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

Use small-muscle exercises while engaged in boring classes or studying. Repeatedly squeeze a tennis or stress ball, tap your feet while studying, chew on some gum or even a rubber toy of some kind, or pace while you read. Any movement seems to be helpful to adults with ADHD when they need to concentrate on some task.

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.

ADHD as a complex set of contradictory or paradoxical tendencies: a lack of focus combined with an ability to superfocus; a lack of direction combined with highly directed entrepreneurialism; a tendency to procrastinate combined with a knack for getting a week’s worth of work done in two hours; impulsive, wrongheaded decision making combined with

Rewards work much better for the ADHD mind than do consequences.

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

You might say that stimulants stimulate the brain’s brakes, thus giving you more control.

An increase in dopamine helps our nerve cells pass on information more “cleanly” from one to another. It helps to reduce the noise, quiet the chatterbox, and tune your brain to the right channel. If the signals aren’t clear, it’s easy to fall into confusion and

The blessing and the curse vie for top billing, for attention. When the DMN brings lovely images, it is our golden tool. But when it jumps track into the TPN and hijacks consciousness, then the DMN becomes the Demon, the seat of misery, the disease of the imagination. Trapped in the past or future in the DMN, you’re likely to abandon projects you

A wandering mind. You’ll get frequent comments from teachers, or, in an adult, supervisors or spouse, that the individual’s mind wanders, that he or she has trouble focusing and staying on task, that performance is inconsistent, good days and bad days, good moments and terrible ones, all of which usually lead the teacher, supervisor, or spouse to