adhd

Those who suffer from concentration difficulties such as ADHD or ADD often have a dopamine deficiency. In these cases, more stimulation is required to get enough dopamine to work on a task with focus. In addition, there are more potential distractions when the brain is faced with more impressions than can be processed. Attention is constantly

ADHD can make the future seem hopelessly distant. A goal that requires a significant investment of time, incorporates waiting periods, or has to be done in a sequence of steps can prove so elusive that you feel overwhelmed. When that happens, many adults with ADHD yield to the temptation to find an escape route.

To compound the problem, people with ADHD or VAST tendencies usually reject help. Of course, there is an upside to this trait—it’s called nonconformity. Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

Still another curse of the Demon is catastrophic thinking. We refer to this as Chicken Little syndrome, as it’s easy to believe the sky is falling. A young attorney confessed she has a tough time starting new cases as she immediately jumps to the future part of her DMN and stays there, endlessly envisioning and obsessing about what can go wrong

The massive behavioral conditioning we’ve all been undergoing since the advent of ubiquitous electronic communications technology has changed us radically. But this dramatic, if not epochal, change is underappreciated. It’s underappreciated because we’re living in it as it happens, like frogs in cold water that slowly gets heated up without the

There are some supplements everyone can agree to recommend: a multivitamin; vitamin D; magnesium; B complex; vitamin C (ascorbic acid, as well as Connect!); calcium; zinc.

Once you have all the data pertinent to your problem in pieces—on paper, using objects, or graphically represented in some other way—you can move all that physically represented stuff around with your hands, your eyes, your ears, even your whole body to see if a solution reveals itself. If it’s a verbal problem, use paper, 3˝ × 5˝ file cards, or

As for brooding, this is the special blessing and the bitter curse of ADHD. You have a vision. Maybe you’ve come up with a novel technology for making an unbeatable knife sharpener. Or maybe you think you have the plot to the perfect novel. Whatever your vision, you go at it like you never have before.

But then, what you’ve created…disappoints. It’s

Connect with your personal vision of greatness and try to hold it in your consciousness every day as a guide and inspiration. One way to do this is to identify one living person you admire, then allow that admiration to lift you up.