Finding Home

I'm working on starting up a group with the doc who handles the medical management of my ADHD... but of course, since both of us also have ADHD, it's taking a bit longer than I anticipated to get going! But isn't that just part of our experiences as adults with ADHD... as is the persistence that I know will make it eventually happen. I'm not giving up on getting that group started and I encourage any of you out there interested in starting a group to do it!!

Starting and managing an adult ADHD support group - particularly if it's run by adults with ADHD - can be challenging, but as our group in Naperville, IL has proven, it's NOT impossible! At ADDA, we're working on providing a variety of ways to support groups and group leaders and there are a number of materials already available on our website (http://www.add.org/). And we hope to have some listservs for support group leaders where they can brainstorm issues and solve problems together as well as a "virtual" support group for folks who don't have access to "physical" support groups up and running very soon.

In the meantime, if YOU are interested in how you can get a group started, or just have questions about support groups and what they can provide you as an adult with ADHD, please contact me. I'd love to talk with you and we can even get a thread started here if you'd like. Whatever we can do - whatever I can do - to help EVERY adult with ADHD find that place where they are comfortable and secure and know that they will always be accepted. As a certain little girl in flashy red shoes once said... "There's no place like home"!!