ADHD Resource Hub: Special Topics
ADHD Comorbidities
and other special topics
At least half of all people with ADHD also have a second (or 3rd!) condition.
Common co-occurring conditions like learning disabilities, depression, or anxiety also deserve equally important treatment.
Learn about the most common conditions that come along with ADHD and how to distinguish symptoms. Share the information you find that is relevant and meaningful to you, with all of your care provider’s, or the loved ones you depend on.
Mood | RSD | Emotional Function
- Female-specific pharmacotherapy in ADHD: premenstrual adjustment of psychostimulant dosage
- New Study: Adult ADHD Diagnosis Criteria Should Include Emotional Symptoms
- What is the link between PMDD and ADHD?
- How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
- Is It ADHD, Depression, or Both?
- The Physician’s Guide for Distinguishing Bipolar Disorder and ADHD
- ADHD And Borderline Personality Disorder In Adults: A Review Of Their Links And Risks
- My Emotional Hypersensitivity Wasn’t Borderline Personality Disorder
Listen in to Intense Emotions and Mindful Communication
Sleep (and lack thereof)
ADHD & risky behaviour
ADHD and Work Life
- Neurodiversity In The Modern Workplace: Why today’s organizations should look for mental as well as physical diversity.
- CADDAC’s Workplace Accommodations guide, by ADHD symptom.
- Duty to accommodate may be triggered even when employee does not request accommodation
- Great Job! A Career Happiness Formula for Adults with ADHD
- ADHD and the Human Rights Commission, from CADDAC.
- Proven Ways to Successfully Manage Small Business When You Have ADHD
- How I run a company with ADHD
ADHD & late diagnosis
- The Reckoning: Reflecting on a late (ADHD) diagnosis as an adult, by Christina Crowe
- ADHD in adults can be life-threatening when left untreated: experts
- Late Diagnosis: Was ADHD to Blame All Along?
- ADHD in Adults Looks Different. Most Diagnostic Criteria Ignores This Fact.
- A Critical Need Ignored: Inadequate Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD After Age 60
- Anxiety? Depression? Or ADHD? It Could Be All Three
ADHD in girls and women is often also misdiagnosed, and emerging evidence supports having another look if you’ve been in treatment for other disorders for many years, but have not been getting better.
ADHD & substance use
- Substance Use Disorders and ADHD: 5 Key Facts and Additional Resources + Substance Use Disorder and ADHD: Safe, Effective Treatment Options, Webinar with Dr. Wilens
- Cannabis and ADHD – A CADDRA Policy Statement
- Substance Use Disorders and ADHD: 5 Key Facts and Additional Resources
- The Impact of Pharmacotherapy of Childhood-Onset Psychiatric Disorders on the Development of Substance Use Disorders
- From the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) 31st Annual Meeting in 2020: ADHD Meds May Boost Treatment Retention in Comorbid Addiction
- ADHD Medication and Substance-Related Problems, “Rather, medication was associated with lower concurrent risk of substance-related events and, at least among men, lower long-term risk of future substance-related events.”
- ADHD & Recreational Marijuana: What’s the Attraction?
- Comorbidity of ADHD and Substance Use Disorder (SUD): A Neuroimaging Perspective – Thomas Frodl, 2010
- The Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance (CADDRA) has published a position statement on the use of Cannabis in ADHD, and can be reviewed here.
E38: Unpacking the connection between Untreated ADHD and Substance Use Disorders, with Christina Crowe, RP
ADHD & Nutrition | Feeding | Disordered Eating
- Binge Eating Often Goes Hand in Hand With ADD
- Is There a Link Between Eating Disorders and Women with ADHD?
- Mindful Eating, ADHD and Nutrition
- Diet and ADHD, Reviewing the Evidence: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses of Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trials Evaluating the Efficacy of Diet Interventions on the Behavior of Children with ADHD.
- ADHD & Type 2 Diabetes: A Surprising, Stark Health Link AND The ADHD-Dopamine Link: Why You Crave Sugar and Carbs
- Eating Disorders in Teens with ADHD: Red Flags and Recovery Steps
ADHD & athletes
ADHD +/- OCD, body focused repetitive behaviours
- Hair Pulling! Skin Picking! Nail Biting! Oh, My!
- Comorbid trichotillomania and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults
- ADHD and Skin picking
- Body Focused Repetitive Behaviours from Anxiety Canada
- Canadian BFRB Support Network
- Skin picking disorder comorbid with ADHD successfully treated with methylphenidate
ADHD & trauma
- Epigenetics and ADHD: The Impacts of Environment, Lifestyle, and Stress
- Military: ADHD and Risk of Postraumatic Stress and Related Disorders: A Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation in U.S. Army Soldiers
- ADHD & Polyvagal Theory: making sense of the link between ADHD and trauma.
- ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity
- Traumatic Stress Alongside ADHD: 5 Reasons Clinicians Need to Consider Trauma
Listen in to Episode 26: Calling for back-up: trauma, policing and transformation, with Mark Baxter and Sandra Richardson
Aphantasia
- Five things I’ve learned about aphantasia as a therapist, by Christina Crowe, RP
- So Your Child Can’t Visualize?They might experience aphantasia.
- Can you picture things in your head? Well, this guy can’t. CBC Radio and article
- The Aphantasia Network
- You CAN Meditate with Aphantasia
- Aphantasia, sex and gender by Art Kavanagh
AuDHD (Autism + ADHD)
- Respect in Health Care for Autistic Adults Harvard Medical School
- An introduction to AuDHD, from Embrace Autism
- Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem
- The sudden rise of AuDHD: what is behind the rocketing rates of this life-changing diagnosis?
- The Second Reckoning, by Katie Richardson
- Melatonin Use for Sleep Problems in Autism and ADHD: Dr. M. Weiss Commentary
- The Christina Crowe Podcast E75: Research update: AuDHD and Stimulants
- The Christina Crowe Podcast E70: PDA in the Spotlight: How PDA Shapes Neurodivergent Experiences, with Christina and Katie
Listen in! From Internalized Ableism to AuDHD: The Impact of Validation and the Quest for Diagnosis
Auditory Processing Disorder (AUD)
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