| Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) |
 Rather
than being a genetic illness, attention deficit disorder represents a failure of
development of certain important brain circuits, and also of some psychological
self-regulating mechanisms. There is highly encouraging evidence now from both animal
experiments and human experience that brain development and psychological growth can occur
at any time in life, even in advanced adulthood. So adults with attention deficit disorder
need to look not only a what medications may help them function better, but also at what
they need to to promote their own development. This means looking at issues like
relationship patterns, addictive behaviors, and self-esteem.
Self-esteem is particularly a major issue for every adult with ADD. Scattered
contains an important chapter on self-esteem, Chapter 25, which may
be downloaded at this site (no charge.) Adults who wonder whether they, or or some
significant other, may have attention deficit disorder themselves could also download Chapter 1, and especially Chapter 2, entitled
Many Roads Not Traveled, which describes what it looks like to have ADD, and what it feels
like.
Scattered was written to help parents promote the development of their children,
but also to help adults foster their own development out of many of their ADD-related
traits. It can be done.[TOP] |
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