Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN: 9781583913581
ISBN: 1583913580
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2002-08
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

Consumer text focuses on the particular dilemmas and challenges of adults with ADD. Provides organizational skills for life, allowing energy to be focused on strengths, rather than disorder, through the use of humor and compassion. Softcover.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book for everybody
Comment: This book will help people with ADD and people who do not have ADD as un-organization comes from ADD traits. Everybody has ADD traits but on a scale of 1-10 everybody comes in at a 1 or 2. People who are said to have ADD come in at a 7-10. This book helps you understand the under lying reasons why people in general have problems with organization. Understanding the reasons for the un-organization is the key to organizing your life.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
Comment: Great book, very helpful, well written, valuable to anyone suffering from ADD or ADHD and needingto get organized.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect!!!
Comment: I bought about 8 ADD books in the same week (typical hyperfocus). By chance, the other 7 books came to me first. I spent about 15 minutes per each of the other books and got distracted by other things and they have been sitting on my desk forgotten for days now. Those other books were mostly highly rated and all contained similar, good information. Some were more medical and some were more practical. I would rate them all at 0 stars because of the same problem: I HAVE SEVERE ADHD AND THEY DID NOT KEEP MY ATTENTION ENOUGH FOR ME TO READ THEM.

This book should be the only one you buy. It really is amazing. Instead of spending chapters describing a basic ADHD problem, they start off by telling you in one short phrase one of your major problems and then they use the rest of the chapter to tell you how you should solve it.

It very easy to read. Extremely thoughtful in terms of how it's designed for maximum impact. If only the world were this well designed (not just for the ADD sufferer, but for everyone). It's just straight to the point and practical.

My particular brand of ADD makes it very difficult for me to write feedback reviews on my purchases. I write about one review a year. Listen to me on this one. Don't buy any other book besides this one if you are looking for help to get your ADD life in order.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: very helpful book
Comment: It was THE FIRST book about ADD with recommendations that I was capable to follow (and I've read a dozen at least. Despite ADD, I consider myself an adequately functioning individual with 4 MS degrees.) As a result, it helped me to my clean appartment (now I have guests every week, which is a tremendous success, if you know what I mean:-)), get rid of clutter (old books went to library, clothes to Goodwill and friends, these days I periodically take an inventory of my stuff, so no spontaneous shopping anymore), create AND maintain certain structure in my daily routines, get consistent with a couple of strategies which I had intuitively found on my own (like having a body double, working on a tough assignment in bookstore cafe, etc.) I can go on and on but the bottom line is that it's one of the very few self-help books that really improved quality of my life.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Possibly the best ADD book I've read
Comment: As an adult with ADD, I struggle on a daily basis with all aspects of organization and most books on the topic are fairly meaningless to me. The ideas just don't quite apply to my world.

This book, however, encourages one to work with their ADD instead of against it. There are strengths that comes with the disorder.
The tools and tips are written in a way that makes them applicable to my life. I've had to laugh at parts, because it's almost as if the authors were sitting in my head and/or home as they describe traits of adults with ADD.


Other reviews have mentioned that it promotes hiring professional organizers, which is true. It does go there frequent (with little regard for the fact that having ADD does not always lend itself to job success and some of us are living on a small, fixed income that does not allow for the luxury of hiring somebody to help). Still, that option is presented as the option to use if the other - free - suggestions don't help and the person is in need of further support with their organizational goals. It certainly does not negate the incredible usefulness of the book itself.

It's written in an engaging, light-hearted, easy-to-read style and really addresses the needs of an ADD audience.

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