By Rick Green
The holidays are a challenging time for everyone. Whether you have ADHD, or you’re one of those ‘neuro-typical’ folks.
Santa himself has to do more than UPS and Fed Ex combined. And it’s not much easier on the rest of us…
The end-of-year, crazy-making, crowd-crushing, high-pressure, time-sucking, energy-sapping, hysteria-causing holidays are here. Forget celebrating. How about surviving? Rick has a suggestion.
So here’s the ADHD dilemma. Or at least, my ADHD dilemma. I’m behind in stuff. In a lot of stuff. Not always. And not everywhere. But especially before I got the diagnosis and started working on this, most of the time I was in overwhelm, playing catch-up
Until I knew that I qualified as ADHD I struggled. The limits it put on me were invisible. I knew I was screwing up. But not always. I was inconsistent, but not consistently. Even my unreliability was unreliable.
Now, looking back, I’ve had a kind of epiphany and it has to do with structure, habits, organization…
Recently diagnosed with ADHD? I want to offer three ‘truths’ you should know. Had I been told these things 17 years ago, when I was first diagnosed, I would have avoided a lot of upset and frustration. And I’m big on avoiding upset and frustration.
<![CDATA[By Rick Green, I’ve always found holiday shopping to be stressful. In fact, even grocery shopping revs me up and […]
How do you overcome it? If you’re like me, you usually don’t. Many people draw upon willpower. I suspect most ADHD/ADD people would admit that willpower is not one of their top 5 strengths. Or top 55…
<![CDATA[ Tackling Big Projects When You Have ADHD By Rick Green, I have a lot of days where I can’t […]