ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 106: ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction with Edward Hallowell

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Jan 13, 2021

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a leading ADHD expert and bestselling author, shares his transformative journey in understanding ADHD. He highlights reframing ADHD traits like distractibility as creativity. Discussing the new science behind ADHD, he emphasizes a strength-based approach that addresses the positives often ignored by traditional views. Hallowell also explores how hormones impact women's ADHD symptoms, the importance of community in managing worries, and encourages creative pursuits as essential for those with ADHD. His insights aim to empower individuals to thrive amidst distractions.

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ANECDOTE

Imposter Feelings Despite Success

Hallowell still experiences imposter syndrome despite writing 21 books.
He described stacking his books and doubting whether he truly authored them, illustrating ADHD paradoxes.

ANECDOTE

Career-Shaping Diagnosis Moment

Edward Hallowell discovered his own ADHD during a 1981 lecture in his child psychiatry fellowship.
That revelation reshaped his career and led him to work with ADHD people for decades.

INSIGHT

ADHD Is Upside And Downside Together

ADHD contains both upside and downside: impulsivity fuels creativity but also risky choices.
Distractibility can be curiosity that leads to discovery as well as missed tasks.

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Join Tracy as she breaks her women only guest rule by welcoming Dr. Edward Hallowell to Episode 106 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women. If you know anything at all about ADHD you recognize Dr. Hallowell's name as the leading authority in the field of ADHD. Dr. Hallowell is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, and a New York Times bestselling author. He, along with Dr. John Ratey wrote what Tracy considers to be the bible of ADHD, Driven to Distraction. Now retired from the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Hallowell has been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Oprah, PBS, CNN, Today, Good Morning America, and in The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time. He is a regular columnist for ADDitude magazine, and is also the host of his weekly podcast called Distraction. Dr. Hallowell is the founder of The Hallowell Centers in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Seattle. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and their three grown children.

Dr. Hallowell shares the circumstances surrounding his ADHD diagnosis and why he and Dr. John Ratey decided to write their new book ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction. Who he wrote this book for, Why most medical professionals have ignored the strengths in ADHD for so long, His opinion on ADHD and intelligence, Exciting research around the task-positive network and default mode network, and how you can use them to benefit ADHD brain, The ADHDers need to create and constantly improve their life, Why those of us with ADHD should never worry alone, Where he believes the field of ADHD research and treatment is going, Whether he believes that there's a relationship between introversion/extroversion and ADHD types, Why ADHD women have not been part of ADHD studies.
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