ADHD resources (partial) for 2024:

I have written some blog posts in the past but this is just the most up to date info I have on the topic. 

FreeMind - mind mapping software - free and allows for non sequential note taking (great for taking notes by disorganized speakers/authors, and or trying to do a "mind dump" without ending up with a giant intimidating list since you can minimize nodes/topics.

https://freemind.sourceforge.io/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 

The authors Edward M. Hallowell M.D. and John J. Ratey M.D. 

Of the stuff they have published I have read the following, the first one was recommended by the psychiatrist that originally diagnosed my ADHD at 22 in 2001, (my parents who I was living with at the time refused to read it), it was basically a breath of fresh air and validated how I felt I had been gaslit over things my entire life by school and family.

 - 1995 - Driven To Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

 - 2005 - Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

 - 2015 - Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive (By Hallowell MD only)

The authors had a bit of a falling out after releasing the revised edition of Driven to Distraction in 2011, but seem to have gotten over it for the release of ADHD 2.0 that was published in 2022 (which I only just learned about).

Look into "Acceptance and Commitment therapy" (which can help a LOT with beating yourself up when your brain/hyperfocus forces you to repeatedly rescheduling everything).

Also the book which I found after a mini stroke in 2008 (I cherry picked one exercise and still haven't read the whole book):

"Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology" by Fred Gallo 

- ADHD amplifies feelings of rejection, and in my case I figured out that I had been carrying around repressed/very early memory that resulted in me dealing with a bit of internal dialogue that would tear through my mind after every conversation/interaction I had with people "why don't they like me?!". After about 2 hours of sitting tapping going through every memory I had trying to find the interaction that created it, I got all the way back to one from Kindergarten (Kindergarten?! WTF?! Right?) I had gotten worn out and laid down for the night. When I got up in the morning, for some reason I tried doing the tapping thing again, and it hit me... turns out my mother would carry me around after my grandmother would come over and hold me crying "why don't they like me?!" (which also turned out to be a pattern that my grandmother did to my mother as well). It was about 2 weeks after I made the discovery to realize something was missing, the whole "why don't they like me" had stopped and I could finally at the age of 29 objectively assess conversations/interactions.