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When you have Attention Deficit Disorder and you are trying to juggle too many demanding activities at once, it is time to reassess that state of affairs. You could develop a decision making chart. This article takes you through the basics of making a logical decision to improve your stress level.

Problem Solving to Relieve Stress with ADD

Tonight I saw a friend's picture on Facebook. She was featuring her new glasses. What a difference a few months can make! She looks 10 years younger than she did in November. You see, she was in a stressful situation, and it was making her life feel like a toxic mess. So, she found a new job teaching in a school where her talents fit in with the culture of the school. I asked her if she would be the "virtual poster girl for less stress." She happily agreed. So folks, we have our own poster girl here at the ADD site. She walked away from her stressful situation. This woman cannot believe how happy that she is now.

I learned this strategy when I was in graduate school in classes that I took from my adviser, Brenda Smith Myles. She had a lot of solutions for times when life took a turn for the tough.

How do you relieve stress in your life? How do you figure out which activities to keep and which to dump?

What strategy do you use when you have huuuge problems to solve?

What problems have you overcome lately?

My attention span is getting shorter. I think I'm stressed.

A shorter attention span can certainly be one symptom of stress.

I find that when I don't have a bunch of problems hanging over me, my stress decreases. I've been trying to train myself to take care of small problems before they become monster-sized. I'm still working on this!

I hardly read any books these days. I dislike sitting through movies on TV. I'm up and moving around; doing other things that require little thought. I save things and make piles of things that need attention. Life gets curiouser and curiouser every day.

Angie, if you just have short bites of time, I highly recommend Lisa Shea's Black Cat: Salem Massachusetts Mini Mysteries. I read them on my Kindle Unlimited. There is a compilation of 31 stories. They are short and interesting. They nest together, but any of them can be read alone.

I know about busy. There are times when I am just running, running all of the time. Hang in there. Curiouser is usually preferable to boring.