In this episode: Jen talks about her personal experience with being emotionally intense and lashing out without understanding what was going on in her brain. Jen explains the science behind the ADHD brain and how/why neurodivergent brains get flooded, experience meltdowns, shutdowns, sadness, low self-esteem, getting carried away with emotion and not being able to tolerate feeling many emotions at once. Also explained: how emotions filter through a neurotypical brain and how they get jammed up in a filterless ADHD brain.

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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:

Dr. William Dodson You Tube - Overlooked Symptoms of ADHD

Dr. Russell Barkley You Tube - Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation

ADHD Aware Magazine - Emotions & ADHD

ADDitude Magazine: Exaggerated Emotions - How ADHD Triggers Intensity

CHADD Website - Emotions Too Much? Could Be ADHD

VeryWellMind Website - Understanding Hypersensitivity in ADHD

Addept (Thriving With ADHD) Website - Emotional Flooding