How are Creativity and ADHD Connected?
Although ADHD may have negative consequences for academic achievement, there may be a legitimate connection between ADHD and creative thinking.
5 Simple Techniques To Thrive With ADHD
Children with ADHD deserve to have the best opportunities for growth and development. That is why it is important to know simple techniques that can help improve your child’s day to day life with ADHD.
How Your Mindset Can Have Profound Impacts on How You Live Your Life
You may not realize just how much your mindset can impact your life. This can impact job choices, family life, and even attempts at learning a skill. There are two main mindsets that people usually fall into. There is a Fixed Mindset and the Growth Mindset.
3 Tips on Parenting Children With ADHD
Raising children with ADHD can be difficult at times. These tips are meant to help foster positive growth for your children’s success. Here is a couple:
Study Offers Hope for Staving Off Dementia in Some People
Some experts are heralding the results of a large new study, which found that people with hypertension who received intensive treatment to lower their blood pressure were less likely than those receiving standard blood pressure treatment to develop minor memory and thinking problems that often progress to dementia.
How Do Non-stimulants differ from Stimulants in ADHD Treatment?
Non-stimulants target a brain chemical called norepinephrine. By targeting this chemical, non-stimulants can help treat ADHD by improving overall mood, such as decreasing hyperactivity, increasing attention span, and reducing impulsive behaviors.
What Is Dysgraphia?
Although an unfamiliar term, Dysgraphia is not uncommon. It is a learning disability that affects one’s writing abilities. Writing abilities encompasses such tasks as spelling, handwriting, and getting across thoughts and ideas on paper.
What Is Stress Inoculation Therapy and can it help treat Behavioral Issues?
Stress Inoculation Therapy also is known as SIT is a form of therapy with an emphasis on helping patients deal with stressful situations.
This is to ensure the patient is able to respond with minimal anger and behavioral issues.
How does it work?
The overarching goal of the treatment is for patients to be educated about stressful situations and the negative outcomes that may result from their behavior when they are stressed.
11 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2019
See number 10! Happy New Year!
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Do it.
A recurring theme each year is that sex is important and we should all try to have it*. In a much-read Modern Love, Karin Jones shares what she learned by having affairs with married men: “What surprised me was that these husbands weren’t looking to have more sex. They were looking to have any sex.”
Which isn’t to suggest that if you don’t have sex your partner will cheat, but just to confirm what we all basically know: Sex is good for humans (and their relationships).
Yelling Doesn’t Solve Anything
Yelling is a common tactic a parent may use to discipline their children. However, it is often used out of frustration or anger and not as a method that helps a parent with the goal of creating positive change in your child’s behavior.
