When Someone You Love Has ADHD: Frequently Asked Questions About Helping Your Partner and Yourself

When Someone You Love Has ADHD: Frequently Asked Questions About Helping Your Partner and Yourself

When Someone You Love Has ADHD: Frequently Asked Questions About Helping Your Partner and Yourself

But those red flags soon became bigger problems. Promises were ignored and not even acknowledged. He was doing really thoughtless things and I knew he wasn’t a thoughtless person. We tried counseling, and the therapists just loved to hear our stories: They could tell we loved each other and they were thoroughly entertained by our problems, but they just couldn’t give us any good suggestions.

One day at the library I came across the book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen, MD. I was fascinated by his description of ADHD and the way it physically affects the brain; it really seemed to describe my husband all the way back to his childhood. I took the book home and said to my husband, "Do you think this could be you?" And he said, "You know what? This really makes sense."