Adults with ADHD have often lost confidence in resolving their problems. After years of trying to change behaviours it may seem unlikely that anything will ever happen.
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change” Bertrand Russell
Definitions of hope include:Things never remain fixed, time changes everything. If we gain new knowledge and insights then we can perhaps build better solutions. Relationships can change when we better understand the issues that have challenged us. New opportunities appear in work. ADHD medication can offer a solution to many challenges, but most of all hope comes from support groups, forums, coaches and from sharing with other people with ADHD. With people to empathise with, relate to, listen to and discuss life and challenges, it becomes clear that it is possible to turn a life around. Take this hope from other peoples experiences with it comes the drive and energy to change yourself.
“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow” – Susanna Moodie
Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours and 20 years of experience in coaching over 600 ADHD executives, ADHD business professionals and ADHD creatives. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. He is an ADHD specialist backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales and to running a few software start-ups.