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Rewrite History: Understand Your Past (and Yourself) in a Different Way

June 29th, 2009

Being diagnosed with ADHD not only enables you to create a better future, it also changes your understanding of your past. It explains all sorts of events in your life in a much less pejorative way.

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Fully Accepting the Diagnosis

June 22nd, 2009

Coming to a full understanding and acceptance of your ADHD isn’t easy, but it is empowering.

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The Four Stages of Adjustment to a New Diagnosis

June 15th, 2009

Getting diagnosed can be a really big deal that can take a long time to adjust to. Although not written in stone, people tend to go through certain stages in that process.

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Missed Diagnoses: Why Did It Take Me So Long to Be Correctly Diagnosed?

June 8th, 2009

Most adults with ADHD have been diagnosed only recently. There are many reasons for why these people were missed for so many years, even when it was painfully obvious that there was something going on.

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What’s in a Name: Attention-Deficit or Deficit in Attention Regulation?

June 1st, 2009

“Attention-deficit” implies that people with ADHD don’t have enough attention, but the real problem is that they don’t control their attention effectively. Mostly, they get distracted and shift their attention when they should have stayed on the original task. Sometimes, though, they stay glued on something when they should really shift.

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