Really helpful!

Made me understand more and think about my behaviour. I think Adult ADHD gets overlooked but this book will hopefully highlight some of this.

Good book for Adults with ADHD, it helps with a quick understanding of how to live with ADHD. It has short paragraph so an easy read for a mind that tends to wander off and wants to easily find what they are looking for.
It needs a bit of editing, and would benefit from a better design.

As an adult with ADD as well as my daughter having ADD, I found this book very helpful and useful. It’s hard to find good books to help navigate this in adulthood.

This was really helpful! As someone who’s partner who has been recently diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, this was really helpful.

This book is very clear and has lots of information in. I liked it as a neurotypical person who has immediate family members who are awaiting assessment for adhd. It has given a good insight into their experiences and also given ideas on how to problem solve a few areas too.

This a great read for anyone who wants to know more about how ADHD shows up in adults. The content is reader friendly with great, in depth explanations of what ADHD is, conditions that can happen with ADHD, diagnosis, treatment and strategies. I would give it 4 out of 5 and definitely recommend it.

A comprehensive overview of ADHD , what it means, how it can effect your life and ways to support it.

"For instance, due to their inability to focus and concentrate, people with ADHD tend to have poor academic performance, which is reflected in their bad grades."

As a person with combine type ADHD, I find this very offense and ignorant. Grouping the entire population of persons with ADHD as academic failures just feels like the author was wronged by one person with ADHD in their life and had to write an entire petty disstrack of uneducated assumptions into a book which the hopes they might some day find it.

The entire book was a disstrack and attack to behaviors seen in some people with an ADHD disorder. There was hardly any push for the positives that people with ADHD have, no nod to all the successful people in history that have ADHD and use those positive quirks to their advantage. (Shout out to Albert Einstein.)

Hate to say it, but this book felt like an under-researched finals paper for a high school psychology class or a "self help" book you'd find in a salon lobby.

What really got me laughing and shaking my head was under the chapter of "Other Coping Mechanisms for ADHD and Anxiety Today" was a bullet point with "Lower the bar on expectations." People with Anxiety and ADHD often struggle with self-motivation and ambition, not always perfectionism and people-pleasing. So assuming they are overambitious to start, can be dangerous to one's mental health.

I really go back and forth on this book, the tone and lighting distorts the message and it can really be argued to either side of the mixed reviews I am seeing in the comments.

I was excited to learn that A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Adult ADHD was being published. My husband was diagnosed with ADHD in his 40s and my 20-year-old son also has a diagnosis. After reviewing the book, I would not want either my son or husband reading it as a resource. The book starts out my claiming that an ADHD diagnosis is an identity, not an illness or curse. While I understand where the author is going with this claim, individuals with ADHD (or any mental health disorder) are not their diagnosis. ADHD is a health issue and should be treated as such. The author then writes about all the issues that people with ADHD experience . . . ridicule, relationship problems, emotional and behaviorial problems, poor self-esteem, etc. I felt the rest of the book mainly focused on the negative, with only one chapter devoted to "coping mechanisms," which is still a negative connotation. I felt like this book was written in the 60s when ADHD was less understood.

I found this to be a good resource for someone who has recently been diagnoses with ADHD or for someone who was diagnoses in childhood (me) but was never taught what exactly ADHD is, and coping mechanisms.

There was detailed information on medical and non-medical treatments which I also appreciated. Overall, it was a great source of information for someone who is not familiar with their diagnosis or the diagnosis of a loved one.

This is definitely a book that I will be keeping on my bookshelf and referencing later.

e-arc from Netgalley in exchange for honest review.

I truly do want to believe that the author had good intentions.
But I can not recommend this to anyone with a clear conscience.
As someone who has just this year gone through the assessment and started with medication, I felt downright insulted by the content of this.

There is some basic information.
It would truly benefit to have a round with an editor (or another one). The book has some small moments of acceptance and an attempt to be positive.
But overall, the book seems to come back to the idea that any ADHDer is simply lazy. And that is far from the truth.
The text also first stresses the point that ADHD is NOT an illness but then keeps referring to it as an illness. The same when it comes to the small section on autism.

There is a list of references in the back of the book. But in the actual book the author references sources in the text in the very beginning, then stops, does it again on what I think was page 87, 88 and then stops again. Consistency??

This is such a small portion of my issues. But to stay calm I'm not going to type out my 15 pages of notes here.

I thought this book was great for providing information about adhd in adults. There is a large range of information for people living with adhd, know someone with adhd or is just curious about adhd in general.

I unfortunately wasn’t a fan of how it was described at times, such as calling adhd an illness when it is a disorder. There was also a very negative push towards adhd, although the writer is trying to give insight and show it’s not a negative & can be turned to a positive.

A very clear and concisely written book explaining Adult ADHD. I liked how the book was laid out and the fact that there are different options for dealing with ADHD from natural ways to enhance your life, to therapies, and medications. What truly was helpful was the feeling that while this can be a struggle and a juggling act to handle at times the book gives many positive scenarios and ways to handle life.

I’m sorry but I can’t really recommend this book. While the author seems very well intentioned, there are a lot of serious issues I have with it.

Firstly, the author speaks about people with ADHD in an extremely negative way. She uses words like “unpleasant” and says people with ADHD are “terrible” at many things. She gives endless lists of problems people with ADHD have and even has chapters about whether adults with ADHD can hold down a job or drive a car. There is no focus on the strengths people with ADHD can have (and yes there are many).

Secondly, it reads like a series of pamphlets. The sections are very short and there’s no personal information as an author or expert. In the intro she says she has known adults with ADHD and wants to help people. This does not make one an expert. She is trained in pharmacology and there’s a fair bit of information about various prescriptions and side effects, but even this is quite short. There are also suggestions like make lists and keep a journal, but these are about a paragraph each. I read the entire book in about a half hour.

Thirdly, the writing is odd and stilted. It often had grammatical errors and would benefit from an editor. It also just felt unbelievably out of touch. For instance, this is a quote about where to find support:

Facebook is one of the most popular social media which is almost everyone. This accessible by social media platform allows individuals with ADHD to connect with others who live with ADHD.

You may find something helpful in this book but there are much better resources out there.

I read a digital review copy of this book via NetGalley.

Another Netgalley one. It is slight misnamed. It is comprehensive. But it is aimed less at mastering the condition, and more on giving a list of options to explore. It has a lengthy section on medication that could be useful to those seeking diagnosis. Useful, but I'm not sure how useful for everyone. Also very US-centric in places which limits its recommendability.

Great information for beginners and helpful, applicable techniques. I can see this being a good resource for someone just discovering their diagnosis.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an arc to review. This book sets our clear concepts with an easy to follow and understand explanation of managing adult ADHD.

I really enjoyed this book, only just being diagnosed with Adhd a couple of months ago at the age of 37 this has been very helpful for me. Lots of advice on diet and exercise as well as other alternative ways to cope with adhd. Recommendations on other types of support too which is great.

This is a concise introductory guide to ADHD and while geared to adults, could also be useful for teenagers and parents of children with ADHD to help set them up for success later in life.

I particularly appreciated the detailed information on medical and non-medical treatments, as well as information on ADHD medications and considerations for interactions with other substances (e.g., alcohol, caffeine, antidepressants).

I do think the book could have shared information about which jobs people with ADHD may excel at due to the strengths of ADHD, e.g., creative pursuits.

Otherwise, a good quick reference guide, especially if you are learning about ADHD for the first time.

I feel like this book was originally written as a bachelors degree research paper on what ADHD is and common items associated with it. The title and subject were very misleading as it provided very little helpful information with someone who does have adult ADHD. I’m not concerned about being able to operate machinery on medication. I’m concerned about what traits I might have that could be causing stress on relationships, and what I can do to lesson my symptoms. Unfortunately half of the suggestions made were to make a list / journal / stick to a schedule, but anyone struggling from ADHD can tell you that it’s easy to make the list or schedule, and not easy to stick to it. This book provided no real advice and is maybe better for a high school research paper than for actual use.