April 20th, 2010 at 10:39 pm (Adult ADD/ADHD)
TeleSeminar Topic:
“7 Steps to Get Control of Your Day”
Time: 7:00 – 8:00pm (EST)
Cost: No Fee
This TeleSeminar is intended for Adults with ADHD and is conducted
by telephone conference line.
Does this sound like you:
- You meander through your day, wondering where the day went to
- Your To Do list gets longer and longer
- Your important tasks get postponed from one day to the next
- You feel stress & overwhelm on a daily basis
Attend this seminar and learn…
- how to set up your day to WIN
- how to get those most important things done
- feel accomplished and relieve stress and overwhelm
This seminar is FR*EE and open to anyone by telephone.
Long distance charges may apply.
Pre-Registration Required – to receive important details and
information to enter this TeleSeminar.
TO REGISTER:
~CoachRudy Rodriguez, Asheville, NC
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April 16th, 2010 at 10:42 pm (Adult ADD/ADHD)
The Asheville Area Adult ADHD Meetup group will meet on
Monday, April 19 at 7pm
This is a free group for adults with ADHD.
*For full details you must pre-registration is required at
http://www.meetup.com/Asheville-Adult-ADHD-Meetup-Group/.
The Adult ADHD Meetup is an opportunity
to meet other local adults dealing with ADD or ADHD,
share your experiences and learn from other adults with ADHD.
~CoachRudy, Asheville, NC
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April 11th, 2010 at 2:03 am (Adult ADD/ADHD)
ADHD treatment information about how meditation can focus the attention of children and adults with attention deficit.
[This article comes from the August/September 2006 issue of ADDitude.]
What’s the core issue of attention deficit disorder (ADD ADHD)? For many adults and children with ADHD, it’s paying attention. So it stands to reason that some kind of attention training would be just what the doctor ordered.
Well, there is such a thing. It’s been around for thousands of years, and it’s now a hot research topic at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Recently, ADDitude’s Carl Sherman, Ph.D., spoke with psychiatrist Lidia Zylowska, M.D., who heads the center’s AD/HD program.
“Mindful awareness” sounds spiritual. Is it?
Mindful awareness, or mindfulness, is part of many religious traditions. For example, Buddhism features a form of mindfulness meditation known as vipassana.
But mindfulness is not necessarily religious or spiritual. It involves paying close attention to your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations; in other words, developing a greater awareness of what’s going on with you from moment to moment.
It can be used as a tool to foster wellness, especially psychological well-being. Similar techniques have been used to lower blood pressure and to manage chronic pain, anxiety, and depression.
How can mindfulness help people with AD/HD?
It improves your ability to control your attention. In other words, it teaches you to pay attention to paying attention. Mindful awareness can also make people more aware of their emotional state, so they won’t react impulsively. That’s often a real problem for people with ADHD.
Researchers have talked about using mindfulness for ADHD for some time, but the question was always whether people with ADHD could really do it, especially if they’re hyperactive.
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April 9th, 2010 at 12:54 am (Adult ADD/ADHD)
The symptoms could describe any busy, distracted multi-tasker: difficulty concentrating, chronic lateness, impatience, procrastination. Or they could point to a diagnosis of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, which some 10 million U.S. grownups have.
Yet fewer than 25 percent of the adults walking around with the syndrome even know they have it, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The majority of undiagnosed ADHD adults just live with it, though they are more likely to get into a car accident and less likely to hold down a job or stay in a relationship.
ADHD afflicts men and women equally, but there is an underdiagnosis in girls, says Dr. Patricia Quinn, director of the National Center for Girls and Women with ADHD in Washington, DC.
“It is an equal opportunity disorder,” Quinn says. “There are about as many men and women with it and about equal numbers of grownups are diagnosed. In children under 18, some 2.5 to 3 times as many boys as girls are diagnosed.” Girls with untreated ADHD develop more self esteem problems, depression and mood disorders.
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Article by: BY Rosemary Black
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
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