Top 5 Tips for Living With ADHD

Ned Hallowell, MD, psychiatrist and world authority on ADHD, shares his top 5 tips for living with ADHD.

As someone who has ADHD and dyslexia himself, he'll share from first-hand experience how to manage symptoms.

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[camilamenesesg]

A practical tip for the adhd community: when you want to do something that displeases you, find something to reward yourself once you’ve finished (i do this to get things done more efficiently because i cant stip thinking on the price)

[sierrasimon]

Having ADHD is having to rewind this video and rewatch it over and over again because you either zoned out or forgot what he said.🤦🏻‍♀️🥴

[catherinephillips]

5. Consider medication
4.exercise even 3x20 minutes a week...results are on par with medication
3.education .learn about your adhd
2.find a creative outlet ...need it as much as a cow needs milk?lol
Needs to be the right level of challenging and matter to you.
1. Connections are the driver of all that is good.

[martinoheat]

I really like your number one. I didn't actually think about it much before, but I think it's true, especially as an adult. You realize that ADHD makes you feel disconnected with others, because you are not neurotypical. Many people with ADHD struggle with anxiety, and depression I think because they feel misunderstood or different than others. But with other people with ADHD, and also with loved one who understand you uniquely, you feel like you can be your interesting, creative, crazy self.

[seifyasser]

I like how he listed the tips in descending order of importance to keep us concentrating the whole video

[bb]

I'm 28 years old and just been told recently that when I was little they diagnosed me with ADHD. I always use to wonder to myself, why am I like this? so thankful for videos like this

[suneetamishra]

5. Consider medication.
4. Physical exercise (20mins thrice a week)
3. Embrace ADHD.
2. Find a way to engage creatively.
1. Connect

[binitapradhan]

This was beautifully put. I love the fact that he said to consider your adhd as a different way of being and learn more about it.

[hafsiesami]

All i know is that i have felt absolutely crippled lately due to my adhd. Im excited to try these out.

[caroloaks]

I can't really express how grateful I'm right now for all the information I've got from you about ADHD, I am literally crying because I never heard about it and somehow I've got in this video and it just BANG, lightened 15 years of painful struggle. So many things makes sense now, from the slow but steady decline since I stopped drawing at high school to my complete isolation and loss of interest even in my closest family members... The blindness of one of my eyes when I was 18yo, which also have affected me functionally and so much more.
I always had this crying "urge" to draw again, but since I have assimilated it with "childishness" and also set myself to think that there are more productive ways to spend my time, little did I know that maybe I've been sabotaging myself all these years for not letting my creativeness flow again.
I will study more about it and search local professional help and I NEVER write any kind of comments but I felt like you deserved to know how astonished, happy, amazed I am because of some of your videos.

Thank you, sincerely.

[goldennight]

I went through near 19 years of my life not knowing I had ADHD and now that I got diagnosed I felt horrible from all the times I’d get in trouble and not being understood l, now I know I can help myself and get out of my depressive episode, I’ll try to apply these tips into my life

[QuazzyDucks]

"It is in connection we are at our best, and in disconnection that we're at our worst"
I think you've given me another inspirational quote to write down, thank you

[AM-esup]

It’s been consistent disconnection in my life… outcast is a good word … misunderstood… defensive, constantly feeling like I’m under attack from others .. hypersensitive as it’s so difficult to express myself in conversation and the main part is the inconsistency in how I come across to others depending how my emotions are reacting to the person or situations I find myself in or in the ones I can’t get out of….!

Then spending weeks, months and years ruminating over every bad or misunderstood situation or conversation….. it’s crap…. Except for my wife who understands and my daughter who’s fantastic….

[Ubions]

I always thought my adhd was just apart of growing up and maturing from childhood. Now, more than ever, it really posses as a burden and struggle in adulthood. And like autism and turrets, adhd is a spectrum that effects everyone differently in different ways but can produce similar results, (negatively impacting mental health, difficultly in everyday life, wether social, work, self sustainability). So sitting down and confronting yourself about it is the best thing anyone can do. I’m here now, never have gone on medication, and realizing it is now necessary. I’m at a my last my resort, because I feel stuck in all directions like being in a whole. I wish everyone can help themselves whether adhd or not and be the best person they can achieve to be.

[jcmeek]

It’s hard, like the adhd Evolves over time, comes harder to control

[CATDHD]

Thank you, good sir. Very inspiring.28 years old with OCD, ADHD and BPD.

[catherinephillips]

Thanks so much for your to the point video, I appreciate the constructive suggestions

[X-Agn]

It is hard. Always ppl view us as lazy. It is really hard 😒

[lissstar]

Thankyou. Great video. I have often remarked that the easiest and most enjoyable job I ever did was working in a laundry - I was physically moving the whole time and now it makes sense that it worked well for me. My brain needed the movement!

[jimbocho]

I find intermittent fasting helps as much as excercise. Coherent breathing meditation is good too.