Re: Drawing a series of blanks.

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John,

Merely getting the diagnosis may be helpful to many because it gives them warm and fuzzy feeling that the problem, having been identified, can be fixed – they start their meds and everything is better! Then there is us. Sucks.

In one of your follow on posts you mentioned it took you an entire day to write that first post. Yes! Thank you! It too takes me an eternity to get something coherant down on paper. Out of morbid curiosity, how many times would you say you re-wrote your post? 6 or 8 times or more?

Does any of this sound familiar? Would you revise a sentence multiple times because it wasn’t just right or because you felt that sentence didn’t express EXACTLY what you wanted to express? Did you try to follow the adage that “the perfect is the enemy of the good” by simply writing a paragraph and then hitting send? Did you stop trying to follow that adage after you read that paragraph the following day? When your boss looks at you as if you were an idiot and asks you why something didn’t get done, do you think to yourself that if you knew the answer to the damn question about why you didn’t get something done that you wouldn’t be having the conversation in the first place? And why is it that the $175/hour therapist can’t answer the question either?

If I had the answers I wouldn’t be here in this forum. Just keep doing what ADDers have lots of practice at, getting up again.

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