ADHD Center for Success

Friday, February 18, 2011
By: Rick Green

ADHD and Creativity: A Double-Edged Study?

Another ADHD myth exposed to the glare of scientific study! Only this time, research confirms what many have long maintained. People with ADHD are more creative.

Holly A. White from the University of Memphis and Priti Shah of the University of Michigan published an ADHD and creativity study this month showing, “adults with ADHD showed higher levels of original creative thinking … and higher levels of real-world creative achievement, compared to adults without ADHD.” They also found that faced with a problem, most people prefer to study the problem or refine ideas, whereas we ADHDers prefer to generate new ideas … brainstorming (what most people call daydreaming!)

I had always suspected some of us were more creative! An informal survey of friends in the entertainment industry reveals at least a third and maybe half qualify as ADHD. In our documentary about Adult ADHD, ADD & Loving It?!, actor Patrick McKenna shares how he became an improv comedian. His drama teacher took him to see Second City’s stage show and Patrick was thunderstruck, mesmerized by the comedians making people laugh using suggestions audience members shouted out. He felt the energy in the room and knew he’d found his calling. READ MORE

By Eileen Bailey (ADHDcentral.com)

Do the symptoms of ADHD strain your relationship? If you have ADHD, does your partner complain about the lack of attention or your inability to follow through on a task? Have you forgotten important events, creating friction? If so, you aren’t alone. Approximately 5 percent of all adults have ADHD and because adult ADHD has only been recently recognized, most have probably gone undiagnosed for much of their life. Even so, the characteristics of ADHD have always been there and create tension in your love life.

To help you find answers, I went to the experts and asked how ADHD impacts relationships and what they would offer as suggestions to help.

Dr. Edward M. Hallowell is a well known expert regarding ADHD. He is also the distinguished author of books such as “Driven To Distraction”, “Delivered From Distraction” and “Married To Distraction”. Dr. Hallowell is often the ‘face’ of ADHD in the media.

Here is an interview of Dr. Hallowell on ABC’s Good Morning America in which he discusses ADHD in adults. The news piece discusses adults who have lived their entire lives never knowing they had ADHD until their children were diagnosed with ADHD. It’s a very good and informative news piece

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