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12 May 09

Exercise almost immediately elevates dopamine and norepinephrine and keeps them up for a period of time so that it acts like a little bit of Ritalin or Adderall.
senses are heightened, their focus and mood are improved,
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- Exercise creates the environment for our brain cells to wire together, which is the basic building block of learning.
- Exercise is also perhaps the best way to increase neurogenesis, which is the making of new neurons that happens on its own daily.

09 May 09

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Delusions, paranoia, fears about persecution, hyperactivity and panic are also reported as the most common features.^[3]

08 May 09

Tips for Simplifying Your Life

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Accept where you are in life.
Evaluate your life, your visions and your values
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- Write down specific goals
- Make a list of the weekly chores.
- Always ask for 24 hours before accepting any volunteer obligations.
- Accept only one volunteer activity at a time
- Take advantage of your personal peak time each day.
- Consider doing the most dreaded task first thing in the morning
- Use transitional times for yourself.
- Accept that simplifying your life won’t be accomplished overnight.

Five Tips for Getting Organised

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ADHD organization

1. Focus on your priorities
2. Organise your space
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- 3. Plan and prepare
- 4. Minimise time traps
- 5. Create quiet time

24 Apr 09

Career Advice for Adults with ADHD: Listening Skills | ADDitude - ADD & LD Adults and Children

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Listening ADHD

Slow down.
Wait your turn.
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- Talk about what you hear
- See what you hear.
- Listen for the me-me-me words
- Ask questions

23 Apr 09

Weight Loss for ADD / ADHD Adults | ADDitude - ADD & LD Adults and Children

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people with ADHD may have difficulty interpreting what their body is trying to tell them

Nine Dilemmas of Everyday Genius | Information on Attention Deficit Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Parenting and More

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adhd dilemmas

Either define, accept, and develop your gifts, or deny your gifts by fulfilling the wishes of others.
Either honor your need for independence and find some true peers, or tolerate isolation, misunderstanding, or loneliness.
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- Either take reasonable risks and avoid those that endanger your mission, or play it safe on the sidelines, risking a life full of regrets.
- Either manage the boundaries in interpersonal relationships to be wisely discriminating, or pass up intimacy altogether.
- Either listen to inner guidance and activate your soul's intention, or refuse to hear and bury your creative spirit in a one-dimensional reality.
- Either use your exceptional gifts to benefit humankind, or indulge yourself in spirit-devouring self-gratification.
- Either value the different traits and abilities of others, or remain immaturely intolerant of others, chronically impatient and perennially disappointed.
- Either turn frustration and rejection into creative energy, or cling to resentment and surrender your dreams.
- Either initiate a balanced plan of Self-maintenance strategies, or wait for external sources to dictate and control your life.

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adhd problem solving skills

- Am I a good listener?
- Do I have difficulty interpreting what others are saying?
- Do I communicate clearly, or am I often misunderstood by others?
- Am I able to receive criticism without attacking or surrendering to the criticism?
- Am I able to give criticism appropriately, so it is valued by the person receiving it and not offensive or hurtful?
- Am I able to be assertive without provoking anger or causing the other person to respond defensively?
- Can I give and receive compliments well?
- Can I manage my anger and be proactive with problem solving?
- Do I have stress management skills to remain calm in tense situations?
- Do I often feel awkward or out of place in social situations?
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Techniques for Responding to Criticism for ADHD Adults | ADDitude: Attention Deficit Advice

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adhd criticism

1. Broken Record Response:
2. Emphatic Escalation:
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- 3. Sensitive Listening:

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adhd criticism

Acknowledge and paraphrase.
Learn from it.
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- Acknowledge and paraphrase
- Learn from it

ADHD Sleep Advice for ADHD Adults | ADDitude - ADHD Information & Resources

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adhd sleep

An alarm is set to go off one hour before the person actually plans to rise. When the alarm rings, the patient rouses himself enough to take the medication and goes back to sleep.
many people report that they sharpen their sense of time and time management once their internal clock is set properly.

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ADHD sleep

People with DSPS report that they can experience a normal sleep phase — for example, get into bed, fall asleep quickly, sleep undisturbed for eight hours, and awake refreshed — but that their brains and bodies want that cycle from 4 a.m. until noon. This is a pattern reported by more than half of adults with ADHD
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- the signal which sets the internal circadian clock (the gradual changes in light caused by the sun's setting and rising) is weak in people with ADHD. As a result, their circadian clock is never truly set,
- may also account for the difficulty that many with ADHD have in judging the passage of time.
- Consequently, they experience only two times: "now" and "not now."
- Many people with ADHD are at their best at night. They are most energetic, thinking clearest, and most stable after the sun goes down

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ADHD sleep

Sufferers often call it "perverse sleep"—when they want to be asleep, they are awake; when they want to be awake, they are asleep.
1. Initiation Insomnia
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- 2. Restless Sleep
- 3. Difficulty Waking
- 4. Intrusive Sleep

Expert Advice for Adults with ADHD: Depression and Anxiety | ADDitude - ADHD & LD Adults and Children

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adhd stress depression anxiety mood

chronic stress and discouragement that come from living with ADHD.

7 Ways to Solve ADHD Sleep Problems I ADDitude - Attention Deficit Information & Resources

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ADHD sleep

some ADHD experts believe that taking a stimulant 45 minutes before bedtime can shut off buzzing brains

15 Apr 09

Strategies for Coping

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Top Ten ADD Traps in the Workplace

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Distractibility
Write down your intrusive ideas so you can get back to task.
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- Work at a particular task for briefer intervals, and shift to a new task when you find your attention wandering.
- Impulsivity
- If you impulsively commit to projects and then can't follow through, develop the habit of saying, "I'd like to, but let me check my schedule."
- team up with someone who is better at planning an organizing.
- Hyperactivity
- Engage in "intentional fidgeting" by taking notes during meetings
- Look for work which requires movement
- Memory problems
- "Do it now or write it down."
- Don't just write it on a scrap of paper - keep your agenda with you at all times.
- Learn to check your agenda often during the day.
- Boredom
- Do the boring stuff at high energy times of the day.
- Delegate boring tasks whenever possible
- Break boring tasks up into small bites.
- Recognize your need for change and stimulation and actively work to introduce more change or challenge into your work life.
- Time management problems
- "just-one-more-thing-itis"
- take something to do when you get there
- "I-hate-to-wait-itis"
- "It's time to leave. I'll do that later."
- Over-commitment
- Try to consciously under-commit your time.
- Procrastination
- Look for work that requires more immediate responses by its very nature.
- Build in rewards for completing undesirable tasks.
- Request closer supervision.
- Difficulty with Long-term projects
- Team up with others to work in close-cooperation.
- Break the project down into stages
- In planning, start at the due-date and then work backwards in your calendar, setting dates for the completion of each part of the project.
- Review your progress regularly with your supervisor.
- Identify parts of the project that you are having trouble with
- Paperwork
- Look for work which minimizes paperwork.
- Look for ways to streamline your paperwork.
- Do your paperwork FIRST before you are tired and frustrated from other events of the day.
- Ask for help before you have created an insurmountable mountain of paperwork.
- Develop a filing system which is SIMPLE - then USE IT!
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Monologuing
- Interrupting
- "It's not what you say, but how you say it."
- 1. Minimize paperwork to maximize success
  
  2. De-stress to avoid distress
  
  3. Plan to be early to arrive on time
  
  4. Simplify your filing system
  
  5. Do it now or write it down
  
  6. Negotiate for tasks that call on your strengths
  
  7. Schedule interruption-free time blocks
  
  8. Focus on ADD solutions, not ADD problems
  
  9. Get everything in writing, don't depend on your memory.
  
  10. Focus on task completion - no loose strings!

Managing Symptoms and Getting Focused

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While managing the complexities of life challenges everyone, if you have adult ADD / ADHD it may seem overwhelming
even routine chores and work activities can seem overwhelming
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- Minimize stress
- Improve your sleep
- Healthy eating
- Exercising.
- might not understand how some people seem to be so efficient at organization and managing time.
- Start with simple steps and habits
- pick one or two key habits to star
- Organization doesn’t happen overnight
- Starting a daily schedule and planner
- Make a daily to-do list
- Review your schedule each morning
- Update your schedule every night.
- Set up a filing system that works for you
- Deal with mail on a daily basis
- Have a dedicated time to deal with your “action” items
- Give yourself more time than you think you need.
- Don’t take on more than you can handle.
- tend to underestimate how long it will take to get things done.
- Plan to be early and set up reminders to leave.
- Build breathing space into your schedule.
- work with frequent built-in breaks
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- Start by keeping track of every expense
- Using this “spending snapshot” to create a monthly budget
- determine what your best working conditions are
- Eat your dessert first.
- Focus your energy on your strengths, not your weaknesses
- Remember: What you pay attention to grows.
- Sip, don't gulp your decisions.
- Be mindful
- as the most important information
- Pace your conversation.
- Practice, practice, practice.
- Show your strengths

Daily Schedules That Work

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they do the same tasks, in the same order, every day.
The brilliance lies in having the mundane aspects of life taken care of, so you can relax and have some fun.
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- 1. Lay out your clothes for tomorrow.
- 2. Gather everything that you'll need to walk out the door in the morning.

Diagnostic Labels; the Self-Referential Terms of Identity and Affiliation

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"the label is not the person,"
Thom Hartmann's "hunter-farmer"
metaphor for ADD
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- oppositional
  defiant disorder
- a term constructed to
  express extreme frustration with unfathomably problematic behavior
  rather than any isolatable biopsychological condition
- listen to and learn from
  the discourse of adults with disabilities who are proceeding
- to develop their own terminology and meanings for their self-chosen
  labels of identity
- negative self-fulfilling prophecies
- the hunter-farmer
  paradigm
- a less destructive way for them to see themselves,
  the world, and their place in it.

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