Dr. Micaela
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So it's like those voices fade into the background.
And then we get home and we are alone.
Or mine does this.
We lay down to go rest our weary minds to fall asleep at night.
And those voices are like, mwahaha.
I finally have the opportunity to take my turn.
And because you didn't give me a turn all day, I'm gonna be extra loud, okay?
And so we get preyed upon by those voices or that experience of low self-esteem, social anxiety,
or the ADHD guilt, right?
And so remembering that if we have ADHD, it's going to make it even harder to regulate that emotional experience because a neurotypical brain is able to say, hey, you know what?
It's OK.
I'm sure it was fine.
Look, they texted and they said that a great time or look at all these pictures we took.
It was so much fun.
Everyone's face is smiling.
I just need to be OK.
Like y'all are lying to me.
Right.
So with ADHD, you have that added vulnerability of the muscle that's trying to squish down that ADHD guilt piece.
is not very strong.