Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn

Have you ever stayed up all night replaying a meeting in your head? Or obsessed over an email? Or questioned every instinct you have? If making decisions feels like a full-time job, this one’s for you!

We’re talking with Dr. Mark Schrime, a surgeon with a PhD in the science of decision-making. Hear about the exhausting cycle of analysis paralysis, second-guessing, and decision fatigue that’s a reality for many people with ADHD. 

For more on this topic

Listen: Analysis paralysis

Read: ADHD and analysis paralysis

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If your ADHD symptoms seem to have leveled up out of nowhere, you’re not losing it. Hormones play a much bigger role in ADHD than most of us understand, especially during perimenopause and menopause.
Today, we’re chatting with licensed counselor Mandi Dixon about why focus, memory, sleep, and emotional regulation can suddenly fall apart in your 40s. We also dig into why ADHD meds may stop working the way you’re used to — and what actually helps when carefully built systems stop cooperating.
For more on this topic: 
Listen: ADHD and hormones
Read: A guide to hormones and ADHD
Read: ADHD and periods
Explore: The Menopause Society
For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

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Ever catch yourself spiraling over a decision and feeling like your brain won’t stop replaying every possible “what if”? 
Dr. J is joining us to talk about rumination, overthinking, and getting caught in a mood spiral as a woman with ADHD. We’re breaking down why we get stuck and practical ways to interrupt those thought loops. 
For more on this topic: 
Try: ADHD Unstuck (a free self-guided activity)
Listen: How to climb out of mental rabbit holes (from Hyperfocus)
Read: ADHD and mood swings
For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

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When ADHD overwhelm hits, it’s usually not because of one big event. It’s the work project and your kid’s school play and the relationship thing and everyone is out of clean socks... and now you’re caught in a spiral.
Today, Cate and our fabulous producer, Jessamine, dig into Reddit stories about work screw-ups, panic lying, and how pattern recognition can quietly turn everyday moments into emotional flashpoints in relationships. 
What actually can stop that spiral? 
For more on this topic: 
Listen: ADHD and workplace stress
Listen: Managing expectations in relationships (feat. KC Davis)
Read: How to Keep House While Drowning, by KC Davis
Read: Fair Play, by Eve Rodsky
For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

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In this listener Q&A, Cate tackles two wildly relatable ADHD questions: sudden sensory discomfort during intimacy, and the maddening cycle of not being able to start a task… then not being able to stop. 
From sensory overload and burnout to hyperfocus, momentum anxiety, and emotional regulation, Cate breaks down what’s going on and how to navigate it without losing it. 
Thanks to our listeners for these deeply ADHD-coded questions! Keep ’em coming.
For more on this topic: 
Listen: ADHD and sensory overwhelm
Listen: ADHD sensory challenges and sex
Read: ADHD and hyperfocus
For a transcript and more resources, visit Sorry, I Missed This on Understood.org. You can also email us at [email protected].

Understood.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people with learning and thinking differences, like ADHD and dyslexia. If you want to help us continue this work, donate at understood.org/give

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