Five (5) Important Reminders For Managing ADHD / ADD During A Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major disruptions in everyday life and the precautions needed to curb the spread of the Coronavirus is impacting the ability to maintain the systems used to manage ADHD / ADD. While there are many changes that individuals don’t control, there are steps that you can take to ensure that you are not completely thrown off your path while we work our way out of this pandemic. Instead of abandoning your ADHD / ADD management systems completely, it is more effective to make adjustments as they become needed. During this time of social distancing maintaining some level of structure is difficult, but it is important to keep as much of your routine as possible. This way, when the Coronavirus is gone and the world returns to normal life, you will not need to start over. ADD / ADHD symptoms can be managed with a plan, but if you allow circumstances to cause you to neglect your plan the behaviors that you have worked hard to manage will return. After this pandemic there will be an elevated stress level as everyone attempts to return to normal. This will be a time you need your system working for you, not when you want to be relearning the system. To prevent the back sliding, keep up with you SPOS as much as possible.