Answers to Distraction Book

Preface ix

1 You Mean There's Actually a Name for It?: Toward a Definition of ADD 3

2 To Be Here, and There, and Everywhere: ADD in Children 18: Parents' Questions: Young Children's Questions: Adolescents' Questions

3 Making or Breaking the Spirit of the Child: Teachers and ADD 72

4 The Pleasures (and Pains) of Sudden Wonder: ADD in Adults 92

5 Work Smarter, Not Just Harder: ADD and Work 113

6 Perchance to Dream: ADD in Women 131

7 Making Up Tour Mind: New Tips on the Nonmedication Treatment of Adult ADD 141

8 You Are My Sunshine: ADD in Couples 148

9 Taming the Big Struggle: ADD and the Family 167

10 The Unfinished Symphony: ADD and Creativity 176

11 Fact or Fad?: The Diagnosis of ADD 186

12 The Brain's Behind It: The Biology of ADD 206

13 Whence It Came: The Genetic Basis of ADD 227

14 What's in a Pill?: Treating ADD with Medication 231

15 A Wretched Excess: ADD and Addiction 260

16 The Gemlike Flame: Aggression and Anger in ADD 268

17 The Doctors' Dilemmas: Questions from Health Professionals on the Treatment of ADD 285

18 New Questions and Answers Edward M. Hallowell John J. Ratey 293

Appendixes

I Fifty Tips on the Management of Adult ADD 317

II Twenty-Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Families 326

III Twenty-Five Tips on the Management of ADD in Couples 332

IV Where To Go for Help 337