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Hi Wallygirl!

Yes. My appointment was at an ADHD clinic at 1849 Yonge St. You’ll need a physician’s referral though. Their phone number is (416) 304-1779.

The doctor’s name was Dr. Turgay – I say “was” because I just learned this evening that he passed away. I don’t know if my appointment still stands – will have to check with them and see.

At any rate, your physician should know of a competent ADHD psychiatrist or psychologist.

Good luck!

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@Roberacer: from everything I’ve learned about Ritalin, there are no side effects or worries about addiction. And you can stop taking it at any time without going through anything like withdrawal. However, someone who’s gone through it can probably verify this.

Also – there’s an ADHD conference coming up in June. I went to the last one, and questions like yours was asked there, and it was just AWESOME. Highly recommend it. You can find details about it on this board. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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I’m so used to people saying there’s no such thing as addictive personalities, that I stopped talking about it. But yes – I’m keenly aware of my own tendency to latch on to things in an addictive manner. This includes prescriptions drugs, pot, wine, spending and of course food. I’ve had to force myself to give up a few things on occasion, for as long as a month, just to make sure that I could. This is long before I was aware that I might have ADD (and I’m going in for an assessment as well, in July).

What a relief it was to find this place and compare notes with others, to find out I wasn’t alone!!

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I would treat this on a “need to know” basis. In my case, I was running a meeting recently when I had to come to a full stop. I had lots of thoughts but just couldn’t access them. It became embarrassing, as I struggled to find the information that was *there* but just not *there right now*.

After the meeting, I spoke one-on-one with a couple of my staff, letting them know just a little bit about what was going on. Neither of them seemed all that concerned about it and in retrospect,probably didn’t need to know after all. If you’re a control freak as I am though, hitting a speed bump like that is pretty disconcerting. I figured “forewarned is forearmed”. Obviously I was going to find coping mechanisms so as to avoid future occurrences like that but there are just going to be times when you’re prepared out the ying-hang and *still* something like this is going to happen.

And of course you’ll run into the odd person who believes that ADD and ADHD are just fantasies, used by people to excuse themselves. One of my employees expressed a little doubt. I let it pass though – no sense trying to convert the unconvertable.

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So let’s see. We’ve got:

1) impulse buying (and subsequently not using)

2) leaving frozen food out for a day because our minds wandered off

3) hoarding (which might be related to #1)

4) vacuuming merrily around the place without first turning the vacuum on (ref. Webster’s, item FUTILITY)

Wonder how many other cool stories we have. Need to ensure Larynxa’s well-stocked for her comedy gig!

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@mmarcel: I attended the last one and it *was* a complete success. You do know there’s another one coming up in June, right? (I already bought my ticket for it too).

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I just joined too. I’m used to making lists but…..I never read the damned things. You’d think I’d learn. *laughing*

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Uh oh. Straps? Granola bars? Should I make out my will too?

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@Larynxa: well thank you for that explanation. I was really kind of worried that the V stood for something completely different. I humbly admit: my mind went completely into the gutter on that one. Doesn’t seem quite so offensive once you understand the origin. I mean I almost never use a longbow anymore. Never in polite company anyway. *grin*

And I’m sorry but….Mr. Bush used that one, thinking it meant V for Victory? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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Wait. There was a webinar???

OH man. Guess you know my answer to your question. *laughing*

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Hi Mungo. I will definitely come by and subscribe to your blog (and comment too).

Wish there was a way I could send a private message to you but, oh well. Here’s what I was thinking: when I began hunting for decent host sites for blogging, I tried out blogspots, blogger and finally ended up at WordPress. WordPress has some of the best writing tools around and – most importantly – it allows you to answer individual comments in an indented fashion, rather than forcing you to only comment at the bottom. So…I don’t know how invested you are with blogspot but if it’s not too late, you might want to consider WordPress instead. (You see now why I wanted to send a private message – I dislike detracting in any way from the excellent discussion here on ADHD and ADD).

Anyway, just a thought. Kudos for talking openly about this!

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@DogFather: more people think this way about ADD/ADHD than I thought was possible. A couple of my co-workers are convinced it doesn’t exist, and that kids who exhibit it just need more disciplining. (!)

@nutella: *thanks* for that link!

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Wow Rick. That’s perfect! “..you don’t think in a linear fashion”. I never heard it put so simply, so succinctly. I’m going to use that.

Thanks so much!

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*laughing* Oh yes. We’ll always have our stories. Yours are hilarious. Kind of makes me wonder if maybe we shouldn’t have a separate forum area for humorous consequences of ADHD.

I’ve got another one, just from today: it’s Sunday and my place needed cleaning desperately. The dust bunnies were getting together and fornicating like nobody’s business and producing baby bunnies.

So…I plugged my iPhone earphones on, got out the vacuum cleaner and began a top-down vacuum of my apartment. Well at one point I had to disconnect and re-plug the vacuum into another outlet. I turned it off, pulled the cord from one plug and plugged it into another one, and all the while the music was playing in my ears, while my mind wandered all over the place.

So fine – I start vacuuming in the dining room, pulling chairs out and getting into those nooks and crannies. (I wanted NO dust left). Put the chairs all back and started in another section of the apartment.

Took me a few minutes more of vacuuming before I realized I hadn’t gotten around to turning it on since replugging it in.

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Medical professionals are telling you to just “stop it already”??? LOL!! Wow. That’s pretty insightful and helpful of them isn’t it?

It reminds me of a skit that Bob Newhart did on one of the old Saturday NIght episodes, where he played the same psychiatrist that he plays in his TV shows. Someone came up to him feeling bad about themselves and his universal response was to lean in, and then say very loudly “look. Just STOP”. I don’t know – it cracked me up.

You’ve painted an accurate picture here – especially for those who don’t know what ADHD feels like or wonders why their loved one seems so scattered all of the time. I love the playground in my mind but, yeah, it often means I don’t get a whole lot done. And sometimes it means I’ll arrive home with frozen groceries which I intended to put into the freezer, only to discover them all thawed out the next day, sitting in the same spot I left them the day before. That can get a little expensive. *laughing*

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