Executive Function Beyond ADHD

A Workbook for Adults with Depression, Anxiety, Autism, or Long-COVID Brain Fog

By: Rachel Torres

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

If you have been told you are "not ADHD" but still cannot make yourself start tasks, cannot hold information long enough to act on it, and are swimming in shame about tasks that pile up undone while you sit frozen and frustrated — this book was written for you.

Executive Dysfunction Beyond ADHD is the first comprehensive, condition-specific workbook for the millions of adults whose inability to initiate, organize, and sustain goal-directed behavior is rooted not in ADHD but in depression, anxiety, autism spectrum neurology, or long-COVID brain fog. It addresses the specific neuroscience of executive function impairment in each of these four conditions separately — because the mechanism in depression is different from the mechanism in anxiety, which is different from autistic inertia, which is categorically different from post-exertional malaise — and provides condition-specific strategies for each.

Inside this compassionate, evidence-informed workbook you will find: clear neuroscience explanations of why your brain struggles with initiation, working memory, and task management — written for non-specialists; condition-specific chapters on executive dysfunction in depression, anxiety, autism, and long-COVID with strategies matched to each mechanism; workbook exercises for mapping your own executive function profile; condition-appropriate initiation strategies including the Minimum Viable Action, regulate-first approaches, autistic inertia transition bridges, and long-COVID pacing; external scaffolding systems designed for impaired working memory; task management approaches for dysregulated brains; emotional regulation as an executive function skill; tools for building a personal protocol based on your specific condition; and frameworks for sustainable functioning, setback navigation, and genuine self-compassion.

This is not another productivity book dressed in sympathy. This is a workbook grounded in the specific neurobiology of your condition, written for people who have tried the standard advice and watched it fail, and who deserve an approach designed for their actual brain.