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ADHD is complicated. It’s a neurological difference, often a disorder, and always a persecuted minority. ADHD is a problem due to dopamine and attention, a strength of creativity and humour, and a different personality type that doesn’t fit into an over-regulated environment. Here are some books to enlighten and inform.

Understanding

Sleep is the most most critical aspect to our health and wellbeing, more important to longevity and happiness than diet or exercise. Better health results in increased focus, less procrastination, more motivation and less struggle. There is a beneficial circle of better health resulting in reduced ADHD negative symptoms, resulting in improved effectiveness and better mood. The foundation to managing your ADHD is to focus on your wellbeing.

Delivered from Distraction – Hallowell & Ratey

Attention Deficit Disorder – Thomas Brown

Getting Unstuck – Don Kerson

Healing ADD – Daniel Amen

Out of the Fog – Murphy & LeVert

Odd One Out: The Maverick’s Guide to Adult ADD – Jennifer Koretsky

Beyond ADD – Thom Hartmann

Journeys through ADDulthood – Sari Solden

One Boy’s Struggle – Bryan Huttchinson

ADHD in Adults – Barkley, Murphy and Fischer

Is it You, Me or Adult ADD – Gina Pera

ADHD Effect on Marriage by Melissa Orlov

Driven to Distraction – Hallowell & Ratey

Magnificent Mind at Any Age – Daniel Amen

You mean I am not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! – Kelly & Ramundo

Organisation

Sleep is the most most critical aspect to our health and wellbeing, more important to longevity and happiness than diet or exercise. Better health results in increased focus, less procrastination, more motivation and less struggle. There is a beneficial circle of better health resulting in reduced ADHD negative symptoms, resulting in improved effectiveness and better mood. The foundation to managing your ADHD is to focus on your wellbeing.

Fidget to Focus – Rotz & Wright

Healing ADD – Thom Hartmann

The Gift of Adult ADD – Laura Honos-Webb

Survival Tips for Women with ADHD – Terry Matlen

Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain – Ratey

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life – Kolberg & Nadeau

10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD – Sarkis

The Now Habit – Neil Fiore

Do It Tomorrow – Mark Forster

Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People – Eikleberry

The War of Art – Steven Pressfield

I Know What I Want, But It’s Not This – Julie Jansen

The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp

Neuroscience

Sleep is the most most critical aspect to our health and wellbeing, more important to longevity and happiness than diet or exercise. Better health results in increased focus, less procrastination, more motivation and less struggle. There is a beneficial circle of better health resulting in reduced ADHD negative symptoms, resulting in improved effectiveness and better mood. The foundation to managing your ADHD is to focus on your wellbeing.

The Blank Slate – Steven Pinker

Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond

Irrationality – Stuart Sutherland

States of Denial – Stanley Cohen

Mismatch – Gluckman & Hanson

The New Executive Brain – Elkhonon Goldberg

A User’s Guide to the Brain – John Ratey

Synaptic Self – Joseph LeDoux

The Master and his Emissary – Iain McGilchrist

A Mind of its Own – Cordelia Fine

Wellbeing

Sleep is the most most critical aspect to our health and wellbeing, more important to longevity and happiness than diet or exercise. Better health results in increased focus, less procrastination, more motivation and less struggle. There is a beneficial circle of better health resulting in reduced ADHD negative symptoms, resulting in improved effectiveness and better mood. The foundation to managing your ADHD is to focus on your wellbeing.

Reinventing Your Life – Young & Klosko

Happiness: A guide to developing Life’s most important skill – Ricard

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Dealing with Depression Naturally – Syd Baumel

Positive Psychology in Practice – Linley Joseph

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem – Nathaniel Branden

The Road Less Travelled – M. Scott Peck

When Too Much Isn’t Enough – Wendy Richardson

The Big Book – Alcoholics Anonymous Services

The Truth about Addiction and Recovery by Peele and Brodsky

Overcoming your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits – Desena

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – Edmund J. Bourne

The Art of Happiness at Work – Dalai Lama & Cutler

The Mind Body Bible – Dr Mark Atkinson

Authentic Happiness – Martin E. P. Seligman

Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert

The Antidepressant Solution – Joseph Glenmullen

Childhood

ADHD kids may have problems with friends, school, sleep, and attention but they can also be funny, kind, insightful and wonderful too. There are some excellent books here to read and find effective ways of helping you ADHD child be happy and successful. The key is not to try to force them to be normal but to understand, accept and embrace their ADHD nature.