SuperPsyched with Dr. Adam Dorsay #309 ADHD And Emotions | Tamara Rosier, PhD
Dr. Adam Dorsay introduces SuperPsyched and interviews ADHD coach and author Dr. Tamara Rosier about ADHD, emotions, and daily strategies for healthier functioning. They discuss how people with ADHD are criticized far more than peers, may feel “broken,” and often have impulse-control challenges, heightened emotional intensity, high sensitivity, and sensory issues tied to a sensitive nervous system, making environmental fit and nervous-system regulation important. Rosier argues ADHD isn’t inherently a “gift,” but benefits can emerge when energy and emotions are managed, including choosing where attention goes and treating feelings as informants rather than facts. They emphasize sleep as foundational, covering difficulties with sleep onset, maintenance, and desire, the importance of deep sleep for the brain’s glymphatic “cleaning” system, and how time blindness and “rabbit holes” interfere with routines. Rosier closes with a wish that people understand human interconnectedness and accept themselves without constant proving.
00:00 Welcome to SuperPsyched
00:26 ADHD and Emotional Bruises
01:11 Meet Dr Tamara Rosier
02:48 Why ADHD People Click
04:21 Not a Gift Managing Energy
05:45 High Sensitivity and Nervous System
08:12 Sensory Overload and Regulation
08:41 Behavioral Basics Beyond Meds
09:50 Sleep Struggles with ADHD
11:47 Glymphatic System Brain Cleaning
12:19 Beliefs About Sleep Drive
14:50 Reframing Sleep with Clients
15:01 Sleep as Necessary Evil
15:26 Bedtime Sabotage Habits
16:19 Time Blind Rabbit Holes
17:55 Why Sleep Runs Everything
18:33 ADHD Emotional Engine
20:34 Feelings Aren't Facts
24:04 Curious Not Furious
24:41 Default Mode Network Explained
26:16 One Skill for Humanity
27:31 Connection Story and Farewell
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