The Everything Health Guide to Adult ADD/ADHD: Expert advice to find the right diagnosis, evaluation and treatment

by Carole Jacobs, Isadore Wendel, Theresa Cerulli (Foreword)

People with undiagnosed Adult ADD/ADHD suffer highly chaotic lives--and often struggle with problems such as fatigue, depression, drug abuse, and learning disabilities. The good news is that treatment can go a long way toward getting this condition in check. But before anyone can manage the problem, they have to be able to identify it, starting with a thorough understanding of what it looks like in adults. This guide helps This guide also helps remove the guilt and blame surrounding ADD/ADHD by reassuring that it is a real syndrome with a biological cause, and not the result of laziness or a lack of motivation or discipline. From diagnosis to life after treatment, this book will guide you with a reassuring hand every step of the way.

Genres: Adhd, Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2010

Reviews

[Slorglord · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book talks down to the reader throughout, giving very obvious and often inhelpful advice. It is overall discouraging towards people who have ADHD, warning how we’re “difficult to live with” among other unforgiveable flaws. There are a couple positive things to encourage, but they are far outweighed by this overall tone of “you are wrong/bad”. Besides this, there’s not really any advice to improve oneself that actually caters to ADHD or works around symptoms- just exercise and eat well and don’t be inappropriate or have clutter 🙃
The information is repetitive and sometimes inconplete, and there isn’t much in here I couldn’t have found literally anywhere else.
I went from reading cover-to-cover to skimming to skipping whole sections and just felt worse as I went on. Gave me a god damn headache; don’t waste your time here.

[Lyndsy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book provided a really good overview to Adult ADHD. It gave a great background, the symptoms in their different characteristics, and some good advice about how to work on it.

I think it was also very good on getting diagnosed and the challenges with family physicians being able to diagnose and treat it.

Looking at it from the three main sources of treatment but emphasizing that they should be done together was interesting and probably very important.

Overall, an excellent general guide.

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Had some outdated information, but overall had some pretty interesting facts and tricks.

[Kelsie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had lots of helpful info and provided a good big picture/starting point, but it is definitely somewhat dated. It didn't address much about ADHD in women specifically as I'd hoped it would.

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best adult ADD book I have read. Lots of useful information.