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You aren’t. You really aren’t. I really applaud your homeschooling efforts…remember, they invented public schooling exactly because very few people can or will choose to educate their children. I looked into homeschooling and simply couldn’t cut it. (We did, however, supplement the academics at home – geeze, you have to. ) You have my vote of approval. And dealing with your own ADD, as well as your kids…? ‘Normal’ people would be overwhelmed.
REPORT ABUSEI’m already noticing the same thing with the medication…it burns out before it has a chance to carry me through the rest of my day. If it would last for the hours in a real day, instead of simply 5-8 hours, it’d make a lot more sense for people who’re really socked with ADD/ADHD. I’m honestly thinking you do need to have it adjusted. And yeah, the stuff costs TOO DAMN MUCH. Thanks, Big Drug companies!
In addition to that, you’re trying to live up to another persons expectations…his rate of learning, his housecleaning standards (every day? seriously? With kids? Bellamom is right-that boy seriously needs to ‘pitch in instead of b*%$# – in’.)
REPORT ABUSEYou have my permission to face him up on this. Ask him to present his psychiatric credentials before the next time he decides to dress up his opinions with psychobabble, and tell him to back off. People get angry for real reasons and react angrily when pushed past their boundaries, particularly in situations where there is already a great deal of stress present. That makes you normal, not ‘bipolar’. Good gravy Marie.
I hope things are better for you now! All that and a hurricane on top?!
REPORT ABUSEAll of you are wonderful and I thank you so very much for your words.
I posted that six days ago, on the eve of getting my first ever perscription for Adderal filled.
Six days later I find that I still feel the same way about having ADD. It’s held me back, ruined most of my interpersonal transactions, and relegated me to the subcultural margins of society. I’ve spent so much time coping with this and catering to the limitations that it imposed on me that I was never able to function in a way that moved me past simply surviving.
Now, six days later, taking 10 mg. of Adderal, I am experiencing a quality of focus – sheer, simple focus – that is making it possible for all the work I’ve done in therapy up until this point finally ‘take’ at something like a normal rate of change. Before, any given event would trigger so many processes at once that I had to struggle to get to the result I knew was there, and then struggle to hold on to it; something I think everyone here probably knows about. A ‘normal’ mind could be represented as a flow chart. Mine, up until six days ago, could be represented by a hamster Habitrail full of hummingbirds in constant molecular passage through a Rube Goldberg cartoon.
The change it’s made in my mental processes is pervase, and also very subtle. Thinking used to be like trying to play six Tetris games at once. Now, events simply drop into place and context. Now, theres so much…space. At every turn I note the point at which all the coping strategies would have come into play, and it makes me hesitate for just a moment.
Learning to trust that I can now simply move from a to b without that constant mental ‘pachinko’ effect happening is going to be interesting. For now, its just really, really WEIRD. Not unpleasant. HELL NO not unpleasant! It’s fantastic!
I am so glad this place exists. Thank you everyone.
REPORT ABUSENew here! That’s a good series, Robbo; I’ve seen it. Another good one is called ‘The Face’ or something similar; it had John Cleese and Elizabeth Hurley and explained the hows and whys of facial expressions, ‘micro expressions’ and so forth. Gotta look that one up on the webs. It was really entertaining and easy to ‘get’. Worth a gander.
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