AboutSharon Crandall Expertise Behavior and learning challenges are usually caused by personality traits such as Restlessness, High Physical, Low Concentration, Wide Tolerance (spaciness), Force (anger), Aggressive, plus others. I can help in either area.
Experience 25 years experience working with families, teaching them how to work with traits so they work for you, rather than against you.
As mother of seven grown children and grandmother of 19, I have seen first hand the beauty of recognizing talents and potential in a child who is difficult to raise. I could not have raised my last daughter, who had a very strong personality, without this knowledge.
Besides working with families, I have worked with individuals and businesses. The challenges are always the same--learning how to work with your own traits, plus learning how to handle trait differences between yourselves and others.
Question Hi, I am 22 years old and last year I was diagnosed with ADD. I'm an electrical engineering major at Drexel University. I've always been inattentive and kind of spacy, but I always just thought I was bored or just didn't care enough to pay attention, but I always got good grades in high school so it never mattered. When went to college, I found that I couldn't sit down and read all that we were required to read for my engineering classes. I would try very hard to read the material, but I'd end up getting really frustrated with myself because I wouldn't absorb any of it and I'd just end up falling asleep. Tied in with this was my inability to keep track of what the teachers were saying in class, despite my best efforts. My doctor gave me adderall and I saw an immediate improvement. Within 2 years my GPA went from a 2.7 to a 3.3. Added onto that, my life just seemed more in order and I felt less in a haze. I also made a very large effort to regulate my dosage of the drug, to avert addiction. However, lately, with graduation looming, I've felt more and more guilty for taking adderall, and I don't know how I should feel about myself continuing to take the drug and my past performances because of the drug. Wouldn't anyone who takes this drug perform better? Or does my large differential in performances with and without the drug just mean that I really needed it?
Answer Dear Daniel,
I want to help you but I am just now changing computers and will be our of commission for a day or so. Please write me again and I will help you. If you can't through to me on all experts. Email me at personalityconsultant1@yahoo.com and I will help you. You have some personality learning type traits that are causing you challenges but are also your gifts and I will show you about them and hopefully you can get off the medication.
