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How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain. “The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many years. If there’s a fairy godmother of our lot, it’s Jessica McCabe.”—Edward Hallowell, MD, coauthor of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0 Forget “try harder.” When your brain works differently, you need to try different . Diagnosed with ADHD at age twelve, Jessica struggled with a brain that she didn’t understand. She lost things constantly, couldn’t finish projects, and felt like she was putting more effort in than everyone around her while falling further and further behind. At thirty-two years old—broke; divorced, and living with her mom—Jessica decided to look more deeply into her ADHD challenges. She reached out to experts, devoured articles, and shared her discoveries on YouTube. In How to ADHD, Jessica reveals the tools that have changed her life while offering an unflinching look at the realities of living with ADHD. The key to navigating a world not built for the neurodivergent brain, she discovered, isn’t to fix or fight against its natural tendencies but to understand and work with them. She explains how ADHD affects everyday life, covering executive function impairments, rejection sensitivity, difficulties with attention regulation, and more. You’ll also find ADHD-specific strategies for adapting your environment, routines, and systems, including: Boost the signal and decrease the noise . Facilitate focus by putting your goals where you can see them and fighting distractions with distractions. Have less stuff to manage. Learn why you have trouble planning and prioritizing, and why doing more starts with doing less. Build your “time wisdom.” Work backward when you plan, and track how long it actually takes you to do something. Learn about your emotions. Understand how naming your emotions and letting yourself experience them can make them easier to regulate. With quotes from Jessica’s online community, chapter summaries, and reading shortcuts designed for the neurodivergent reader, How to ADHD will help you recognize your strengths and challenges, tackle “bad brain days;” and be kinder to yourself in the process.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain. “The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many years. If there’s a fairy godmother of our lot, it’s Jessica McCabe.”—Edward Hallowell, MD, coauthor of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0 Forget “try harder.” When your brain works differently, you need to try different . Diagnosed with ADHD at age twelve, Jessica struggled with a brain that she didn’t understand. She lost things constantly, couldn’t finish projects, and felt like she was putting more effort in than everyone around her while falling further and further behind. At thirty-two years old—broke; divorced, and living with her mom—Jessica decided to look more deeply into her ADHD challenges. She reached out to experts, devoured articles, and shared her discoveries on YouTube. In How to ADHD, Jessica reveals the tools that have changed her life while offering an unflinching look at the realities of living with ADHD. The key to navigating a world not built for the neurodivergent brain, she discovered, isn’t to fix or fight against its natural tendencies but to understand and work with them. She explains how ADHD affects everyday life, covering executive function impairments, rejection sensitivity, difficulties with attention regulation, and more. You’ll also find ADHD-specific strategies for adapting your environment, routines, and systems, including: • Boost the signal and decrease the noise . Facilitate focus by putting your goals where you can see them and fighting distractions with distractions. • Have less stuff to manage. Learn why you have trouble planning and prioritizing, and why doing more starts with doing less. • Build your “time wisdom.” Work backward when you plan, and track how long it actually takes you to do something. • Learn about your emotions. Understand how naming your emotions and letting yourself experience them can make them easier to regulate. With quotes from Jessica’s online community, chapter summaries, and reading shortcuts designed for the neurodivergent reader, How to ADHD will help you recognize your strengths and challenges, tackle “bad brain days;” and be kinder to yourself in the process.

"How to ADHD" ist ein aufschlussreiches Fachbuch, das von Jessica McCabe, der Schöpferin des preisgekrönten YouTube-Kanals "How to ADHD", verfasst wurde. In diesem ehrlichen und einfühlsamen Leitfaden teilt McCabe ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen und die Strategien, die ihr geholfen haben, in einer Welt zu bestehen, die nicht für neurodivergente Menschen konzipiert ist. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Herausforderungen, die mit ADHS verbunden sind, und ermutigt die Leser, ihre einzigartigen Gehirnfunktionen zu verstehen und zu nutzen, anstatt gegen sie anzukämpfen. McCabe vermittelt, dass es nicht darum geht, härter zu versuchen, sondern anders zu denken und zu handeln. Mit praktischen Tipps und tiefgreifenden Einsichten ist dieses Buch eine wertvolle Ressource für alle, die mehr über ADHS erfahren möchten, sei es für sich selbst oder für andere. Es ist ein unverzichtbarer Begleiter für Menschen, die lernen möchten, wie sie ihre Stärken erkennen und ihre Herausforderungen meistern können.