Living with someone, especially someone you love, who is depressed can be hard. It is hard to watch some you love struggle. It is also hard to be around them because living with a depressed person can make you depressed. Even if you are a generally happy, positive person, it can still happen.

So how can living with a depressed person make you depressed?

Here are a few things to watch out for:

First, I want to acknowledge the struggle of being a single parent. It isn’t easy by any stretch of the imagination. But being a single parent with ADHD brings the struggle to a whole new level.

The idea that ADHD is a disorder isn’t really true. What is true is that a person with ADHD has a brain that works differently than is typical within their culture. So who is the authority on what is “typical” and what isn’t?