Was excited to get into this but found it hard to follow and too technical for my adhd brain. Will not recommend

I have ADHD and I found several elements of this book to be very helpful. Although I did find that overall it felt pretty basic. I would recommend this book to someone that just found out the have ADHD.

This book seemed a bit basic, but it does touch on some solid and well-researched ideas. The medication chapter was particularly interesting as it does a good job explaining what the various options do. Throughout there are concrete examples of people who were able to improve themselves and their ADHD challenges through various techniques (mentoring, support groups, etc). Some of the most telling were that many people can cope when their situation is helped by parents or peers who give them the supports they need, and it is when they enter college/a new job/a crisis that their neurodivergence proves a significant challenge. This is not a perfect textbook, and not all applicable to everyone, but it is a great starter guide for people wondering if they have an overlooked diagnosis, or have a new diagnosis and need a place to start.

This was a very helpful book for me.
I was diagnosed with ADHD about a year and a half ago, and have been looking for tangible, practical tips to help me through life. This book helped fill in that gap for me.

I simply picked this up to learn some techniques to better my day to day living. I really enjoyed the structure of the book as I could only read it in small chunks!

Some really good content here. I enjoyed this immensely.
Considering the fact this book is about ADHD, I would think the book would fair better with more eye catching photos and fonts. The current layout lives a lot to be desired. I had to keep with it to finish it so I feel there’s opportunity in presentation.
Informative read, and very uplifting

As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I love learning about it & trying to find practical ways to help me function on a daily basis. I’ve read many books over the past few years, and this one is definitely on my top 5 list. The author is concise, full of wisdom, and makes the chapters practical by offering exercises. I loved it & will be referencing this on a regular basis!

I'm not quite sure why but parts of this book really got under my skin. Maybe I'm not quite ready for a book like this. The way everything was presented made it look so easy, as if I should be able to follow the advice simply because it's there. I suppose I'm falling into the learned helplessness as described, but a lot of this feels like common sense, and I'm still struggling. I understand what I should be doing, and I try, but I keep failing nevertheless, and it doesn't feel like I'm succeeding. It's a difficult one to rate. I think it could be helpful for some people but you probably have to be like, very ready. This feels more like a book for NTs. Maybe I'm just an idiot though.

While I'm not someone who has an ADHD diagnosis, I really enjoyed this book, especially compared to other books that generally fall into the productivity and organization genre. I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear and Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte and while they both had their moments, I found Succeeding with Adult ADHD to provide much clearer, more practical methods for building habits and increasing personal productivity. Author Dr. Abigail L. Levrini structured this book with so many tools to help the reader get exactly what they need from each. The chapters are divided into small sections that can be read in about ten minutes and there is a specific icon placed frequently in the book that is intended for the reader to check in and make sure they have been focusing on the content rather than skimming or pushing their eyes over the page. Each chapter ends with checkboxes for each of the main points--the reader is encouraged to check off the concepts they believe they have studied enough and leave the others unchecked as a reminder to review them again in the future. There are repeated patterns to start out each chapter, making it familiar and easy to read. While I found some sections to be much more relevant to me than others, Dr. Levrini starts most every section with a list of questions that the reader can use to determine if the upcoming chapter will be relevant to them. The reader is encouraged to skip those sections or jump around to something that is more interesting.

This book has a great balance of cited research, anecdotes and examples, and exercises, with diagrams and worksheets that the reader can choose to fill out to complete the exercises if desired. The book is approachable and written in very conversational language. The sections discussing the science behind the techniques in the books are clear, concise, and still easy to read. I appreciated the author's approach to discussing medication as an option for treatment and something that should typically be combined with other mechanisms like therapies.

Overall this Dr. Levrini presents a practical manual to time management, social relationships, and organization. The author addresses topics that might be viewed as basic to some readers in a very human way, never patronizing the reader.

Thanks to the APA and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy of this book to review.

It seems like i hear someone mention they have traits of ADHD almost every week, and its so common now a days to know at least a few people that have already been diagnosed. This is a great book for these types of people as it provides readers with information on ADHD, daily struggles, and provides solutions that can help us to succeed in our daily lives. The author uses accessible language that makes ADHD accessible to readers to understand. This was GREAT because as soon as i encounter hard language my brain just wanders away or loses interest.

As an adult with ADHD, I really wanted to love this book. Unfortunately it was a little on the dry side and didn’t offer any unknown information.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC.

This book is geared towards adults that may be struggling or have recently been diagnosed (or may not have a diagnosis but suspect they may have ADHD) but anyone can take away the lessons from this book and learn to apply them in their lives. Very helpful, and easy to understand and implement in my own life. I can't wait to get a physical copy of this book for reference.

This puts what I've learned in therapy in context for my ADHD. I've found this to be useful and will try implementing the reframing and the way the Dr has discribed setting goals.


(My ADHD won out and I didn't finish it, but I'll buy it and review for real then)

This was a very informative and useful guide for people (especially women) discovering an ADHD diagnosis later in life and looking for coping strategies and confirmation of life-long behaviors. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

2 stars
This is supposed to be a book for adults with ADHD, but I'm not sure how an ADHD adult would not know these tips!
I figured all of this out own my own many years ago.
Hopefully, it will be helpful to some. It was not for me.

My teenage son will be 18 next month and this book comes at a perfect time for him and any other young adult with ADHD about to start their adult life. Dr. Abigail Levrini offers a compassionate and comprehensive guide in this book for every aspect of life that is particularly challenging to people with ADHD: Emotional regulation, time management, organization, academic pursuits, and navigating work and relationships. There are helpful worksheets throughout the book and short “check your focus” sidebars that break up the reading material. She covers thinking errors in the ADHD brain and how to catch yourself and course-correct with new thoughts. I highly recommend this book as a must-have resource for all adults with ADHD and the people who care about them.

This book would benefit anyone who has always suffered with ADHD. I would hope by the time a sufferer reaches adulthood much of this would be figured out. As one with ADHD- from childhood - I learned these strategies along the way by the way my parents and teachers taught me. If you are still unorganized, I hope you can get yourself together long enough to read this book.

I did not love the tone of this book some of the time, though some of the advice and tips certainly seemed helpful. (Having 'inspirational'/tough love-style quotes from dead white men, like Henry Ford, at the beginning of most chapters really didn't help me vibe with the text.)

Easy to follow techniques and life skills to navigate with a brain running on ADHD. Effective; I think many people will see a benefit from reading.

A very easy read with tips and techniques that are not only practical, but easy to follow. I highly recommend for anyone who has been diagnosed or anyone who may have trouble focusing in this crazy and chaotic world. A timely and valuable read.