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Five essential books for those trying to understand and cope with Attention Deficit Disorder / Attention Deficit Hyperactivy Disorder. (In my humble opinion.)

 

 

Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

 Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

 You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

  This attention deficit disorder (ADD / ADHD) site awarded recognition as a "Heart of the Web" website.

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 Winner - ABC's of Parenting 3-Star Site Award - Category: Attention Deficit Disorder

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction 

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

Back to Links Pages

  

  This attention deficit disorder (ADD / ADHD) site awarded recognition as a "Heart of the Web" website.

Five
Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

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Balance Check's Library of ADD/ADHD Books

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 Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

 You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

Back to Links Pages

 

 

  This attention deficit disorder (ADD / ADHD) site awarded recognition as a "Heart of the Web" website.

Five
Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

 Balance
Check Books

Balance Check's Library of ADD/ADHD Books

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

Back to Links Pages

 

Five
Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

 Balance
Check Books

Balance Check's Library of ADD/ADHD Books

 This attention deficit disorder site recognized as a 3-Star Site! -by Mental Health Net

 

Top of Page

Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

Back to Links Pages

 

This attention deficit disorder (ADD / ADHD) site awarded recognition as a "Heart of the Web" website. 

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Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

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Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven To Distraction

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

 

Back to Links Pages

 

 

Five
Essential Books About ADD and ADHD

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Balance Check's Library of ADD/ADHD Books

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In association with amazon.com bookstore.The books on this page are the books that I have recommended repeatedly to friends who need information about Attention Deficit Disorder / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. I strongly recommend that these be the first books read on the subject. They will give you much more perspective than many others and are up-to-date on the neurological basis of ADD*. Most should be available at your local library or bookstore. If not, you can order them here (through Amazon.com), often at substantial discounts.

* Note: Throughout this page, when I refer to ADD I mean both with and without hyperactivity.

(I generally recommend one of the first two to start with, depending on the person. These are my personal picks; not the result of any scientific surveys or works. If you have read these and other books on the subject, I would be interested in your opinion and may, at sometime in the future, publish a page of readers' picks.)

  1. A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D. by Amen, Johnson & Amen
  2. You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! by Kelly & Ramundo
  3. Driven to Distraction - Hallowell & Ratey
  4. Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception by Thom Hartmann
  5. Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embracing Disorganization at Home & in the Workplace by Sari Solden

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A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D., Amen, Johnson & Amen

This book is must reading for anyone ten years old or above who has ADD or lives or works with someone who has ADD. It has very clear explanations of what is really going on in the brain, breaks ADD down into SIX subclasses and shows the wide variety in symptoms that can occur. There are excellent sections on re-building self-esteem and informing others (friends / families / employers / teachers) about ADD. It is written by two teenagers (Antony Amen and Sharon Johnson) and Daniel G. Amen, M.D. Dr. Amen is a neurological psychiatrist who has treated thousands of people with ADD. He uses a SPECT camera to scan the brains of some patients to see what parts of the brain are active, and when. Antony Amen and Susan Johnson are teenagers who have lived through adolescence with ADD.

Dr. Amen has been a keynote speaker at numerous ADD conferences including the 1997 ADDA conference. His clinic has its own website with some great information including brain scan images from ADD patients.

Reading Level: Young Adult
Paperback, 208 pages
Published by Mindworks Press
Publication date: December 1, 1996
ISBN: 1886554056

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You Mean I'm Not Crazy, Stupid or Lazy?!

A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven to Distraction

Attention Deficit Disorder: a Different Perception: a Hunter in a Farmer's World

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

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You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!
A Self-Help Book for Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder

Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

One of the best! When I read this book I almost fell off my chair laughing - and crying - out of self-recognition. Excellent insight into ADD with tips for managing life. Written by two women who are ADD and who work with people who are ADD. The title says what many of us feel upon learning what ADD really is. Very down-to-earth. Easy to read and well-organized!

Hardcover, 444 pages
Published by Scribner
Publication date: February 1995
ISBN: 0684801167

Reprint Edition
Paperback
Published by Fireside
Publication date: January 1, 1996
Dimensions (in inches): 9.19 x 6.13 x 1.07
ISBN: 0684815311

Audio Cassette
Published by Simon & Schuster (Audio)
Publication date: March 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 7.07 x 4.53 x 0.85
ISBN: 0671524461

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More Information including reviews - Text Only Pages

Interview with Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo

 

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You Mean I'm Not Crazy, Stupid or Lazy?!

A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven to Distraction

Attention Deficit Disorder: a Different Perception: a Hunter in a Farmer's World

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

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Driven to Distraction, Hallowell & Ratey: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

This book has some of the clearest explanations of what it feels like to be ADD. It is well-written by two psychiatrists who are themselves ADD.

Hardcover, 319 pages
Published by Pantheon Books
Publication date: March 1, 1994
ISBN: 0679421777

Reprint Edition
Paperback, 319 pages
Published by Simon & Schuster (Paper)
Publication date: March 1, 1995
ISBN: 0684801280

Audio Cassette
Published by Simon & Schuster (Audio)
Publication date: March 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 7.05 x 4.53 x 0.84
ISBN: 067189983X

Graphical Pages -- More Information / reviews and
Interviews with
Edward Hallowell, M.D. and John Ratey, M.D.

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You Mean I'm Not Crazy, Stupid or Lazy?!

A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven to Distraction

Attention Deficit Disorder: a Different Perception: a Hunter in a Farmer's World

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

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Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception
(A Hunter in a Farmer's World) Thom Hartmann

A Hunter in a Farmer's World was Hartmann's original title, now reduced to a subtitle because the publisher was afraid it would end up in either the sports or gardening sections of bookstores. This book is now in its second printing because of its positive view of ADD and its ability to reframe how people think about being ADD. What started out as an anthropological metaphor is starting more and more to look like reality.

Hartmann's thesis is that ADD is a different perceptual and thought style that has its roots in prehistoric life and its future in the twenty-first century. He shows how the characteristics which can make ADD such a problem in our current culture were survival requirements for our species in pre-agricultural history. He goes on to show how these same characteristics are becoming more and more needed as our economy and culture are changing.

When I first read ADD: A Different Perception, I thought that here is a person trying to make me feel good about something that is bad - ADD. A person who would try to "positive think" his way out of falling from an airplane without a parachute! Upon reflection, though, most people who read this book come to realize that ADD is not "good" or "bad" except in the context of a culture. The same characteristics that make a child hard to control in a classroom or at home make the adult that child can become a prime candidate for running his/her own business or taking a Fortune-500 company into the 21st century and beyond. It was in reading this book that I learned how important it is to use those differences as the advantages that they can be. If I start falling from an airplane, I may (1) find a way to make a parachute out of what I do have on hand or (2) find a soft enough place to land, or (3) even learn to fly! I might also, knowing that I am ADD, and that things can go wrong, bring a parachute with me on the trip.

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Interview w/ Thom Hartmann (#2)

 

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You Mean I'm Not Crazy, Stupid or Lazy?!

A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven to Distraction

Attention Deficit Disorder: a Different Perception: a Hunter in a Farmer's World

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

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Women with Attention Deficit Disorder
Embracing Disorganization at Home & in the WorkPlace by Sari Solden

Paperback This has been called a must read for women dealing with the problems specific to women with ADD. "The descriptions of women jumping from one task to another in a frenzy of distraction will move you - either to laughter or tears."

Like the Teenager's Guide to A.D.D., this book is very good reading for people not in its intended audience - i.e. MEN. While the problems of hormones women go through are unique to their gender, the problems of disorganization at home and work are not!

Paperback
Published by Underwood Books
Publication date: October 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 8.46 x 5.53 x 0.85
ISBN: 1887424059




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This concludes my "hot list" of books. I am working on a (virtually) complete listing of ADD books and hope to break it into at least the same categories I've been using for my links pages. I expect to have that page (under construction) up within the next two weeks. (3/14/98) -- Balance Check
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You Mean I'm Not Crazy, Stupid or Lazy?!

A Teenager's Guide to A.D.D.

Driven to Distraction

Attention Deficit Disorder: a Different Perception: a Hunter in a Farmer's World

Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

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