Revisiting: Alcohol & ADHD
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Alcohol Minimalist: Mindful Drinking & Behavior Change
34 min
1 speaker
4 chapters
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Welcome to the Alcohol Minimalist Podcast. I'm your host, Molly Watts. If you want to change your drinking habits and create a peaceful relationship with alcohol, you're in the right place. This podcast explores the strategies I use to overcome a lifetime of family alcohol abuse, more than 30 years of anxiety and worry about my own drinking, and what felt like an unbreakable daily drinking habit. Becoming an alcohol minimalist means removing excess alcohol from your life, so it doesn't remove you from life. It means being able to take alcohol or leave it without feeling deprived. It means to live peacefully, being able to enjoy a glass of wine without feeling guilty and without needing to finish the bottle.
With science on our side, we'll shatter your past patterns and eliminate your excuses. Changing your relationship with alcohol is possible. I'm here to help you do it. Let's start now. Well hello and welcome or welcome back to the Alcohol Minimalist Podcast. With me, your host, Molly Watts, coming to you from you know, it's just a really nice Oregon today. You could hear it in my voice, I am sure. I am a little under the weather and I sat outside in my backyard and it was just sunny and warm and very nice and I enjoyed it, especially you know how much When you're sick, it just feels good to sit out in the sunshine. Um, because I am feeling a little under the weather, I am not recording a full episode.
We are revisiting another episode. Sorry about that. I had a a full plan to be back in full form today on Monday, June 1st, but um the illness gods and I didn't see eye to eye, so we are revisiting an episode for the last time here. I am revisiting alcohol and ADHD. And this is a topic that comes up all the time. And both in the Facebook group and just all the time people ask me about this. So I think it's a subject that can't can ki you can't uh go over it too many times. And so I know that revisiting it is a good one. And I hope you get a lot out of this. revisited episode. I will see you all next week, I hope, with my voice back and feeling one hundred percent. Until then, choose peace, my friends. Have a great week.
Today's Alcohol and Series edition is one that I've had a lot of interest in personally. And many of my Facebook group members, many of my coaching clients, many people that just email me have asked for it as well. So I know it's going to be of interest to all of you. We're talking about alcohol and ADHD. That's attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder. As I mentioned, this topic is of personal interest for me as three of my immediate family members, my husband and two of my four sons. All live with different degrees of ADHD. So I've been navigating ADHD as a mom and as a spouse for more than thirty years. So it's definitely something that I've spent time studying, trying to understand, and navigating for a big part of my life.
Now regardless, as a reminder, I am not a psychiatrist, a psychologist, or an MD of any kind. The information provided here is for education and information purposes only and should not be used to diagnose or treat any suspected disorders. If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of ADHD, Please consult your physician for appropriate treatment. All right, disclaimer out of the way. So what is ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Uh one more disclaimer here. This is a high level overview of what ADHD is, and admittedly there is more here than could be discussed. We'd be talking for hours, but I just want to establish a baseline of what ADHD is. And then we're going to move to on to the other bigger topic for this show.
which is the relationship between ADHD and alcohol use. The definition according to the American Psychiatric Association. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children. Symptoms of ADHD include inattention, not being able to keep focus, hyperactivity, excess movement that is not fitting for the setting. And impulsivity hasty acts that occur in the moment without thought.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–17:56
2
What is ADHD and how do its symptoms typically present?
17:56–24:31
3
Why do people with ADHD often feel that alcohol temporarily calms their mind?
24:31–32:35
4
How does alcohol worsen core ADHD challenges like impulsivity and emotional regulation?
32:35–34:10
Speakers
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