Something natural for ADHD?

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answer:What did you get addicted to? Specifically, I mean. I’m pretty severe ADHD… Check out a recent past question I asked. Strattera sucked for me, too. I think it was because I feel normal in a hyper state and Straterra made me feel drugged. With adderal I have to play around with my dose. Too little doesn’t help, too much makes me psycho, and knowing when to take the last dose of the day is key for me. Holistically, I absolutely need to exercise and move my body every day. I cut out all caffeine, and I make a ton of lists that I usually lose or leave laying around. The lists do help me center my thoughts. Yoga classes have also been helpful in the past, although my mind races in and out of concentrating. I’ve crafted an eating plan that seems to center me some, too. Google diets for ADHD and see what you think. Read Taking Charge of Adult ADHD. They address the fact that getting through the first chapter is a struggle for people who genuinely have ADHD at the very end of the chapter, which I thought was funny. After that the book gets easier to deal with. Lots of snippets, self-assessment tests, side notes and short stories to break up the book into blocks you can pay attention to.

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