I Always Want to Be Where I'm Not: Successful Living with ADD and ADHD

Dr. Wes Crenshaw offers thirteen principles for successful living with ADD and ADHD drawn from twenty-two years of experience and 23000 hours of clinical discussions with hundreds of interesting clients. Written in an entertaining conversational style for readers aged fifteen to thirty Dr. Wes pulls no punches in confronting the cognitive social emotional and academic pitfalls people with ADD face every day. He also helps families friends and romantic partners understand a diagnosis of ADD not as something to fear or an excuse but as a first step on the path to a better tomorrow. His principles include accepting here and now living intentionally making mindful decisions recognizing and taking the right path and not just the easy one wanting rather than wishing finding and following lifes instructions managing crises taking responsibility attaining character through radical honesty and creating sustainable happiness through organized thinking and living. Finally Dr. Wes guides you and your loved ones in how to better manage relationships seek a good diagnosis utilize therapy and become your own expert on medication management. * Have you been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or do you suspect you should be? Do you really want to start solving your many riddles and living a more successful and productive life? This book is for you. * Does your partner child roommate or friend have ADD? Do you wonder whats going on in his or her head and you really want to understand the secret code so you can better love him or her? This book is for you. * Are you a little scattered or organizationally challenged? Do you struggle with details follow-through or in converting ideas into results? Do your people see you as fun and energetic but uncommitted and difficult to pin down. Maybe youre an ADD-leaner. This book is for you.