Dr. Hallowell's mantra is the classic"OHIO": only handle it once.
Dr. Hallowell says the only way to overcome it is
with an organization-wide change of culture.
Ultimately, Hallowell says it's critical to find a doctor
who is experienced in working with patients with ADHD.
It's a rainy afternoon in rural Pennsylvania, and Dr. Hallowell has come to Men's Health's editorial
offices for a 21st-century Information Overload Intervention.
For that reason, Hallowell says, it's not only important
to find a doctor whom you trust, but also to find one who has a lot of experience with ADHD.
When it comes to making an ADHD diagnosis in children, the common learning disability dyslexia is sometimes confused with ADHD,
but Dr. Hallowell says that a good physician should be
able to easily tell them apart.
Indeed, though most of us act as if nothing big has changed in our lives,
Dr. Hallowell says we're actually in the midst of a historic
shift not seen since Gutenberg fired up the first printing press.
To the untrained eye, a whole host of medical conditions can look like ADHD,
explains Edward Hallowell, MD, a board-certified child
and adult psychiatrist and author of two books on ADHD, Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction.