Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults
Fidget to Focus : Outwit Your Boredom: Sensory Strategies for Living with ADD
Integrative Treatment for Adult ADHD: A Practical, Easy-To-Use Guide for Clinicians
More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents
The ADD Book Club will be discussing the new book More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD by Dr. Ari Tuckman during a special summer session. You can win a Free membership to the ADD Book Club for July and August. Contest details and a special bonus will be announced promptly at 9:00 pm EDT on June 30, 2009 during Dr. Ari Tuckman's Live Teleseminar: Coping Mechanisms that Work (and Don't Work) for Adults with ADHD.
In just 5 short months the Women with ADHD online support network has reached more than 1000 members! If you are woman with ADD / ADHD make sure you stop by Women with ADHD. There's an active message board forum area to give and get support from other women with ADHD. There's also a chat room and ADHD Coach Becca Colao hosts a weekly support chat on Tuesdays at 9:30 am New York Time. There are also some other great resources at the Women with ADHD online support network for you to check out!
I think that online support communities for ADD / ADHD are great. Sites like ADD Forums and Women with ADHD really help people connect with each other and learn more about Attention Deficit Disorder. However, online Attention Deficit Disorder support communities are not a one stop place for everything related to ADHD.
People who are taking medication for ADHD need to communicate with their doctors about side effects! If you are having chest pains or trouble breathing you should not be over at ADD Forums writing a detailed post about it. You should be contacting your doctor, calling 911, or on your way to the Emergency Room.
No, I am not kidding! I have seen people do this!
I just learned from my friend and colleague Jennifer Koretsky that the NBC Weekend Today Show will be airing a segment about Adult ADHD this Sunday morning. The Adult ADHD segment is scheduled to are at 8:15 am EDT on a Sunday morning.
I am assuming that the purpose is of this segment is to educate the general public about Adult ADHD and help those people struggling with Adult ADHD symptoms find help. I'm thinking the NBC Weekend Today Show didn't research Adult ADHD too well if they think a typical person with undiagnosed ADHD will be awake and watching the Today Show that early on a Sunday morning at 8:15 am.
I guess we can hope that spouses, partners, friends, family, and co-workers of people with undiagnosed Adult ADHD will be awake that early to watch. Maybe NBC will re-air the segment at a time when more people with undiagnosed Adult ADHD might actually watch the segment.
Update: I'm having real ADHD Day!! Jennifer Koretsky is actually going to be ON this segement! I missed that important part when she mentioned the segment!
Update 2: Boston only airs Weekend Today from 7-8 on Sundays. Luckily I get the Providence RI NBC Station too.
This coming Monday, June 8th I will be speaking at the Virtual ADHD Family Summit about Women and Girls with ADD/ADHD. The Virtual ADHD Family Summit is free and you can listen via the telephone or internet. My interview begins at 9:00 pm EDT.
Next Tuesday and every Tuesday morning Becca Colao will be hosting a chat over at the Women with ADHD Online Community. This chat is free and open to all members of the Women with ADHD Online Community. Just log into Women with ADHD and click the chat link towards the bottom right of the site.
So, I was taking a look at my blog stats today and somebody found my blog by searching for adhd wife spits on husband through Google. This is one of the most interesting search terms I've seen in quite some time. Somebody did find my blog last week searching for information about Michael Phelps and his penis size but I didn't think that was interesting enough for an entire blog post.
For the life of me I can't understand why the post Married to ADHD comes up #3 in Google for adhd wife spits on husband. There's no mention of the word spit in the actual blog entry or the comments. At least I can see how somebody found the blog searching for Michael Phelps' Penis Size. I've written a few different entries about Michael Phelps and also the posts Penis Size and ADHD & ADHD Penis.
I can only imagine what's going on in a marriage where a woman with ADHD is spitting on her husband! Or does the wife of a man with ADHD spit on her her husband...I guess I'll probably never know...but it makes me wonder and gives me something to write about on my blog today!!
Those of you who read my blog, follow me on Twitter, or are My Facebook friend know that I have been exercising regularly for the past few months. My regular blog readers and those who know me, know that it's been somewhat of a challenge for me too. Though exercise was not something I enjoyed I have been doing it...
About a month ago my husband and I bought the Wii and the Wii Fit. I am really pleased and surprised to say that over the past month I've actually been having some fun exercising and using the Wii Fit. As somebody with Adult ADHD it also keeps my interest and attention. There are different types of exercises and are done for 2 and 3 minutes at a time. Also the more you exercise the more exercise options you get to choose from.
If you don't already own a Wii, it will be close to a $350 investment. I think the Wii Fit was definitely a good investment for us but we did research it first and we waited over a month before purchasing it.
If you want to learn more about ADHD and Exercise don't forget to sign up for Dr. John Ratey's Free Teleseminar through ADDClasses.com.
Wow, it's been almost 3 weeks since I blogged! I think this may have been the longest I've gone with out blogging since I started the blog 4 years ago. Once again I thought I was having writer's block because I couldn't think of anything to write. But, once it again it was because I had so many thoughts, ideas, and events that I could write about and didn't stop to take the time to prioritize and choose just one to start with.
When I did finally stop for a few minutes to get things out of my head and on paper I was amazed at how easy it was for me to choose where to start. For example I have 3 important events happening this week at ADDClasses.com and realized writing about them in the order they will be happening made a lot of sense.
Coaching Tip: When you are stuck and not sure how to prioritize, start with a very simple system.
I am really excited to announce that I am leader over at ADHD Allies which is a community on Facebook for Adults with ADHD.
This past Wednesday I interviewed Dr. Rory Stern on ADHD Coach Talk about his upcoming ADHD Family Summit. The ADHD Family Summit is a free virtual event that begins on Monday May 4, 2009. I will also be participating in the ADHD Family Summit as one of the ADHD Experts and will be discussing Women and Girls with ADHD.
If you missed the live interview you can listen to it now in the ADHD Coach Talk Archives or on iTunes.
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