Reply To: The 'Unritalin Solution'

[Scattybird]

@K (daddy rocks) – hi and welcome to the site.  Thanks for bringing up the Unritalin site. I had never heard of it before so I will have a read and then maybe be able to comment on your original question.  It might be useful, but in reality there are relatively few useful sites out there. Additude sometimes has some useful articles. On saying that, the way to find out more is to read everything.  I do get skeptical if money has to be parted with unless I am buying a book or a DVD.

It sounds like you are really frazzled.  I have ADD – I do not live with someone with ADD (apart from myself) so I have no idea how to motivate someone. But from my personal experience I only started to try to implement strategies once I admitted to myself that I needed to do something to change the way I lived.  I found a book called ‘ADD Friendly Ways to Organise Your Life’ and that had such simple strategies in it that I decided to try to follow them. Making a strategy into a habit is key…..but also trying too many at once is impossible. One at a time….

Maybe your children have not reached that point yet? …but they will.

However, even with simple strategies I slipped too easily. I found out that there have to be consequences for me to get sufficient motivation to implement a strategy and stick to it. How one develops that motivation for someone else I really don’t know.  Everyone is different which complicates things. But consequences and accountability are two words that crop up over and over.  The consequence of not using deodorant is to lose friends?

I haven’t read all the comments in this thread yet….I bent my glasses and reading gives me a headache at the moment……must book an opticians appointment…..

However, I did glean that you were offended by one of the posts. Please don’t be. We all have ADD here and as you know along with that comes some passion, sometimes we speak (or write) before we think and often we go off on a tangent during the answers. None of us here is an ‘expert’ in the medical sense except for Dr J.  We are just a community of people who share our experiences. Sometimes we get it right and other times we get it wrong. Subtlety isn’t always a strong point for an ADDer. Certainly my passion for certain things has gained me some annoying nicknames at work…..yet I am always right! 🙂  All the people who have contributed to this thread are good hearted and mean well so please don’t take offence…..sometimes we just get carried away by what’s in our heads.

I will read the Unritalin site with interest and see what it’s about.

 

 

 

 

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