ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life: Strategies that Work from a Professional Organizer and a Renowned ADD Clinician

by Kolberg,Judith

• ISBN13: 9781583913581
• ISBN10: 1583913580
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Organizing books fall short of addressing the unique needs of adults with ADD. They fail to understand the clinical picture of ADD and how it impacts the organizing process often making their advice irrelevant or frustrating when put into application. Books about ADD may address organization/disorganization but do so in a cursory fashion and on a very small scale in what are usually long books on the subject. This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields -- professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the reader to decide where they are at personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.

Author Biography

Judith Kolberg, is founder and former Director of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization. President of FileHeads Professional Organizers, and is a knowledge management consultant in Atlanta. Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. a psychologist and Director of Chesapeake Psychological Services of Maryland, is the author of numerous books on ADD and lectures frequently on ADD-related topics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Sam Goldstein
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Part one Getting Started
ADD-Friendly Organizing: A Different Organizing Approach	2	(6)
ADD-Friendly Strategies That Work with Your ADD	8	(10)
Structure and Support: Creating the Framework for Success	18	(18)
Part two Taking Charge of ADD
Streamline and Simplify: Counteracting Complications	36	(11)
ADD Decision Dilemmas	47	(13)
B-o-r-i-n-g: Managing Stimulation Hunger and Hyperfocus	60	(9)
First Things First: Learning to Prioritize	69	(9)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (OosOom): Remembering to Remember	78	(14)
Part three Thing Organizing
Getting over Overwhelm	92	(13)
CHAOS	105	(14)
Packrat Syndrome	119	(17)
David's Garage	136	(8)
Part four Time Organizing
Time Out	144	(20)
Overcoming Overcommitment	164	(13)
Plenty-of-Time Thinking	177	(8)
The State of Rushness	185	(15)
Part five Paper Organizing
Fear of Filing	200	(12)
Backlog Blues	212	(15)
Paper Money	227	(17)
Part six Conclusion
Putting Organizing Ideas into Action	244	(13)
Part seven Resources
Organizing Resources	252	(3)
ADD Resources	255	(2)
About the Authors	257	(2)
Index	259