Free your mind and the rest will follow. Isn’t that what we all want, a peace, freedom to roam, discover and create; no one more so than those with ADD/ADHD? Competitive to the creative, that’s what we strive for every day. We don’t mind thinking, its just we would prefer not go at it a hundred miles an hour free falling off a cliff.

Growing up on a farm in addition too daily exercise and running a company my entire adult life, I know what hard work is. But I got to tell you, coming to grips and managing a mind with ADD/ADHD requires far more discipline and determination than all the above combined.  Managing my brain has been the easy part; coming to grips with when, why, what to do about it was challenging, and still is. When to face it, why me/why now and what to do about my findings in the future; these are all questions we must answer?

Peace, freedom and imagination, that’s what it comes down to; give us that, we give you everything. Turn the tables and make us compete, we cocoon and give nothing.

ADD/ADHD is real and don’t allow any to say different. Are evaluations and testing absolutely accurate, probably not? Do parents exaggerate their kid’s hyper activity, maybe? Even so, it has been a growing concern of many for years.

All we can do is continue to seek to understand, evaluate, medicate when appropriate and come up with ways to manage. I chose exercise for years and it saved my life. Today, with the help of medication and exercise free falling takes on whole new meaning.