Guest Ellyce Fulmore shares her journey with ADHD and impulsive spending, leading to a pandemic-driven ADHD evaluation. Topics include struggles with daily tasks, money control vs. impulsivity, and the transformative impact of an ADHD diagnosis on self-care and finances.
27:58
forum Ask episode
web_stories AI Snips
view_agenda Chapters
auto_awesome Transcript
info_circle Episode notes
question_answer ANECDOTE
Pandemic Triggered Her ADHD Search
Ellyce Fulmore lost structure during the pandemic and noticed daily tasks like cooking and errands became hard.
Seeing TikToks about adult ADHD pushed her to seek a diagnosis after prolonged struggle.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Impulse Spending Led To Major Debt
Ellyce accumulated $35,000 total debt, including about $15,000 in high-interest consumer debt from impulse spending.
She booked trips and shopped impulsively to get dopamine hits and felt momentary control despite mounting debt.
insights INSIGHT
Spending Felt Like Control
Impulse purchases felt like exercised control and provided dopamine when other life areas felt chaotic.
She later realized the feeling of control masked deeper out-of-control patterns tied to undiagnosed ADHD.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Ellyce Fulmore had structures in place her whole life that kept her ADHD hidden. When the pandemic hit, those structures disappeared. Doing basic daily tasks — things like cooking and running errands — got really hard. Then she went down a research rabbit hole on ADHD in women and asked for an ADHD evaluation.
Before the pandemic, Ellyce had been struggling with impulsive spending. It made her feel like she was in control when really the spending was controlling her. Now, she’s the author of the book Keeping Finance Personal.
ADHD Unstuck is a free, self-guided activity from Understood.org and Northwestern University designed to help women with ADHD boost their mood and take small, practical steps to get unstuck. In about 10 minutes, learn why mood spirals happen and get a personalized action plan of quick wins and science-backed strategies that work with your brain. Give it a try at Understood.org/GetUnstuck.
Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
ADHD Aha!