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Women With Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life Kindle Edition
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This pioneering book explores treatment and counseling options, and uses real-life case histories to examine the special challenges women with AD/HD face, such as the shame of not fulfilling societal expectations. Solden explains that AD/HD affects just as many women as men, and often results in depression, disorganization, anxiety, and underachievement.
Included in this revised edition is a brand new chapter on friendship challenges for women with AD/HD. Three empowering steps — restructuring one's life, renegotiating relationships, and redefining self-image — help women take control of their lives and enjoy success on their own terms.
"Sari Solden has used her personal and professional experience to shine some light into the dark closet inhabited by far too many ADD women... She empowers ADD women by validating their experience as worthwhile human beings who struggle with serious organizational problems in many areas of their lives." (Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo, authors of You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy")
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 31, 2012
- File size4545 KB
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Sari Solden, MS, LMFT, a psychotherapist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has worked with adults with ADHD and their partners for over twenty-five years. Sari is the author of Women with Attention Deficit Disorder and Journeys Through ADDulthood. She is a prominent speaker at both national and international ADHD conferences, serves on the professional advisory board of ADDA, has served on the program conference committee for national CHADD, and is a past recipient of ADDA's award for outstanding service by a helping professional. Her areas of specialization include inattentive ADHD, women's issues, as well as the long term counseling issues for adults not diagnosed until adulthood. Sari currently hosts and presents on ADDJourneys.com, her online community for adults with ADHD.
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- ASIN : B008RDNRXE
- Publisher : Introspect Press (July 31, 2012)
- Publication date : July 31, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 4545 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 515 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #180,388 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Sari Solden, M.S, is a psychotherapist in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she has counseled women and men with ADHD for 35 years. She is the author of the pioneering books Women with Attention Deficit Disorder (revised edition 2005 by Introspect Press LLC) and Journeys Through ADDulthood (reprint) by Introspect Press, LLC (coming out June 2023). Her third book (July 2019) by New Harbinger with co-author, Michelle Frank, Psy.D., is called A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers. Sari's areas of specialization include women and ADHD, inattentive ADHD, and the emotional consequences and healing process for adults who grew up with undiagnosed ADHD. She has been a prominent keynote speaker for international and national forums on these issues for thirty years. She currently consults with and mentors neurodiverse mental health professionals. She serves on the professional advisory board of ADDA and was a past recipient of their award for outstanding service by a helping professional.
sari@sarisolden.com
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People who have ADHD are often extraordinarily bright, high achievers, even "miracle workers" among peers. Common companions to this level of achievement are monumental effort, inability to perform, and huge inconsistencies in application of skills.
What people near an individual with ADHD rarely realize is how well that individual is hiding the tremendous time, effort, and inconsistencies behind their accomplishments. All the public sees is the "magic" the ADHD individual can work. What's hidden is the extreme opposite (the "dark side"): an inability to perform so pronounced that the person with ADHD herself cannot grasp a reliable self-image from the enormous range between the low and high sides of her performance. When she shares her difficulties or others learn of them, her peers often react in disbelief and even mockery of the idea that this extraordinary, highly intelligent person cannot manage an everyday task like clearing clutter, doing the dishes, or paying bills. People with ADHD make life-altering decisions in an effort to avoid the failure, discovery of, or mockery/disbelief from peers: they move, quit their jobs, change majors, quit school, pick up addictive habits (self-medicating) like heavy caffeine usage, and so on (Solden, 2008).
Solden confirms that ADHD results in cognitive and psychological challenges, but it is a physical ailment that is medically identifiable via MRI (2008). More often, individuals are diagnosed through various psychological tests and questionnaires that are diagnostically sufficient but enable the patient to assume an ability (and failure) to control the symptoms of ADHD far beyond what is realistic. The result is that they blame and berate themselves for non or poor performance. "I need to try harder, get up earlier, start sooner, do better, wake up, stop doing this" or "I'm lazy, ungrateful, slovenly, undeserving, etc." Compounding this assumption is the ADHD person's sense of shame resulting from a history of parental, other authoritative, and internal messages admonishing messy desks or bedrooms, lateness, forgetfulness, etc. In a nutshell, the person with ADHD tends to blame himself and does not accept excuses for his shortcomings, attributing failure to character flaws rather than a breakdown in cognitive (specifically executive) functions in the physical brain (Solden, 2008). Because of this, the ADHD individual sees a diagnosis of ADHD as an "excuse" rather than a disease, resulting in delay of diagnostic clarification, treatment, and recovery.
What Solden does extremely well is to identify the variety of manifestations one encounters in an individual with ADHD, their common sources, and pathways to recovery. She addresses the far lesser known and often misunderstood hypo-active individual, finally making sense of the individuals' tendency toward low activity, low stimulation, the feeling of paralysis, and the overwhelm that leads to the behavior.
Yes, as another reader pointed out, the proofreading for this book was sorely neglected. It is more rife with unintentional grammatical errors than any mass-produced book I've read (that's a lot of books). Surprisingly, I did not find them annoying enough to detract from the reading experience: the content is powerful.
If you have or know someone - male or female - with ADD, ADHD, or anything related, get this book ASAP.
There is a lot to digest, but this book us written in a way that is easy to comprehend. I've seen positive changes in my habits and health through using thus book.
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023
There is a lot to digest, but this book us written in a way that is easy to comprehend. I've seen positive changes in my habits and health through using thus book.
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There is a lot of information ADD on the Internet, and a number of good books for ADD in Adults. I was already starting to identify with many of the symptoms from my initial research, and then I read Sari Solden's book.
It was like she'd observed and documented my life. There are so many behaviours that I had which I would never have related to ADD until I read about them. I felt an enormous sense of relief that this wasn't just me. And an enormous sense of grief that there is no magic cure and that the best route to success involves support from other people which at the moment I cannot afford.
Having said that, I am also aware, thanks to Sari, that the symptoms of ADD can be attributed to many other things - depression (which came first, the depression or the ADD?!), post traumatic stress disorder, hormonal issues. I am as yet undiagnosed but at least the book has given me a framework for identifying the challenges that I have, no matter what the cause, so that I can start to put solutions in place and try to at least pursue a diagnosis within the confines of the NHS. Wish me luck.
At the very minimum, this book serves as a well-written explanation that can be given to family and close friends so that they can gain understanding of the issues that you have - things that they may well take for granted. On a moderate level, it's the structure for a long term plan of making a success of your life with the brain that you have.
The true value in the book, for me, was in reading something specifically written for women. It's empathic, comprehensive and will be read time and time again. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Thank you, Sari!









