The right support, the right coping skills, and a new mindset toward ADHD helped one teen turn his life around.
. It wasn’t time-released and I hated the way it made me feel all jacked-up. In high school, things got worse. I was expected to sit at my desk for two hours, take a 10-minute break, and go back to another two-hour class. By the end of my sophomore year, I was smoking pot every day after school to calm me down. I was drinking, too. As a kid with ADHD, you just feel different from everyone else.
Initially, we spent a half-hour on the phone each week. In the beginning, I’d occasionally talk to his parents. But they let him do his own thing with the coaching.A lot of our focus was on trying to improve his organizational skills and time management. So when it came to long-term projects, we’d talk about ways he was going to break things down to get the work done in time. It’s professional nagging, but done in a way that is a partnership.
What a coach does is to put structure in place for someone whose brain doesn’t do it naturally. Being accountable to someone else is the key to the client’s success. Great, supportive parents are also important. A coach must never be judgmental. You might be questioned, but the client never sees you as a threat. It’s a true partnership — I’m not a parental figure, not a therapist, not a teacher.Jodi showed me little ways to cope.
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