What are /r/ADD's favorite Products & Services?

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I like More Attention, Less Deficit a lot.

The most helpful thing for ADHD has been meditation. If you are interested, Mindfulness in Plain English is a good place to start.

Also, check out Shinzen Young -- he does a very good job of explaining meditation. He is especially good at explaining esoteric Eastern religious terminology in a way that make it easy for a Westerner to understand.

This is not an answer since I am still struggling myself (ADHD & Anxiety).
My psychologist recommended these two books for me:
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, Russell Barkley, Ph.D., & The Feeling Good Handbook, David Burns, M.D. I am guessing the second one is for the anxiety. I am currently reading Taking Charge of Adult ADHD. I will update if it turns out to be worth the time.

I'm always here with this book :3 - Mindfulness in Plain English - PDF link

i am still having trouble just sitting down for more than 15 minutes D: but i can screensuck on reddit, tumblr, twitter, other internet sites for 8 hours without moving ._.

i don't want to start meds - i think i have so many other emotional baggage to address that even meds may not really get to the root of the problem. i'm also poor and mental health professionals are too expensive for my budget right now D:.

Programming is the thing that suits me most of all, workwise. Uni was fucking boring, meetings are fucking boring, programming is fucking rad.

One of the biggest hurdles was boring theory and coursework, but they're important. You can become a good, even great programmer, without knowing anything about the theory (ie just focusing on your language's features), but it'll be harder for you to come up with high quality systems, or change languages, or adapt to different paradigms.

The trick for me was doing projects. Set yourself a goal to solve a problem, even a fake one. What about collaboratively writing a game? A simple, non-graphical game, like one of the browser forms-based RPGs (Kingdom of Loathing for example). Start with a very simple goal: Implement a fight engine to determine if an enemy hits you.

If you want, I'm willing to set up some simple projects for you to try?

God, I always HATED team sports. So bad. I played little league but always got in trouble spacing out. I did eventually find one sport that totally captured my interest: mountain unicycling. I got into it in college when I saw a video of this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPznTbus3g

For some strange reason, it has been like adderall for my brain. I've been at it for eight years.

I've downloaded a bunch via torrent. If you do that sort of thing btjunkie is where I found them. If you don't you can use Gnaural to make your own or download some preset beats and play those. If all of this seems like too much effort, which I completely understand, you can always do a google video search for binaural beats. The problem with those is that they are never really long enough. Good luck!

D: i live in a country that's banned adderall and ritalin... what i can do is just focus on non-medical ways - too afraid to go to the doctors as i'm afraid it will get out and become public. Plenty of people at /r/Buddhism recommend me*dit*ation and i think that's the best way forward for me to keep me productive and steady in the years to come. i'm reading Mindfulness in Plain English - i think i'm plugging it too much on this subreddit but if it helps someone else i'm ok with being annoying orz.

if you can find a doctor who combines meditation/CBT and medication, i hope it's better than someone who just writes meds for you.

hello again!

you should see a doctor and see if you need meds - essentially - what works for one person may not work for someone else so watch your side effects carefully.

>The problem is however that if I do get accepted to university and go back to a setting that I will most definitely fail in (considering that probably no person has done well in engineering by studying the night before an exam).

my life in a few sentences :(. i did well when i was fully engaged in the material - so if they don't provide that, find it yourself. since i was too depressed/tired to do that last few sems, my grades have slid even lower :(.

i've heard meditation [mindfulness meditation - it's secular in nature] helps a lot of people - follow this - Mindfulness in Plain English

PDF link - http://www.urbandharma.org/pdf/mindfulness_in_plain_english.pdf

I suppose that could be because it's easier to visualize what's going on in fictional books, as opposed to text books that need your instructor to provide additional context. Depending on the subject, it may help to get additional outlines or guides to help create the context that textbooks lack. I'm currently using this book to help with a control systems class that I'm taking. It provides additional examples of concepts, so it's easier for me to create the context required to remember what's going on.

ADHD minds wander constantly. (at least mine does) Having a lot of examples "linked" to a new concept, keeps anything else that I invariably think about related to what I'm learning.

The book im reading on 5-HTP indicates that ADD is caused by low Serotonin which is why 5-HTP is supposed to help by increasing serotonin levels. This is the book

For many years, I thought that this was a pretty foolish way to treat anything. After reading the 4 Hour Body, I thought to myself, this guy has done all of this experimentation on himself, why not give it a try.

Basically I cut out carbs and casein. I also limited my refined sugar intake. The effect was pretty astounding. I showed a huge improvement in concentration.

The flip side is that it is harder than hell to keep up. I am sure that I would have been unhappy as hell if that diet was forces on me as a child. I still love pizza. That kind of tends to reduce the efficacy of the diet.

The Autism Diet does show some great results in ADD and ADHD as well. A lot of these diets are similar in the elimination of carbs, and more and more studies are being done all the time that show the benefits of a gluten-free, casein-free, and low salicylate diet.

Just something to think about is:

>It's often suggested to remove milk first because the body will clear itself of milk/casein the quickest. Gluten may be removed a month after the elimination of milk. It may take up to six months on a gluten-free diet for the body to rid itself of all gluten. That is why most advocates suggest giving the diet a trial of six months.

Going all the way does a lot more in terms of results.

As for other tools, this book has a hokey title, but it is easy to read and cuts the crap out of most self help time management books. If you buy it and only use 10% of the tools they write about, you will find that it helps a ton, which is true for just about any self help book, but most have a lot of chaff you need to sift through to get to the wheat.

I love Timex Iron Man watches. I never take mine off. Mine has five alarms although I just use my phone for an alarm clock.

Oh, I just use a digital watch that has sound alarms (no vibrate). It doesn't look as cheap as most digital watches, but that's because it isn't as cheap as most digital watches.

This combined with a planner pretty much removes the "Oh shit I forgot to do that" aspect of my ADHD. Whenever you hear that you need to do something, just write it in the planner and set your watch. Helps with stress too because you don't have to think about it, just refer to the book periodically or when your watch goes off.