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Adult ADHD | Rick | TotallyADD Blog

When Should I Buy Tickets to an Event?

By totallyaddauthor

BY RICK GREEN
When my son, my wife, and I go to football games, we used to dread entering the stadium because of the ticket scalpers.
We already had tickets. We didn’t need tickets. But they didn’t know that, so they’d bellow, “TICKETS! WHO NEEDS TICKETS?! WHO HAS TICKETS TO SELL? WHO NEEDS TICKETS?!” To get the full effect, imagine that last sentence in a size 96 font.
Running the gauntlet of pushy, loud, hucksters, screaming in your face is more than a little annoying. I felt like I was in the football game, a running back trying to break through the defensive line. Without the actual contact. More like Flag Football. I’m digressing, aren’t I?…

Adult ADHD | Coaching | Guest Blog

What ADHD Coaching Is (And Isn’t)

By Team TotallyADD

Specialized life coaching for people with ADHD, commonly known as ADHD Coaching, has been in use now for over twenty years. It is increasingly recognized as—and demonstrated to be—an effective process that supports people with ADHD by helping them to strengthen their executive function, improve their quality of life, and achieve their self-identified goals..

Guest Blog | Work & School

10 Tips to Achieving Focus in Today’s Busy Workplace

By Edward (Ned) Hallowell, Psychiatrist

1. Do The Impossible. People focus most intently when they take on a challenge, when they are working in an area where they are skilled, but where they are also stretched. Often, amazingly enough, what seemed impossible becomes possible. 2. Trust Your Way. Perhaps the single most clichéd song lyric ever…

Guest Blog | Parenting, Children, School | Work & School

Find Your Village

By Elaine Taylor-Klaus

As parents, we tend to rely on the support of our “village” to help us raise our kids. We appreciate the give and take of a local support network. “Can I drop that off for you on my way home?” “Can you pick up this child for me?” It’s a kind of a dance. We learn to ask for help, and depend on each other. But sometimes – all too often – your village doesn’t quite know what to do with your ADHD child, or with you. You find yourself bouncing from village to village, or sitting on the outside, looking for a way to fit in…

Emotional Journey | Experts | Myth Busting | Videos

Marijuana Myths

By Team TotallyADD

By adulthood everyone has found tools to cope and manage their ADHD, whether it has been diagnosed or not. Some self-medicate with addictions to work, sex, dangerous activities, high risk sports. But many also end up using illicit drugs. As Doctor Sam Chang explains, the number on choice for ADHD folks is Cannabis. And though marijuana has always been surrounded by myths, in fact, the more ‘enlightened and informed’ of us are simply accepting a whole new set of myths.

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