Nothing is more difficult for the ADD mind than to meditate, or to contemplate anything with determined attention.

I have learned through my own process that a goal in life cannot be the avoidance of painful feelings.

Desperate to be out of our mind and unaware, we surrender to the addiction, to be lulled into a walking sleep.

Enormously beneficial to everyone, spiritual work is essential in the self-treatment of ADD.

incomplete development of pathways in the cerebral cortex, and between the cortex and lower areas of the brain.

For people like me with ADD, and for everyone else, emotional pain is a reality. It does not have to exclude joy and a capacity to experience the beauty of life.

It’s the self-rejection others react against, much more than the differentness.

This feeling of duty toward the whole world is not limited to ADD but is typical of it. No one with ADD is without it.

“Many parents have an especially hard time when their children are feeling sad and disappointed,”