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Thanks a lot billd, I like what you said, it applies to me too. And I took a good deep breath right after you said remember to breath, in high school my best friend used to always say “don’t forget to breath” you see we smoked a heck of a lot of pot. (early 80’s) In hindsight I’ll bet some days I got so high I would sit there like a stone, (that’s why they call it “stoned” cuz folks like me become as useful and motionless as a stone…) So maybe he noticed me sitting there um… stoned, so stoned I may have been forgetting to breath, and he would forget to remind me until later when I took off. That’s when he’d always say, “later dude, don’t forget to breath”
Breath in breath out, heck man that’s a new mantra I can use when I need ta mellow out or try to remember something. Has anyone else noticed that they sometimes tend to hold their breath when trying to remember something? I noticed that about me years ago, so when I’m stumped about the name of that red stuff I like to put on my fries.. ummm oh yeah ketchup! I just take a deep breath and then walah! I remember the simple common everyday word that just seems to have dissapeared (dang, I destroyed that word with my spelling so bad, spell check couldn’t figure out what I was trying to spell! that’s funny) from my vocabulary when I’m on the spot ,or worse, at a doctors appointment trying to get 25 minutes of health care squeezed into about 10… grrrr.
whoops, short post made long again. sorry gang.
REPORT ABUSEChange ain’t fun but we can count on it, that’s for sure. It’s dependable. That’s something I would like to be called more. [dependable, that is] I’m gaining integrity all the time these days. I’m new here so I like the site the way it is. I can get lost anywhere so I’m real happy I can keep track of what I’m talking about and to who just by clicking on my profile. I also keep copies of stuff that’s important in a folder in my documents, that way I don’t always have to log on to read helpful stuff that I tend to forget.
REPORT ABUSEVery interesting, there are so many mixed messages with the dozens of study’s that get done about supplements of every kind. I get a lot of info from Dr Andrew Weil’s web site, I probably read about a third of the email tips on nutrition that I get sent from his site. I hope to study herbal medicine some time in the future. I hope more people talk about experience with alternative medicines. I’m not crazy about taking any more dang pills, and I’m smart enough to listen to my daughter who just graduated with a bachelors degree in nutrition, She will be a nutritionist in less than a year. Food is the best source of nutrition, but so much of the food that’s good for us has to be made from scratch, not pre packaged n manufactured. I take the fish oil, not a lot. Mostly cuz I don’t want to eat much of anything that has lived in polluted streams and polluted seas. I really like sardines though. Theirs small, and less likely to be full of toxic substances n heavy metals. (I hope, anyway…) please check out drweil.com Let me know what you think you guys. I like to get lot’s of opinions especially about alternative, or integrated medicine.
REPORT ABUSEThanks zsarzsa, I can very much appreciate any teachers input. A long time ago in a galaxy far away I had a huge website, some teacher I never met outside of the Internet volunteered herself to “correct” all (well, a lot actually, tons! hehe) the spelling n grammar mistakes on the site, It was fun. Teachers are under appreciated folks, I’m grateful for all the very patient teachers that helped me so much, back before our culture was more aware of adhd problems and the grief it can cause. I’m glad there’s still some good TV left, sometimes and actually for a few months earlier this year, I want to completely pull the plug on cable TV, too dang many commercials, but PBS still won’t come in consistently on my indoor, amplified antenna’s I don’t like watchen tv on just my computer. Sometime soon I’ll find a better solution that paying a darn cable company to watch a public supported tv station.
Peace
REPORT ABUSEDang that sounds like an awful potential problem with your doctor no_dopamine, I think I may have some of the similar issues/concerns. The hardest thing for me is how slowly the health care system tick tocks along, I always show up for a doctors appointment with a list of topics I need/want to talk about, listed in priority (actually, just came up with that priority part ) Patience ain’t easy for me. I’ll print out that page Dr. J posted for my doc, and psychiatrist. My psychiatrist used to be a pharmacist, I’ve had good luck getting good information from pharmacists, sometimes I think I may be afraid of being judged based on very short conversations and the medications I take, that sux plain and simple. People will judge us, and be wrong sometimes. But I insist on being very involved in my own health care. I have fired doctors, it’s important to really think a lot about it before you replace your doctor if you think you’re not getting the best care available, I like to ask for a lot of advice before making a very big decision like that. I have much more experience in hospitals, and with many kinds of doctors than I would like to have. I’m not the adrenaline junkie I used to be, but I’ve paid dearly for my desire for excitement in the form of hospital stays/surgeries. Ugh, I could go on and on. As usual, but I’m on a new kick to keep my posts shorter. I got the idea on how to keep my posts shorter from watching the hours of interviews about the making of the Star Wars movies. So I try to write each post in a word processor first, then edit out all the useless boring yadda yadda blah blah stuff. I think I’m done with with one. It’s amazing, I didn’t have to delete anything out of this post. This ADD business is terrible, awful, bad, and ugly. It’s a dang can of worms but I’m sure this community can help each other recover from it and the symptoms. I wish I could talk more about all my adrenaline chasing adventures, mostly when I was younger, seemingly invincible… But dat’z against my new “keeping it shorter” rules. This time… Oh I know!, I can put it on a new web site I’ll be bringin back up some time soon. Ack! Eer I go again, huh? Hehe. The website will be a fun place to let myself write lak crazee man!, and track the suckess of recovering from ADD and yackitty yack attacks. Chatty Danny episodes! Etc.
REPORT ABUSELOL, I was here!, possibly in a parallel universe, but it was here that I clicked on the first one. Maybe that sent me to youtube. Thanks a billion. I hope you don’t bump into anything solid in that fog.
bak to my homework, thanks!
Ack, I forgot to click on “send post” n I went and got stuck watchen a buncha funny stuff on you tube. grrr. Hmmm. Coffee? get a solid 3 or 4 hours?, show up tomorrow, take an early nap after? what ta doooo. sheesh. Just a lil coffee to focus n then don’t let my eyes close when the alarm goes off at about 9:00, yeah that’s the ticket.
Homeworks is overrated. (I feel like I just punched myself in the belly.) ADD kinda bites a little.
I sure ain’t bored d d d dat’s for sure.
REPORT ABUSEGreat answer Cat. Sounds like Einsteins theory of creativity. Oops. I mean relativity. hehe. Seriously I didn’t do that on purpose. Some kind of Freudian slip? Anyways, yeah! I totally agree and I didn’t even check out the web site you gave us yet. I will.
And “The same guy” That was a great movie, thanks for reminding me of the adorable cute chick, she’s on some new show now, but i just have basic cable now, can’t stand commercials.
I have considered the fact that yes indeed, I may have add. And it ain’t fun. The “your personal strengths” video helps tons, thanks a billion Dr. Umesh Jain. Yer awsome.
There is a solution, almost none of us liked it…. yada yadda blah blah. you know the rest huh?
Ges I better go do my homework now. I hope I get to find those king of the hill videos, that’s freaky how I couldn’t find em. Like some higher power is trying to help me focus on the solution and not stay up too late doing homeworks. huh?
Later potaters.
Robert
PS my new and best/favorite saying is “there is no box” in other words, why bother to define anyone, they’re growing and changing. You’ll be wrong before you get done judging anyone anyway. Yeah, some folks get stuck, I’ve been stuck in depression, but that too did pass. All we really have to do is stay alive and do our best. Cooperate with sucksess. hehe. I spelt it that way on purpose because people define success in so many dumb ways it’s just plain sucky. And thanks for letting me share my 7 cents. I have never been able to just put in 2 cents worth of my opinion. At least now I sorta have an excuse. Not really, I know. But sorta, I’m always looking for the positive. Show me a room full of horse poo, and I’ll tell ya there’s got to be a perfectly healthy young colt, waiting to be my friend, companion, and transportation that will eat me out of house and home. I’ll be grateful too. A house n home is a pain in the neck to hold on to, take care of, defend, insure… yadda yadda. STufff. does your stuff own you, or do you own your stuff.
I’d rather have a pile of hoarse stuff, than a bunch of the stuff! “the jones'” have, that I’m supposed to keep up with. That sure is easy to say, n read huh? grrr. Then I get another zero percent until next year credit card offer. This time if I spend 300 bux, in the first 3 months I get 100 bux back! hmmmm. They’re just waiting for me to screw up huh? I got my kid a super cool graduation gift, n smart stuff I need to save money on batterys for my battery operated stuff. hehe. She graduated in june, my life was a hecktic mess, forgot to get her a graduation gift! AAACK, so I sent her a text n asked her what the top 5 things she wanted for graduation, but didn’t get. Wow I surprised myself. Brilliant! (with a British accent) It kinda sounds sarcastic with a British accent, but I don’t mean it that way.
K datz it
REPORT ABUSEUgh, I wish I could make myself proofread better. On that post above, I meant to say the first 40 years I said “I’ve never had it so good” much less, I’ve said it much more the last 6, I don’t know how I’ve survived the first 30 or so. I bet I’m not the only adrenalin junkie (recovering) here. I still have some lofty and dangerous bucket list kind of stuff. Bungee jumping sounds boring to me. Maybe that’s common here. The sea is not boring. I love it.
There’s a reason I haven’t been on the Internet very much the last few years. A big part of it was my writing skills. And where I was writing also, I got a bit too much criticism for writing long, too long boring posts that normal folks don’t have the patience to read. I think twitter is a pain in the butt.
communication is extremely difficult in every form for me. Sometimes I freak myself out at how well I can articulate depending on some thing I don’t understand. Something like an invisible weirdo following me around with the remote control to my thinking, it keeps changing the channel. I’m getting stronger, it’s getting weaker. At the same time, my dexterity has kinda deteriorated. Reading about Neuroplasticity gives me a lot of real hope about getting a better grip on my adHd symptoms. The actual diagnosis process will take many months if I’m lucky, maybe a year if I have to reschedule, or someone is late. Mind doctors especially are under so dang much pressure to do more with less funds that I really hope they take the time to get some counseling for themselves as well.
I forgot to make an appointment to see the doctor again right after my last appointment last month. I called, was only able to leave a message, and then someone from that doctors office called and apologetically said “we’ll try to get you an appointment sooner but we can see you in December” I was only about 7 minutes late. But the doctor was also running late from the last appointment going a little bit overtime. She was stressed out, I felt bad for her. But she said she used to be a pharmacist before she became a doctor. So it’s likely she really knows about medications and how to not make my problems worse by treating me like a dang lab rat and endlessly throwing pills at me searching for the right chemical concoction. I strongly agree that most of the FDA approved meds like Ritalin work great if taken correctly, but that’s only one part of the solution. Not the whole solution. The videos on this site get better every time I watch another. So much of the solutions to our struggles can help some normal people who may not even have half the symptoms of adhd.
It’s scary how much the health care system has deteriorated. The fact is, people seem to have more problems these days. Just too dang much media, and computers n machines are doing all the work we used to do. Solving a lot of the problems we used to solve. We don’t get the brain exercise, or physical exercise we need. Our health gets bad, a good large part of the solution is to live freaking life! Work hard, play hard, REST. Eat better food, real food. That’s a big chunk of what I think helps. I’m all questions and no answers mostly for now.
I have already saved the money I almost spent on a new blackberry or I phone by sticking with my several calendars, one plain old paper planner I carry with me, a pen!, (a bunch, cuz I color code and add lots of artistic license to my notes sometimes) an I pod classic MP3 player that will remind me of a few things as long as I’m willing to leave it connected to something I’ll hear, music helps me tons. Two cell phones, with enough of the I pod features to function much better, show up!, have less stress, and not appear extremely flaky and “lazy stupid crazy”, I just wrote a reminder to get that book. There’s other stuff like sleep I need to do sooner. I’m getting a lot of practical advice without reading a whole heck of a lot here. I hope I can eventually contribute more than come here for solutions. But I’m positive I’m not the only person thinking like that. A lot of these ADHD symptoms are regular human problems, just much much more difficult for adders to manage. I think they can’t find a cause because it’s not just one thing, like manufactured food as opposed to real, natural food. It’s the water, the air, the radio waves of every kind of wireless everything going on every where we go. Maybe microwave ovens are slowly frying our brains in some small seemingly insignificant way that only shows up gradually after 30 or 40 or 50 years. Kinda like asbestos. Today on the news I think they said a new study suggests that alzheimers may be contagious! Holy crap man!! That’s a bad thing to say if you’re not absolutely sure it’s true, DUH!!!! BTW,I just don’t want a microwave, honest. My darn kitchen is so tiny I have my toaster oven and some of my kitchen stuff overflowing into the dining room. A mini office kinda sorta. I got rid of the very cool tinted glass dining table cuz it reminded me of the fact that even though I’m an excellent cook, nobody comes here for dinner. My apartment is pretty dang clean and organized considering the way I’ve lived for most of my life. When I had more friends, I would invite people over just to make myself clean up the home. I think I’ve talked about doing that more than I’ve actually done it. Kinda like a way of pretending I have more friends. Hmm, sometimes getting honest ain’t not fun. But I don’t… ah crap! The TV Caught my attention and I forgot what I was gonna write. That happened last time I wrote here, earlier today. That saying, “I never had it so good” I got it from a writer named Chuck Chamberlain. The entire quote is “I’ve never had it so good, this is the only good life I’ve ever known, the only easy life that’s ever been mine” I say the whole thing on especially excellent days when I don’t screw up very much. J I’ve been saying that for about 22 years, but sometimes can’t remember the whole thing. I still haven’t taken the test here. I don’t even know which of the five stages of grief I’m in, or if an ADD diagnosis is some kind of horrible news to get. Like a very kind hearted old lady who was my neighbor just died, On that I’m just pissed off. She died in an awful hospice, She soo very much deserved more dignity than she got. I think I may be coming out of denial on that grief.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I think I’m in some kinda loop about this
ADHD diagnosis thing, and losing my dear friend. Or maybe just anger-denial-frustration-repeat. My dang eyelids are getting heavy, if I could just go to bed right when I get tired I win. If I procrastinate or act like a 2 year old baby who just doesn’t want to give in to sleepiness, I get a second wind and CRRAAAP! I can’t keep these saym darn eyes closed… Grrrrr. I’ll take the laptop with me to bed and put some boring old movie in. or one of the gazzillian other things I try to get me to sleep. It’s not a big enough problem to give in to sleep medication. I don’t have to work right now. Finding a job is a common problem I don’t need to even go there huh? Guess I sorta already did, huh?
I hope people will keep supporting PBS, It’s impossible to count how many different kinds of education, solutions, and commercial free entertainment I’ve enjoyed over the years. I don’t work for them, just grateful. I watched the ADD n loving it thing about 3 times I think, until I luckily got the DVD, I can’t possibly measure how much that DVD and this site are helping me. And I’m just beginning to think about scratching the surface. PBS let me pay 7 bux a month until that DVD is paid off. Now that is cool. Very cool. KVIE in Sacramento is the station, they’re all great I’m sure. Probably.
Dang, that’s the longest write I’ve written in a long time. I may have worked on this for 2 n a half hours about. I dunno.
Thanks
Robert.
REPORT ABUSEWow freakin E woweee!
It’s official, in my mind, [a strange place indeed] I now dub this the very best web site I have ever been to. Now Imagine how many sites a person like me, {we’ll get to that, the who is me thing] me is VERY frreakin complicated. I used to have an enormous web site, Rob’z Zone, It’s all saved, I took it down about 8 or 9 years ago. It was just a fun place to make freaky backgrounds and a little bit of wacky graphics. Sorta wanted to bring it back up for years, and a few days ago I finally did. [Decide] I haven’t actually done anything but write the first ummm. article… Rant. something. A lot of words all grouped together.
I wish I could speed read, I might start praying for a 26 hour day, no 28 hour day, ImAgine!
Is it okay to copy n paste, then print the first post from Rick, five months ago and give it to a few of my friends? I’ll be putting it on my wall for sure. But I guess what a really want to know is this. Hey Rick, what do you want me to label it as? besides your name, what do you want printed under it? I promise to never sell it. I don’t know where to find the key code to print a circle with a little c, I can’t think of where, mmmmm actually the though of finding that on the Internet would steal so much time from me that I may not be able to get anything else done. ( now I’m editing/proofreading, and realized I could just take a picture of the screen and print the picture, Can I do that Rick?)
I want to tell everyone here, and I’ve been reading tons and today watched the video of Greg LaMond tell my story. oops I want to tell every person here how much I appreciate all that they have shared. This site is so dang awesome. To me it’sa matter of preference. I like to be creative with my spelling. I just thought that up. I’m glad I’m writing it. I’m really on to something here, huh?
I tride, LOL, that was misspelled on purpose. Goofy huh? ****Chucl;in lak crazy**** To run a search on the five stages of acceptance, but clicked on the five stages of grief cuz it was easier. Wow. ADHD ain’t cancer. {I have an insanely awful story about someone addidentally telling me I had Cancer, Seriously, But don’t have the time. right now) But the diagnosis is freakin me out. Actually, life has been freaking me out as long as I can remember. Is that a symptom? hehehehe.
This place is great. Hey, if Rick doesn’t tell me what to put as a title and what to put at the bottom, I won’t be able to share it his post at the top, 5 months ago in a week or 2 or 3, please ask him if you can gang. (Gang means anyone who reads my posts.
I don’t do the socially networking sites but think I might want to use a my space place for my website. Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks very much, a gazzilian thank yous. I mean seriously. This is great. And I’m haven fun and loving life more that Ever before. For many years. A ton, I’m 46, when people ask me how I’m doing, I say “I’ve never had it so good” Maybe about 16 years, Much more the last 6. The main part of the first forty it was between very true, and a hopeful goal, as well as just for fun, so I could also say, “you don’t really want the truth do you?” a too many other additions to count. Some times I just say I don’t know. Cuz that’s the truth. That always makes people awkward. I kinda like it when I’m not the only awkward person in any given conversation anytime anywhere. all over the place, even when I’m asloop. I have awkward dreams too. I have nightmares of making huge freakin mistakes, and get lost, left behind, can’t find an important person, etc etc.
What the heck are dreams? That would be a freaking fun thing to run a search on.
What is time? What is space? What the heck is spacetime?
Thanks again, This site is extremely generous for not asking for money to come here and talk.
Sincerely Robert
PS, one time an extremely beautiful doctor told me I have a beautiful mind, I could have gotten lost in her beautiful eyes. Oh well…
REPORT ABUSEhehe, been reading a lot here. Wow, this freakin sux! huh? (ADD/ADHD I mean) I’m hoping to bring a few laughs into this camp. Fortunately ya all got some clowns already it seems. Imagine life without a sense of humor… Ack, dat’d be mizerable.
Can I open a tab Toofat? I jus got paid but need to pay off a couple other delinquent tabs. K? My broken kneecaps are just starting to heal.
I came up with a new idea to limit my time on the net. Just unplug my computer n when the battery runs out datz it man. Done! (or at least until it gets done recharging, and by then I’ll have forgotten to go back n finish what I was doing anyway/got sidetracked, etc. So let’s see. I got 42% left. Oh I know, I can tell you guys about the 72 question test the psychiatrist gave me. Someone already answered the questions! with little tiny dots! freaky huh? it looked like she [the brain doc.] made a copy of one that she thought was not filled out cuz the little dots were so dang tiny. I didn’t want to do it cuz I thought someone elves answers (funny correction from spell check huh?) Else’s = elves? with funny little green hats?… Hmm. Elves with ADHD, dang, I guess my problems ain’t so bad. Anyway I decided to ask a friend to ask me the questions and fill in the answers, it was too much fun. hehehe. My lady friend and I were cracking up just like the beginning of the “ADD and Loving It” DVD that I got from PBS. I finally wrote down the address to this site after watching it about the 8th or 9th time and agreeing to take notes at the advice of yet another lady friend. I took part of the test here, said yes to 9 out of 9 ?’s but the test didn’t go to the next part. I wrote a note to the staff about that, I said, Ha Ha! Real funny: make a potential ADDer wait for the next part of the test. (Just a tiny bit of Sarcasm) n then couldn’t get through the registration process. Wrote another note! and the staff helped me out a bunch. Cool huh? . whelp, 35% battery life left, guess I need to start proofreading. Wow! Pretty good, I’m done and still have 25%. I need to adjust the gazzillian play lists cuz they’re still not perfect. Especially because Best Buy had tons of cool CD’s on sale in a big bin for $4.99, Let’s have a mini contest, guess how many CD’s I bought? I got plastic BTW.
K That’s awl folks
Robert.
PS. I still haven’t finished taking the test to see if I really have adHd (yeah big ol freakin H!) That H man, it’s a bugger huh? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, couldn’t sleep well last night again. The psychiatrist wanted me to try Ritalin, but I wanted to wait, I’ve only talked to a social worker twice. The first time I was late so we litterally had 7 minutes! Lol (That’s a fun way to spell [litter ally], on purpose don’t count Toofee. Hehe. Do I get written up for goofen your name too? ***snicker**Chuckle*Laf*Laf** At’s about it, I think. Ack, 16% left, Hmm, mebby I’ll rethink this potentially Impulsive battery idea to keep me from writing too much. I’m already thinking about getting a spare battery…
PPS. Almost forgot I need to…
REPORT ABUSEAAACK! ohnoooooh. hehe
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