Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder
Can Attention Deficit Disorder Be Outgrown or Cured?
Even though most people don't outgrow Attention Deficit Disorder, there are many people who have learned to adapt and live fulfilling lives.
They're doing this by developing their own personal strengths. With effective combinations of medicine, new skills, and emotional support, people with Attention Deficit Disorder can develop ways to control their focus and attention and minimize their disruptive behaviors.
They may find that by structuring their tasks and controlling their environment, they CAN achieve personal goals.
Many with Attention Deficit Disorder learn to channel their excess energy into sports and other high energy activities.
Also they identify career options that build on their strengths and abilities.
As they grow up, with appropriate help from parents and clinicians, children with Attention Deficit Disorder become better able to suppress their hyperactivity and to channel it into more socially acceptable behaviors... like physical exercise.
And although we know that half of all children with ADD ADHD will still show signs of the problem into adulthood. We also know that the medications and therapy that help children also work for adults
All people with Attention Deficit Disorder have natural talents and abilities that they can draw on to create fine lives and careers for themselves.
In fact, many people with ADD ADHD even feel that their patterns of behavior give them a unique, often unrecognized, advantages.
People with ADHD tend to be outgoing and ready for action, and because of their drive for excitement and stimulation, many become successful in business, sports, construction, and public speaking.
Because of their ability to think about many things at once... many have won acclaim as artists and inventors.
The secret is to choose the type of work that gives the freedom to move around and release their excess energy so they don’t become bored with their job.
Others have found ways to be effective even in quiet, more sedentary careers. Sally, for instance, a computer programmer, found that she thinks best when she's wears headphones to reduce distracting outside noises.
For others, it can help to have a fan running or a nature sounds machine.
Remember...anything to distract the ADD ADHD part of the brain may help
Some Coping Strategies for Teens and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder...
