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@Blue Yugo,
I still feel alone, but I have this site, its videos, and a few DVDs from here by which I need to try to find encouragement and stamina to treat myself. I hope I’m doing the right thing.
If it’s helping you, then you’re doing the right thing.
You’re one of a special category of people with ADD. You’re someone who got it because of a brain injury (in this case, the effects of the Reye’s Syndrome you had when you were 5), instead of inheriting it. That’s fascinating.
There’s a project to map the brain, in the minutest possible detail (http://www.humanconnectome.org). The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is as important as the Human Genome Project, in giving us a way to diagnose (and even predict) conditions with DNA tests & MRI scans, which are far more accurate than current diagnostic methods.
Because the Reye’s Syndrome changed your brain into one with a cognitive dysfunction that’s usually only genetic, the HCP researchers might be particularly interested in you as a test-subject.
You might want to get in touch with them.
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