Research Recap with Skye: ADHD Symptom Manifestation
Hacking Your ADHD
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways. In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called "ADHD Symptom Manifestation in Adulthood: Moving Beyond Conceptualization of Inattention and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity." And in this...
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Born not Built with Russ Jones
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! This week I'm talking with Russ Jones, a productivity coach for adults with ADHD and founder of ADHD Big Brother, an ADHD accountability community (he also hosts a podcast with the same name) - When Russ was last on the show, we talked about reducing distractions on our phones. So naturally, we start by checking in on how that’s going (and honestly I could be doing better on my end). From there we get into the idea that systems are born, not designed. And to be clear up front, that doesn’t mean we should stop planning. It means we don’t have to figure out every step and...
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Research Recap with Skye: Effectiveness of Microdosing on ADHD
Hacking Your ADHD
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our Research Recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways. In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called "Effects of Psychedelic Microdosing versus Conventional ADHD Medication Use on Emotional Regulation, Empathy, and ADHD Symptoms in...
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Everything Is Connected to Everything with Dr. Mel Houser
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! This week I’m talking with Dr. Mel Houser, a family physician and founder of All Brains Belong, a nonprofit that brings together healthcare and community support for neurodivergent people. Dr. Houser is also Autistic and ADHD herself and the author of A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People—and What We’re Doing Instead. In our conversation today, we get into some topics I don’t normally cover on the show, including how physical health conditions can overlap for neurodivergent people and what gets missed when we treat each issue as its...
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Back to the Basics: What You're Actually Dealing With
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! This week we're kicking off a new series on the basics of ADHD management, and why sometimes the best thing we can do when we're struggling isn't to find something new, but to go back to the fundamentals. One of the things I've found after years of making this podcast is that knowing all these ADHD strategies doesn't mean I'm always going to remember to use them. And sometimes I find myself looking for a new solution when what I really need is to return to something that's already worked for me. So in this episode, we're starting with one of the most important fundamentals:...
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You Might Also Like: How to Stop Panic-Planning and Actually Lower Your ADHD Anxiety
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! Welcome to a special Feed Drop episode - this week we're featuring the ADHD Skills Lab which is hosted by none other than Skye Waterson who you all know from our Research Recap series. And today I have the pleasure of hosting an episode from their show How to Stop Panic-Planning and Actually Lower Your ADHD Anxiety. So this show focuses on support for business owners or anyone who does their own thing with ADHD, which honestly is a lot of us. In this episode Skye and Robbie share why some tasks can feel impossible with ADHD and how to reduce overwhelm when doing them and I...
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Research Recap with Skye: Emotional Dysregulation and ADHD
Hacking Your ADHD
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our research recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try to find any practical takeaways. In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called "Evidence of Emotion Dysregulation as a Core Symptom of Adult ADHD: A Systematic Review." Just to give a bit of background here,...
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Of Course You're Still Struggling (but it's Okay) with Jessica McCabe
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! This week I'm talking with the fantastic Jessica McCabe. Many of you probably know Jessica from her award-winning YouTube Channel, How to ADHD, where she has helped millions of people better understand how ADHD brains work. And Jessica is a returning guest, last time she was on we talked about her then upcoming and now New York Times bestselling book, How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) - which just came out in paperback. And last time Jessica was on the show she was pregnant, so we dive into that a bit on this episode, discussing how having...
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The One You Feed with Eric Zimmer
Hacking Your ADHD
Hey Team! This week I'm talking with someone who has an impressive 12 years of podcasting and over 800 episodes, Eric Zimmer, is the host of The One You Feed podcast, taking the name from the parable of the two wolves inside you and asking which one grows, well, it's the one you feed. After struggling with heroin addiction and homelessness in his twenties, Zimmer became deeply interested in how people make lasting changes in their lives. Drawing on both behavioral science and his own experience with addiction and recovery, Zimmer’s work focuses on exploring behavior change, meaning, and...
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Research Recap with Skye: Current Methods and Issues Surrounding ADHD - Part 2
Hacking Your ADHD
Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD. I'm your host, William Curb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. Today, I'm joined by Skye Waterson for our Research Recap series. In this series, we take a look at a single research paper, dive into what it says and how it was conducted, and try to find practical takeaways. In this episode, we're discussing a paper called "Evaluating Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Review of Current Methods and Issues." This is a continuation of what we were talking...
info_outlineExecutive function is a hot topic around ADHD - and more specifically how we often have a deficit in it.
One of the trickiest parts about executive function is that there isn’t a universally accepted model of executive functions - I know that feels kind of surprising because it seems like something that is talked about as much as executive functions is that we’d have something that is generally agreed upon. So for this episode, we’re going to be focusing on Russell Barkley’s self-regulation model - although I’ll certainly be pulling from other sources as well.
I really like Dr. Barkley’s model of self-regulation, because in many ways we can actually look at ADHD as a disorder of self-regulation itself. And that’s exactly what Dr. Barkley proposes, that executive function and self-regulation are the same thing and that with ADHD we have a deficit in our executive functions and therefore a deficit in our self-regulation.
As such, I’ll be using executive function and self-regulation interchangeably throughout the episode to help emphasize that they are the same thing.
In this episode, I’m going to go into exactly what executive function and self-regulation are, how we use them and how we can get back on track when we find ourselves missing some of that self-regulation.
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This Episode’s Top Tips
- We can think of executive functions and self-regulation as the same thing.
- Our primary executive functions are working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control.
- We have a limited resource pool for our executive functions and we use some of it every time we engage in self-regulation. Fortunately, we can help restore some of these resources by doing things like taking a break, having a snack, and getting some exercise.
- One of the best ways to help with executive function is to modify our environment so that we’re reducing the amount of self-regulation we need to do. This means doing things like putting away distractions and making time more visible.