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The ADHD Skills Lab
ADHD Emotions: The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma [Research Recap]
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Welcome back to The ADHD Skills Lab!
This is Producer Sarah speaking; ready to give you the long and short about what you'll find this week:
- Understanding the link between mind wandering, rumination and mindfulness
- What happens when you screen a bunch of neurotypicals for ADHD and emotional dysregulation?
- High co-morbidity between ADHD and mood disorders? What's that about...
*BONUS: I go on a rant this week... which of the three topics do you think triggered it? Come find me on IG/YT and let me know your guess!
Thanks for being here! Until next time,
~ Sarah R (Podcast Producer)
ADHD Skills Discussed:
- More ADHD-friendly mindfulness ritual
- Modifying the method to accommodate yourself
- Self-advocacy scripting (this one is in the subtext)
References:
00:55 - Excessive mind wandering, rumination, and mindfulness mediate the relationship between ADHD symptoms and anxiety and depression in adults with ADHD.
14:40 - Relationship Between ADHD-Like Traits and Emotion Dysregulation in the Adult General Population.
21:47 - Clinical characterization of coexisting ADHD symptoms in a sample of adults with cyclothymia: a preliminary observational study
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