Attention Revolution, Mastering Your Focus with ADHD

By P D Groesbeek

Attention Revolution: Mastering Your Focus with ADHD

Do you ever feel like your brain operates on a different frequency? Attention Revolution is your empowering guide to navigating the exciting and sometimes overwhelming world of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This book goes beyond diagnosis, offering practical strategies, inspiring stories, and a toolbox full of resources to help you reclaim your focus and thrive with ADHD.

Learn to harness your unique strengths, embrace your neurodiversity, and discover how to manage your attention in a way that works for you. Attention Revolution is more than just a guide; it's a call to action. It's time to stop feeling like you're struggling against your own mind and start unlocking the potential that lies within. You are not broken; you are wired differently. Attention Revolution will show you how to turn your ADHD into your greatest asset.

• Language: English
• Publisher: P D Groesbeek
• Release date: Apr 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224401109

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Attention Revolution:

Mastering Your Focus with ADHD

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Please know that I am not a certified professional in regard to ADHD, the views and opinions discussed in this book are from my own point of view and reference from my own experiences, I hope the info in this book will help you as it has helped me.

Chapter 1: My Wired World

Like most kids, I grew up in a normal family. My parents, hard-working folks, raised me and my younger brother alongside my half-brother who lived with his grandparents. Mom, an amazing woman, has always been my biggest protector. From a young age, my creativity thrived, but school? That was a different story altogether.

Focusing in class was a constant battle. Lessons felt like a warzone of distractions, and studying for exams was an exercise in futility. My parents, ever supportive, tried everything to help. They bought me reading glasses – turns out my left eye needed a little extra assistance – but the words on the page still danced a jig whenever I tried to concentrate. Finally, a specialist diagnosed me with ADHD.

Ritalin entered my life, offering a temporary reprieve. It helped, but it wasn't a cure. After all, I wasn't broken, I just functioned differently.  (The story of prescription drugs morphing into self-medication and eventually meth addiction is a battle for another book.)

The 80s and 90s lacked the constant digital buzz of today. Back then, the biggest external stimuli came in the form of colorful bursts of cartoons like The Simpsons and South Park, the rebellious tunes of MTV, and the voyeuristic world of reality TV.  My mind was truly blown – almost literally – when I flunked my senior year in 2000 and started a band. Social media? Facebook and YouTube were still eight years away.

Fueled by music and camaraderie, the next seven years were a blur of friendships, alcohol, and marijuana. Blind to the impact on myself and my brain, I stumbled through life without a compass. Love, and life – these were concepts I