
I Always Want to Be Where I'm Not
Successful Living with ADD and ADHD
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Narrated by:
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Wes Crenshaw PhD
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By:
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Wes Crenshaw PhD
About this listen
Dr. Wes Crenshaw offers thirteen principles for successful living with ADD and ADHD drawn from twenty-two years of experience and 23,000 hours of clinical discussions with hundreds of interesting clients. Written in an entertaining, conversational style for readers aged fifteen to thirty, Dr. Wes pulls no punches in confronting the cognitive, social, emotional, and academic pitfalls people with ADD face every day. He also helps families, friends, and romantic partners understand a diagnosis of ADD not as something to fear or an excuse, but as a first step on the path to a better tomorrow.
His principles include accepting here and now, living intentionally, making mindful decisions, recognizing and taking the right path and not just the easy one, wanting rather than wishing, finding and following life's instructions, managing crises, taking responsibility, attaining character through radical honesty, and creating sustainable happiness through organized thinking and living. Finally, Dr. Wes guides you and your loved ones in how to better manage relationships, seek a good diagnosis, utilize therapy, and become your own expert on medication management.
- Have you been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD or do you suspect you should be? Do you really want to start solving your many riddles and living a more successful and productive life? This book is for you.
- Does your partner, child, roommate, or friend have ADD? Do you wonder what's going on in his or her head, and you really want to understand the secret code so you can better love him or her? This audiobook is for you.
- Are you a little scattered or organizationally challenged? Do you struggle with details, follow-through, or in converting ideas into results? Do your people see you as fun and energetic, but uncommitted and difficult to pin down. Maybe you're an "ADD-leaner." This audiobook is for you.
I struggled with Wes' halting reading style at first but settled into it within the first couple of chapters. The section on medication was especially helpful. the vignette at the start of each chapter brought the material into more real focus too.
This book is well worth the time taken to listen.
Well Done.
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Very detailed and helpful
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Emotional, insightful, powerful
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A Touching book with deep and useful insites!
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Dr Wes brilliantly presents a deep and sympathetic understanding of ADD- as a fellow traveller and a pragmatic guide. For many adults, who have ADD, the vignettes he recounts will have a strong resonance with a lot of lightbulb moments.
The book is invaluable for anyone with ADD - offering many pieces of advice on actions to help straighten up and fly right.
There is much discussion on the thorny topic of medication. For some, even many people, medication will prove a godsend, but it is anything but straightforward.
Tinkering - and that’s what it is - with brain chemistry can be a long journey with many pitfalls. The drugs work for some and not for others, with widely variable dosages and a myriad of combinations. And the process of finding the “right” combination is an endless dance of trial and error, stepping around serious side effects.
It’s not Dr Wes’ fault - he presents the facts- but the message of “suck it and see” is not pretty. And neither is it good science. So much of staying on a less distracted pathway relies on - or alternatively - is confounded by side effects. For some folks the stimulant drugs work well- for others, they make the distractions run faster, cause a lack of appetite, and sleep problems as well as a risk of dependency.
Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the book is that it supports people with ADD by creating a sense of belonging to a community of fellow travellers on this often rough road.
Lifts the Fog
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Really Helpful
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this book is very boring
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