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The Emotions of ADHD
$9.95
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Product Description
The Emotions of ADHD: How to Understand and Manage Emotional Dysregulation, RSD, Anger & Overwhelm is an essential tool to help caregivers and adults with ADHD understand why the ADHD brain is wired to overreact and feel emotions intensely and how to regulate them.
We can’t always stop big emotions from taking over, but we can learn to minimize the damage they cause to others and ourselves and develop emotionally healthy responses. In this 230-page eBook, adults with ADHD and caregivers will learn how to employ emotional regulation strategies for common ADHD emotions, such as rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), anger, stress, and overwhelm.
With a plethora of ADHD-friendly tips from ADDitude editors, readers, and experts. You’ll learn:
- Tips on replacing negative emotions with positive ones
- Why emotional disruptions are the most impairing aspects of ADHD
- How to reduce sensory overload
- Ways to bring calm and organization into your daily life
- Guidance for teaching and modeling emotional regulation skills
- How to respond effectively to critiques and criticisms
- Strategies for recognizing emotional triggers and stressors
- Pointers for developing emotional resilience
- How RSD differs from a mood disorder
- What it’s like to feel emotionally dysregulated
- And much more!
PLEASE NOTE: This eBook is a downloadable PDF or EPUB file; it does not ship.
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Full Product Description
People with ADHD feel emotions with greater-than-average intensity. This makes us more caring, loving, empathetic, and passionate. But emotional dysregulation can also make us more likely to overreact in ways that can damage our careers and relationships. For many individuals with attention deficit, difficulty with emotional regulation is one of the most challenging symptoms to manage. The Emotions of ADHD eBook is here to help.
In its 230+ pages, The Emotions of ADHD includes expert advice and resources spanning the following topics:
- Why the ADHD brain is wired to overreact
- How to recognize — and control — emotional triggers
- How ADHD ignites rejection sensitive dysphoria
- How to model emotional regulation skills
- Why men with ADHD are prone to frustration and anger
- How to calm an emotionally dysregulated child and teen
- Why RSD is worse for women and girls with ADHD
- And much more!
Above all, adults and caregivers will learn insights into emotional dysregulation and treatment options, strategies for controlling emotional reactivity, and ways to bring calm and organization into their lives.
6-PART GUIDE TO NAVIGATING INTENSE ADHD EMOTIONS
This comprehensive report describes why the ADHD brain is wired to overreact and feel emotions intensely, and how to develop emotional resilience and a more regulated household. Chapters include:
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WHY STRONG EMOTIONS FLOOD ADHD BRAINS
- Discover how ADHD triggers intense emotions; why people with ADHD have greater challenges with rejection sensitivity, anger, stress, and excitability than do neurotypical people
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REJECTION SENSITIVE DYSPHORIA (RSD): A HALLMARK ADHD SYMPTOM
- Learn what defines rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD); how RSD differs from a mood disorder; why rejection sensitivity is worse for girls and women with ADHD; treatment options; ways to cope with perceived rejection
- Learn what defines rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD); how RSD differs from a mood disorder; why rejection sensitivity is worse for girls and women with ADHD; treatment options; ways to cope with perceived rejection
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EMOTIONAL DYSREGULATION & THE ADHD-ANGER CONNECTION
- Why emotional dysregulation makes ADHD difficult to manage; treatment options; anger management tips for children and adults; how anger disorders and ADHD overlap
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STOP OVERWHELM AND STRESS FROM CONTROLLING YOUR LIFE
- Ways to cope with stressors; strategies for decluttering, overcoming distractions, and getting things done; tips to stop catastrophizing; plus suggestions for bringing calm into your daily life
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EMOTIONAL REGULATION STRATEGIES THAT WORK
- Building emotional resilience; modeling and teaching emotional control in children with ADHD; ways to calm an emotionally dysregulated teen; relaxation techniques
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PERSONAL STORIES + ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Straightforward tips for managing intense emotions; book recommendations, directories, and organizations
The Emotions of ADHD: How to Understand and Manage Emotional Dysregulation, RSD, Anger & Overwhelm
ORDER THE SPECIAL REPORT NOW!
The full report has even more expert advice, information regarding insights into emotional dysregulation and treatment options, and strategies for controlling intense feelings from ADDitude!PLEASE NOTE: This eBook is a downloadable PDF or EPUB file; it does not ship.
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