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How Food Relates to ADHD

Halloween Tips for Your Little Pumpkins

Steps in Diagnosing ADHD for an Adult

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Ready for the Season? Prepare YourFall Clean‐up Checklist

Now is a good time to get your home ready for the

10/27/2016 Get Ready for the Season with Fall Check­up List & Halloween Trick­or­Treating Tips!

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Now is a good time to get your home ready for thecoming winter before the frenzy of the holiday seasonerupts. When you have ADHD, getting yourselfmotivated or knowing where to start can be achallenge when it comes to organizing your home. Leslie Rouder, LCSW, offers readers of Attentionmagazine tips on seasonal cleaning and organizingprojects in Spring Cleaning? ADHD? No Problem! thatalso apply when leaves begin to fall.

We’ve prepared a few helpful to­do lists of somecommon fall tasks. Start your own fall clean­up listfrom these suggestions.

Why Eating on the Go is aNo‐Go for ADHD

The bombardment of nutritional information from the internet and popular mediacan become overwhelming, especially if you're affected by ADHD. RobertoOlivardo shares what you need to know about food, eating, and nutrition whenyou’re diagnosed with ADHD. Watch the first of a three­part animated series onwhy eating on the go may be worse for your body than you thought. 

Watch

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Halloween Tips for YourLittle Pumpkins

Maybe you remember Linus in thepumpkin patch in the TV special It's theGreat Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, waitingfor the Great Pumpkin to bring his treatswhile his sister Lucy impatiently waitsfor him to get a move on so they can gotrick­or­treating. Just like the famedPeanuts characters, you may be waitingfor your little pumpkins to get into theircostumes and head out for a party ortrick­or­treating. We don’t know if any of the Peanuts gang coped with ADHD symptoms, includingimpulsivity, distractibility and accompanying sensory concerns, but you may need tokeep those symptoms in mind on Halloween night to prevent ADHD from dropping arock in their trick­or­treat bag, just like Charlie Brown got. Get Halloween Trick­or­Treat Tips and join the discussion.

Steps in Diagnosing ADHD for an Adult

Do you keep losing your keys, feel you can never finish anything at work, orhave had a family member suggest, “You might have ADHD?” It could be timeto seek an evaluation for ADHD. Getting a proper diagnosis of ADHD is the firststep to getting treatment. A diagnostic evaluation can be provided by a qualifiedmental health care professional or physician who gathers information frommultiple sources. It is important to ultimately gain control over the symptomsthat wreak havoc in your life, personally and professionally. See more.  

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