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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2026 · 11 MIN

Why Using Anxiety To Manage Your ADHD Isn't A Good Idea

from The ADHD Skills Lab · host Skye Waterson

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 CoverWhy using anxiety as a task manager is a direct path to burnoutWhat the research found about goal management training and anxiety reductionWhy the study's results showed little change in executive functioning despite structured interventionThe difference between reducing mental load and building systems that improve outputWhat's missing from most ADHD support frameworks when it comes to actual mechanicsWant more of Will's work? Visit HackingYourADHD.com or subscribe on YouTube. P.S. Losing work because the admin layer around your business can't keep up with you? Invisible Systems is a 90-day done-for-you sprint where I (Skye) extract the processes from your head, build the operating layer, and find the right person to run it. Six spots left at the founding price, book a call at https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/

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 ru...

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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...

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