The Gift of Adult ADD: How to Transform Your Challenges and Build on Your Strengths
by Lara Honos-Webb
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If you have attention deficit disorder (ADD), you may act impulsively, daydream, and have trouble focusing, but clinical studies suggest that these same symptoms may make you exceptionally creative, intuitive, and energetic. In fact, many people with ADD claim to have become successful because of their ADD, not in spite of it.In The Gift of Adult ADD, Lara Honos-Webb adapts the revolutionary approach first introduced in the parenting book The Gift of ADHD to the lives of adults with ADD. show more Instead of focusing on your weaknesses, this book shows you how to transform symptoms into strengths to improve your relationships, job performance, parenting skills, and overall quality of life. You'll also read inspiring stories of real people with ADD who have become successful in part because of their ability to meet the challenges of ADD and make the most of its gifts.
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Lara Honos-Webb, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, international attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) expert, and author of The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book, and The ADHD Workbook for Teens, among others. Learn more at www.addisagift.com.
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- Epigraph
- "Is it just me or is the whole world ADD?"
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to Ken, Kenny, and Audrey Webb for givibg me the gift of waking up happy every day.
- First words
- Go for it.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Your family, your friends, your community, and your world need you to stop beating yourself up, playing small and feeling guilty about what you cannot do.
- Publisher's editor
- Hanauer, Tesilya
- Blurbers
- Pink, Daniel H.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 616.85 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Nervous Disorders: Autism, Anorexia, OCD Miscellaneous
- LCC
- RC394 .A85 .H66 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
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- English, Swedish
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