| It's only been about 20 years since the medical | | | | like to stop off along the way and sniff the flowers. |
| community changed their thinking on ADD. Yet, many | | | | Yet, we still have to learn how to adapt to fit into their |
| doctors still hold the belief that ADD disappears once | | | | world. How can we do it? |
| people grow up. | | | | Attention deficit coaching is a great way to find out |
| Adults with attention deficit know differently. Though | | | | what your ADD strengths are and to work with those. |
| many learn to control their symptoms as adults, for | | | | A good coach can help you to find a job that fits your |
| others, it's impossible, and they continue to struggle with | | | | personality, to be more organized, or to find a |
| short attention spans for anything outside their sphere | | | | compatible partner. Coaching is often a better solution |
| of interest and other symptoms related to attention | | | | than medication, but you'll have to discuss this with |
| deficit. | | | | your family doctor. |
| However, you may think you have attention deficit, | | | | If you are working with a coach, he or she might help |
| when you really only have ADD tendencies. Take a | | | | you to get your house organized, for instance, to set |
| test online to see if you might have attention deficit, | | | | up some ADD-friendly systems that will help you to do |
| and then, consider these two things: | | | | what's needed. Simple suggestions like having places |
| First, are the symptoms so severe that they have | | | | you can just toss things so you'll remember where |
| disrupted your life? Second, have they lasted for more | | | | they are when you need them becomes simple for |
| than six months? If you don't have all the symptoms of | | | | you with the right coach. They'll make sure that you |
| ADD or if the two qualifiers don't apply to you, then | | | | find your car keys every single day, without effort! |
| you probably have only ADD tendencies. But whether | | | | Whether you use coaching or medication or a |
| you have full-blown attention deficit or only tendencies | | | | combination of both to help you with attention deficit, |
| of ADD, don't let it stop you! | | | | probably nothing will help more than a good support |
| Diagnosis can be a great relief to some, while other | | | | group. You can find them offline and online, too. But the |
| people become depressed. You're looking at ADD the | | | | biggest thing is that you're able to communicate with |
| wrong way! I like to see ADD as a blessing. People | | | | people going through the same frustrations as you are. |
| with attention deficit are usually highly intelligent, and | | | | They have lost their keys a million times, too. You'll |
| can do things they love to do at the speed of sound. | | | | learn more from other people who have attention |
| Don't look at it as a "disease" or a "disorder." You | | | | deficit themselves than anyone else. |
| might like to know that part of the medical community | | | | Remember to think of ADD as a blessing, and not as |
| actually see ADD as the next evolution of the human | | | | a curse. If you recently learned that you have adult |
| brain. We're just accommodating the way the 21st | | | | attention deficit, try to see it in a positive light. The |
| Century evolves--at the speed of light. | | | | sooner you do, the sooner you'll b able to rise to your |
| But we still live as a minority in a world of linear-thinking | | | | full potential. See ADD as a joy and you'll make much |
| people. They don't really understand the way we think. | | | | faster progress. |
| Their brains go down straight pathways, whereas ours | | | | |