The Art of ADD

Like many adults diagnosed with ADHD, I was pretty ambivalent about taking medication at first. Of course the idea of getting focused piqued my interest, but part of me also balked at the idea. After all – I had done quite well in my life without medication until that point. But my psychiatrist had a [...]

Hello dear friends, it has been a few weeks and I-HAVE-MISSED-YOU! I want to thank you for being “so understanding” by allowing me the space to work on other endeavors, even if it means letting go of posting for a little while. As always, I write my posts transparently for one reason: I believe there [...]

Christmas is quickly approaching and the pressure is on to find the perfect gift for those people who matter. Every year, it seems to get harder and harder to find just the right thing. And even though we put a lot of effort into this yearly event, the joy we feel from giving quickly fades [...]

It sucks when you really want to do something and you just can’t do it. It sucks even more when you know you can, but for whatever reason, it seems you can’t get your sh*t together and get it done. If only I could get organized, then I could get this project done. If only [...]

If I am completely honest with you, which I always am, doing this post today makes me feel like a bit of a rip-off artist. For a couple of reasons. Firstly, doing a compendium of inspirational quotes is hardly an original idea. If you’re not an avid blog reader you’ll have to trust me when [...]

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.” Norman Vincent Peale   Everyone has obstacles. EVERYONE HAS OBSTACLES! Sorry for shouting. It’s just that on this path we call life, we tend to forget a couple of really important things [...]

I am not going to post today and I apologize for that. I promised myself when I started this blog that, come hell or high water, I would post every week. But Armageddon isn’t here and neither is the deluge. I have been working long hours and am tired from the recent move across the [...]

So you’re stuck. You do everything your clinician has told you to do, you take the medication and try to get organized but still, you just can’t get on top of your ADD. As much as I wish medication would fix everything, it doesn’t. It helps, but it only takes you part way on the [...]

  If you don’t stop and review your life every once and awhile, you might miss it. And on that note: a month has passed since The Art of ADD launched. Now seems like a good time to review it. The world of blogging had been a foreign territory to me before I started at [...]

Everybody’s busy. Everyone needs more time. But apart from Dr. Who, none of us can control how fast it passes. We do control how we spend the time we have. But even when we ADDers have time – we often fail to use it effectively. For several reasons: we don’t have a firm concept of [...]