what do you do to relieve the stress? | ADHD Information

Seriously - therapy could be a great help. If for no other reason, your
therapist might have some great ideas about how to help your kids.

Also - putting your kids in therapy might be a good thing. It made all the
difference for my son.

But personally, I try to take a hot bath each night, I read a lot (escapism),
and I do counted cross stitch. Basically, what I do is find something that I
can totally focus on for a little while that pushes out all the "dealing" that I
do on a daily basis.

Good luck to you!Read a book, listen to music, have dinner with girlfriends, and exercise.

Thanks - I will admit reading was helpful but for some reason I haven't done it in a while. I have been writing lately and that has helped.

My kids are in therapy and I do speak with them before every session and Yes it does help me. BUt having 2 children being ADHD is a double dose of stress that I must learn to cope with.

I suppose this is a phase we parents go through. My kids are getting older - 11 & 9 and each year the impusivity and hyperness has dissapated a little. Medication has helped them tremendously. And when I read what some are going through - and remember when my kids were like that. I see the huge strides they have made and I should try to focus on that a bit more. I have great kids and I am the luckiest Mother on the planet. I should try to remember that a bit more...yes, the guilt has sunk in.

I need to learn to breathe and not let every little thing bother me.

Thanks!

My doctor (who treats my adhd & depression) recommended I drink a glass of wine with dinner several times a week.  He cited the health benefits of red wine and pointed out that no one thinks twice about coffee to get them moving in the morning.

Every now and then I'll scrape the loose change up from where I dump it and buy a more expensive bottle so I feel as though I'm doing something special for myself as well as following the doctor's advise.

Hello all:

I know we are all in the same boat here so I will just be blunt: What do you do to relieve the stress of being a parent of an ADHD child(ren)?

The last few months the stress with my children has made me irratible, quick to anger and somedays I give up on trying to help them with homework, redirection or whatever usually brings us to an argument. Somedays I go hide in my office and tell the kids I am working so they won't annoy me (and I am usually reading these posts .

Yes, I feel horrible that all this is bothering me now and it didn't before, but I am trying to cope with all this so I can be the best parent to my children.

Someone mentioned medications in jest to me. I actually considered it after these past couple of weeks but now I am trying a homeopathic remedy called At Ease that I got at Whole Foods. It has only been a few days but I "think" it helped but I am looking for what you all do.

I walk, I eat right and I do have a husband that is supportive - but you know as the primary caregiver the burden falls on you the most and sometimes the pressure is just too much. I will admit I do let things bother me too much and I worry all the time about my children's future: harder grade levels, driving, dating, college, etc...

So, with all that in mind - what do you all do to cope, relieve stress and help you worry less?

When my son was 3 I called my best friend, who happens to be a child psychiatrist. I asked her if he needed therapy or I did, because he was making me crazy! She told me that I did, because he was who he was, but I needed to learn how to handle him.  These days I find regular exercise to be a huge stress breaker.  I need my endorphin rush!

well,  Hubby and I go out once a month with no kids,..that helps.  It is hard to take vacations as our adhd child needs a schedule to follow so this year, we have arranged for camp for both children.  It is a sleep away camp and we drop them off Monday and pick up Saturday. 

I spoke to the director about our son and his hyperactivity and she said they could handle it.  My mother used to send me to camp from the middle of June through all July into August so I figure my child can make it for one week.  During that week, hubby and I are taking our first real vacation since the kids were born!!!!!

We told the kids that if they like the camp, we will send them next year for 2 weeks.  WE decided that this would be our yearly break time.

Medicated drugs sometimes it could make it worse and I would also go with therapy or counseling. It is a smooth but a long process but it is effective. A therapy of I would like you to know is meditation and even yoga this are a killer for stress. fjones10140538.2662847222I try to rely on rules. It is very freeing to be able to say," I'm sorry, but it's 4:30 now. Time for homework. Turn the computer off." And when he argues, I can just say,"I don't control time. Turn it off." I let the universe be in control sometimes.