AD/HD

Tips for Success
Part 2

Here is Part 2 in our list of tips to help you manage the ADHD in your life (your own or your child's) as effectively as possible:

11. In managing the mood of a child or adult with AD/HD, remember one thing -- moods or emotions are NOT the same thing as facts. Step back emotionally and evaluate what the facts really are. This perspective can help you manage a negative, depressed or agressive mood as well as an unrealistically elated or excited mood.

12. Make exercise an important part of your life. This will help defray and manage the excess energy associated with AD/HD and will rev up the production of "good" hormones in your body (endorphins) to encourage a feeling of well-being.

13. Join groups or schedule activities that work with your strengths, from cooking classes to poetry readings to horseback riding. This will help the person with AD/HD feel happy, productive and successful.

14. Build support in your work area for concerns associated with AD/HD, whether classroom or job environment. Discuss your strengths and weaknesses with teachers or bosses and ask for adjustments that will make things work more efficiently and productively for you. Proactively working accomodations is much better than trying to explain performance problems later.

15. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Everyone in your life most likely wants you to suceed, and most people will accept any limitations that you have (we all have them, you know!). So when you're faced with a task that seems confusing or daunting, try asking for the further explanation or for assistance you need.

16. Repeat the instructions that you're given in various ways. Say them back out loud, write them down or repeat them several times in your mind. This repetition will help the person with AD/HD remember the details of the instructions.

17. For written school or career work, use outlining techniques to break complex concepts into identifiable chunks of related information. Build the final written document following the logic of your outline.

18. Use good stress management techniques for the times when things get tough. Exercise, repeat positive affirmations, and/or put emotional distance between yourself and the source of the stress.

19. Find a "social skills" coach that you trust. The person with AD/HD often misses the subtle social cues that people use to signal acceptable and unacceptable behaviors between themselves and other people. Have your social skills coach observe you in various social environments and provide feedback on cues you might have missed and on appropriate social interactions that you should add to your existing skill set.

20. Celebrate yourself! You are a many-faceted person with many strengths, skills, talents and wonderful traits that exist in parallel with the signs of AD/HD.

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