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Robbo
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Toofat, it’s interesting you should ask about recovery. I recently read somewhere??? on the net about how some folks are trying a 12 step approach to adhd. I simply don’t know about that. I’ve also read that people in recovery from addictions have a higher than the average person, rate of being adhd. I’ve struggled with lot’s of different addictions, borderline addictions, etc. In general I just say “the disease called more”. If something makes us feel good, makes our dopamine flow, we can sometimes get addicted to it, and MORE!. Adrenaline was the one thing that stuck with me the longest. When we’re healthy, the “runners high” stuff is not an addiction. When my girlfriend used to get pissed off at me and think I was cheating because I was mountain biking for 5 or 6 hours on a saturday, that was a problem. She needed me there acting like I loved her more than crashing down a rocky slope doped up on adrenaline… I came home looking satisfied and happy. Make sense?. Of course she got suspicious.

When I wrote that title I was talking about my own recovery from adhd, and neuroplasticity in particular. That’s a recovery thing. At that point I was seeing adhd as the root cause of many other dysfunction’s. That’s terminology I use. But I never see that word used about adhd anywhere accept that one article I didn’t even read. I think it’s a six of one/half dozen of the other kind of thing. That’s just me tho.

Some people might want to shy away from applying the word “recovery” to how they’re coping with adhd. I can/do understand that pretty easily. People associate it with drug and alcohol addiction mainly, and judge away!, that’s a pain in the butt.

I like the stuff on this thread about mindfulness. It’s encouraging me to stick with the meditation as well as the ongoing practice like Scattylady’s pharmacy experience.

I never got into running after junior high school. Road bikes, n then mountain biking was one of the greatest ways to 1) keep the endolphins running, 2) see more scenery than any runner in a single day, plus be able to stop take in the beauty of a single spot in the hills, and 3) Just plain enjoy life!.

If I could just get my apartment as clean as I like, get 100% healthy, and find some kind of paraplegic club. I’d like to take my all terrain wheelchair out into the hills. Groups of paraplegics get together. One person drives em up the hills, n picks em up at the bottom. Like a river trip. It’s the same thing, only the adrenaline comes from semi competitive racing, getting sideways!, slightly airborne, and generally just getting my heart racing. Good for the brain!. It’s really just a “go cart” for grownups!. Exercise is the one missing and very important key ingredient in my “recovery” from a life with undiagnosed adhd. Not all of us are lucky enough to develop the coping skills, or even have the same flavor of adhd as you Toofat, but I’m sure glad you’re here. You added some important info about how important food is in the original thread this title refers to. There are new studies about how toxins like pesticides in our food are a factor, much more so than they realized only 5 or 10 years ago. Here’s an article I haven’t read all of yet. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244622.php There’s another one about mexican kids just on the south side of the border of the US, and pesticides in particular, screwing up their brains. If I find it I’ll come back n stick it here.

Hopefully we can mindfully stick to just the original subject, happens all the time here, huh?.

One good thing I know about meditation, that I struggle with. Most people who do meditate do it in the morning. But that’s not a rule. If I forget. It’s okay to go ahead a do it any time of the day. Doing it every day is very helpful.

That kayaking sound real fun!. Water is the coolest stuff on the planet.

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