Strategies for Dealing with Boredom

The best strategy is to run away from boredom as often as the situation allows. Being bored makes us feel sluggish, dull, not alive so we need to avoid it whenever possible.  Here are some ideas on how to beat the boredom blues:

Lately, I have been hearing about “adult onset ADHD,” but I don’t believe it exists. The people I talk with who were diagnosed when adults, tell me they had ADHD as children, but no one noticed or recognized it.

It is hard for many people with ADHD to get a good night’s sleep. Poor sleep causes serious problems with executive functions, the skills that help us be organized, focused, and efficient. There are many components to achieving a good night’s sleep.

The ADDitude Symptom Checker will guide you through a series of questions based on your primary concerns, and then compare your responses to symptoms of more than a dozen common psychological and learning conditions.

Because my husband and I spent countless hours wondering if certain behaviors could be controlled by our son with Inattentive ADHD, I found this excerpt from an ADDitude magazine to be essential reading.

Virtually all of the risks of ADHD come from not treating ADHD aggressively with a commitment to long-term management…..

For children, there is the Conners 3 Global Index (Conners 3GI) to measure improvement. These are forms your treating physician would supply to you and your child’s teachers to complete.

The first thing to know about online ADHD Directories, except for one I discuss later, is service providers pay a fee to be listed. The second thing to know is that even websites with creditable ADHD information (ADDitude, CHADD, and ADDA ) have no criteria for listing service providers.

This is not Dr. Sachar but I thought this photo would get your attention.

It seems that the more I learn about ADHD the less confident I am about what I know! I tell people (because this is what Dr. Dodson wrote in an ADDitude article) that people with Inattentive ADHD often need less than the recommended dose of a medicine

This is the best elevator speech about ADHD that I ever read or heard…

I have to wonder why 17 years have passed with little additional research on Inattentive ADHD.