ADD/ADHD In Adults: Handling Distractions And Emergencies
ADD/ADHD is distressing enough in children but in adults it is actually an economic and financial threat. What if you can’t complete your tasks? What if you get fired? What if you can’t support your family any more? These fears just make the ADD/ADHD victim even more distracted and incapable of operating to full capacity. There are answers and solutions to the problem of distractions and how add victims should handle them. These solutions are, happily, natural and systemic ways to solve the problem of distractions without resorting to unnecessary and downright harmful medications such as the main culprit, namely Ritalin, or Strattera, Adderall, concerta and the newer Vyvanse. Medical science is waking up to the fact that the side-effects of these medicines may be worse than the very condition they are designed to cure. It is a case of "In order to save the village, it is necessary to destroy it."
Well, there are no such harmful techniques used in this easy manner of handling distractions. Firstly, we are assuming you work in an office environment either at home or in an office building. You will probably be largely office-bound and your ADD/ADHD is affecting your work. If you are working for someone else, you will probably find that there is little support for you with your attention deficit disorder. Far from sympathizing with you, your boss and colleagues might be hostile and assume you are just using your disability to gain sympathy or get out of doing work. You have to meet the reality head-on: when it comes to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder you are on your own. Here is the first thing to do: you should physically block all distractions. Focus on the door to your office or home. Close it. People with ADD/ADHD can actually benefit from this simple action. Put a notice on the door saying do not disturb under any circumstances whatsoever. You can be ruder if you like! Tell them if they phone they will get no answer but should leave a message. It’s that easy. If anyone transgresses this notice (including children, best friends and spouses) you must tell them they are making you sicker with ADD/ADHD by not letting you alone. Soon you will start to be left alone in peace to do your work and you will also experience a sense of empowerment, not to mention euphoria, because you have taken control of your environment.
It is superfluous to worry about emergencies. If there is an emergency, someone will get hold of someone who can help – even if that is you. You are within your rights as an ADD/ADHD sufferer to cut down on distractions. That is your particular emergency, a daily and ongoing situation for adult sufferers of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So attend to it! Do not be disturbed if you find yourself wanting to call someone and tell them to come over and visit. This is natural for ADD/ADHD sufferers. The feeling will soon pass. Make it a habit to post that note and close your office or front door. Some ADD/ADHD sufferers who work from home have asked if another solution would be have someone at home or the office to act as a buffer against people who might distract or disturb you. The answer I generally give is that the person who is the buffer must be intimately acquainted with your ADD/ADHD condition if they are to be any help at all. If they are in any sense crass they may in fact become the most distracting person around. This can develop into another case of the cure being worse than the cure!
This technique for blocking distractions is just one small way in which you can start to manage your adult ADD/ADHD in a natural way. It should form part of a larger approach such as 3 Steps To Conquering ADD, a three-pronged natural approach to combating this harmful disease in adults in children. In essence the program eliminates the need for using the notorious ADD/ADHD drugs Ritalin, Vyvanse, Strattera, Concerta or Adderall. Instead the patient follows a program for avoiding harmful foods, taking certain actions and changing behaviors, and eating correctly and using supplements. Thousands of Americans of all ages are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD each year. There are certainly cases where this is a real psychiatric disorder but they are rare. Even medical professionals are realizing that attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not as widespread as previously thought. Instead dietary deficiencies, lifestyles and social pressures are to blame.
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