- Hardcover: 283 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312355335
- ISBN-13: 978-0312355333
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,214,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was recommended to read this book, and having done so, many aspects of my life were explained. Suddenly the penny dropped. A few years ago, I received treatment for depression, and met with specialists, yet no-one thought to look at ADHD. This book helps things become clear and provides helpful suggestions of ways to organise life to deal with the advantages and disadvantages of ADHD. A useful book even to someone who does not have ADHD but is just disorganised. The book has a slow pace, but that enables chapters to be read as individual entities. It is a book that has to be read once and then picked through slowly again, to consider and try the ideas contained inside.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My first inkling that this might go into the pile of promising books about ADHD that make you feel guilty when they do not work was when one of the first tasks was to write. I picked up a piece of paper and a pen and got distracted doing this and went off to do something and forgot about the book for a few weeks.
Picked it up again, said a lot of the stuff that I've known since I was 14.
When faced with a project, break it down. Thank you and every self help book for ADHD, I already knew that.
She talks about biology of the ADHD brain but then says many of the same stuff that people with ADHD have heard all their lives which haven't worked.
Just start etc.
There was one strategy that helped from this book.
Dividing the day into quadrants. That helped me as I don't work well by rigidly planning a task for each time, the flexible time zones work better for my brain. She calls it structured flexibility. This helps me.
And I also like the idea of putting goals on post-its. It's something I'm still doing months later.
This book will work well if your ADHD is not too severe. Many of the people in her book were executive types and people who had managed to finish university and obtain degrees. But not for more severe ADHDers with maybe executive dysfunction as well.
Picked it up again, said a lot of the stuff that I've known since I was 14.
When faced with a project, break it down. Thank you and every self help book for ADHD, I already knew that.
She talks about biology of the ADHD brain but then says many of the same stuff that people with ADHD have heard all their lives which haven't worked.
Just start etc.
There was one strategy that helped from this book.
Dividing the day into quadrants. That helped me as I don't work well by rigidly planning a task for each time, the flexible time zones work better for my brain. She calls it structured flexibility. This helps me.
And I also like the idea of putting goals on post-its. It's something I'm still doing months later.
This book will work well if your ADHD is not too severe. Many of the people in her book were executive types and people who had managed to finish university and obtain degrees. But not for more severe ADHDers with maybe executive dysfunction as well.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is a strange irony that a book aimed at people with difficulties paying attention should be paced at such a slow, drawn out pace. The author should know better of course, herself diagnosed with ADHD, as I am. But the build-up to her message takes about 50 pages, and the message itself is then repeated via different flavours, such as procrastination. She has valuable things to say, but the plethora of long anecdotes and variations on a theme, do not quite seem to bring the messages home.
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