What is a Coping Mechanism?
Coping mechanisms are the strategies or skills people use to manage a problem. For people with ADHD these coping mechanisms help us manage life better.
Coping mechanisms are the strategies or skills people use to manage a problem. For people with ADHD these coping mechanisms help us manage life better.
Executive Functions are the mental abilities that we use to guide our behavior, consider our past and anticipate the future.
This article will be about cognitive distortions, or traps and how they can influence your thinking. These are NOT unique to ADHD yet I find I’ve been guilty of all of them at times. We’re only human after all.
After you’ve been diagnosed the real work begins. Not only for you, but your family as well. One can compare the journey most of us go through after diagnosis to the stages of grief.