Posted on 06/26/2019 8:55:50 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The expert's name is Russell Barkley, MD (YouTube), Psychiatrist. The 1st principle is, 'Most people aren't against you, they're just for themselves.' You can fool them all, so they'll never guess, if you just never, never have a blowout in their presence. Just always be the same, just sit still and shut up.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
I find always keeping the work open makes it easier to continue working than putting it all away and then reopening it later on.
I think ADHD people need a nap in the middle of the day more often. They seem to have a smaller amount of reserve energy, but it fills more quickly.
Guy reads like a pompous ass.
I could not make it through the article. I got distracted.
Wasn’t will rogers some hillbilly or fake cowboy actor from like 1910?
I know that I died mentally at 2 PM, but I would get a burst a 4 PM and work like nuts until 6.
I would schedule m life around not having meetings mid afternoon if I could help it.
And, I did have a couple of incidents when I told people who were doing stupid things not to do them.
That’s my experience as well. If I catch that concentration of focus, I can work for the next thirty hours on a job without tiring or loss of performance.
not clicking a google link
All he knew was what he read in the newspapers.
It sounds good, but I think that the problem is that ADHD people are unable to control themselves. Telling them not to have a blowout is stupid, they don’t decide to have one or not, it just happens.
One would think a doctor would know that.
Your thinking is linear. Sometimes I have to “Power Through” to stay awake. That usually takes about a half hour, but if I can get 5 minutes shut eye sitting upright in my chair that works as well!
I suspect the Internet has added to the problems that ADHD people have. It feeds right into the short attention and hyper behavior. I have no problems working all day, seven days a week, if I can ever get started. Motivation leads to spurts that allows me to accomplish a bunch, but finding the motivation at times is difficult.
Not sure what his advice is in this 1 sentence article. The links only take to a Google search. Why would someone with ADHD want to fly under the radar so no one knows you have it? wouldn’t treatment be the Dr.s first course of action?
Man... you should see me at the teacher meetings (faculty professional development, they call them. Weekly floggings, I call them.) I have a blowout just about every time. "What do you mean stop accepting late work from students?? Two months ago you made us sit through IEP trainings where half of our students have "give extra time" written right into their IEPs!"
It’s why people with ADHD hate being interrupted. Once they are on task, they will be on it until they get it done.
Some 20 years ago I went to a seminar of his. The drug Adderall was the medical treatment of choice and I was seeing if there were other things that might help my son. I spoke to him directly and he was raving about an even better drug which was harder to get prescribed but it was having better success. Adderall was just speed, and my son was a crazed skinny zombie on it. So I looked up the drug he was raving about. It was a pill form of straight methamphetamine. So I kind of discounted the great Russell Barkley at that point.
Drugs should be the last tool in the tool box. There are some very easy to use strategies that can be used instead, based on how people with ADHD work.
1. Set up the next task before you take your break. Having the work out already helps bypass the tendency to procrastinate.
2. Keep your work out to facilitate the transition from avoidable changes in tasks, like having to go to school or eating supper.
3. Break the work into smaller tasks. People with ADHD can’t help but see the whole task and it always looks daunting, but it becomes manageable if you have it broken down into a checklist.
4. They often need a longer learning period. Homeschooling can help, because they can learn on their own schedule and it only matters when he graduates, not how he got there.
5. I’d start teaching him career skills, like a trade or accounting from his childhood, in addition to his school work.
“Some 20 years ago I went to a seminar of his. The drug Adderall was the medical treatment of choice and I was seeing if there were other things that might help my son. I spoke to him directly and he was raving about an even better drug which was harder to get prescribed but it was having better success. Adderall was just speed, and my son was a crazed skinny zombie on it. So I looked up the drug he was raving about. It was a pill form of straight methamphetamine. So I kind of discounted the great Russell Barkley at that point.”
Yeah, in one of the videos, he starts yelling at the parents. It’s more than an image problem.
There have been decades of fashions about it, they come & go. This is the latest.
But still, people have to live, with a disability that most profoundly affects their lives.
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