The National Resource Center on ADHD suggests the following strategies for women struggling with ADD.
- Understand and accept your ADD challenges instead of judging and blaming yourself.
- Identify the sources of stress in your daily life and systematically make life changes to lower your stress level.
- Simplify your life.
- Seek structure and support from family and friends.
- Get expert parenting advice.
- Create an ADD friendly family that cooperates and supports one another.
- Schedule daily time outs for yourself.
- Develop healthy self-care habits, such as getting adequate sleep and exercise and having good nutrition.
- Focus on the things you love.
Additional Reading:
Women and ADD
Treatment for Women with ADD
Moms with ADD
Parenting with ADD
Practice Positive Thinking
Source
National Resource Center on ADHD, Women and ADHD, What We Know series. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Landover, MD. 2004.
