<![CDATA[Is It ADHD or Anxiety?: Why Your Anxiety Treatment Half-Worked, How Adult ADHD Hides in Plain Sight,]]> https://tellthemapart.com/books/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety Is It ADHD or Anxiety? is a podcast built from Book 4 of the Tell Them Apart series , a set of eight books that help neurodivergent adults separate experiences that feel identical but call for completely different handling. This show takes on the most commonly confused pairing of the set: ADHD and anxiety.

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Episode by episode, we work through a practical method for reading your own experience as it happens: the calm-mind test, how to read your restlessness, sorting two kinds of racing thoughts, telling an executive wall from a fear wall, and a three-question real-time decoder you can run in about thirty seconds. Later episodes cover what to do when it's both, why your anxiety tools keep backfiring, medication and sequencing conversations, getting an assessment that sees both engines, and building a life that serves the brain you actually have.

This podcast is for education only. It is not medical or mental health advice, and it is not a substitute for evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment by a qualified professional. AI tools were used in the production of this podcast.

]]> RSS.com 2026.721.95756 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:28:53 GMT en 1050b342-8ca1-54bc-b396-479b5aadcd52 https://media.rss.com/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety-why-your-anxiety-treatment-half-worked-how-adult-adhd-hides-in-plain-sight/podcast_cover_20260802_081120_b7684c7831c1db46d604790775e3ca83.png Is It ADHD or Anxiety?: Why Your Anxiety Treatment Half-Worked, How Adult ADHD Hides in Plain Sight, https://tellthemapart.com/books/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety no tg 2026 TG TG false episodic podcast true <![CDATA[Stop Mistaking Task Paralysis for Laziness]]> The four-minute email that's

sat unanswered for nine days: that wall isn't one thing, it's two. In Chapter 5 we

separate the executive wall ("I want to but I can't" - the ADHD start signal that

won't fire) from the fear wall ("I could but I dread it" - anxious avoidance), and

give you the one question to ask in front of any wall. It was never laziness.

Educational only - not medical advice or diagnosis. AI tools were used in the

production of this podcast. Get the complete book here: https://amzn.to/45A4Smy

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety-why-your-anxiety-treatment-half-worked-how-adult-adhd-hides-in-plain-sight/3040605 e674d93c-5d07-404f-8fad-3c7f3e7f8481 1276 full Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:28:13 GMT false true <![CDATA[ADHD Skips and Anxiety Loops]]> This is the Tell Them Apart book series - Book 4 of 8. It's 2 a.m. and your mind

won't stop - but there are two completely different kinds of racing mind. In

Chapter 4 we teach the shape test (ADHD thoughts SKIP and branch outward; anxious

thoughts CIRCLE the same fear) and the content test (interesting ideas versus

threats). Learn to run both on your own last sleepless night and finally know which

engine is keeping you up. Educational only - not medical advice or diagnosis. AI

tools were used in the production of this podcast.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety-why-your-anxiety-treatment-half-worked-how-adult-adhd-hides-in-plain-sight/3040591 92c46527-d5d5-4e8d-9893-047b92864083 1240 full Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:12:49 GMT false true <![CDATA[Telling ADHD and Anxiety Restlessness Apart]]> Restlessness is the hardest

symptom to read, because both engines produce a can't-sit-still buzz - and they

need opposite responses. In Chapter 3 we separate stimulation-seeking restlessness

(an ADHD body hunting for input, energy pointing outward) from threat-driven arousal

(an anxious body braced to escape), using where you feel it, which way the energy

points, and what happens when you move. If you've never been able to tell, you're

not bad at reading yourself - this is the blurriest symptom there is. Educational

only - not medical advice or diagnosis. AI tools were used in the production of this

podcast. Get the complete book here: https://amzn.to/45A4Smy

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety-why-your-anxiety-treatment-half-worked-how-adult-adhd-hides-in-plain-sight/3040581 41ed4cf9-d4e7-41c0-bde4-5053b7936e84 585 full Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:01:54 GMT false true <![CDATA[ADHD Boredom Versus Anxiety Dread: The Calm Mind Test]]> If you take only one tool

from this whole series, take this one. In Chapter 2 we teach the calm-mind test:

the next time your focus collapses, ask whether your mind was calm or worried. ADHD

attention fails in a calm mind; anxiety attention fails in a worried one. We walk

through how to run it on a single real moment and how to read the signs that point

each way. Simple enough for the middle of a bad afternoon. Educational only - not

medical advice or diagnosis. AI tools were used in the production of this podcast.

Get the complete book here: https://amzn.to/45A4Smy

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/is-it-adhd-or-anxiety-why-your-anxiety-treatment-half-worked-how-adult-adhd-hides-in-plain-sight/3040567 e9d42cf7-2137-4449-8385-6aee837fb3f4 1433 full Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:50:02 GMT false true <![CDATA[Starved for Dopamine or Flooded with Fear]]> Two cars idle at a red light

making the same rough rumble - but one engine is starved for fuel and the other is

flooded. That's ADHD and anxiety. In Chapter 1 we name the symptoms the two

genuinely share, explain why they come from opposite internal causes, and reveal why

standard screening tools stumble on exactly the overlap that's had you stuck. If

you've felt unseen, this episode explains why that was real. Educational only - not

medical advice or diagnosis. AI tools were used in the production of this podcast.

Get the complete book here: https://amzn.to/45A4Smy

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