The Luke Sklar Mental Health Initiative Presents:
ADHD in Adults: How to recognize and overcome it
With Guest Speaker Dr. Doron Almagor, MD FRCPC, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
and Lived Experience Speaker Naomi Wise, Registered Psychotherapist, Neurofeedback therapist
Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 pm, in the Mishkan
When we think about ADHD, our first images are often of overactive children, blurting out or being disruptive in class, disorganized, forgetful, and daydreaming.
The fact is, about 5% of all Canadians have ADHD. That’s about 1.8 million of us. It manifests in ways most adults don’t recognize but constantly struggle with: underachievement in education or at work, difficulty starting a project or finishing it, relationship breakdown due to mismanagement of finances or the household, scrambling to care for children and loved ones, remembering dates and deadlines, and more. This often leads to mental health problems like anxiety and depression, as well as self-medicating with alcohol and drugs. Many adults live their entire lives with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD.
We are so fortunate to have Dr. Doron Almagor, as well as lived experience speaker Naomi Wise, to share their insights with us. Our aim for this evening is to better understand what ADHD is, help adults recognize if they have it, understand how ADHD is diagnosed, its relationship to other mental health disorders, and discuss best treatment options (both pharmacological and non-drug methods.) We’ll conclude with a Q & A session.
Please join us in the Mishkan and feel the warmth of community as we learn together, share together, and enjoy refreshments after the program.
For anyone who can’t make it in person, the event will also be Livestreamed. Please register below for the link and password.
Please register here (whether attending in person or online) to join us.
More about Dr. Almagor:
Dr. Doron Almagor is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist who completed his specialty training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and disorders like anxiety and depression that often go along with it. He is the Chair of CADDRA’s Advisory Council, which provides healthcare professionals across Canada with scientifically supported guidelines for diagnosing and treating ADHD. He has also served as the President of the Ontario Psychiatric Association (OPA). Dr. Almagor lectures internationally and trains medical residents at the University of Toronto in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. He is the Founder and Director of the Possibilities Clinic, headquartered in Toronto, which serves children, teens, and adults across Ontario with in-person and telemedicine assessments and treatments.
More about Naomi Wise:
Naomi Wise is a Registered Psychotherapist and Neurofeedback therapist. She specializes in adults with ADHD and draws from her personal experience of a later in life diagnosis of ADHD and parenting two children with ADHD. She leads a therapy group called The ADHD Journey for Adults with ADHD, many of whom were diagnosed later in life. Naomi is also a veteran, award-winning documentary filmmaker and a teacher with over thirty years’ experience directing, writing, producing and shooting more than 50 feature and short films and TV series across the globe. She has overseen the preservation of Canadian Holocaust survivor testimonies for the past three decades. Her films have been shown at film festivals and conferences on racism, genocide and Holocaust history.
If you have a question you’d like addressed by Dr. Almagor or Ms. Wise during the program, in confidence, please see the directions on your registration form.
This program is generously sponsored by The Luke Sklar Mental Health Initiative.
