Links and Books of interest
Organizations
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
ADDA: The World's Leading Adult AD/HD Organization
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
CHADD has many local chapters nationwide giving support and education for children, their parents, and adults with AD/HD
Publications
National Center for Gender Issues and AD/HD
For girls and women, ADHD is often a hidden disorder, ignored or
misdiagnosed by the educational and medical communities causing these
girls and women to suffer in silence.
NCGI is promoting awareness, advocacy, and research on AD/HD in women and girls.
ADDitude Magazine
Happy Healthy Lifestyle Magazine for People with Attention Deficit Disorder.
On Line Help
Check out RememberIt.com for a wonderful customized email system of reminders.
- Need help remembering to take your medication?
Send yourself an email. - How about scheduled maintenance on your car or your teeth?
Send yourself an email. - AND send those reminders with enough lead time to actually DO something about 'em.
Also check out Memo to Me You can set the time of day, as well as how far in advance, you'd like those reminders sent
Books
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Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D. (1995)
In my opinion this is the most complete lay reference for recognizing
and coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from childhood through
adulthood. Easy to read with great illustrative stories, it includes a
very complete but informal gauge for self-recognition of AD/HD.
This writing team produced several other very fine books on the topic including:
Answers to Distraction in 1996. And most recently Delivered from Distraction : Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder in 2005.
Healing ADD by Thom Hartmann
From the author's review of the book in Amazon.com: This book is filled
with some of the most powerful and transformational real-world
techniques available, derived from neuro-linguistic programming, to
heal pain, drop away useless habits, and help ADHD people regain
control of their lives as well as their self-esteem.
New books on the topic of ADHD include:
Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults by Thomas E Brown, Ph.D.
This is a wonderful comprehensive education about ADHD. Dr. Brown's
style is compassionate and clear. His model of ADD groups significant
chronic difficulties which tend to show up together and improve
together into six clusters of symptoms which he calls the ADD Syndrome:
“a complex disorder that involves impairment in focus, organization,
motivation, emotional modulation, memory and other functions of the
brain’s management system.” Check out my review of this book in my blog.
Fidget to Focus by Roland Rotz and Sarah D. Wright
If you can sit still OR focus, you might already be familiar with the
benefit of this book. What makes the process work is learning to use
different senses for the fidget and for the focus.
Check out my review of this book in my blog
When Too Much Isn't Enough by Wendy Richardson
It’s hard to know when you’ve eaten enough, if you don’t notice a full
feeling in your stomach. People with AD/HD could find it hard just to
remember how much they've had to drink – and I’m not talking here
because of a drunken stupor. Undiagnosed or untreated AD/HD makes it
easier to slide into problems and then more difficult to recover from
them.
Richardson’s easily-readable book looks at the many faces of
self-medication and why people with AD/HD over indulge or become
addicted to drugs, food, alcohol and compulsive behaviors. Check out my review of this book in my blog
These next books are not particularly ADD based,
but seem to be of interest to many clients
Shadow Syndromes by John J. Ratey, M.D. and Catherine Johnson, Ph.D.
Recognizing and coping with the hidden psychological disorders,
mild forms of serious mental disorders, that can influence you behavior
and silently determine the course of your life.
Sidetracked Home Executives by Pam Young and Peggy Jones
As an person with ADD and a not-so-great (ha!) house-cleaner, I love
this book for its method of attack on cleaning. It is the
quintessential system for finding the smallest possible thing to do: a
piece easy to commit to, a system that encourages me to accomplish
pieces of cleaning. Even a small straightened corner of my living room
or office is progress!
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