[psychmajortwenty2]

It's a fantastic book, Driven to Distraction. However, when I got to the help section on how to cope with ADHD.. I felt a little disappointed. What I'm looking for is what I, me, MYSELF can do to cope with this.

I want strategies. Or like... concrete: DO THIS.

I guess that's also the ADHD talking in me. I need my own personal structure and I have no idea how to attain it.

Help?

Someone had suggested to me a website: FlyLady.net

And it's really fantastic! I have yet to shine my sink and figure out the website.. but it seems like it offers great concrete tips! So.. if I could be given more sites like that or more book suggestions.. other than Delivered from Distraction, because I own that and I hope they're more on the tip giving side with this next book!

[montanan4ever]

Work on just ONE thing at a time to build structure. For example, maybe making a rule to be in bed by x time and get up at y time. For me, it's terribly hard to stop whatever I'm hyperfocused on and go to bed. So I have a rule about being in bed by a certain time and getting up at about the same time every day.

Once you get ONE item of structure integrated into your life, try a second item. For me, that is currently putting every time commitment into my phone calendar--even if they repeating commitments like class times. I get more than 50% of the stuff on there, which is a big improvement lol.

I think it's important to focus on just one change at a time. If you try to implement too many new things, it gets crazy overwhelming.

[avlady]

I also think a good sleep schedule is one of the first things we should do if we want to get better. I used to sleep all day and be awake all night until i got married 17 years ago. my husband is a day person so if i wanted to see him i had to go by his schedule, and eventually i was able to switch to a day person too. I feel alot better this way, even though i have mental problems but they are no where near what it used to be like, and i also found out years ago i was suffering from sleep apnea and i sleep with a machine now too.