The Disorganized Mind
Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents

If you think someone with ADHD writing about ADHD, aimed at an audience who have ADHD would be a colossal mess. You would be right. Ratey meanders from topic to topic such as she will spend a paragraph discussing how terrible her dyslexia and ADHD are and hurting her academic life, then OMG. SHE GOT I......more

I can safely say that this book does have some helpful suggestions for compensatory strategies. However, all of these are cast through the lens of the author's "clients;" all of which are upper-middle class/top earner types who can afford an ADHD coach. Expect to hear long-winded tales of people who......more

I listened to the audiobook version, and would have skipped much of the author's initial biographical story if I'd been reading a visual version. That information was fine, but it could've been much shorter, and she had good qualifications and experience that I trusted right away. I found her client......more

I read this to get insights into the thoughts of one of my loved ones with late diagnosis ADD, and what I learned was as much about me as them. One of the insights here is, not surprisingly, that dealing with the dimension of time can be difficult for those with ADHD. The author provides a number of......more

This took me a while to read, not because it wasn't interesting, but because I was trying to decide if I wanted to do the exercises or continue reading. I had checked it out from the library, but after renewing a couple times, purchased it for myself because I wanted to make notes in the book. There......more