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200 Maybe I'm Not the Problem: Understanding Emotional Abuse with Helen Villiers and Katie McKenna

I Have ADHD Podcast

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Is It Difficult for ADHDers to Connect to Their Emotions?

Helen: It's difficult for ADHDers to connect to their emotions, and it's because they haven't been allowed to express them. People pleasing is our fourth trauma response, freeze, fight, flight, phone. And again, why is somebody living in survival mode? Where are they walking on eggshells? She adds that the people pleasing parent can end up pleasing their child and be scared of conflict now with their child.

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