Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life | Sari Solden | Very good...very liberating

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	Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life Sari Solden Underwood Books, 2005 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the best add book around--just super

I cannot say enought about this book. It is fantastic. Despite the fact that I can never find a thing in my house and my vast adhd library is under piles of clothes, papers and who knows what else, I can always put my finger right on Women with ADD. I have pages marked that I refer to often, either for reminders on coping or just for moral support. I have never met Sari Solden, but she wrote about me in this book--and no doubt countless other women feel as I do.
I should say I am in my early forties and was diagnosed about 3 years ago. When I first got the "good" news that my job losses, insomnia (I am penning this at 4 am) and chronic disorganization were due to something girls were not suppossed to have (the doc jammed sedatives down my throat when I was a kid in the 60's--said I was a "nervous" and "excitable" child...I walked through grammar school in a fog...but I digress--I do have add, remember!) I bought just about every book around that looked reputable, but shied away from this one. Why? I am a snob--Sari is not a Ph.D or MD, so I figured her book would not be "sound."
Stupid Stupid Stupid. Yes, I learned my lesson--degrees mean little--heck, my 2 from top universities did not protect me from losing 2 good jobs in a row.
When an add coach told me to run quick like bunny and get this book, I did, and realized the error of my ways.
This is the best book on add for women (best add book period). I got confirmation that I was not alone, not nuts and ideas on coping with the "joy" of add ...(I am glad I am creative and articulate, but plenty of people have these skills and are not add. Yes, yes, I am off the topic again) Sari's (I feel like we are best buds, so I use her first name) book is well written, well researched, comprehensive, a great book for newly diagnosed and those living with the knowledge they have "it" for a while. If you can only get one adhd book--and you are of the better sex :-)--buy this one. Consider it for the guys who have to deal with you also. My boyfriend read it and said he understood me better after reading this book...though he did dump me 3 months later, so act with caution!! ;-)

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Very good...very liberating

I thought there was a lot of practical knowledge in this book as well as a lot of *liberating* material regarging how to live *with* and even embrace your ADD as opposed to hiding it and fighting it. I think this book is excellent for woman with ADD as well as therapists (i bought a copy for my psyciatrist)...teachers and parents of girls. This book is sensitive to the special needs of woman living in a world that expects them to be organized home-makers...when thier minds and bodies cant quite manage it. I found good help with that as well as new ways to look at things...new ways to attempt things i had been stalled on...and new ways to look at my self...with more love and less frustration. This book is a keeper (after i passed it on to all my friends!)

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A Great Book for Women with ADD who are Married

This book is excellent for married women (or women in a committed relationship with a significant other) who have ADD, whether or not they work at paid employment. Describes the effects of ADD on the ability to play the traditional female role. Shows the intersection between the internalized oppression experienced by females in industrialized societies and attention deficit disorder. For example, the author points out that medication and treatment for ADD often cause women to be more assertive. She recommends more equal division of household tasks.

This review is adapted from one published in the Annotated Bibliography of Learning A Living; A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding A Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia.

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Relief and Confirmation, but the diagrams are awful!

I am just now exploring the very strong possibility that I am ADD. This is the first book on the subject I've read and am relieved reading about other women whose situations and experiences are so close to mine. The book uncannily described and pinned down so many things I've felt and endured and have been struggling with for so long now. My ONE complaint though is the unrelevant and needless "demonstrative" flow charts and diagrams and horribly distracting clip art! These bothered me so much as a reader, detracting greatly from an otherwise informative and enlightening book. Perhaps the author felt these would be helpful to ADD readers, but I found them absolutely irritating! Aside from this, the book has helped me understand myself from a whole new perspective and is prompting me to seek the help I've needed for so long.

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Not a lot of practical advice!

This is a good book, if you are not sure that you have ADD or for those having some close woman who has ADD. It explaines well non hyperactive type of ADD. I myshelf found it boring and it now a days makes me tired. It explained the grieving system, which was good after my diagnoses and it was also good for understanding how ADD might affect my life, but it was just it: what should I do with it? I am not able to read it no more. It just not practical. It is readable for once but not for long time use.

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