Keep Your Eye on the Prize
Are you the type who has this inner conflict: You have the ability to hyperfocus, but due to your distractibility that focus is often misplaced?
I don’t know about you, but I find it real easy to throw myself into a task with great abandon. The only problem is that the task I choose may [...]
What Meaningful, Positive Changes Have You Planned?
The buzz for the last week or so – just like the year before and the year before that – has been about “resolutions”. A resolution could be defined as a decision to do something or to behave in a certain way. So many of us, each year, talk about what we will do different [...]
The Lie Behind the ADHD Hunter
OK – I’m outing myself. I am not some Super-Dad. Nor have I beaten ADHD. The guy with the cape doesn’t exist.
As the ADHD Hunter, I do know what we have had better success with. And equally, we have had massive failure moments. Perfection is unattainable.
The message here is not [...]
Is This Common Condition Making Your ADHD Challenges More Difficult?
You have been diagnosed with ADHD. You have been taking meds and working with a therapist in an attempt to reduce the impact of your distracted thoughts and impulsive actions. After several months or even years, you start to question why things still don’t seem right.
It’s possible that you are fighting more than [...]
How to Capture Those Random Thoughts
There is a line in the Pearl Jam song “Even Flow” that paints how “thoughts arrive like butterflies”. I was never big on searching for meaning in lyrics, or even quite paying them attention at all, but this one resonates with me.
When I had first heard this song, I was close to ten years away [...]
What Am I Doing Wrong?
Has this ever happened to you?
You develop friendships over time, always adding to the “good-will” bank, only to have the relationship go belly-up without knowing why? You consciously give more than you take. I don’t mean in some victim/doormat kind of way and not in a smothering way either. Just good relationship maintenance. I don’t [...]
A Great ADHD Hobby: Geocaching!
We have recently discovered a great new way to spend time as a family. A family doctor, whose own child has ADHD, had recommended Geocaching, which we have come to understand as a little-discussed adventure/sport/game/hobby. I’m really not sure which of those fits best!
Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunt in which the participants use a [...]
Some Setbacks…
Sorry for the delay in writing. We have had some good and bad days. OK – so we have had some bad days.
In my internet travels, possibly including here, I have mentioned the huge costs we have incurred with health insurance and out-of-pocket medical bills. I make a nice income, but when your medical [...]
ADD? ADHD? OCD? LMNOP?
Welcome to the alphabet soup!
We’ve all seen it before: Ignatius Stockdale, M.D., Lawrence Tuttleworth, Esq. or Mary Ellen Peabody, Ph.D.
Then, with a knowing wink you look at me and say, “It works a little different in our world, doesn’t it!”. In our world it goes a little bit more like this: “Hi, I’m [...]
ADHD Goes for a Drive
I’ll return to “A Vision for ADHD”, but right now I just need to go for a drive. The only problem is that my navigator for over 20 years has been ADHD.
Over the years I have had more accidents, tickets and close calls than I can count. Why? At times distraction has caused me to [...]
