Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, Second Edition: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

This book spends a lot of time explaining ADHD and less time on giving you actual strategies to deal with it. I feel like it was a waste of money if you already have a decent amount of knowledge about ADHD.

As a healthcare professional I can completely vouch for this resource. Dr Barkley is one of the best researchers in this space and his content is easily digestible, relevant and medically up to date. There is a lot of mis information about ADHD, especially in relation to the nurture debate, and so I would recommend this to anyone as a starting point.

Thank you Dr. Barkley for producing such a quality book and helping raise awareness of ADHD worldwide. For everyone who is interested to know what ADHD is for real, discerning facts from fiction, this book is for you. I really appreciated the actionable strategies provided. I will try them for sure.

Excelente libro para entender mas de esta condición

It took me 30 years of life to figure out that ADHD had been plaguing me my whole life. 7 years to scrape by with an engineering degree, thousands lost to school debt, countless failed romantic relationships, endless impulsive major life decisions. Why why why am I like this? How am I aware and yet feel like I'm not & out of control? So many lofty goals and interests, completely left by the wayside to whatever form of entertainment or momentary pleasure or distraction comes up in the day. It wasn't until a good friend (who also happened to be a psychologist) to tell me, "I think you have ADHD" for it to actually stick... "Wait. That's like an actual thing? I thought that was like a mood or feeling or something"... No. ADHD is a very real neurological, and incredibly genetic disorder–and this book is the one stop shop you need to understand the subject. Dr. Barkely has dedicated his research to understanding ADHD, and is one, if not the leading expert on the subject. The book is intended to be a workbook for Adults who have ADHD, you need to understand that it's not trying to be pedantic, but rather engaging for us ADHD-er's. So there are lots of headings and summaries etc. I find it incredibly useful, allowing you to easily skip to chapters you think are relevant. There are countless useful tips in this book to help understand ADHD and much much more: How to manage and exist with ADHD in our modern world, the DSM-5 understanding, his current research, neurological deficits & genetic components, the different medications available to you, and the list goes on. He also explains that ADHD is a disorder that has a high rate of comorbidity IE: likely paired with some other disorder else (anxiety disorder, major depression, autism, sensory/learning etc.) so there's a lot to cover as you can imagine. He talks about treatment–Treatments for ADHD are usually centered around shaping our environments to suite our needs. I took a couple pictures of the kind of tips that you'll find in the book. Everyone is different and your struggles may differ from mine, as your deficits might be different and situations as well. At the end of the day, ADHD is a deficit in executive function, our brains are wired different, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. It's only a problem if it's a problem; and unfortunately our Western modern digital world often makes it so. As a person of color, I'm writing this review at 1am in hopes that it encourages the adults who are in denial or maybe suspect that they have ADHD, to help you understand yourself and help you grow and take the chance and buy this book! (Probably one of the better impulse purchases I've made in my opinion) Because you can feel better about yourself too. Don't listen to that guy who impulsively returned this book because he didn't like that it was "childish". That was a very ADHD thing to do, and he would've known that had he took the time to read the book. Cheers,

This book is so informative, well written and contains such helpful information with understanding ADHD in oneself or children.