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Article #53: ADD: Getting Through College With The Least Stress

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Many people with ADD find it very you're studying, be sure to give yourself
difficult to stick to a four-year program a half hour of math (if you can
at college and to get their degrees. concentrate that long), a half hour of
College can be hard for anyone when there something you like to do, and then, back
are 5 papers due all on the same day. But to math of another half hour. Or, if your
you have the added handicap of being attention span is only 15 minutes, start
easily bored and quickly finding with math, move to creative writing for
distraction. So, though it's no cakewalk 15 minutes, then art history for 15
for any college student, getting your minutes, and psychology 101 can make up
degree can be particularly hard when you the rest of your hour. Just keep doing
have ADD. How can that be helped? Find a this for as many hours as you need to
school that will work with you and your really get cranking with math. Or, you'll
ADD. Most colleges require 15 credits to have to find a more flexible college.
be classified as a full-time student, but Some will allow you to design your own
most will also allow you to take fewer major, which is ideal for people with
credits, though you'll only be classified ADD. That way, you'll be concentrating on
as part-time. If this isn't a tax issue subjects that you know you can enjoy and
for you or your parents, being a really put your hyperfocus into gear and
part-time student with fewer classes to make it work for you. The whole thing
worry about may be a solution for you. should be about finding a college that's
Another solution would be to take fewer right for you. If you're in school now
of the required courses that you find it and having a terrible time at it,
hard to deal with. Maybe take one of transfer to a school that understands
those per semester, and fill your your ADD. That comes even before you look
schedule with classes that you do like. for the money because there are always
For instance, what if you absolutely, scholarships that you can employ. Yet, if
positively have to take Algebra and Trig you don't find the right school, you may
during your first semester, and find it end up only hoping for a degree instead
very difficult to deal with math? One of really earning one.
solution would be to take creative Tellman Knudson is a certified
writing, art history, and psychology 101 hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, who
or any other low-level class, or whatever has helped many of his clients to cope
classes appeal to you, as asides. When with the symptoms of ADD.






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