How Adult ADHD Turns Molehills Into Mountains And What Actually Works

About this episode

This episode explores adult ADHD and its impact on working memory and emotional responses, offering insights into its mechanics and solutions.

Send us Fan Mail Ever stare at a three-minute email and feel your brain freeze while your hand reaches for the spice rack? We explore adult ADHD with a practical, humane lens—how a distracted “CEO of the brain” scrambles working memory, warps time into now and not now, and amplifies emotions so small hassles feel catastrophic. Instead of guilt or grit-as-a-solution, we map the real mechanics: dopamine dynamics, executive function breakdowns, and the anxiety loop that steals focus and breeds a...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Damaris Grossmann

Topics covered

• Adult ADHD
• Working Memory
• Dopamine Dynamics
• Executive Function
• Anxiety Loop
• Emotional Amplification

Keywords

• ADHD
• working memory
• dopamine
• executive function
• anxiety
• focus
• emotions

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