The History Connection - Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8589
EAN: 9780684801285
ISBN: 0684801280
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 1995-03-02
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone

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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Comment: I think the authors' emphasis on the advantages of having ADD is really great and makes you look at this 'disorder' from an entirely different perspective. Since the authors have ADD themselves, they shed new light and a positive spin on what many of us think as a very difficult condition. Parents Digest has this summary along with others on the topic.

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Summary: Driven to Distraction
Comment: Cd was very informative. Much easier to put in cd and listen than reading for hours. It covers all basic points of ADD. The fast overview should answer most question that a layman would have.

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Summary: I'm too distracted to review this but I wasn't distracted at all reading it
Comment: Honestly, the title of my review wasn't originally intended to be funny. I came on Amazon to look up the publishing date for a footnote/bibliography reference for this book. I now have spent too much time reading reviews on diet books and updating my other reviews on movies and phones to do this review justice.

But if you're looking it up, you don't want a long review anyway. It is the best book in the world for someone with ADD, thinks they might have ADD or someone who has to live with a person with ADD.

BUY IT NOW!! Before you get distracted.

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Summary: One of the classics - but dated
Comment: This is an excellent book for the person who has not heard of ADHD until recently, particularly for the adult who has been unknowingly suffering its effects. But I was an adolescent when ADHD first became widely recognized and diagnosed, and I grew up with friends and family members who were diagnosed and treated for their ADHD, at a time when "You mean I'm not crazy, stupid or lazy?" was sort of a joke catchphrase in the high school hallways. This book presumes that, by the time you read it, your ADHD or that of your child has already gone unrecognized for a number of years and caused personal and academic problems. As such, it doesn't really speak to the reality of modern day parents who have known about ADHD from the time our children were born and are now struggling to diagnose and treat the disorder BEFORE it disrupts our children's lives. In addition, the information on medication is very out of date, as many advances have occurred in the 15 years since the book was written.

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Summary: The ADHD bible
Comment: Having had ADHD since birth and as a recovering alcholic, I found this books to answer the many questions that I had regarding the disease. I was always a self-medicator and that turns out to be a classic symptom of ADHD. Five years and no drugs or alcohol!

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Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.