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09/22/2024

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its next lecture on Thursday September 26th at 6PM (NYC Time) on Zoom.
Topic: ADD/ADHD & Bi-Polar Disorder with Dr. Roberto Olivardia, PhD
ADHD can mess up your attention, your self-control, your mood, your sleep, and your activity level.
Bipolar disorder can do any of these, as well.
How to tell the one from the other? And what happens when both are present?
On September 26, learn more from psychologist Roberto Olivardia, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard and a well-known figure on the ADHD circuit.
To register for this lecture, please write to: [email protected]. Please include your first name and email address.
About us: The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group has been meeting in NYC since 1992.

09/15/2024

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The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following discussion on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (NYC Time) on Zoom.
ADHD & Bipolar Disorder w/ Roberto Olivardia, PhD
ADHD can mess up your attention, your self-control, your mood, your sleep, and your activity level.
Bipolar disorder can do any of these, as well.
How to tell the one from the other? And what happens when both are present?
On September 26, learn more from psychologist Roberto Olivardia, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard and a well-known figure on the ADHD circuit.
To register for this lecture, please write to: [email protected]. Please include your first name and email address.

09/11/2024

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following discussion on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (NYC Time) on Zoom.

ADHD & Bipolar Disorder w/ Roberto Olivardia, PhD

ADHD can mess up your attention, your self-control, your mood, your sleep, and your activity level.

Bipolar disorder can do any of these, as well.

How to tell the one from the other? And what happens when both are present?

On September 26, learn more from psychologist Roberto Olivardia, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard and a well-known figure on the ADHD circuit.

To register for this lecture, please write to: [email protected]. Please include your first name and email address.

09/03/2024

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its next General Support Group meeting this Thursday September 5th at 6PM.
We will have a "Live" in person meeting, and it will take place in the School Annex of the West End Collegiate Church
(we use the side entrance at 245 West 77th Street - Between Broadway & West End Ave).
Our goal is to offer a safe space where individuals with ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, OCD, etc can connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support.
If you have any questions, please send E mail to: [email protected] (Please include your first name & E mail address).

08/01/2024

Reminder: for members seeking mental health suppport:
The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its next General Support Group meeting at 6PM (NYC Time ) On Zoom.
We will do a general check in to see how your summer is going. We offer a safe space where individuals can connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support.
To join us. please send an E mail (include your first name & E mail address) to: [email protected]

08/01/2024

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its next General Support Group meeting on Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 6:00 PM (NYC Time ) On Zoom.
We will do a general check in to see how your summer is going. We offer a safe space where individuals can connect, share experiences, and offer mutual support.
To register, please send us an E mail (include your first name & E mail address) to: [email protected]
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03/12/2024

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following lecture on Thursday, March 14, 2024, from 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (NYC Time) on Zoom.

Love, Money & ADHD w/ Christine Hargrove
Couples' fights about finances are often experienced as more intense and destructive than other arguments. When you live with ADHD, it can be even harder to achieve financial harmony with your partner. One approach to this problem is ADHD-focused financial therapy, designed to help you and your partner think, behave, and communicate differently about money.

On Thursday March 14, hear more from Christine Hargrove, a Couple and Family Therapy PhD candidate at the University of Georgia who is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Financial Therapy Association.

She specializes in working with individuals, couples, and families with ADHD and integrates financial therapy into much of her clinical work.

To register for this lecture, please send E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

07/11/2023

Its Summer in the City, ADD/ADHD Style 😁
The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have have its next General Support Group meeting on Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 6:00 PM NYC Time (on Zoom).
Those who attend the meeting will have a brief opportunity to introduce themselves & talk about their challenges. The rest of the group will provide feedback, and share resources. Our goal is to help foster a sense of community for all meeting participants.
We live by the motto: Were Not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid 😊
To register for this Zoom meeting, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

07/04/2023

Its summer in the City, ADD/ADHD Style
The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have have its next General Support Group meeting on Thursday, July 6 2023 at 6:00 PM (on Zoom).
Those who attend the meeting will have a brief opportunity to introduce themselves & talk about their challenges. The rest of the group will provide feedback, and share resources. Our goal is to help foster a sense of community for all meeting participants.
We live by the motto: Were Not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid 😊
To register for this meeting, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

05/14/2023

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following lecture on Thursday May 18, 2023 from 6-8pm EDT on Zoom.

"Neurodivergence" and Corporate Hiring: A Recruitment Revolution? w/ Michael S. Bernick, Esq. co-author, The Autism Full Employment Act: The Next Stage of Jobs for Adults with Autism, ADHD, and Other Learning and Mental Health Differences

Who is fit to hold a job?

Of late, ideas on this have shifted. Or so it would seem.

Most striking: a verbal commitment to hire, and keep, candidates who -- before -- were rarely considered. Like those with autism or dyslexia or ADHD. In some quarters, these are viewed as expressions of "neurodivergence" (or "neurodiversity"). Variations, that is, on what's normal.

Also emerging: an ecosystem of advocates -- and coaches, consultants, trainers, recruiters, journalists, lawyers, academics, hospital workers, and human-resources personnel -- who are willing to act as intermediaries. Or cheerleaders.

On May 18, connecting some dots will be Michael S. Bernick, who is a Special Counsel with the San Francisco-based law firm of Duane Morris LLP.

Bernick is also a columnist for Forbes, where he writes about "emerging employment structures, policy and law"; a Fellow at both the Milken Institute and the Burning Glass Institute; and the research director of the California Workforce Association.

To register for this lecture, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

03/22/2023


The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to present the following lecture on Thursday March 23, 2023 From 6:00 to 8:00 PM EST.
Despite its shifting legal status, cannabis -- also known as ma*****na -- has long been popular within the ADHD community. With widespread decriminalization, that appetite is expected to grow.
Dr. Hernandez is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry at the uptown complex now known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
To register for this lecture, please send E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).
Cannabis, CBD & ADHD w/ , PhD. To register for this lecture, E mail: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

03/20/2023


The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is please to present the following lecture on Thursday March 23, 2023 From 6:00 to 8:00 PM EST.
Cannabis, CBD & ADHD w/ Mariely Hernandez, PhD.
Despite its shifting legal status, cannabis -- also known as ma*****na -- has long been popular within the ADHD community. With widespread decriminalization, that appetite is expected to grow.
This in the face of research-based arguments -- that cannabis can interfere with brain maturation; that it can limit cognitive development; that it can cause respiratory or cardiovascular distress; that it can addict -- against such use.
In recent years, a counterargument has emerged, largely from user experience.
Cannabis, it's said, can promote sleep (a perennial issue for those with ADHD). Others say it can soothe chronic pain (often elevated in persons with ADHD). Or help with anxiety (a common co-existing condition); including that brought on by stimulant medication.
Meanwhile, some of these same effects have been reported for a cannabis derivative -- cannabidiol, or CBD oil -- that can also be readily obtained.
On March 23, explore this topic with psychologist Mariely Hernandez. Dominican-born, and Bronx-raised, she earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at the City College of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.

The work leading up to that degree, which focused on addiction-related issues, was funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Her recent scholarship brings in ADHD as well, particularly in racially diverse college students.
Dr. Hernandez plans to investigate the origin, course, and spreading of these phenomena across the lifespan (and beyond). As such, she's currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry at the uptown complex now known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
She writes that "the point is not to be dream-crushers but to investigate drug effects so that users can make informed decisions."
To register for this lecture, please send E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

02/15/2023



The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to sponsor the following lecture:
Healthy Eating For Adults with ADD/ADHD w/ Nicole DeMasi Malcher, RDN, CDCES
Thursday February 16, 2023 From 6:00 -8:00 PM EST
Tired of emotional eating, recreational eating, or out-and-out binge eating?
Bothered by numbers that put you in the range of overweight ... or high cholesterol ... or diabetes ... or kidney disease?
Or: maybe the shoe is on the other foot. Feel worn down by this diet, or that weight-loss regimen?
In short: is there a middle ground between self-abuse and self-deprivation? Is there hope of attaining some control?
Especially when ADHD -- with its shortage of executive functioning -- is part of the picture?
On February 16, hear dietician and nutritionist Nicole DeMasi Malcher share what she's learned from working with "hundreds of different types of clients" with every conceivable need.
Nicole completed a dietetic internship at California State University, Northridge, in 2013. That same year, she gained board-certification in dietetics and nutrition.
The next year, Nicole earned an MS in nutritional science, again from CSU Northridge.
Elsewhere, she's been certified in diabetes care and education; as well as in motivational interviewing, a technique used in counseling and coaching.

To register, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

01/29/2023



The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to sponsor the following lecture: Healthy Eating for Adults with ADHD w/ Nicole DeMasi Malcher, RDN, CDCES

Thursday February 16, 2023 From 6:00 -8:00 PM EST
Tired of emotional eating, recreational eating, or out-and-out binge eating?

Bothered by numbers that put you in the range of overweight ... or high cholesterol ... or diabetes ... or kidney disease?
Or: maybe the shoe is on the other foot. Feel worn down by this diet, or that weight-loss regimen?

In short: is there a middle ground between self-abuse and self-deprivation? Is there hope of attaining some control?
Especially when ADHD -- with its shortage of executive functioning -- is part of the picture?

On February 16, hear dietician and nutritionist Nicole DeMasi Malcher share what she's learned from working with "hundreds of different types of clients" with every conceivable need.
Nicole completed a dietetic internship at California State University, Northridge, in 2013. That same year, she gained board-certification in dietetics and nutrition.

The next year, Nicole earned an MS in nutritional science, again from CSU Northridge.

Elsewhere, she's been certified in diabetes care and education; as well as in motivational interviewing, a technique used in counseling and coaching.

To register, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

01/29/2023

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its next General Support Group meeting on Thursday, February 2, at 6:00 PM. Our meeting will be a virtual event – on Zoom

Participants will have the opportunity to share their story. The rest of the group will provide feedback, and share resources. Our goal is to help foster a sense of community for all meeting participants. Our motto: Were Not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid 🙂

To register, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

01/23/2023

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group Is Pleased To Present The Following Lecture:
An Integrative Approach to ADHD Treatment w/ Lidia Zylowska, MD
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 From 7:00 – 9:00 PM EST
ADHD is more than just a matter of genes or wiring. Outside issues -- physical health, lifestyle, sense of self, stress levels, relationships, environment -- factor in as well.
And shape how we think about treatment. To cultivate a broader sense of wellbeing, many with ADHD combine the usual with an "alternative" or "holistic" or "complementary" approach.
Such as dosing on micronutrients (zinc, iron, magnesium); or botanical supplements (Korean red ginseng, ginkgo biloba, pycnogenol, bacopa monnieri); or adaptogens (ashwagandha, rhodiola rosea).
Or -- through the use of probiotics -- tending to the "brain-gut axis." Or setting up a regimen of stress management (mindfulness training, habit training) or mind-body alignment (exercise, breathwork, acupuncture).
Our presenter, psychiatrist Lidia Zylowska, earned a medical degree at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. She followed this with a stint at UCLA's Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
To register for this lecture, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

01/04/2023

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group will have its first meeting of 2023 on Thursday, January 5, at 6:00 PM on Zoom.
We will start the year with a general support group meeting. Participants will have the opportunity to share their story. The rest of the group will provide feedback, and share resources. Our goal is to help foster a sense of community for all meeting participants.

Our motto: Were Not Lazy, Crazy, or Stupid 🙂

To register, please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

12/20/2022

The Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group is pleased to sponsor the following lecture: Non-Invasive Neuromodulation For Inattention In ADHD w/ Douglas Teixeira Leffa, MD, PhD

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 From 6:00 -8:00 PM Eastern - On Zoom

In what is now called TDCS, or Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation, a weak electrical charge can be directed -- through a patient's scalp -- toward an outer brain region. There, it can alter sensation or emotion or behavior or cognition.
To register for this lecture (which will take place on Zoom), please send an E mail to: [email protected] (please include your first name & E mail address).

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