Dr Hallowell succeeds with his most current text!

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	• Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder Edward M. Md Hallowell, John J. Md Ratey Ballantine Books, 2005 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 71 reviews view larger image
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Dr Hallowell succeeds with his most current text!

Dr. Hallowell has indeed done it again! He has provided both the lay and professional reader with a detailed sensitive adddendum to his initial text, Driven To Distraction. This current 'manual' has so many additional advantages and insights that the authors have gleaned from their experiences and now share with us. It is must for any and all professional libraries!
They not only provide the most current rearch in the field, but also provide most specific guidelines of 'how to's' and 'what to's' How to go about obtaining an appropriate dianosis and what to do once you have obtained that diagnosis. In addition to providing a current, updated comprehensive overview (with information that was not available at the time of their initial text), their personal warm and sensitive narratives, a style that is truly so well known to anyone who has read or heard any of Dr. Hallowell's lectures, truly makes the reading not only a source of increased undersdtanding of this most often over used and misunderstood diagnostic term, but a pleasure to obtain increased insights as to how to accurately diagnose, treat and manage ADD, or ADHD. Providing insights and guidelines to parents and educators is what has been needed, rather than just listing once again traits and syndromes with little direction. I highly recommend all to read this excellent text!

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Delivered from Distraction

Dr. Hallowell's latest book is a gem. He gives concrete examples from the lives of people who suffer from ADD. After reading the book, I almost wish I had it. Clearly, it is often ancillary to the most gifted, creative minds. Not only is this book informative, but, at times, it is hysterically funny. (Take the personality test on page 44 on home life, if you want to fall to the floor laughing.) Larded within the elegant prose and the scientific data, the warmth of Dr. Hallowell's own personality shines through. His view on life would seem to be: one can laugh or one can cry about the cards one is dealth. Clearly, he has decided to laugh through his tears.

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A Winner Once Again!

Seldom do we have a window into any life challenge quite like Dr.Hallowell gives us into ADD in this book. As a brilliant Harvard psychiatrist, a compassionate human being challenged by ADD, and the father of children with ADD his book is informative, inspiring,and hopeful.He has lived these pages!In his ususal and refreshing transparent style he offers wisdom gathered from his own experiences and those of many others, lends a critical eye to available interventions, and encourages those with ADD to move beyond the label of a hopeless, chronic disorder to one of personal strength and possibility.He is an exceptional author in his ability to integrate his medical knowledge with experiential wisdom in this field.If you have ADD,or somehow you know or love has ADD, or you have a keen interest in the topic this is your book!Personal stories keep the reader's attention and enhance understanding. Dr. Hallowell's balanced treatment approach is a breath of fresh air and right on! Seldom do we see such an eloquent and comprehensive presentation of the available interventions, both standard and new. For those of who enjoyed and benefited from Driven to Distraction, you will find this a worthy and very helpful sequel! A must read!

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WAIT FOR MORE RESEARCH for Medical Remedies

The question I kept on asking myself as I was reading this book: Do I have ADD, or was my mind affected in such unique way by anxiety or depression. I felt that this book so wanted convince me that everything abnormal in us is ADD.

If only it was so simple! Diagnosing someone with ADD is still an art, not science. Two different experienced doctors can still give you two different diagnosis. The more I read about it the more I belive it is so.

That's why it concerns me how eagerly the author wants to convince us that everyone has ADD. And of course some people will gladly accept the ADD label as it finally justifies all the years of underachievement and feeling odd. The label also absolves one from some degree of responsibility (I know ADD exists, I just question its prevalence).

Hallowell is one of those doctors who is very generous with this: Do you drink more than 3 cups of coffee? It's because you have ADD. Do you love bicycles and speed even if you don't ride them anymore? You guessed it... Do you like danger? Do you like debates? Yes, Yes, Yes....

After reading this book, I talked it out with my doctor. He decided I should try Adderol, as it is suggested in this book.

After about a week or so, I had the worst case of panic attack. I started feeling "unreal" and strange. When I went back to my doctor, he listened and then said, OK, Obviously, you don't have ADD, stop the drug!"

If there any moral for me, I'll wait for more reasearch!

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New and Useful Information

Quite a few people have told me that Dr. Hallowell's books on ADD have changed, and in some cases, saved their lives. With his latest book on the topic, I am sure that many more lives will be saved -- both literally and figuratively.

Delivered from Distraction, which presents new and valuable information not contained in Dr. Hallowell's earlier books on the topic, shows why "attention deficit disorder" needn't be a deficit or a disorder. In fact, many "ADD traits" can, if understood, managed, and nurtured, be powerful positive forces in an individual's life.

While the book presents recent research in the field as well as information on the latest medications, it is especially strong in showing readers how to minimize the negative, and strengthen the positive aspects of ADD without medication. Dr. Hallowell's intelligent and practical self-treatment regimes, along with the moving profiles of people who have triumphed despite -- and perhaps because of -- their ADD, made me almost wish I had it. And then I realized that Dr. Hallowell's advice to people with ADD is great advice for ANYONE who wishes to lead a healthy, creative, and fulfilling life -- albeit with a little more organization and a little less procrastination.

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