are susceptible to inherent biases that cause us to misread ambiguous signals as dangerous ones.

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