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'Incredible... warm, compassionate, full of relatable insights, practical strategies, and, most importantly, takes us one huge step further towards removing the stigma and shame from ADHD'-Alex Partridge, bestselling author of Now It All Makes Sense ***From social media sensations Cate Osborn and Erik Gude, with Rennie Dyball, comes a fresh and practical guide to managing ADHD for adults. Just shy of her thirtieth birthday, Cate Osborn, a teaching artist with two master's degrees, started to have difficulty remembering her lines. Suddenly, things that had seemed routine before were falling through the cracks. An evaluation finally led to a diagnosis: ADHD.Erik Gude had a slightly different path. Diagnosed in his teens, it would take years before he understood the myriad of ways ADHD affected his life. When they connected as adults, it didn't take long before they realized other people might feel just as lost as they had.The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is a witty, thoughtful, and practical guide to living with ADHD in adulthood, from two people who actually know what it's like. Featuring the most important foundational information about ADHD, as well as interviews with expert medical professionals, it is carefully designed, with Q&As, definition breaks and expert takes, to be genuinely engaging for people with ADHD, offering bite-sized pieces of knowledge in an accessible format.From testing, evaluations, and diagnoses, to hacks for work and productivity, and advice on navigating relationships, sex and loved ones, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is an empowering guide with real-life suggestions from lived experience on every page.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the mental health advocates Cate Osborn (@Catieosaurus) and Erik Gude (@ErikGude) comes a modern and refreshingly honest guide to managing ADHD for adults, that gives solid information and practical tips in a format that you can actually consume (KC Davis, LPC, New York Times bestselling author).WELCOME TO THE CLUBADHD is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in adults, yet there are no US guidelines for diagnosing and treating patients beyond childhood (The New York Times). With roughly eight million adults living with ADHD and more people seeking and receiving diagnoses each year, theres a huge gap between lived experiences and straightforward information. Enter Cate Osborn and Erik Gude, ADHD advocates, educators, and hosts of the wildly popular podcast Catie and Erics Infinite Quest: An ADHD Adventure. They have witnessed this info gap firsthand in their own lives and in the flood of questions they regularly field from their millions of social media followers. Irreverent, indispensable, candid, and reassuring, Cate and Erik dont paper over the realities of neurodivergence. They give it to you straight. Featuring the most up-to-date foundational information, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults also explores issues that are rarely discussed, such as navigating sex and intimacy, and the healthcare system. Ingeniously structured and designed to be accessible for neurodivergent readers, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults features a wealth of knowledge and hard-won wisdom on: -Identifying comorbidities (e.g. autism; anxiety; depression; dyslexia; and others) -Coping with stress, boredom, and other experiences -Asking for help -Creating organizational systems that work for you and how to triage if you diverge from them -Improving time management -Recognizing the effects of hormones on ADHD -Learning to listen to your body when interoception makes it tricky -Approaching sex and sensory issues, desire and intimacy -Noticing Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and other cognitive distortions in relationships -And much more From taking responsibility to testing and evaluations, to tips for productivity and organization, to thoughtful discussions on diagnosis and identity, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is the perfect book not only for adults who have ADHD, but for anyone who wants to understand them.