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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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How to Express Needs in Adult Relationships

Many of us adults with ADHD grew up in families where our needs were overlooked and when we tried to express those needs, we were gaslit. And so my experience in working with so many clients is that this is the way that they grew up. And then in adult relationships, they have no idea how to express needs because they constantly feel unsafe in all of their relationships. They feel like they have to be appeasing in order to be accepted. Yeah, people pleases are going to end up in toxic relationships. Whether they're ADHD or not, they're going to do it because or they're gonna end up in those situations as well.

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