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Caravaggio!
I mainly wanted to congratulate you on a brilliantly apt handle for an angry ADHD sufferer. The great Italian artist was brilliant but tormented. He was a compulsive gambler and had a terrible temper. Maybe he was ADHD himself. Actually, I’d bet a dollar he was. In any event, he had to get out of Rome in a hurry when he got mad and killed a man in a brawl (turns out he also was an accomplished swordsman). He fled to Naples, then Malta, where his temper got him into trouble again. In 1610, at 36, he died of an illness (malaria?) on a beach near Naples, trying to make his way back to Rome. So Caravaggio II, if you’re 41, you’re living on borrowed time.
ADHD can be nasty stuff. If your life is in shambles, you’re not its first casualty. It may not make you feel any better, but this forum is full of stories of spectacular dysfunction. One sordid tale after another. I think ADD/ADHD is a cancer of the soul. Others here disagree. I think it’s very difficult for ADD/ADHD people to love other people or themselves. Others here disagree. The fact is, we don’t agree on a lot of things. But there does seem to be a consensus that ADHD makes life extremely difficult—for you and your family. There are meds you can try. Maybe they’ll help. Maybe not. But you need to work on the anger; it just takes up a lot of room in your psyche, and it doesn’t pay rent. Besides, we don’t want you to end up like up like Caravaggio I.
So what happened to Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode? It’s been a long time…
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