1,2, 3 AND RELAX!

Stress is one of the factor that can increase the symptoms of a ADHD person, such as anxiety, depression, aggressiveness, lack of focus and attention, just to mention a few. Nobody can deny the negatives effect of that in life. Even if you don't have ADHD, stress can knock you out. It’s been linked with cancer and other terminal diseases.

For a person with ADHD, stress plays an important role, and has to be managed. At this point, you should be asking yourself, why an ADHD person is stressed. It's easy to list some of the nvjhgkuf that they suffer everyday: Poor or none social life due to their poor or none social skills, misplacing or losing things all the time, depression, anxiety, sleepiness, enuresis, eating disorders, troubles at school, work and home, bad grades, and the list is probably endless.

This is why a relaxation routine is vital on the treatment of ADHD without medication. Relaxation means being free of tension and anxiety. As a mother and wife know that it sounds perfect on theory, and the problem starts when we try to make this a routine.

There are a bunch of relaxation techniques, but all of them need a preparation, a schedule or something that just don't fit on the busy-messy life of ADHD people. That's why is needed to find the way to melt those techniques in those busy and messy life styles.

After my son's diagnosis I knew I had to help him learn to relax. I needed to teach him, but in a natural way so he won’t reject the training. So I started observing him. I needed to find what causes pleasure to him. And I found out that there were many daily activities that he enjoyed so much that allows him to relax.

For my son, bath time was always a rush, either cause someone else needs to use the bathroom, or cause was getting late for school, dinner or bedtime. We changed that! We let him stay in the shower for 10 minutes or more instead of 5.

I made sure (still do!) that he has at least 30 minutes to play with his toys or videogames every day , and also made bedtime story part of our routine. These activities unconsciously relax him.

I need to mention again, that this was doing along with the magnesium intake, nutrition control, etc. Achieve the control of the ADHD without medication, is a multitask mission.