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Best ADHD book I've found

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2017

I ordered this book in 2010 and had forgotten about it. I recently hired an ADHD Coach/ Counselor who suggested I get this book at our first meeting. I found it on my bookshelf and to my surprise, I had highlighted passages throughout much of the book, something I almost never do. Then of course being ADHD I put it away and forgot about it. (I guess the big surprise here is that I could find it again.) Now we are using it in our sessions. I find it very helpful to be able to point to a certain section and say, that's me! I connected with this book in a way that hasn't happened with any other book. I feel like the authors really understand both ADHD and how it affects me personally.

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Doesn't add much to his earlier work.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2015

Dr. Hallowell's earlier book, <i>Driven to Distraction</i>, was a benchmark book for many people, myself included; but it presented ADHD as essentially a disability. Here he tries to recast ADHD as an asset in the rough. Unfortunately, it really isn't, so there's a lot of encouragement here, but not much actual content. The most useful statement in the book is that if you have ADHD, your two most important coping strategies are to marry the right person (someone who is organized and willing to be the organizer) and go into the right profession. That's sound advice. (I have ADHD, the right spouse, and the wrong job, so I know.) But there's disappointingly few specifics, especially about choosing professions. What do you look for? How do you recognize it? What are examples? Has Dr. Hallowell or anyone else actually studied this? The author's intentions are good; I'll be very interested in the follow-through...when it appears.

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Mike Lewis

Kindle Edition does not have Text-to-Speech enabled

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2012

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While this book has a lot of great content about ADD, I am giving a negative review for the Kindle version of the book.

As an adult with ADD (ADHD-PI, to be specific), I have always had a lot of difficulty reading a book from start-to-finish, especially with nonfiction.

When I purchased my Kindle 3, it was a godsend that helped me focus on and finish books that I otherwise never would have completed. With the Kindle, I am unable to flip around in a book as easily, and I am able to plug in headphones and listen to the Text to Speech (TTS) as I read. Doing that, I am able to engage two senses at the same time while blocking out background noise. The TTS keeps plowing forward, so I don't wind up reading the same page over and over. This has totally changed my life.

I was extremely disappointed, therefore, that TTS was turned off for THIS of all books. I was really looking forward to reading it, but it was a huge bummer when I saw I couldn't turn on TTS. I sincerely hope the publisher will change their mind and enable this feature.

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Ed Dude

Disappointed. Not what I had hoped for. Not a lot of practical, actionable advice for parents of children with ADD

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2014

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I imagine this book would be most useful for adults with ADD. The text takes a very comforting, helpful tone, and I imagine it would offer a lot of encouragement and support for an adult with ADD. The book seems sincere and thoughtful.

As a parent, I was disappointed. With a title like "Delivered from Distraction," I expected details on actionable, practical tips and technique to deliver a child from distraction. The book mentions the metronome technique can be helpful, but I never saw any details on how to do this. The chapter on using specific exercise techniques detailed the author's experience meeting experts and learning about this field, then concludes that the practice is very promising, without actually listing what techniques were promising and how to try them.

If you are a parent looking for techniques to help a child focus, I would not recommend buying this book, though it may be helpful for others.

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Mileage May Vary

Better books out there

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2012

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As a fellow psychiatrist that specializes in adult ADHD I am indebted to the authors for putting ADHD on the map with their first book Driven to Distraction. I was expecting more of the same but came away very disappointed. The authors describe theories of causation and nutritional remedies that have either no evidence to support them or have been debunked a long time ago. This disorder is difficult enough to suffer with and treat to take such a reckless approach. Even worse is the writers are held (rightfully so) in such high regard by people with ADHD. I would recommend Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) by Thomas Brown, PhD. It is a much more scientifically accurate book written for ordinary people that makes understanding this disorder much easier than any other book I've found.

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Janet

Print too small

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2016

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The information in the book looks excellent .. that is, what I am able to see of it. I realize that when I have ordered older book online that i run the risk of old fashioned, very small print. But, i didn't realize that's what i would be getting with this book. The print is far too small for my eyes to be able to read. What a shame as I would very much like to read this book. I don't know if there's a way to return a book from amazon, but i would like to order this on kindle ... that is, if there is a kindle version.

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Pages missing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2019

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My husband has really been enjoying this book and learning a lot from it. However he told me today that almost 70 pages of the book are missing from the middle of the book.

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L.M.

Rambling on & on

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2019

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There are better books out there on the subject. I’m sure it’s ultimately a good book if you don’t mind that it’s padded with a lot of fluff.

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Delivered fro

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2018

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To much to read to get to the point which is useless for someone who is easy to distract.

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SMC

Seriously?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2011

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Long on feeling, short on data. Seriously, blaming chemicals in our food for potentially inducing surging rates in ADD without a single statistic of data to back it up? That's the kind of sensationalist hippy hogwash I would expect from a former Playboy playmate, not an MD writing a guide for patients.

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Katrina

" I recommend that over this

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2015

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Driven to Distraction tells you a lot of the same things, and isn't so "I have ADHD-y." I recommend that over this.

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Charles Bevel

Long on problem description short on answer description...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2007

As someone new to the idea that I probably have ADD, this book gave me a lot of touchpoints from which I could discern that I probably have that "kind of mind". Yet there was precious little as far as definitive coping strategy is concerned.

They say in the book that a person with ADD needs lots of file cabinets, because they don't have "file cabinets" in their minds. That seems to be true of me. Yet the book is seems to be as disorderly as an ADD brain if you asked me. It rambles on and on with STORIES about ADD people and STORIES about ADD solutions. But there is little in the way of ORDERLY step by step "here's what you should do" stuff.

Hopefully, there's another book out there with more of what I'm looking for.

In all fairness, the book has an extensive resource guide to other books and even local doctors and support groups. It's just that I'm looking for quick orderly step by step answers, not a droning on and on and on discussion of problems and possibilities.

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