What alternative treatments are available for adults who have ADHD?
Medication isn't the only treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this video, psychiatrist Sudeepta Varma, MD, describes a few simple, non-medical ways to help keep ADHD under control.
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Deep breathing and relaxation and that's really important for anybody but, particularly, with people with ADHD to be able to stop what they're doing
and allow themselves 5 or 10 minutes of deep breathing twice a day. [MUSIC PLAYING]
So it's really important to take digital timeouts, so give yourself time during the day, two or three times, if you can block an hour where you're not
being pulled into technology. And at the same time, I would say give yourself two or three times when you are going to assign yourself to check
your email because a lot of times people will say, oh, well, I'm just going on there for work. And next thing you know, they're on there for four hours surfing the internet, looking at shopping, looking at news.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Digital timeouts and also digital time-ins, which is times when you're actually
going to get work done on the computer and not socialize through social media. [MUSIC PLAYING]
The second thing I would recommend is deep breathing and relaxation, and that's really important for anybody but, particularly,
with people with ADHD to be able to stop what they're doing and allow themselves 5 or 10 minutes of deep breathing
twice a day. We find that not only is this 50% reduction
in anxiety or depression. You also see that it can be just as effective as medication in allowing a person to relax and focus and concentrate.
mental health behavior
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