Adult ADD and Money

Adult ADD Tax Day

Adult ADD Tax Day is a one day program on April 10th that has been designed to help support Adults with ADD to file their taxes before the April 15th deadline. In honor of Adult ADD Tax Day I have included a couple of useful articles to help get you through filing:

Organize Financial Documents the ADHD Way - (ADDitude Magazine) "Orderly record keeping may not be the most interesting project for an adult with attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) to undertake, but I've learned, through hard experience, that it has to be done. With tax time upon us, it's even more important than ever to get a head start on personal filing."

The Deadline Disorder -It's a Taxing Time of the Year for Chronic Procrastinators - (Washington Post) "Unappealing tasks such as filing taxes turn many people into procrastinators, but Sawyer is far from alone in electing to put off everyday chores. According to Joseph R. Ferrari, a professor of psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, some 20 percent of us are chronic procrastinators. "That's very high," Ferrari said, adding that research reveals there are more chronic procrastinators in the United States than there are people with clinical depression."

ADHD and Timely Tax Posts

Eileen Bailey from Health Central has written several timely posts related posts related to ADHD and taxes. Two of the most interesting posts are:

• 10 Tips to Help You Do Your Taxes
• Medical Tax Deductions for ADHD Related Expenses

These posts might just give you the jump start you need to start working on your taxes.

If you are still are thinking about procrastinating you should read A taxing defense? at ADD-Libbing. The article is about a lawyer who claims her extreme ADD caused her to not file or pay her taxes.

Taxes and Anxiety

There is just less than five weeks to file your taxes in the United States. The very though of filing your taxes can bring up a lot of stress and anxiety, especially in adults with ADD. There is no way that I know to completely avoid tax stress, but there are ways to greatly reduce the anxiety that tax preparation can cause. Hiring a tax professional to help you to prepare you taxes can save you from unnecessary financial anxiety. There are also many affordable computer programs that will help you step by step to prepare you own taxes. With these programs you will be able to file your taxes on-line, saving you the couple of steps of having to put the tax forms in a envelope, putting a stamp on the envelope, and dropping it in a mailbox. One way to reduce tax stress that is often overlooked is just having someone you trust to support you and to hold you accountable for the steps needed to finish filing your taxes.

Six weeks left to file your taxes

There is only six weeks left to file your taxes in the United States. My wife recently wrote a post titled : Time to think about Taxes. The first thing I thought was that I need to think about filing our taxes. The next thing I thought about was making sure that I had all of my receipts, tax forms and bank statements. There have been times when after struggling to find all of my important documents; I ended up not being able to find a bank statement. If you are missing a document it is a lot easier to get a copy with six weeks left to file your taxes then it is when you have only a week. 

If you haven't filed your taxes yet, take a little bit of time now to make sure you have everything you need to file. It could save you a lot of stress and unneeded aggravation.