Your Life Can Be Better

By Douglas A. Puryear,

Book cover of Your Life Can Be Better: using strategies for adult ADHD

Book description

ADHD causes us many problems and make our lives harder. This book focuses on strategies that will make your life easier and better.

I’m a psychiatrist who has ADHD. I’m going to share with you some of the ways I’ve learned to cope with my ADHD problems. I’ll also share…

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1 author picked Your Life Can Be Better as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I stumbled on this book when trying to help my husband, who has ADHD, find some actionable coping skills. This book was so different from others I had encountered, and I loved it for exactly that reason. Written by an MD who was diagnosed later, the author shared real-life scenarios and difficulties he had experienced his entire life that he had never known were attributed to his unique brain.

I enjoyed how the author offered short, entertaining, and memorable accounts of his experiences. Simple things like “rulemaking” or understanding struggles with visual cues (ie. looking right at the condiment in…

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