Monday, August 1, 2011

ADHD and video games

Author says gaming helped him learn to cope.

ADHD Alternative Medicine

Video games helped him cope with ADHD

Video games may help you manage ADHD. So writes Evan Hoovler this week in GameSpy.

 


He describes his former attention deficit condition as “I can't finish a sentence, answer the phone, or watch one minute of a TV show without medication" disorder. Yet he says he has a successful marriage and career thanks to medication--and video games.


 


Video games gave Hoovler the tools needed to survive, he says. While there is ongoing debate about whether video game playing may increase ADHD, Hoovler says his experience was the opposite.


 


Hoovler describes the sensation of ADHD as comparable to

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