Information, inspiration, insights, discoveries, and tools for ADD/adhd in everyday life, Christian faith, local Church ministry, and community organizations. Authors share professional expertise, personal ADD experience/struggles, and stories of others whose ADD make spiritual life difficult. A message of hope--not a religious work. Spiritually-minded people--whatever stripe--find a safe & shame-free resource in these pages. The book is available as a paperback, audioBook, and eBook. It s agony for me in church was the complaint of an adult with attention deficit disorder (ADD/adhd) in one of many true stories found in the new book ADD/adhd, Christianity, & the Church (Spirit of Hope Publishing). Co-authors Jonathan Scott Halverstadt, M.S. LMFT and Pastor Jerry Seiden ask, Do ADDers force a fit and fake it even when it comes to their faith? According to the authors, the ADD children and adults they counsel face a host of hardships in their relationship to and participate at church or in their community of faith. They say that many Christian ADDers try to pass for normal as they fellowship and worship with other believers. Why? The core symptoms of ADD can challenge their ability to pay attention to the sermon, dismiss daydreams, battle boredom, restrain restlessness, stay seated, imped impatience impulses, and even get to church on time. The book by Halverstadt and Seiden goes beyond the classic symptoms of ADD. Co-author Jonathan Scott Halverstadt, LMFT introduces all six of the sub-types of ADD from the work of Daniel G. Amen, M.D., a pioneer in the use of nuclear medicine and SPECT* scans to study ADD. Halverstadt worked with Dr. Amen as a clinical associate in the Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine in Fairfield, California, and Dr. Amen provided one of two forewords for the book. Stories from the lives of real people help readers understand how the disorder affects people within the various subtypes. According to the authors, it is vital that people understand that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is only one of six subtypes. So, readers learn the subtleties and the unique suffering related to Classic ADHD, Inattentive ADD, Over-Focused ADD, Explosive ADD, Depressive ADD, and Ring of Fire ADD. Among the materials on each subtypes, readers learn which regions of the brain are affected and how they appear on SPECT scans. Important to any ADD discussion, yet separate from Dr. Amen s subtypes, is a chapter on ADD with Tics. Pastoral Counselor and coauthor Jerry Seiden, M.A., who has written eight books on ADD for himself and others, provides basic information about Tourettes Syndrome (TS). Seiden says, TS is part of the ADD package for about 30% of us ADDers, and I happen to one of them. The chapter s is a mix of good information from experts and personal reflections by Pastor Seiden, who shares how TS has brought him hardships and taught him humility.

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ADD/adhd, Christianity, & the Church