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Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD (Or Think You Might) Paperback – June 3, 2014
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This book empowers people with ADHD, or some of its characteristics, to adapt and thrive. By working through the program in this book, you will develop personalized strategies to take control of your life.
Forgetful. Achieving below potential. Stuck in a rut. Time challenged.
Motivationally challenged. Impulsive. Novelty seeking. Distractible. Scattered.
If any or all of these symptoms are making it difficult for you—or someone you know—to live life to the fullest, then the clinically proven, cutting-edge program in this book will help you understand your struggles and challenges. Whether you have been diagnosed with ADHD, think you may have it, or just exhibit many of these traits, FAST MINDS will help you:
- Figure out what isn’t working in your life, and the keys to fixing it.
- Build personalized strategies for managing your time, tasks, and relationships.
- Learn organizational habits that work for you.
- Stop communicating poorly, making impulsive choices and taking pointless risks.
- Eliminate negative thinking patterns that waste your mental energy.
- Create environments that support your challenges.
- Make the most of both medical and nonmedical resources (medication, coaching, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, support groups, lifestyle change).
With inspiring stories of real people who have adapted and thrived using the methods in this book, FAST MINDS will help you create the kind of life you want to live.
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBerkley
- Publication dateJune 3, 2014
- Dimensions6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100425274063
- ISBN-13978-0425274064
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“[An] easy-to-read, yet sophisticated guide to what will help you most if you have ADHD… A superb book.”—Edward Hallowell, coauthor of Driven to Distraction
“A great resource for adults with ADHD and their loved ones. This book offers clear, effective, solution-focused strategies for dealing with the challenges of ADHD.”—Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D., coauthor of ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life
About the Author
Tim Bilkey, M.D.,is a physician specializing in adult ADHD, having completed more than thirty-four hundred assessments. He is an international presenter and has produced two films on ADHD. He started one of the world’s first ADHD clinics for women. In 2009, he developed a nationally accredited educational program for the rapid recognition of ADHD in adults called FAST MINDS.
Karen Weintraubis an award-winning journalist and a freelance health writer for the Boston Globe, USA Today, and other publications. Ms. Weintraub also teaches journalism at the Harvard Extension School and Boston University. Her first book, The Autism Revolution, was also published by Harvard Health Publications.
Product details
- Publisher : Berkley
- Publication date : June 3, 2014
- Language : English
- Print length : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0425274063
- ISBN-13 : 978-0425274064
- Item Weight : 12.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #305,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A longtime newspaper journalist, Karen Weintraub is now a health reporter with USA TODAY, as well as a journalism professor and book author. Her most recent book, with Michael Kuchta, is "Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators," from MIT Press (May 2022). Her first book, "The Autism Revolution," with Harvard autism expert Dr. Martha Herbert, was published in April 2012, by Random House; her second, "Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD (Or Think You Might)," with Drs. Craig Surman and Tim Bilkey, in February 2013. Her journalism has appeared in a range of publications and websites, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American and STAT. She currently teaches at MIT. Links to her health/science journalism are available on KarenWeintraub.com.

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