Reddit reviews Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD
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Could be wrong but almost positive this book - Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD has a small section near the end about parenting with ADHD. Highly recommend it, out all of the stuff I’ve read over the past few years, this book has helped me the most.
I really like imaginitive ways to beat procrastination. I think boredom is a big factor for adhd'ers and making a silly game of things is just more interesting than trying to constantly will yourself through it.
A couple of my favorite resources along those lines:
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The focused forward book was really good (and I've read many adhd books). One of my favorite tactics from that was to imagine an 'advisory board' in your head. This would consist of some of your favorite people (real life or fiction) having discussions about what you should do about 'X'. I've found that to be a very powerful tool when you are just stuck in a problem loop (can't see a solution or direction) or just aren't motivated. And even if it doesn't work it's fun to imagine absurd scenarios like your high school shop teacher, Einstein, and Ghenghis Khan arguing about you can't just sit down and finish your taxes.
That feeling of hopelessness after a series of failures, it's called Emotional Distress Syndrome. it leaves you feeling like you can never succeed again, and is compared to PTSD. My wife, who also has ADHD, suffers from it, and it has kept her from doing a lot of things she's wanted to do. We only identified it literally last week, but it's a clear fit.
The book we learned about it from is Focused Forward: Navigating the Storms of Adult ADHD