If you’re in a chronic state of disorganization, procrastination, or you can’t seem to get much accomplished, you might be wondering what’s wrong. The answer might be that you are suffering from adult add or adhd.  

Maybe your parents or grandparents had similar behavioral issues

and so it must be genetic? And you need to know if there is anything you can do about it? And to make matters worse your child is showing signs of all this same problem. Well the symptoms that define what you are looking for may include:

• Inability to concentrate on what you are doing
• Difficulty in completing what you are doing so you may be doing one task before finishing another one or even reading more than one book at a time.
• Buying things that you mean to do but never get around to doing them.
• Daydream and doodle instead of getting down to what needs to be done.
• That you don’t like yourself and neither does anybody else.
• That nobody understands what you are going through.
• You may be constantly doing certain tasks, fidgeting, cleaning or compelled to do certain things in certain ways and it upsets you that other people don’t do these things the same way that you do.
• You may focus on an issue – whatever that issue is – repeating scenarios and conversations in your head so it never gets resolved
• Lacking self confidence and belief in yourself

Well, here’s my disclosure. I had all of those feelings and thoughts this morning and you know what when I ask people at random – they did too! So what does that mean that we all have ADHD / ADD? Because that is how it is defined as a checklist of symptoms over a period of time. I had been supporting children and families with behavioral challenges including ADHD / ADD for many years before I suddenly woke up to the fact that I may well have it myself because I hit the checklist. Now I don’t believe for one minute that I do have these conditions but I could quite easily talk myself into believing it. Especially when I go into some of the forums that post discussions around these symptoms.

All of a sudden, a light goes on in people’s minds. They focus on these symptoms and suddenly there is a reason for them to explain why they haven’t actually got the life they truly want – they have finally got a label to hang it all on! And others on these forums who have been down the same road on these sites, rub their hands with glee that they are ‘helping’ someone out here and point them off to the doctor. There are huge profits being made by pharmaceutical companies in supporting the ADHD /ADD industry. Very little is known about what causes it and that is no surprise when some of those symptoms are common to most of the population of the world at any given time

Now, I don’t question that taking these drugs helps people feel better, but what we need to do is find out why. How do these drugs work? What are their side effects? And just as these conditions vary from individual to individual so too, do the side effects of the medication they take to control it. And if these magic formulas work – why are they still on these sites talking about the same old symptoms? Why haven’t they been cured?

There are other ways to deal with your symptoms in an individually focused way. Change what needs changing from within and measure that change for yourself. Define your goals and measure your journey step by step but most importantly inform yourself of what that journey entails. And finally…celebrate the success of being you. Believe it or not… There are tools out there to help you do just that.

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If you’re an adult with ADD, then you may be familiar with the concept that (at times), slowing down is a very difficult thing to do. There are many tasks to complete and so little time to complete them. So your mind starts working at high velocity, trying to achieve your whole "To Do" list, or getting frustrated in your realization that completing all required tasks is not possible. As a result, you spend a lot of time worrying, and very little time getting pleasure from life.

While the process of slowing down is difficult to explain, it certainly is possible. Here are 6 established strategies to slow down the adult ADD brain:

1. Monitor and Control Your Work– Control your work/business hours. Admittedly at times it is necessary to work overtime, don’t do it unless it is absolutely mandatory. You will work more competently during the day when the time you have to complete your job is fixed. Additionally, take some time off–at least two or three weekends a month.

2. Arrange For a Night Out With Others–Nothing is better than having a night out with your friends. This may be with work colleagues,personal friends, family, or members of a group you are a part of. Be sure to let off a little steam.

3. Schedule a weekly event (Like Taking a Class or belonging to a club–play poker with your buddies or get together with your girlfriends for a dinner in a good restaurant): Find a reason to go out of the house and out of the office each week. Attend a class, if possible to learn something new . . . something you are passionate about. Ensure you pay for the class beforehand so you will not be tempted to make excuses not to go.

4. Maintaining a Daily Journal–This will make you take time out and reflect. It will help you in dealing with nervous tension and enhances clarity of mind. Try to do it every day. Don’t be bothered about sentence structure, syntax, punctuation, or flow since no one else ever has to see it.

5. Meditate– There are many approaches to meditation, but the one described here is ‘mindfulness meditation’. This is merely the action of being there in the present – whether you are working, walking, or washing the dishes. Make an effort to keep your mind in the instant, and do not ‘tag on’ worrying or troublesome thoughts or feelings. It’s OK to take ‘baby-steps’ at first, with 5 minutes spent in mindful meditation daily. After a week or so, build on your performance as you become more and more at ease with the process.

6. Turn Off Your Computer 2 Hours Before Bed– Computers are rather interesting, in particular for ADDers, frequently finding themselves sitting at their computer at 3 o’clock in the morning completely pre-occupied in exploring something totally arbitrary. They cannot move away from the computer and going to bed is just not a consideration. Set a deadline and get in the habit of switching the computer off at least two hours prior to going to sleep so as to allow time to wind down before going to bed.

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Garry Macdonald & Kieran Smyth have established a website providing little known information about attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). To learn the insider secrets about ADD or ADHD, go to www.adhdsecretsuncovered.com .

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