Adult ADD Strengths

Thanks Jeff

again, wow.

Adult ADD Coaching Client.

Pete was a great help to me in dealing with my ADD related job challenges, and helped me confront some personal issues that I feared but could not describe. I had to get through a job loss (that I realize now is what I wanted!) and he helped me understand that all wasn’t well at home either. I feel I am now able to work through my challenges on my own. I have a roadmap and have been working through it, giving me great clarity.

There are a lot of ways how to deal with Adult Attention Surplus Condition, aka Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Here are a few.

Top Ten Ways to Manage Adult ADHD

1. ADHD Coaching. More for adults than children. Pills can be useful but pills don’t teach skills. They can however, put you in a better place to learn them through ADD coaching or therapy. See the 26 benefits of adult ADHD coaching. Adult ADHD Coaching focuses on practical day to day ways to manage adult ADHD more effectively at work and at home. Adult ADHD Coaches work on dealing with the challenges of ADHD and identifying and developing the strengths of having ADHD. They work over the phone for 3-4 sessions per month. Most adult ADD coaches offer a free sample sessions of ADD coaching so you can try before you buy.

Overboard by Chip Dunham is one of the funniest comic strips out there. Louie is my favourite character. Life coaches are everywhere.

When I first read the Canadian Mental Health Association’s press release about their 56th annual mental health week, I thought it was from a coaching association. I.e. the focus on life career balance issue is a very common issue that we coaches deal with, especially those of us who coach adults with attention deficit disorder, who often seem to go-go-go until they end up spinning their wheels going nowhere, crash or burn out.

Self care activities and working on life career balance issues are hugely important for ADDers, who often tend towards perfectionism, workaholism and putting themselves last.

I was recently quoted in an article on adult ADD in The Telegram, Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest daily newspaper based in the capital St. John’s. The Telegram’s been around for a while, 128 years. Reporter Tara Mullowney wrote the article and I’m reproducing it in full with permission here. I don’t have any listing of ADD support groups in Newfoundland yet in my list of Canadian ADD support groups by province, (here’s my international ADD suppport group list) so if anyone knows of any there please email me with the details.

Adults deal with ADD
The Telegram (St. John’s)
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Page: A1
Section: Front
Byline: Tara Mullowney
Source: The Telegram

I was interviewed in the current edition of Canadian Living magazine (it’s the April 07 version on the newstands now, even though it’s March) on the topic of adult ADHD in women and ADHD coaching.

Unfortunately the article isn’t available online but is currently available in magazine stores across Canada. It’s a 6 page article written by Mark Witten,

who has won a number of Gold National Magazine Awards, and national awards from the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and the Canadian Nurses Association for health writing.

Healthoma has a blog post titled ADHD is treatable. Great title and great point. via Your ADD/ADHD news ADD blog carnival

The causes are linked to genes and to the environment—they are not caused by an excessive intake of sugar or by any other medication. Typically, another family member may have also suffered from it and this is also a sign.

Some people especially men with ADHD stay in denial about having ADHD, in some cases they need to be on their 2nd or 3rd wife until they clue in. Or their 4th or 5th job they’ve been fired from/had to quit before getting fired.