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Dr. Hallowell’s Response to the NY Times Opinion Piece “Ritalin Gone Wrong” NY Times January 28,2012

Regarding the opinion piece "Ritalin Gone Wrong" written by Alan Sroufe, Ph.D., (NY Times, Jan. 29, 2012): As is usually the case when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.

Let me offer a different point of view. I'm an M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist who's been treating children who have what we now call ADHD for over 30 years. I was on the Harvard Medical School faculty for 20 years, and I still see patients in my offices in Sudbury, MA, and New York City every day. I have both ADHD and dyslexia myself. I've co-written, with John Ratey, the best-selling books on the topic of ADHD. I know this condition, and its various treatments, inside and out.

Do You Know Your Value?

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.  ~Author Unknown

No one is going to make you more valuable than you already are. How can they? No one knows your inner value, strengths and power better than you do. How can you expect others to tell you how valuable you are when they don’t live inside of you? They don’t think, act or live like you? Only you know you based on the choices you make every day.

Gain Momentum with your KNOWINGS

ADHD is a challenge of momentum. Don’t’ do the things that are hardest and most difficult first. Do those things that will get your engine revved up so you can build off the energy and forward movement you have already established. Don’t listen to the dominant beliefs that hold you back. Listen to the music that makes you sing, dance and come alive!

What If?

What if the world could be a place that accepted and embraced every one for their uniqueness?  What if we could let go of the limiting beliefs that disconnect and often isolate us ?
 

Attention Talk Radio presents “ADHD Awareness Week,” - Press Release

Attention Talk Radio, the ADHD Information Station, Presents "ADHD Awareness Week," Sponsored by the ADD Coach Academy

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Defining Your Life by Your Choices

If you define yourself by what you can’t do, what you can’t do grows.

If the majority of what you pay attention to is about: your challenges, your weaknesses, the things you can’t do, could never do or don’t want to do, then the thoughts related to the things you can’t do are going to continue to show up as a major part of your life.
In every situation, and in every moment of our lives, we are given the divine right and choice to think whatever we want. When given the choice to think about what we want more of in our lives, isn’t it better to think about what we CAN do?

It All Begins With a Pause **

David Giwerc, MCC

Events don't always create the circumstances in your life. It's how you respond to
the events which can make or break your ability to grow into a stronger human
being. Whenever I feel some gut-wrenching feeling in my stomach, I've learned to
pause and distance myself from whatever is happening in the moment. I become
my own witness and ask myself: “What is really going on here?"

Permission to Proceed- Book Review

About.com reviews Permission to Proceed; Creating a Life of Passion, Purpose and Possibility for Adults with ADHD by David Giwerc, MCC.

A Big Step for ADDCA, a Bigger Step for ADHD Coaching

A Big Step for ADDCA, a Bigger Step for ADHD Coaching
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
By: Duane Gordon

 

You are a uniquely wired human being with unlimited potential:

Here’s an excerpt from “Permission to Proceed,” pages 76-77
by David Giwerc, MCC, Founder and President, ADD Coach Academy

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