Molly Schmerling

School was complicated.

This is Molly Schmerling.

So when I was really young, sort of in the elementary school age, it was a lot of meltdowns, a lot of coming home, feeling really overwhelmed with assignments, just this constant feeling of being too much, too kinetic, too loud, and just really feeling like people got some kind of social rule book that I never got.

I was also balancing clinical work with my academic work.

So I found myself just in a constant state of overwhelm.

We would literally go through each of the criteria and sort of talk about what this would look like with a particular client.

And I do remember that when we got to the ADHD diagnosis section, we're going through each of the symptoms and I just had this like aha moment.

We were talking about a client, but it could have been like she was talking to me.

I really had thought this is something that you get diagnosed with as a child and, you know, that's it.

So being able to have her say, no, you'll have adults show up with all of these different symptoms.

This is what that looks like.

I was completely shocked.

And I was like, okay, I'm going to make an appointment now.

As a full-time content creator with ADHD, here are five tips that I use to make my life easier.

I have ADHD, but I'm like really good at it.

I have literally mastered having ADHD.

So I'm a licensed clinical psychologist.

I'm in private practice.

And I see individuals with ADHD.

That's a specialty of mine.