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Articles on Adult ADHD
Clinical perspectives on ADHD, treatment, and psychiatric care from Dr. William Lynch.
October 18, 2026
ADHD and Relationships: Why Couples Get Stuck — and How to Move Forward
For couples living with ADHD, a forgotten errand can become a painful argument in seconds. Understanding what happens between feeling and response opens a path toward change.
Read moreSeptember 25, 2026
When Anxiety Is the Alarm, but ADHD Is the Fire
A patient came to me because of severe anxiety and despair about the work piling up around him. The anxiety was real. So was something else underneath it.
Read moreAugust 27, 2026
Short-Acting vs. Long-Acting Stimulants: What the Difference Feels Like
My routine practice is to begin every stimulant trial with a low-dose immediate-release preparation. The reason is straightforward: it gives both of us information. What patients report when they make the transition to extended-release often tells me as much about the diagnosis as the initial response did.
Read moreAugust 23, 2026
The Danger of Dogma
When a clinician\'s theoretical framework becomes more important than the patient in front of them, the framework has become a problem. The history of psychiatry offers no clearer illustration of this than the case of Rafael Osheroff.
Read moreAugust 22, 2026
How ADHD Affects Relationships
In couples where one partner has ADHD, the same complaints surface again and again: he doesn\'t listen, she never follows through, he forgot — again. These are not failures of love. They are the predictable consequences of a brain wired differently.
Read moreAugust 21, 2026
Living Environment and ADHD
City stimulation or quiet countryside — how does where you live shape the ADHD mind? A psychiatrist reflects on Chicago and Saugatuck.
Read moreAugust 20, 2026
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and ADHD: A Psychiatrist's Speculation
There are no controlled trials demonstrating that psychedelic therapies treat ADHD. What follows is not a clinical recommendation — it is an attempt to think carefully about where two rapidly evolving fields might, someday, intersect.
Read moreAugust 20, 2026
The Hidden Exhaustion of Compensating for Executive Dysfunction
Some of the most capable people I see are also the most depleted. They have spent years compensating for ADHD that was never identified — and the cost of that compensation is real.
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