Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
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Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
You plug certain regular appointments or obligations into the pattern of your week so you attend to them automatically.
Edward M. Hallowell • Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Structure refers to the set of external controls that one sets up to compensate for unreliable internal controls.
Edward M. Hallowell • Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
by the time an individual seeks help, this collapse has happened often enough to leave them wary of hoping again.
Edward M. Hallowell • Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
More than most people, individuals with ADD have visionary imaginations. They think big thoughts and dream big dreams.
Edward M. Hallowell • Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
They may have lost any sense of the possibility of things working out.
Edward M. Hallowell • Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Think of a thermometer and the mercury it contains. If you have ever broken a thermometer, you know what happens to the mercury. The ADD mind is like spilled mercury, running and beading. Structure is the vessel needed to contain the mercury of the ADD mind, to keep it from being here and there and everywhere all at once. Structure allows the ADD m
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The procedure of psychological testing involves all three of these “treatments” for ADD. It is done one-on-one, with the psychologist guiding the individual orally through the tests, making it difficult for him to tune out. The subject is typically highly motivated, trying to “do well” on the test. And the testing situation is highly stimulating du
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It is easy to set up. You start by making a list of all the regular tasks, obligations, and appointments you have every week—your fixed-time expenditures, so to speak. You then make a grid of your week on a calendar or appointment book and plug each fixed obligation into a regular time slot.