Dr. Sterling is a strong believer in life-long learning and inner-life development. This Web site and his focus on "always getting better" are manifestations of his own commitment to taking the next step in personal growth.

The mission of DearShrink.com was to not only furnish visitors, potential clients, and clients with information about Dr. Sterling and his private practice of psychiatry, but to also provide a Web site experience which was highly educational and to assist in reducing the stigma attached to many aspects of the mental health treatment environment.

However, since 2009, Dr. Sterling's mission has been to intensely focus on reading primary research literature and becoming comprehensively informed on the huge amount of knowledge that has been gained about the downside and upside of the attention deficit disorder brain since 2008. He has read in excess of 20,000 pages of primary literature since 2009 and published two editions of his book Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated 2011 and 2013. They are available on Amazon.com.

The scope of Dr. Sterling's reading and writing has made it impossible to continue the former mission of DearShrink.com, which was to provide readers with a broader collection of and links to mental health and wellness information. The many outdated pages still contain original writing by Dr. Sterling that has stood the test of recent time. However, over the next few months, Dr. Sterling will be dismantling and remodeling most of the DearShrink.com website.

Please go to Dr. Sterling's Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Statement for more information about Dr. Sterling's potential biases.

Dr. Sterling's Books are Available at Amazon.com and at ThinkTwiceAboutADD.com.

• Click here to find the paperback edition of Dr. Sterling's 2013 updated book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated June 2013 (tm).

• Click here to find a searchable pdf copy of Dr. Sterling's 2013 update of the book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated June 2013 (tm).

• Click here to find the earlier, 2011 paperback edition of the book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated November 2011 (tm).

• Click here to find the Kindle edition of the 2011 paperback: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated November 2011 (tm).

  Dr. Sterling has incorporated the findings reported in those earlier books into a book he is currently writing entitled The Dopamine Paradox -- Why America's Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness (tm).

  The strength of Dr. Sterling's books are in their ability to arrive at a balance between scientific truth (which requires some technical and scientific language) and user-friendliness. They use language and concepts that are easy to understand and remember, without dumbing down the very important scientific findings about the upside and the downside of the ADD brain.

  The Adult ADD Factbook will help you understand how the current narrow definition and the stigma related to ADD clearly subvert a true estimate of the prevalence of ADD and of many other dopamine deficiency conditions in the entire Western Hemisphere.

  ADD is the current poster child for a large number of dopamine malfunction conditions that are significantly responsible for "nicotinism," alcoholism, obesity, many eating disorders, insomnia, fibromyalgia, the over-use of marijuana, cocaine, illicit methamphetamine, and opioids, and impulse-control problems of many types.

  The Adult ADD Factbook will also allow you to learn about the genetics of ADD, the upside of ADD, and some of the cultural and social implications of the many dopamine deficiency conditions. It has been called "a game changer."

-- Best wishes, Dr. Sterling