Short Learning and Study Course Launch
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ADHD people learn differently from the rest of the population. Distraction and vivid imaginations are two of the most prominent problems.
I have created a short online training course for ADDers so that they have a really good shot at learning and getting the marks their intelligence deserves.
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To overcome the things that hinder learning, ADDers need to get ‟prepared” to learn. Things such as Change and Attitude are accepted as ‟normal process” for non-ADHD people - they just happen. We need to actively implement these things in order to learn.
The course is done online and I recommend that you do 2 modules per day for 5 days.
Watch the video - they are each only about 10 minutes which is a good time period to focus without getting distracted.
Make a list of what you need to do and implement.
You have lifetime access to the course so you can remind yourself each term how to get and stay motivated.
1. Module One: A Changing of Life
Changing your life for the better by Choosing What and How to Learn, Choosing your goals, and being the Best You Can be
2. Module Two: The Right Attitude
Defining YOUR Attitude, Attitude is a Decision, how 85% of people get hired on Attitude not qualification, Attitude and your Mind-speak, and Attitude and Failing
3. Module Three: The Physical Learning Environment
How to set up Work, Sleep, and Leisure Zones to increase productivity, Creating and using To-Do and Check Lists
4. Module Four: Technology That Works
The Essential Apps, Freeplane, Google Calendar, Zoho Notebook, Time Timer, and Robo Form Password Manager
5. Module Five: Managing Time - All The Time
Measuring Time, Defining the mystery of time, The end of time, why waste time? planning your time, the horror of time wasters
6. Module Six: Mind-Mapping and Brainstorming
Mind-mapping: the best ADHD tool for planning, mind-mapping styles and processes
7. Module Seven: Determined Decisive Decisions
Types of Decisions, the paradox of choice, Life is a one-way road, deciding why you are learning, decision truths and questions
8. Module Eight: Planning For Spontaneity
Essential planning, Johari´s Window planning tool, Matrix's, planning is a stress reliever,
9. Module Nine: Making Knowledge
Understanding and memory, Collect, Question, Summarise, and the Rudimentary Three R's
10. Module Ten: Journey To Understanding
Active Listening, Layered Reading, Layered Learning, Cornell Note Taking Method, your words in a nutshell
Sorry - you missed the launch price special. However the standard price of R757 is still incredible value.
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Should ADDers Own Guns?
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Should people who have ADHD be allowed to own guns? It's a good question with no easy answer.
It set me to thinking yet again, should people who have ADHD be allowed to own guns, any kind of gun, in fact any weapon capable of killing?
If we look at some of the symptoms and impairments of ADHD, the answer is a no-brainer. We are impulsive, don't always understand consequences, have low self esteem, are anxious, and probably depressed. We also experience life in terms of ourselves - we take things terribly personally. The recipe is ideal for a disaster.
Covid Causes 18% Increase in Medication Scripts Year-on-Year
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ADHD medications increased by 18% each year since 2019, the year of Covid a study published on the 12th of March this year announced
Research from experts at the University of Huddersfield and Aston University suggested there was an upward trend in prescriptions for the condition in each region across England.
The BBC report claimed the study advanced two reasons for this increase. The first was due to an increase in social media posting about the condition.
The second one, which I find very interesting, is said to be due to the increase of the worsening of ADHD symptoms with the impact of Covid.
This increase occurred despite a shortage of ADHD medications world wide.
ADHD And Sleep Problems Part One
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The dream was vivid, bright high-resolution visuals and realistic surround sound. A roaring beast was chasing me on a mountain top and suddenly I came to a cliff edge - off to the left I desperately saw a flimsy rope bridge. I narrowly evaded a brutal toe as the beast tried sweep me up into his mouth. I ran onto the rope bridge - when I got to the middle the bridge started to sway violently - then a bolt of lightening struck the rope just in front of me and I fell into the abyss…
I woke up on my knees next to my bed, clutching the sheet, with my poor wife staring at me in horror. I dream every night, and most nights I thrash around - never waking up in the same place where I went to sleep.
The last few years have not had as many terrors as the one described above, but it is like I live in many different worlds when my eyes shut out the conscious world.
Around about the time I turned one, my mother noticed that I was scratching my pillow to keep myself awake. Seventy years on and I have simply found other techniques to avoid sleeping.
Most of my working life I thrived on around 4 hours sleep a night. Being a news photographer during a turbulent time in Southern Africa almost demanded that one be able to function on minimal sleep.
ADHD And Sleep Problems Part Two
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| SLEEP DISORDER TYPE | RATIO |
| Narcolepsy - daytime sleepiness | 70 Times |
| Cataplexy - sudden loss of muscle tone leading to collapse | 70 Times |
| Hypersomnia - excessive sleeping | 20 Times |
| Sleep/wake schedule circadian rhythms | 19 Times |
| Insomnia | 16 Times |
| Restless Leg Syndrome | 7 Times |
| Nightmares | 7 Times |
| Sleep Walking | 6 Times |
| Sleep Terrors | 5 Times |
In Part Two of this article on sleep issues and ADHD I am going to break the very accurate Swedish Statistics on the subject. In Part One I looked the figures for sleep disturbances as one group.
Now I will break the figures down into 8 different categories and how uncommon they are compared top non-ADHD people.
Here are the figures from the highest to the lowest.
The Swedish team that undertook this study concluded their work saying this:
“Our findings also suggest that greater clinical attention should be directed towards addressing sleep problems in individuals with ADHD. This entails implementing proactive measures through sleep education programmes and providing both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and parental sleep training.”
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Print Edition is long since sold out, the revised pdf version available soon
I have been coaching people with ADHD for 20-plus years, and I know that they either have lots of money or hardly any.
