TPP 210: Dr. Roberto Olivardia Talks About Kids with ADHD and Sleep Challenges
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Why do many people with ADHD view sleep as an inconvenience?
One of the things that I do regret is how I viewed sleep. I was somebody and a lot of people with ADHD share this, that I sort of looked at sleep as an inconvenience. I looked at it as this thing that got in the way of me doing other things or socializing with friends and having fun. And I had I pushed my body in ways that I really shouldn't have, and as a result. Your body does very wacky things and your mind does very w wacky things.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising Differently Wired kids. Before I introduce my guest and topic today, I have a quick important announcement, and that's that the doors to my Differently Wired Club are open for new members for this week only. While I know that many of us love learning from podcasts like this and from books and summits, sometimes that extra step applying and integrating these strategies so we can truly transform our families' lives can be difficult when we're just so consumed with getting through the day to day. I created the club to help parents do this deep work within a supportive community where we're all working toward the same goals.
So if this feels like the kind of support you could use right now, go to tiltparenting.com slash club to learn more. Okay, and now onto this week's episode. So I don't know about you, but really, from the time my son was a little guy, sleep has been a major challenge. In fact, the very first type of outside help Darren and I reached out to was a sleep consultant back when Asher was, I think, one year old. So I'm excited to be bringing the topic of sleep in differently wired kids to the show for the very first time. Specifically, we'll be looking at sleep challenges in kids with ADHD. My guest is Dr. Roberto Olivarda, a clinical psychologist and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, who specializes in the treatment of ADHD, OCD, and BDD, or body dysmorphic disorder, as well as the associated issues that stem from learning disorders such as anxiety, depression, and sleep dysfunction.
Dr. Olivarda is an especially compelling expert on this topic as He is not only the parent of a child with ADHD, but he himself has an ADHD diagnosis and, in conjunction, has experience with multiple sleep issues, both personally and as a parent. In our conversation, we discuss common sleep problems for children with ADHD, techniques and strategies that are often helpful, the impact of ADHD medication on sleep and the use of melatonin in children, and much more. And I just want to say that while we focus on ADHD in particular, so many of the sleep challenges we discuss will likely be familiar to all parents. So I hope this conversation leads to healthier sleep habits for you and your families. Hello, Roberto.
Welcome to the podcast.
How does Dr. Olivardia’s personal experience with ADHD and sleep shape his perspective?
Great being here. Thank you for having me, Debbie.
I'm so excited and you have so much expertise that is of interest, I think, to my community. So we'll have to bring you back on to to talk about many different subjects. But for today, we are gonna be talking about sleep. Actually, I've released more than 200 episodes of the show and I have never covered sleep as its own topic. So I have a lot of questions for you and I'm really excited to jump in, but can you take a few minutes to just give us a brief introduction about who you are and and the work that you do in the world?
Sure. I am a clinical psychologist and a lecturer in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. I have a private practice where I treat people of all ages, uh children, adolescents, adults. Um, I specialize in a couple of things. One uh's ADHD, executive functioning issues. I work with Uh a lot of students with learning disabilities like dyslexia. Um, also specialize in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. I work with boys and men with eating disorders, which is something I co wrote a book about many years ago. And also from a personal experience, I have ADHD. I have a son with ADHD and dyslexia.
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