LOADING ERROR LOADING Dirty dishes piled up in your sink. “Very few people actually experience a clutter-free or mess-free life,” said Michael Tompkins, psychologist and co-director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy. “Executive function gets slammed.” Tasks of low interest or with no real deadline are especially difficult for people with ADHD to initiate, said Natalie …
Luis went to prison on a life sentence 16 years ago, at age 17. So he had never cooked or done dishes before moving to the “Little Scandinavia” unit in the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Chester last year — an experiment modeled after Northern European systems of incarceration, where the goal is less about punishment and more about turning …
