You and Me — and Adult ADHD: October 2024

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Dear Readers and "Early Adopters,"

First, thank you for subscribing years ago to this blog that I wrote for CHADD in the early 2000s. In those early days of Adult ADHD awareness, you provided me with much-needed encouragement and engagement. I'm forever grateful to you.

Even though I no longer post here, I've continued to work hard to advance public understanding of Adult ADHD—and to improve the standard of care. My professional blog since 2008 is ADHD Roller Coaster

Join me and your peers In Solving Your Adult ADHD Puzzle!

ADHD Success Training Site

For years, my husband and I first struggled with misinterpreting his unrecognized ADHD. Then we struggling to find competent medical and therapeutic help. We were shocked that such a hugely prevalent condition is so poorly understood, especially in the psychiatric and therapeutic community.

Unfortunately, that still holds true now in 2024! We have better knowledge now. We have solid evidence-based strategies. What we lack is clinicians trained in using them.

Anyway, I got tired of waiting for the mental-health field to "step up." ADHD-challenged individuals and couples need expert help now. No more stumbling around and making things worse.

Now you can find first-class evidence-based strategies at my new training site, featuring online courses and discussion groups (e-mail and Zoom).

Participants are getting traction they never thought possible, despite years of therapy and reading many books. It's accessible worldwide —because ADHD knows no borders.

ADHD Couple Therapy Guide

You might also be interested in my most recent book, Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy: Clinical Interventions (Routledge, 2016). I draw from it in the online training.

It is the first professional guide to merge the evidence of what works for couple therapy and for adult ADHD treatment. (Hint: More practical strategies and solid education, less talking and re-hashing of problems and conflict!)

ADHD Roller Coaster Blog

Again, if you aren't already subscribed, I hope you will join me at my award-winning blog: ADHD Roller Coaster.

You'll find 15 years of news and first-person essays on all aspects of ADHD, including these departments:

ADHD Gene-Testing
ADHD News and Research
ADHD Partner Survey
The You, Me, and Adult ADHD Book Club
Events with Gina
Finding Support
Medications
Myth-Busting
Personal Essays
Relationships
The Basics about Adult ADHD
Tools & Strategies

Thank you and I hope to see you at my blog or training site soon! Sign up at my blog to stay connected. Visit ADHD Roller Coaster and wait for the pop-up!

About Gina

As a longtime CHADD volunteer, Gina Pera leads ADHD discussion groups for CHADD Silicon Valley and an 1,000-member international online group for partners of adults with ADHD, through CHADD of Northern California. She is a 2007 National Volunteer of the Year.

She encourages everyone to consider the joys that come with volunteering to serve the ADHD community. There is plenty of work to be done!

As an Adult ADHD expert, Gina Pera is the author of the prize-winning comprehensive guide for adults with ADHD and their partners: Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?

Her new book is the first evidence-based professional guide for couple therapists treating ADHD-challenged couples (Routledge, 2016). And, she contributed the first chapter on couple therapy to Dr. Russell Barkley's "gold standard" clinical guide.

For the past decade, she has written and lectured internationally about Adult ADHD while also advocating for better awareness and treatment standards.

Gina Pera's previous journalistic work for USA WEEKEND magazine won the Unity Award in Media, which recognizes accurate exposure of issues affecting minorities and people with disabilities.