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Excerpt from Making the Grade with ADD
People with ADD can find it rather easy to use their credit cards. It’s easy to forget that you’re spending real money. You just hand the cashier a plastic card; you don’t actually see the money leaving your pocket. And, since people with ADD are more likely to experience depression and anxiety, they may have a tendency to engage in “retail therapy,” raising their credit card bill.
by guest blogger Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D.,
You may be thinking that mindfulness and money don’t really go together—how could a practice focused on non-materialism apply to the source of materialism? But in fact, the practice of mindfulness can be applied to your daily money management practices.
By guest blogger Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D., author of the upcoming ADD and Your Money (December 2009), and 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD, Making the Grade with ADD.
ADD (or ADHD) affects all aspects of your life: work, home, and even your social life. People with adult ADD usually had ADD symptoms when they were children. You may have been diagnosed with ADD as a child and may have taken medication. Or you may have had ADD symptoms and told you were “hyperactive,” but you were never formally diagnosed. You don’t actually “grow out of” ADD—your symptoms just look differently when you are an adult. While you may no longer be climbing the furniture, you are now constantly swiveling your chair during an office meeting. Or instead of having difficulties waiting your turn in a game, you now can’t stand being stuck in traffic. Many adults with ADD describe feeling a sense of “inner restlessness”— they are just itching to move around, fidget, or be active.
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