Vancouver Is The First City In Canada To Proclaim ADHD Awareness Week. Thanks Vancouver City Council!

8 years of ADHD Awareness Weeks/days for in the US starting with the original nation resolution in the US Senate in 2004. Zero ADHD Awareness Weeks/Days in Canada. None at the Federal level. None at the provincial level. None at the municipal level. But I’m happy to report that on Tuesday, Oct 18th, 2011, The

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Pete Quoted in The Globe and Mail Coping With Adult ADHD: First You Need a Diagnosis

I was quoted in an article on Adult ADHD in Monday’s Globe and Mail Newspaper (the major National Canadian Newspaper) written by Adriana Barton, Oct. 3rd, 2011 p L1 in the Life section. Sarah Byth the Vision Vancouver parks commissioner who is the first elected politician in Canada and the US to go public with

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First Elected Politician With The Courage To Go Public With Having ADHD in Canada Or America. Thanks Sarah Blyth!

Billionaire entrepreneurs, Gold medal winning Olympic athletes and entertainers, and pulitzer prize newspaper columnists have gone public with ADHD but up until now no elected politician in Canada or in the US has gone public with having ADHD that I’ve been able to find. I’ve searched the web and asked many people in both Canada

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Girls And Women With ADHD Have Higher Rates of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa And Binge Eating, Here Are Some Reasons Why

Girls with ADHD were 2.7 times more likely to develop Anorexia Nervosa a study in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics showed. This post will show that girls and women with ADHD have higher rates of Anorexia Nervosa as well as Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder, and explain some of the reasons why.

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