Succeeding with Adult ADHD (2nd Edition)

Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life

By: Abigail Levrini

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

Adults with ADHD face unique challenges that impact every aspect of life, including work and relationships. This expansion and update of psychologist Abigail Levrini’s bestselling book offers realistic, proven strategies to help adults with ADHD lead more fulfilling and productive lives. With her extensive experience researching and treating adults with ADHD, Levrini provides user-friendly strategies for setting meaningful and realistic goals, developing a plan to achieve the goals, and staying on track while following the plan. Slipups are normal and expected, so Levrini invites listeners to keep a positive, growth-oriented outlook that focuses on progress rather than perfection.

Each chapter is full of examples and self-help activities to apply strategies to multiple areas of life. Special attention is given to the areas of executive function that most adults with ADHD seek help for, and to the challenges most important in living a healthy and productive life, including time management, relationships, organization, job performance, and recognizing common coexisting conditions such as depression and anxiety. Stop feeling frustrated by what you are not accomplishing, and start making practical steps toward achieving your goals.

©2023 American Psychological Association (P)2023 Recorded Books

Simplifies the ADHD treatment process

I really appreciated the efforts made by Dr. Levrini to make this book ADHD-friendly. She distilled it down to an easy to remember model and examples provides were practical. So often ADHD books are written in a way that is not ADHD-friendly. I would have liked a little more information on challenging beliefs around procrastination, but overall, it's an excellent book. I recommend downloading the worksheets from the link provided in the book.

The performance of the narrator could have been better. I struggled to stay engaged at times and it was mostly due to the narrator not being engaging enough for me. Still, I was able to get through it without much issue.

The book is fabulous, but the reader reads to fast

I have the paperback and I’m trying to follow along but it’s too fast for me. It’s can’t take in the information. Is there a way to slow the reader down??

Helpful and full of ideas

I found this book after a recommendation from the American Psychological Association (APA). While I already knew much about ADHD, I still found the book helpful with some basic skills I had never developed. I also liked the new approaches to various problems I have.

As an audiobook, I found the speaker to talk at an appropriate speed for me. During the psychopharmacological section (on ADHD medications), I sped the playback speed up to 1.7x and could still understand her voice. During earlier sections of the book, I had to pause to practice some of the skills/ideas she described, but I could still understand her speaking speed comfortably.

I think this book is a good first ADHD book for recently diagnosed adults, or even adults who suspect that might have ADHD.

I bought the paperback

The narrator speaks to quickly with very little vocal variation. I have ADHD and bought this in hopes of gaining something. Unfortunately the narration makes it very hard to retain anything substantial, rather it became clear that this book will better serve me with pencil and highlighter.

I’ll reserve my ‘Story’ review for when I’ve completed the paperback version.