Grades can improve, attention in class can get better with treatment, and a child with ADHD can still come home most days replaying the same worry: did she talk too much again, did she interrupt someone, will the girls at lunch still want to sit with her tomorrow. That worry rarely shows up on a […]
A patient once told us she had rewritten the same email in her head forty times over three days, but never opened her laptop to send it. She was not lazy. She was not disorganized in the way people usually mean that word. She had ADHD, and what looked like procrastination from the outside was […]
ADHD and depression show up together often enough that treating one alone usually leaves half the problem still standing. Depression usually gets caught first, since it is the more familiar diagnosis. The ADHD underneath can stay unnamed for years. A man tells us his exhaustion was written off as depression for years. He mentions that […]
ADHD hyperfocus rarely gets talked about as a single trait. A parent, a partner, or a manager might only ever see the version of hyperfocus that helps them. Like a project that can get finished in one sitting, or the report done ahead of a deadline. Though hyperfocus may come at a cost, like missing […]
A parent tells us their son cannot sit still during homework, then adds that he also refuses to go to school some mornings because his stomach hurts. A patient in our adult program describes racing thoughts at 2am, then mentions she has missed three work deadlines this month because starting the report felt impossible. Both […]
Deciding to look into ADHD testing in NJ often comes after months, sometimes years, of wondering whether what you have been dealing with has a name. Maybe a pattern of missed deadlines finally caught up with you at work. Maybe a family member suggested it after watching you struggle with the same things over and […]
A ten-year-old sits at her kitchen table, laptop propped against a cereal box. She’s walking a therapist through the same worksheet she’d do in an office. Say the thought out loud. Notice the feeling. Find the smaller reaction underneath it. Her mother folds laundry two rooms away, close enough to step in, far enough that […]
A parent sat in our office last month holding a stack of report cards, asking a question we hear almost every week: is ADHD a disability, or is that word too strong for what my child is dealing with? The short answer is yes, ADHD is legally recognized as a disability under federal law, and […]
A school email about accommodations, a pharmacy two blocks from the pediatrician’s office, a form asking about dosage: pieces that show up at the ADHD, Mood & Behavior Center before parents have even said the word ADHD out loud. A parent who has just heard about ADHD for the first time is barely equipped for […]
The question comes up in almost every first appointment at the ADHD, Mood & Behavior Center. A parent describes the missed homework, the third phone call from school this month, the bedtime meltdowns, and then asks quietly: did we do something to cause this? Before we ever talk about treatment, we talk about what causes […]
