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Wrangling the ADHD Perfectionist with Dr. Sharon Saline

Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

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The Cycle of RSD

There is no perfect. I mean, you know, me is a snowflake perfect. We just haven't found it yet. There's one tulip that's absolutely perfect. Right. But we somewhere in the Netherlands it's growing right now. The thing is by trying to live up to these standards of perfection, perfection, all of these P's, we're putting a huge amount of stress on our system. This is why a lot of people with ADHD don't get things done until like the 11th hour because they need that cortisol to substitute for the lower amounts of dopamine or norepinephrine that are naturally occurring in ADHD brains. And this is something that I work on myself

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