Nick Scarpa

Have you ever wondered with your child or a family member might have bipolar disorder, in addition to or instead of ADHD?  Do the rages your child exhibits always represent bipolar disorder?  This can be a difficult distinction to make for health care professionals and yet it is an important one to make, due to the serious nature of bipolar disorder.  In today’s show my guest Dr. Robert Olivardio and I will discuss how parents and family members can provide information to the health care professionals they’re working with that can be very helpful in determining whether a bipolar disorder is present.  Dr. Olivario is a clinical psychologist with a private practice in Lexington Massachusetts and also a clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School.  He specializes in the treatment of ADHD, executive functioning disorders, OCD, and issues faced by students with learning disorders.  He serves on the Advisory Boards of ADDitude magazine as well as national ADHD organizations.

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Do you plan out your day? Do you have a  good idea on how long a task will  take you to finish?  Do you have an ADHD accountability partner? For answers to these questions and more, listen to my conversation with Eric Tivers, LCSW, MSSW. Eric is a nationally recognized expert in the field of ADHD and productivity.   In his private practice he works with clients of all ages; he also has a “public practice” using online approaches in a variety of ways.

His website is www.ADHDreWired.com. On it you can find links to his podcast  “ADHD rewired” as well as  his unique approach to coaching for ADHDers that utilizes easy to use video conference technology –  ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Groups. This is an intensive online program, structured 12 week interactive groups of 12 people per group, from all different walks of life with the shared issue of difficulty coping with ADHD roadblocks. You can learn more about the group atwww.coachingrewired.com. Eric has also put together a 5 part video series called “125 Strategies to get your ADHD reWired.”. You can find that at www.erictivers.com/125strategiesvideo

So listen up, discover more ways to change your ADHD challenges into solutions that work for you!

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Are there effective treatments for ADHD issues which do not involve medication? How can I overcome the negative self-talk I use when my ADHD gets in my way? Listen to this segment to find out!

My guest is Dr. Russell Ramsay, an expert in the field of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD.  He is a psychologist, co-founder and co-director of the Penn Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program in Philadephia, Associate Professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Univ Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a full-time clinician, researcher, and author of books and journal articles about the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD.  His two books for ADHDers are The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to facilitate coping inside and out, co-authored with Anthony Rostain MD; it is a “companion patient guide” for the CBT approach used at the Penn program, and Nonmedication Treatments for Adult ADHD: Evaluating impact on daily functioning and well-being.

Listen up to learn how CBT works and how it may help you with some of your ADHD-related struggles.

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What are Executive Functions anyway? What do they have to do with ADHD? Are there ways to get them to function better? Listen up, answers to these questions and more are right here!

My guest today is Dr. Ari Tuckman, a clinical psychologist who specializes in the field of ADHD. In addition to his private practice, he has a podcast with over 100 episodes, has written three books and gives presentations on ADHD diagnosis and treatment. His websites are www.tuckmanpsych.com and www.adultadhdbook.com . More Attention, Less Deficit has a wealth of information on all aspects of ADHD, it’s an encyclopedia of ADHD. And those Executive Functions? Get yours to work better with his workbook Understand Your Brain, Get More Done. Dr. Tuckman guides you as you develop your own solutions to issues like time management, organization, procrastination…well, if you happen have any issues with those. Give it a go!

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Do you struggle with organization, time management, getting started on tasks, not following the squirrels (aka getting distracted)? If you have ADHD, you know that these are challenges you face every day, among others.
My guest today is Alan Brown, an entrepreneur, ADHD/productivity coach and host of CrusherTV (www.CrusherTV.com). He is the creative force behind ADD Crusher, an award-winning video series for ADHD teens and adults. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, he found it difficult to learn coping strategies from books, so he developed his own unique strategies which he calls “brain hacks”. He shares these on his TV show, his video series and at his websites, and … in this show! You can get Alan’s free eBook, “5 Things You’re Doing Every Day that Make Your ADHD Worse!” atwww.ADDCrusher.com .

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What is the “central mystery” of ADHD? What do “executive functions” have to do with ADHD? My guest today is Thomas Brown PhD, one of the foremost clinicians and thinkers in the field of ADHD today. Dr. Brown is the Associate Director of the Yale Clinic for Attention and Related Disorders and has a private practice in Hamden CT as well. He says of his 40 year career “All I know about ADHD I have learned from listening to my patients”, and he shares some of that knowledge here in this show. His latest book Smart but Stuck explains, with stories from his patients, the role that executive functions play in the emotional reactivity and unpredictability of people with ADHD. Tune in to hear about that “central mystery”!

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