The Added Dimension Celebrating the Opportunities, Rewards, and Challenges of the Add Experience

The authors of the national bestsellerYou Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!return with a book that celebrates the special skills, insights, and challenges of adults with attention deficit disorder -- ADD.With wise, clear eyes and well-developed senses of humor, Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo, and D. Steven Ledingham look at the experience of ADDults. Their life- and self-affirming message is that ADD isn't just a disorder, but a different way of thinking. And different doesn't mean worse: it often means better, especially where energy and creativity are concerned. Without minimizing the difficulties ADDers face, they offer encouragement, inspiration, and guidance for dealing with everyday situations and taking advantage of the positive aspects of ADD.

Kate Kelly is a clinical specialist in psychiatric nursing who leads therapy groups for ADDults. She lectures widely and is a featured presenter at most major ADD conferences.

Foreword
1. Excess Baggage -- The Shoulds: Blame, Shame, Guilt, and Other Useless Emotions
2. Coping with Differences
3. Emotional Roller Coaster
4. From Chaos to Balance
5. Relationships and Communication
6. Work, Work, Work, Work...
7. Organizing Time and Space
8. Learning and Memory
9. Stress
10. ADD: A Disorder or an ADDed Dimension?
Resources for Adults with ADD