The ADD Hope Email List is for parents of special needs children, adults, teachers, family members, and anyone else who is seeking information and support for ADHD, depression, anxiety disorder, OCD, ODD, Tourette's and other challenges. This list is designed to provide a comfortable, supportive atmosphere in which to share your struggles, challenges, success stories, treatment options, evaluation methods, and medical information for yourselves, your children, family, friends and students.

Topics discussed include (but definitely are not limited to):

• Recognizing ADHD
• Evaluation and diagnosis
• Educating and Schooling Choices
• Coping Skills
• Executive Functioning
• Relationships and Marriage
• Discipline and child training methods
• ADHD resources
• Depression, Anxiety Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Tourettes Syndrome, and other co-existing conditions
• Prayer and Scriptures for encouragement

List Guidelines

1. All are welcome to join this list, but negative posts regarding Christianity are not allowed. Immediate unsubscription will result.
2. New members are required to send in a brief Introduction to the list within 24 hours or unsubscription will result. Just tell us a little bit about yourself and your reason for joining this list.
3. You must be mature enough to discuss all of the topics listed above without condemning others for their choices or viewpoints.
4. You MAY NOT JOIN this list TO SELL any products. As Christians, we are not to take advantage of others when they are vulnerable. NO SELLING! Immediate unsubscription will result. No Exceptions.
5. ***AOL users: By joining this list, you agree not to report any emails from this list as SPAM to AOL.

List Etiquette

• Post Carefully: Please prayerfully consider your messages before sending. Try to keep your messages uplifting and encouraging.
• Subject Field: Make sure the Subject field reflects the topic you are posting about. The "addhope" subject header is automatically created.
• Private Reponses: If you have a private response for another member, please be sure to cut and paste their e-mail address into the Mail To: field.
• No Harsh Posts or Flaming: Harsh posts are not acceptable. Listowner reserves the right to unsubscribe any member who violates common Christian behavioral standards.
• Email Readability: Please do not send posts in ALL CAPS and be sure to break long messages up into smaller paragraphs for ease of reading. Electronic Mail Etiquette has a great explanation of the basic rules of emailing.

Thank you for carefully considering your part in the ADD Hope Email List.

Michele Haynes
List Administrator

How to Join

The ADD Hope List is an email list. It is located on a free site or listserver called Freegroups.net. If you register so that you can access member features, your information will remain private and will not be sold. Freegroups.net is a non-profit organization run by a Christian individual at no cost to members or list owners. Your subscription request will go to a List Moderator or Administrator for approval and may take 3-5 days for approval (we always try to do it faster).

You will receive a confirmation email. Click on the link in that email to open a confirmation web page. Choose your Delivery Methods and click. You will receive a Welcome email soon after. Your subscription request will then go to the listowner for approval, so be sure that freegroups.net is added to your Spam Filter "allowed" list or "whitelist". Please allow 1-3 days for approval. If your subscription is not approved within 3 days, please Contact the List Administrator. Be sure the subject includes the name of this list: ADDHope.

You can also join through the listserver webpage at:

Choose the Delivery Methods you desire and click send on the blank email. The List Administrator will need to approve your email address for membership. This is a simple screening process to keep the list free of commercial spammers. Please allow 3-5 days for this approval. Thank you for your patience.

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