Strategies for Dealing with Boredom

The best strategy is to run away from boredom as often as the situation allows. Being bored makes us feel sluggish, dull, not alive so we need to avoid it whenever possible.  Here are some ideas on how to beat the boredom blues:

Lately, I have been hearing about “adult onset ADHD,” but I don’t believe it exists. The people I talk with who were diagnosed when adults, tell me they had ADHD as children, but no one noticed or recognized it.

It is hard for many people with ADHD to get a good night’s sleep. Poor sleep causes serious problems with executive functions, the skills that help us be organized, focused, and efficient. There are many components to achieving a good night’s sleep.

The ADDitude Symptom Checker will guide you through a series of questions based on your primary concerns, and then compare your responses to symptoms of more than a dozen common psychological and learning conditions.

The first thing to know about online ADHD Directories, except for one I discuss later, is service providers pay a fee to be listed. The second thing to know is that even websites with creditable ADHD information (ADDitude, CHADD, and ADDA ) have no criteria for listing service providers.

This is not Dr. Sachar but I thought this photo would get your attention.

In my next several blogs I provide the findings from research about the various life domains where (untreated) ADHD usually causes significant problems in a person’s life…

To those who have children that are neurodivergent and say they "don't want to limit them by putting labels on them….