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Why Using Anxiety To Manage Your ADHD Isn't A Good Idea
Season 1
Episode 176
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
Running your business on anxiety feels like productivity. It isn't. It's a system built on urgency, and it burns out fast.
Research suggests that goal-focused interventions can reduce anxiety in adults with ADHD. What they don't appear to do is meaningfully improve executive functioning. Skye and Will break down a Norwegian randomized controlled trial on goal management training, what it found, and why that gap between feeling less anxious and actually getting more done matters for how you run your work.
What We Cover
- Why using anxiety as a task manager is a direct path to burnout
- What the research found about goal management training and anxiety reduction
- Why the study's results showed little change in executive functioning despite structured intervention
- The difference between reducing mental load and building systems that improve output
- What's missing from most ADHD support frameworks when it comes to actual mechanics
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