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ADHD Support Group
Tear & Share ADHD Support Group
Special 1st Anniversary Lunch!!
Date:10:30-13:30 Sun, 19th September
Location: Hammersmith
Topic: "ADDressing Relationships" - Bring your parent, partner or friend to understand and celebrate the ups, downs, quirks and rollercoaster of ADD!
Speaker: Andrew Lewis, ADHD Coach
Price: £16, includes lunch
ADD Books and Websites
Hyperfocus on some great ADD Information
In the following pages we have assembled a wealth of information on ADD. It seems sometimes in the UK that most people remain unaware of ADHD, or completely misunderstand what it is! Fortunately there is fantastic information available with hundreds of great ADD books, cool ADHD websites and interesting articles to read. Understanding your ADD, helps turn it from a problem to a strength, so get focussing:
- Click here for links to the best ADD Web Sites
- Read our Book Reviews of some of the best books on ADD/ADHD
- Why not visit an ADHD Support Group, make friends, share & learn about ADHD
- Browse Simplywellbeing Newsletters on wellbeing and living with ADD
Hyperfocus?
There is a misconception that people with ADD struggle to focus on anything. But as ever with ADD, it is not quite as simple as that. In fact though people with ADD find it very hard to focus on the uninteresting or boring, with subjects they find interesting or stimulating, people with ADD are often able to "hyperfocus". They are able to filter out all distractions and focus intensely for exceptionally long periods of time whether studying, playing, creating, thinking or dreaming. This is why an ADD child is perfectly able to focus and play computer games for hours!
From Wikipedia: "Hyperfocus" - an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a narrow subject, or beyond objective reality and onto subjective mental planes, daydreams, concepts, fiction, the imagination, and other objects of the mind.