Effective Ways to Support Individuals with ADHD
How to help Some one with ADHD?
- Educate Yourself - The most important part of understanding someone with ADHD is educating yourself about what the condition means.
- Help Them Find Treatment - One of the hardest things about an ADHD diagnosis is not knowing where or how to find help.
- Listen to Your Loved One - When you're wondering how to support someone with ADHD, it's critical to understand how important simply listening and communicating.
- Communicate with Your Loved One - While it's important to listen to your loved ones about their concerns, it's equally crucial to be comfortable learning to talk to them about your concerns, too.
- Focus on Strengths to Build Self - confidence - Most people with ADHD are acutely aware of their weaknesses because teachers, friends, and family members have shared their frustrations about them for years.
- Help Them with a Routine - People with ADHD can really thrive with a routine (and suffer without one!). It's also common for them to struggle with sudden changes.
- Take Care of Yourself - As any caregiver will tell you, you can't take care of anyone else if you aren't taking good care of yourself.
- ADHD Treatment-Medicine There are 2 main groups of medications for ADHD — stimulants and non-stimulants. Therapy - Therapy is a fantastic addition to medication for the treatment of ADHD for both an adult and a young person.
Written by: Reshawna Chapple, PhD, LCSW
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Some coping skills for ADHD?
***Staying organized - Organizational tools are a must for people with adult ADHD. They'll help you prioritize and track activities for each day or the coming weeks. Tools can include a pen and paper to make lists, or computer or smartphone apps to set appointment reminders, highlight important days on the calendar, mark deadlines, and keep lists and other information handy.
***Staying focused - Just being organized doesn't mean your work will get done. But a few simple approaches can at least make it easier to do the work.
***Meeting deadlines - Deadlines pose two big challenges when you have adult ADHD. First, it's hard to start a project, often because you want it to be perfect, or you're intimidated by it so you put it off. Second, when you do start a project, it's very easy to become distracted and leave the task unfinished.
***Get more help - The ideas listed here can help you start coping with adult ADHD, but they may not be enough to help you overcome adult ADHD's challenges. Consider hiring an ADHD coach who can provide more strategies and give you additional tools to cope with your condition.