ADHD Roller Coaster: "Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?"

Quick Tips on Social Skills: Banish the Four B’s

Gina Pera — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:04:26 +0000

When it comes to conversational styles, do you or someone you love tend to blurt or bore? How about boss or even bleed (oversharing a litany of woes)? In this guest post, Seattle therapist Tanya Ruckstuhl-Valenti summarizes these four “Bs” as social bloopers we all want to avoid. By Tanya Ruckstuhl-Valenti, LICSW, MSW Given my [...]

ADHD & Aging: Webinar 4/2 at TotallyADD.com

Gina Pera — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:54:15 +0000

You are invited to join me and my friend Rick Green (who created and starred in the PBS smash-hit documentary ADD & Loving It?!) for a webinar on ADHD and Aging. The date is Tuesday, April 2, 5 pm PDT, 8 pm EDT. Rick and I will have a conversation online, and you can ask [...]

“You Me A.D.D.” Has Legs!

Gina Pera — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:26:09 +0000

As I sit at this desk, day after day and week after week, working hard on my next book (a professional guide for couples therapists treating ADHD-affected couples), I’m encouraged to see that my first book is #1 today in Amazon’s ADHD category and #8 in counseling. Not bad for a book published in 2008, [...]

New Study: Benefits of Rx Increase Over Time

Gina Pera — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:30:01 +0000

A new study offers good news about the cumulative benefits of ADHD medications taken over time: Results showed that adult ADHD patients who received drug treatment for more than two years had fewer symptoms and less psychological distress compared to those treated for two years or less. Just yesterday, a consulting client asked me, “How [...]

Gluten Sensitive? Check your Rx

Gina Pera — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:33:28 +0000

A friend who has ADHD and is also very gluten-sensitive recently has been suffering with one inexplicable malady after another. Finally, an explanation: the gluten in the generic medication she has been taking. Here is some information from the Celiac Disease & Gluten Sensitivity page at About.com: For both the consumer and the pharmacist, unless [...]

The Tragic Truth Of Adderall, or “Madderall”

Gina Pera — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:33:08 +0000

Yesterday, given a back-channel tip, I steeled myself for the next anti-ADHD screed from the The New York Times, fully expecting yet another stigma-producing attack on the diagnosis itself and the medications so often successful in treating it. Yet, last night, when I read online the story by reporter Alan Schwarz (“Drowned in a Sea of [...]

Join Gina in San Francisco for Free Presentation

Gina Pera — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:05:39 +0000

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to learn more about Adult ADHD, including success strategies for living a healthier and happier life, I invite you to join me and others in the ADHD community for a free presentation Monday, February 11, 2013, at 6:30 to 8:45 pm. The Mission and [...]

A New “Ritalin”: Extended-Release Liquid

Gina Pera — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:49:44 +0000

“The good news is that there has never been a better time to have ADHD,” I said last night to a client consulting with me about her new diagnosis. Yes, I sought to boost her optimism about making the life changes she desired. But it’s the truth. Never has there been such a huge number [...]

Talkin’ Trash: Targeting ADHD Challenges

Gina Pera — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:56:39 +0000

Oh yes it’s garbage night And the feeling’s right Oh yes it’s garbage night Oh what a night (oh what a night) People who know my husband only as a serious-minded scientist could hardly imagine, come Tuesday trash-taking-out night, his jaunty rendition of Kool & the Gang’s Ladies Night. Ten years ago, neither my husband [...]

Soon! A Turkish Translation of “You Me ADD”

Gina Pera — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:01:40 +0000

The e-mail had me at the subject message: “about translating your book into Turkish.” Six months later, the Turkish version of Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? is almost ready to meet the public. It is all thanks to Dr. Mehmet Akif Ersoy, a Turkish psychiatrist possessing a keen appreciation for the dramatic difference [...]