Living With
Living with ADHD can create an interesting and sometimes difficult lifestyle. Patients should eat the right diet, get plenty of exercise and learn to take ADHD into account in relationships. Additionally, organization at home, work and with financial issues can haunt ADHD patients if ignored.
Controlling Impulses
Impulsivity is one of the serious symptoms of ADHD. It consists of both acting impulsively in childhood - taking…
Costs and Insurance
Having a chronic condition that requires treatment and/or management, such as ADHD, can become an extremely expensive endeavor. Medication alone could cost up to…
Diet
It is theorized that many ADHD patients also may have a form of a food allergy, and this is causing some of the problems that mainfests itself as ADHD symptoms. Popular…
Exercise
Can exercise help ADHD symptoms? Some studies have shown that exercise can help improve memory, planning, prioritizing, attention span, decrease hyperactivity, improve…
Organization at Home
Before attempting to organize your home with one swoop, consider the steps that it takes to create organization, what you consider "organization" and set goals to stay on…
Organization at Work
Disorganization at work can put an employee in a precarious position. ADHD could contribute to lost paperwork, missed meetings, poor time management or issues with…
Parenting
It is a myth that only children suffer from ADHD; in some cases, adults have suffered for an entire life of ADHD symptoms without a diagnosis or treatment. A person may…
Relationships
Managing relationships while at least one person has ADHD may not be the easiest task. ADHD can be misunderstood, and…
Rights at Work
The Americans with Disabilities Act protects people with ADHD in the workplace. You are not required to disclose your condition to your boss or during the hiring…
Time Management
Difficulty with time management is one of the most notorious signs of ADHD; some projects take longer than expected, and difficulty with focus can make concentration on a…
Hot Topics
In a 1999 study which appeared in the Journal of Attention Disorders (Kitchens, S.A., Rosen, L.A., & Braaten, E.B. (1999). Differences in anger, aggression, depression, and anxiety between ADHD and non-ADHD children. Journal of Attention…
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