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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3044601" data-attributes="member: 41321">On a slightly related topic, does anyone know any non-medication ways to treat ADD?&nbsp; While I've never been diagnosed I'm positive that I have it to some degree.&nbsp; My childhood had &quot;ADD&quot; stamped over it, and if my parents had recognized it and gotten me some type of treatment then maybe I could've had a life, rather than having to spend my entire night from the time I got home to the time I went to bed doing homework (no kidding, I used to do this).&nbsp; Only the stuff that required reading, mind you.&nbsp; Math I could do in 10 minutes.&nbsp; English took me three hours.&nbsp; My parents thought my younger sister was slacking when she'd be done with all of her homework in an hour or two, even though she got slightly better grades than me, because they thought I was normal and something was &quot;different&quot; about her, rather than the other way around.It'd always been very hard for me to concentrate when something didn't naturally hold my attention, like a good book.&nbsp; This isn't as big of a deal now that I'm an adult with a job, which is why I've never mentioned it to a doctor.&nbsp; But sometimes I wish I could just force myself to concentrate harder, like if I'm in the middle of a meeting and my mind starts to wander.&nbsp; I'd rather not resort to drugs, and I was just wonderng if there was anyone out there who'd had some sort of non-drug therapy to treat their ADD and what it was like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 3044601, member: 41321"] On a slightly related topic, does anyone know any non-medication ways to treat ADD? While I've never been diagnosed I'm positive that I have it to some degree. My childhood had "ADD" stamped over it, and if my parents had recognized it and gotten me some type of treatment then maybe I could've had a life, rather than having to spend my entire night from the time I got home to the time I went to bed doing homework (no kidding, I used to do this). Only the stuff that required reading, mind you. Math I could do in 10 minutes. English took me three hours. My parents thought my younger sister was slacking when she'd be done with all of her homework in an hour or two, even though she got slightly better grades than me, because they thought I was normal and something was "different" about her, rather than the other way around. It'd always been very hard for me to concentrate when something didn't naturally hold my attention, like a good book. This isn't as big of a deal now that I'm an adult with a job, which is why I've never mentioned it to a doctor. But sometimes I wish I could just force myself to concentrate harder, like if I'm in the middle of a meeting and my mind starts to wander. I'd rather not resort to drugs, and I was just wonderng if there was anyone out there who'd had some sort of non-drug therapy to treat their ADD and what it was like. [/QUOTE]

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