Re: Anger due to the differences between severe and mild sufferers

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I see a missed point – deficit and disorder are NOT necessarily treatable! Disease even isn’t always treatable (ask me how I know)

So labeling it as a deficit and disorder isn’t stating it can be cured or necessarily even treated. Apples and oranges to me.

What’s cancer? Can it be cured all the time? Can it even be treated all the time?

I had a case where doctors of all walks and disciplines were totally lost in the late 90s. Luckily it simply stopped happening – after it nearly killed me and landed me in the ER more than one time. Finally a Canadian or European doctor – a chiropractic neurologist told me the cause was most likely something causing neurons in some part of the brain I can’t recall to misfire.

Symptoms – sick out both ends if you catch my drift, **PROFUSE** sweating to the point water ran, literally trickled off my arms, legs, head, etc. – **dehydrated in a matter of minutes** (the hospital had to pump me full of fluids), SEVERE pain so bad I was curled on the floor like a baby unable to move like a hot burning spear was thrust into my stomach and was being jerked around. I’ve had pain, but this was the worst ever. No doctor ever figured it out. They even finally all told me if I had any ideas or ran across anything on the web to let them know. After a year of this happening roughly every xx day (it was really regular like malaria, similar symptoms to porpheria) it stopped. It ALWAYS happened late evening or early AM, never ever mid day or middle of the night.

My point was – it wasn’t treatable to any of our knowledge……… not all things can be cured or treated, so the classifications don’t necessarliy mean they can.

WORKING in the industry – Voc Rehab, I fully concur with what librarian_chef is stating – you must give it some term – in voc rehab, that’s one of the firsts – classify it, then begin to deal with it. I said “deal with it”, didn’t say treat it, cure it, etc. – not necessarily. maybe it can be treated, maybe it can be but only in some folks? I dunno. Do you?

For me as severe as it is (I ace and max out on every test ever taken on this – so I’m about at the top, the max you can be) parts might be a so-called gift, but the rest is PURE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i can’t stress the HELL part enough.

How’s 3 marriages, many jobs and career changes, disciplinary action at multiple jobs, loss of friends, etc. a blessing???

My skills in certain situations are a blessing, a positive, but I’d trade some of that for a more normal life as I still have my 130 IQ to lean on – problem is, like Dr. Russell said, the back of my brain is full of incredible knowledge and skills that would blow most humans away, but ADHD makes it almost worthless in life. I’ve set records and have such a diverse knowledge and skill-set I rarely ever have to hire anyone to do anything. I’ve managed businesses, managed properties, held electricians licenses, worked with boilers, know HVAC, know computers and networks and was once called one of the best in the mid-west by Symantec, and told I knew more of their product workings than they did, I’ve farmed – in the 80s made a living when others were going broke – have a letter from the bank then congratulating me on my ability to GROW my net worth year after year in that economy. I was a top-notch mechanic and have awards and trophies to show for it and to this day have folks from around the country sending my parts to fix and restore for their classic cars – *but I have trouble keeping jobs, thank you ADHD.* Some blessing, eh?

Don’t get me wrong, I like myself, love my life and am truly blessed – I’m doing far better than my parents ever did, and view myself as a success- HOWEVER, my brother the PhD health-care manager, my other brother running a million-dollar business, building it from the ground up – I see and know I COULD have done that – I have more than their knowledge and abilities – but ADHD heald me back.

It’s a mixed blessing – mostly not a blessing. Most of the good stuff I’d have anyway, sans ADHD

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