Answers to Distraction

ISBN# 0-553-37821-X
Publication Date: 1996
Paperback, 334pp

Summary

In Driven to Distraction, Drs.  Hallowell and Ratey revealed why millions of  adults and children are chronic underachievers, caught  up in persistent problems in school, at work, and  at home. The cause is not lack of  self-discipline, but, rather, an inborn neurological condition,  Attention Deficit Disorder, or  ADD.

Answers To Distraction provides practical solutions to the dilemmas of ADD. This "user's guide" to ADD is presented in question-and-answer format ideal for even the most distractible reader. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of ADD, such as ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction, or ADD and work. The authors provide advice for teachers on recognizing ADD and helping students to cope, plus extraordinary insights into the relationship difficulties caused by ADD.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. You Mean There’s Actually a Name for It?
2. To Be Here and There and Everywhere
3. Making or Breaking the Spirit of the Child
4. The Pleasures (and Pains) of Sudden Wonder
5. Work Smarter, Not Just Harder
6. Perchance to Dream
7. Making up Your Mind
8. You are My Sunshine
9. Taming the Big Struggle
10. The Unfinished Symphony
11. Fact or Fad?
12. The Brain’s Behind It
13. Whence It Came
14. What’s in a Pill?
15. A Wretched Excess
16. The Gemlike Flame
17. The Doctors’ Dilemmas

1. Fifty Tips on the Management of Adult ADD
2. Twenty- Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Families
3. Twenty- Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Couples
4. Where To Go for Help