ADHD

Are You a UMD Student Who Has Trouble "Getting It Done"?

Please visit the Get It Done Group for support and education about executive function. At their webpage, be sure to scroll down to explore executive function topics like attention, focus, procrastination, and time management.

This drop-in group open to all students, with or without ADHD.

Why ADHD Is Not a Disorder

Powerful Self-Help Book:

The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out

by J. Russell Ramsay and

Anthony L. Rostain

Support organizations:

CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association )

The "Interest-Based Nervous System" and ADHD

This concept was coined by Dr William Dodson. He explains that “a person with an interest-based nervous system must be personally interested, challenged, find it novel, or urgent right now or nothing happens.” It is either ‘I must do this right now’, or procrastination.

Dr. Dodson is a board-certified adult psychiatrist who was one of the first practitioners to specialize in adults with ADHD 25 years ago.

Please check out these articles by Dr. Dodson and others:

ADHD & the Interest-Based Nervous System
ADHD and Motivation
How the Interest-Based Nervous System Drives ADHD Motivation
Understanding Interest-Based Nervous System (Part 1)
Five Pillars of Motivation (Part 2 of Understanding Interest-Based Nervous System)
Working With Your Interest-Based Nervous System

PhD With ADHD

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) right before starting graduate school.

Here below is my curated list of blogs written by students with ADHD who offer their survival tips for completing doctoral programs, plus one at the very bottom pertaining to survival in medical school. Please let me know of any new material that I should add.

ADHD goes to grad school: What do students and mentors need to know?

Jaclyn Paul (The ADHD Homestead), October 31, 2018

Being a grad student with ADHD: An ode to constant ontological uncertainty

Hilary Argo (Raving Anthropology), February 3, 2017

VIDEO: Can you do a PhD with ADHD? 3 Tips

Justin Murphy, July 21, 2019

Grad School and ADHD

Jax Sanders (Rackham Graduate School: Student Voices), December 8, 2011

I am a Graduate Student with ADHD

Sarah Cohen, October 22, 2018

My PhD and My ADHD

Krysten Blackstone (Pubs and Publications), March 31, 2007