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🧩Adults with ADHD
Understand adult ADHD and build practical strategies to live and work well
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Unit 1
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Course overview
What ADHD actually is
A difference in attention regulation, not a willpower problem
The three presentations
Inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, and combined
How adult ADHD looks different from the kid version
The hyperactivity goes inward
Why so many adults are diagnosed late
Missed in childhood, especially in girls
Unit 2
How common is it really
Common, real, and lifelong for many
Dopamine and the reward problem
The brain's "do it now" signal runs low
Executive function, the brain's manager
The mental control system that runs weak
Time blindness
Time is felt poorly, not measured well
Working memory overload
A small mental whiteboard that wipes fast
Unit 3
Emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity
Emotions arrive loud and hard to dial down
The strengths side
An ADHD brain has real advantages, not only costs
Getting a real diagnosis
A clinician assesses; an online quiz cannot diagnose
Treatment, the honest overview
Medication, therapy, and coaching, with a doctor in the loop
Externalise your memory
A capture system so nothing lives only in your head
Unit 4
Reminders and the daily review
Push the system at yourself; do not rely on remembering to check it
Break tasks down until they are stupidly small
Shrink the first step until starting is almost effortless
Beat time blindness with external time
Put time where your eyes can see it
Body doubling and reducing distraction
Use another person's presence, and strip the environment
Money and admin survival
Automate the boring stuff so memory is not in the loop
Unit 5
Sleep and exercise
Two levers that change how the ADHD brain runs
Emotional regulation tools
Catch the wave early and use the body to calm it
Self-compassion over shame
Shame makes ADHD worse; self-compassion is the working strategy
Disclosure and accommodations at work
You can shape your job around your brain, with or without telling anyone
Putting it together, a simple weekly routine
A light, repeatable rhythm that holds the toolkit in place
Unit 6
Where to go next
Where to go next