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Hi Corrys.
I was just diagnosed with ADD in November so am very new to this. I did have occasion to call my health insurance company last week about a physician/psychiatrist/referral question. They were very helpful responding with names and addresses of Drs. familiar with adult ADD. Maybe your health insurance company can help with referral information for you.
Best of luck! Happy New Year!
REPORT ABUSEBecause I am a Feng Shui consultant, let me offer you a different take on where to begin your clutter-releasing process. Clutter acts like a weight to slow us in our tracks and stop forward motion – the more we are able to release or organize, the more our lives will flow. Sometimes the best place to start facing clutter issues is before you find an empty box.
Let me say that the suggestions I’ll mention here are connected to the energy of your space and may sound a bit odd if you are new to energy work. If a tip resonates with you, please try it and if this is a bit too Woo-woo, that’s quite all right.
Rather than approaching your clutter issue by jumping in to move stuff around, step back from that being Step 1. Instead, prepare your space to express a willingness to be organized. (I know, sounds weird.) Begin with the bed you sleep in by removing any thing you have stored underneath it. Depending on the quantity you find, this could actually temporarily add to your clutter situation – no worries, remember temporary. This allows energy to flow around you during a more restful, rejuvenating sleep and is a powerful first step. Next, as you are ready (this may be tomorrow or next week), do the same with the other beds in your home – afford everyOne an improved rejuvenating experience. An intention might be: I am grateful for improved sleep knowing it serves to enhance my waking hours. (Use your own thoughts and words if this doesn’t feel spot on.)
In Feng Shui, windows are the eyes of a building. To improve the ‘view’ of your situation, grab a spritz bottle of window cleaner and a microfibre cloth to clean your windows and sills. If you can get to the out side of the windows, all the better. If you can get help with this sparkling work, better still. Your intention might say: I am grateful for an increased level of understanding when I look at my surroundings.
Breathe. Life is good.
Back to the inside with spritz window cleaner and a fresh microfibre in hand. Give all of the mirrors in your home a cleaning. When you are done, go back to your bedroom and cover any and all mirrors in that space. When the clutter-releasing/organizing task begins, you will start in your bedroom. Mirrors wear many different hats when used with Feng Shui, one of them is to expand what they reflect. If you are reflecting the flowers in your garden drawing that energy of beauty and growth into your space: very nice. If you are reflecting horizontal surfaces covered with too much dusty and unorganized stuff… well… who needs two of that? Your possible intention: I am grateful to consciously choose what I surround mySelf with.
Take a breath. Take your time.
Go through your space again and look at the images/art you have on display. Does it support You, order, opportunity, harmony? Does that photo of an frozen ice breaker describe how you feel about making progress? The desert print of a cactus and animal skull might encourage you to feel isolated. The comic strip about clutter on your refrigerator is sooo not funny anymore. The images that do not support can be removed and items that do support you can be cleaned. Intend: I am grateful to display images in my home that lift up everyOne who lives or spends time here.
Take a breath. You are not in a hurry.
The Water element in Feng Shui represents money and opportunity. When water flows, so can money and opportunity – here we intend opportunity, but perhaps there is a financially successful garage sale in your future as well. To ensure this flow, check your plumbing, drains, fawcets – where water enters and exits your space. Please remedy cloggs, drips, and leaks. Your liquid intention: I am grateful to appreciate the flow of All Good for me and from me.
After employing these initial remedies, you will feel a shift in your space. This movement may very well nudge you toward spending a bit of time on a regular basis releasing items you are holding onto which no longer serve you and putting in order the rest.
As you move through this process or try different tools, remember to be kind and patient with yourSelf. The clutter and habits that attract it did not appear over night so you have more than over night to address it.
I hope you find this information helpful to your process.
Thank you.
REPORT ABUSEDecember 22, 2010 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Post medication/Treatment – Anyone find themselves overly emotional? #98298Am not feeling overly emotional, JamesM, but I can certainly relate to the increased communication part of what you’ve said. My thoughts and memories are more accessable after weeks of taking medication.
My daughter (17) was diagnosed w/ ADD in November about 10 days before I was (reading up on ADD to learn about her condition was an Ah-ha moment for me). While we’ve always communicated well, when it came to answers to her questions about my childhood or family, I didn’t have much to give. The answers were short not because I didn’t want to talk but rather I just didn’t have thoughts to express.
We’ve both been taking medication for a month+ now and we’re chatting up a storm in a very spontaneous and pleasing way. Talks include my childhood and growing up, answers to questions she has about her childhood and her dad (my ex), a variety of concepts and ideas that we are interested in and usually don’t chat with each other about, and more. It’s quite wonderful to remember things about my life that my daughter has an interest in hearing about and then being able to communicate them.
Life is sweet.
REPORT ABUSEYes, Ed2020, I agree with gforcewarp9. When someone identifying themSelves as a potential Friend, and you feel differently, don’t add them. It’s facebook and You are in charge of your page.
It’s life and You are in charge right now! (Don’t you love that?)
Happy New Year!
REPORT ABUSEI think that we don’t want to be alone, but connecting in cyberspace or connecting at a social event are two different things to me. You, Rick, have given us w/ ADD/ADHD this site, a very safe place to interact. Thank you!
On TotallyADD.com I can take my time and write what I’m thinking as close as I have words to describe it. If I fell asleep (pre-medication narcolepsy) during the process who would know? At a social event the atmosphere, for me, is not the level of relaxation I have here in my office.
Cherished quiet time is wonderful. In my case, it is not a bit of quiet time I’m looking for but rather a way to get as far away from the pressure of social situations as possible. While I tell people that I ‘just love spending time alone’ it is rather a case of requiring it. (Also, telling people that the thought of attending their event makes my stomach turn is more difficult to say. Ha!)
What great good fortune to have found this site! Happy New Year everyOne!
REPORT ABUSE(I love this site!!!)
In my opinion, guilt is of the ego and has nothing to do with what is God. That energy lives in each of us, as us – not somewhere outside of us. God loves us more than we love ourSelves and is consistently trying to open us to the amount of Love we let into our lives. That energy of God created the Universe through our intention and cannot be made sad if we do not attend church.
My reason for logging-on this morning was to look for a spot to post this passage from http://www.orindaben.com… it speaks to me and maybe to you. It is from a book “Spiritual Growth” by Sanaya Roman.
“Since you were a child you may have felt you had a special purpose or mission. You may have felt you had a special purpose, a mission to accomplish, though you probably did not know what it was. Your doubts about your worth may have increased as you found little outside validation of your inner sense of personal value. If you have a sense of a purpose, a mission, you are here to add much light to the world in whatever way you find to do so.”
REPORT ABUSEYes – absolutely a loner… all my life. I have a few close friends that I’ve known for years which is wonderful. I can make new friends if those folks make the effort – I usually don’t have the confidence.
Coupled with my recent ADD diagnosis is narcolepsy. This is a combination to keep one to oneSelf! I’ve found mySelf in social situations (that I was not successful in talking mySelf out of, or did not have a choice to attend) barely able to chit-chat and keeping a distance from the activities… if I sit down… and I’m by mySelf… I’m asleep. A nightmare if ever there was one. Being a loner is much, much preferred over falling asleep in public all the time… ALL the time.
Another result of this odd behavior is the lack of invitations I receive. Odd indeed. Because of the ADD and narcolepsy, historically I accept very few invitations out of fear that chit-chat will not flow and I may/will fall asleep. Then, as I sit home, my sad little Self wonders why I never get invited anywhere. I must then remind mySelf that when I do receive an invitation, I don’t accept it – Duh. It doesn’t take too many ‘No thank yous’ to stop the invitations.
Now I am on medication and the ADD is managed as well as the narcolepsy. I still do not have a great deal of confidence when it comes to social situations. Maybe that will change over time. If not, there are worse fates than being a loner. Loner should not be confused with lonely – I’m rarely lonely.
REPORT ABUSEI’m new to this site and to ADD – diagnosed last month… and turning 60 next month! Am on medication and life gets better and better every day now.
Deciding to tell or not didn’t take long. I’ll use the same approach I do about being a breast cancer survivor. When the topic comes up and it seems that it may be information helpful to whom I’m talking with, I’ll tell. ADD is part of who I am, and what a relief to know! If my experience will serve some one in some way, it will be my pleasure to share.
We’ve nothing to be embarrassed about and might all be quite proud of the accomplishments achieved with this challenging, jumpy, excited, un-focused, hesitating, and creative gift hanging over our beautiful heads. I applaud us!
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