How to ADHD

An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

De: Jessica McCabe

Narrado por: Jessica McCabe

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this honest, friendly, and shame-free guide, the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the hard-won insights and practical strategies that have helped her survive, even thrive, in a world not built for her brain.

“The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many years. If there’s a fairy godmother of our lot, it’s Jessica McCabe.”—Edward Hallowell, MD, coauthor of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0

Forget “try harder.” When your brain works differently, you need to try different.

Diagnosed with ADHD at age twelve, Jessica struggled with a brain that she didn’t understand. She lost things constantly, couldn’t finish projects, and felt like she was putting more effort in than everyone around her while falling further and further behind. At thirty-two years old—broke, divorced, and living with her mom—Jessica decided to look more deeply into her ADHD challenges. She reached out to experts, devoured articles, and shared her discoveries on YouTube.

In How to ADHD, Jessica reveals the tools that have changed her life while offering an unflinching look at the realities of living with ADHD. The key to navigating a world not built for the neurodivergent brain, she discovered, isn’t to fix or fight against its natural tendencies but to understand and work with them. She explains how ADHD affects everyday life, covering executive function impairments, rejection sensitivity, difficulties with attention regulation, and more. You’ll also find ADHD-specific strategies for adapting your environment, routines, and systems, including:

• Boost the signal and decrease the noise. Facilitate focus by putting your goals where you can see them and fighting distractions with distractions.
• Have less stuff to manage. Learn why you have trouble planning and prioritizing, and why doing more starts with doing less.
• Build your “time wisdom.” Work backward when you plan, and track how long it actually takes you to do something.
• Learn about your emotions. Understand how naming your emotions and letting yourself experience them can make them easier to regulate.

With quotes from Jessica’s online community, chapter summaries, and reading shortcuts designed for the neurodivergent reader, How to ADHD will help you recognize your strengths and challenges, tackle “bad brain days,” and be kinder to yourself in the process.

©2024 Jessica McCabe (P)2024 Random House Audio

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“The world of ADHD has been waiting for this book with bated breath for many years. If there’s a fairy godmother of our lot, it’s Jessica McCabe. She has a foolproof way of instilling hope, an uncanny intuition, and a preternatural understanding of the condition so misleadingly called ADHD. She turns pain into the wisdom and hard-earned joy you’ll find in this bountiful gift to us all.” —Edward Hallowell, MD, coauthor of Driven to Distraction and ADHD 2.0

“Jessica McCabe writes with honesty, intelligence and warmth about living and growing with ADHD. McCabe has created something that is more than a guide. This book is like the friend/coach/therapist you’ve always wanted to help you understand how to work with your unique brain, improve daily functioning skills, and love yourself in the process. I learned a lot from reading this book and will definitely be recommending it to colleagues and clients!” —Sharon Saline, PsyD, author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew and The ADHD Solution Deck

“How to ADHD is a must-read book. From the ADHD-friendly layout to practical tips that help readers feel comfortable in their own skin, Jessica McCabe delivers what they need to take their next leap in life. She is vulnerable, encouraging, and inspirational. But, most of all, she gets what it's like to live with a neurodivergent brain.” —Caroline Maguire, bestselling author of Why Will No One Play with Me?

Uniquely helpful!

This book is the most unique approach to an ADHD book I have ever seen. The author accomplished her goal superbly.

When you are so lost you can't believe anymore and it feels extra lonely bc of ADHD, read this book, seriously.

It's all in the title except for thank you so much Jessica for everything. Someday I hope to share with you how much absolutely unbelievable carnage my life is and that your words got through everything. The someday is bc today I just need to be in the moment of gratitude for finally having someone out there saying what I desperately needed to hear. Your ending, Jessica, was perfectly ADHD in delivery which made the real message that much more meaningful. Just beautiful, thank you for this being in the world.

Inspiring Narrative and Useful tips

Loved the book, have been a huge follower on Youtube and was glad to finally be able to read the book. Or I guess listen in this case lol. Anyways, definitely a must-read for anyone that has ADHD and would like to learn more about it, or for those that care

Great For Noobs and Vets

I’ve had ADHD since childhood. I’m 35 now and finding this book has been so helpful. I feel like for the first time I realize that there are people like me. It’s so refreshing to know I’m not alone.

The ADHD-toolbox

I myself am a ‘Brain’ (an ADHD’er) and found this book very useful in expanding my toolbox for the things that I struggle with.

I recommend it to anyone who has ADHD or who knows someone with ADHD.

The sweet spot.

This book goes in my top three adhd book recommendations. Adhd books are usually in two categories clinical or biographical. This book really hits the sweet spot of blending the two.

An Absolute Masterpiece!!!!

I have loved Jessica’s channel and community for a long time now, and this book is an absolute game changer!!! So much information, So many tips, So many feels!!! This book is an absolute MUST HAVE to refer back to and remind yourself of all the tools and tips and encouragement we need to work with our brains❤️❤️❤️ Great Job, Jessica!!!

Perfect…

If you know and like her YouTube content… as I do… then this book is perfect…

Very well told ADHD support… tools, stories, validation, uplifting-ness… what you need basically if you have or suspect you have ADHD…

Wonderful

Just what I needed. Thank you Jessica, you are making more of a difference than you know!

Read this if you or someone you love has ADHD!

So many ah-ha moments in this book , it’s unreal. Im married with two adult children and three of us have been diagnosed with ADHD (including me). I am amazed that many of my own struggles or struggles of my family are due to ADHD that I didn’t even realize. Knowing this will not only allow me to identify them but also use the tools or resources suggested in the book. I loved hearing from the author on her own struggles and what has worked but I also loved hearing from others throughout the book from all around the world on things that have helped. Sometimes in this crazy world, it feels nice to know you’re not alone and life can be easier!