| ADHD coaching can sometimes be nothing more | | | | to make us stronger, pills to help us sleep, and |
| than having your very own individual accountability | | | | certainly pills that are meant to manage your |
| partner. Your coach can be someone who will look | | | | symptoms of ADHD. |
| at things differently, offer unique perspective, and | | | | If you rely only on pills (medication) to manage |
| provide you with the tools and resources you | | | | your symptoms, then you could be setting |
| specifically need to better manage your | | | | yourself for a more challenging road than is |
| symptoms of ADHD. | | | | necessary. Regardless of your opinion on |
| If you want to be "your very own" ADHD coach, | | | | medication, there a few things we know about |
| or help your child, here are 3 one-way tickets to | | | | treating ADHD with medication. It can work. It can |
| absolute failure and continued struggle while trying | | | | cover up underlying issues. There is no cure, and |
| to manage ADHD. | | | | there can be some tremendous side-effects. |
| 1. Don't take it seriously. | | | | The bottom line is that there is no magic pill to |
| As you likely know, there are many different | | | | curing your ADHD. While medication can be helpful, |
| opinions about ADHD. Some people will tell you it | | | | it can also enable you to overlook much more of |
| doesn't exist, others will tell you it is a true | | | | what is happening to you or your child. |
| medical disorder, while still others will have you | | | | 3. Blame everyone else. |
| believe that ADHD itself is a unique gift that can | | | | A very common attitude to take when anything |
| catapult you to great success. | | | | is different, regardless of whether it's ADHD or |
| With all these messages, it can sometimes be | | | | not, is to blame other people for your problems. |
| extremely overwhelming to know what you are | | | | You can blame your teachers, your co-workers, |
| supposed to believe. While it might take you | | | | your boss, your children, and society. We can |
| some time to come up with your own beliefs, | | | | blame others for making us feel a certain, and we |
| you need to take it serious from the very | | | | can blame people for our problems. |
| beginning. Someone who struggles with ADHD | | | | While there might actually be some truth to our |
| faces an extra set of challenges on top of | | | | "blame," we also need to accept responsibility for |
| everything else we face each day. When you | | | | our part in the problem or societal view of what |
| don't take anything seriously, it can make life just | | | | is going on. So if you want to continue struggling |
| that much more difficult. | | | | with your inability to focus, your difficult |
| 2. Think a pill will solve your problems. | | | | completing tasks, your child's restless and irritable |
| Unless you are free from advertising, or living | | | | behaviors, or just being sloppy and careless, then |
| without major media, then you know that a pill | | | | keep doing what you are doing. Keep blaming |
| exists for almost everything different in this world | | | | others for your how you experience ADHD. |
| today. We have diet pills, blood pressure pills, pills | | | | |