What qualifies as ADD treatment?

[Anonymous]

Obviously there is medication but what other options are there?

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[Patte Rosebank]

Treatment involves several factors: medication, behavioural therapy, life coaching, meditation, journalling, and exercise. Just one on its own will help a bit, but if you do all of them together, the results will be much, much better. Some people find that the discipline, meditation, and exercise of doing martial arts is very effective for them. Me, I just go walkies a lot.

There are those not in the “legitimate” medical profession (homeopaths, naturopaths, people trying to sell you their “alternative” treatments), who will claim that medications are “evil”, and should be avoided at all costs. This is like saying that eyeglasses are “evil” or wheelchairs are “evil”, and that people should try to treat their vision or mobility problems with exercises or vitamins or “alternative medical devices”, or homeopathic remedies. The medications used to treat ADD have been proven safe and effective, throughout the many decades that they’ve been in use. Ritalin, for example, has been around since the 1930s, long before ADD was even diagnosed as such.

You should never expect medications to do all the work for you, but they will make it much, much easier for you to implement all the other changes to help you function better. So don’t rule them out.

Explore this website. There’s so much information on it, particularly in the Tools and Videos sections. They have lots of information, presented in a way that’ll hold our limited attention!

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[Anonymous]

One of the main components of treatment that I find makes it most successful is to not try to take this on alone. Recognize where your specific areas of difficulty are and try to get help in those particular areas. If you have trouble managing your finances, either hire a money manager or get a spouse, friend or parent to help you. Don’t force yourself to suffer through something that drives you batty and on top of that can actually ruin your life if you don’t do it properly.

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