ADHD Treatment That Works: How to Keep Yourself from Quitting It
When ADHD treatment works, many adults begin to drift out of it because success hides the reason for the treatment, ADHD itself makes the logistics of staying in treatment harder, and quieter fears pull the other way: rising expectations, losing help and sympathy, fading novelty, the rut, not feeling deserving, and the familiarity of failure. The piece gives an adult reader seven actions: say out loud what success would cost, recruit a witness to hold the memory, set a stopping rule in advance, replace a quiet lapse with a planned trial, remove logistical friction, treat side effects as a reason to call the prescriber, and schedule a quarterly review.
