ADHD & Relationships with Melissa Orlov
Refocused, A Podcast All About ADHD
You Know, I'm Not a Fighter, You're Just Having an Argument.
"Once you know kind of what you're prone to do, how quickly it can snowball," she says. "It just comes very easily just because I have so much background in it now." She's been working with couples for 15 years and has a new book coming out next year.
All relationships have their hurdles, but couples in ADHD-impacted relationships? Like most things in life, it tends to be more complicated for us. ADHD divides our attention, which makes managing and maintaining relationships way more challenging.
Today's conversation with Melissa Orlov is all about how ADHD can show up in our relationships. Motivated to start ADHDmarriage.com in 2007 while sharing stories from her own ADHD-impacted relationship, Melissa has helped so many couples by sharing her expertise with the neurodivergent community over the last 16 years.
Tune in now to learn more about ADHD and relationships from Melissa Orlov!
Join the conversation by reaching Lindsay via podcast@adhdonline.com or on social media at @lindsayguentzel now!
Highlights
- Melissa's journey in helping couples with ADHD
- Melissa's career with ADHD and couples' counseling
- Defining Adult ADHD and the emergence of the culture
- Adult ADHD's pointers and symptoms
- How ADHD is managed in different interpersonal relationships
- ADHD in the digital age
- Awareness, misinformation, and stigma of ADHD
- Patterns of ADHD in couple dynamics
- Couples' Seminar with Melissa Orlov - The ADHD Effect In-Depth Register Now
About Melissa Orlov
Melissa Orlov is the founder of ADHDmarriage.com. She provides support groups, private couples counseling and consulting, professional training, and more. Recently, she launched couples' seminars via Zoom conducted twice a year. Resources about ADHD and ADHD-impacted relationships are also available on her blog.
Melissa is also an award-winning author, having published books about ADHD-impacted relationships - The ADHD Effect on Marriage (2010) and The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD (2014).
To connect with Melissa, check out the links below:
- Website | www.adhdmarriage.com/
- LinkedIn | www.linkedin.com/in/melissaorlov
- Facebook | www.facebook.com/ADHDMarriage/
- Twitter | @msorlov
Resources from Melissa Orlov:
- The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD | www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LDYD360?tag=adhdmarriagec-20
- The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps | www.amazon.com/ADHD-Effect-Marriage-Understand-Relationship/dp/1886941971
Social Media Profiles
- Instagram: @lindsayguentzel // @adhdonline // @refocusedpod
- Twitter: @lindsayguentzel // @adhd_online // @refocusedpod
For more information on ADHD Online and ADHD assessments, medical management, and teletherapy. Email Lindsay: podcast@adhdonline.com
Welcome to Refocused!
Lindsay Guentzel was almost 35 years old when she was diagnosed with ADHD. It turned out to be the answer she didn't know she was looking for.
The journalist and mental health advocate has teamed up with ADHD Online to explore the often misunderstood world of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Discover tools and mindset shifts to help you start living your best life.
Those old, outdated assumptions about ADHD? Refocused with Lindsay Guentzel is changing that narrative. Those stigmas have held us back for long enough. It's time to refocus our energy and we hope you'll join us.
The theme music for Refocused was created by Louis Inglis, a songwriter and composer in Perth, Australia who was diagnosed with ADHD in 2020 at the age of 39. To learn more about the work he is doing, check out his online studio here. You can also email him at louisinglis1@gmail.com.
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