A.D.D. - who got it, what you do for it, how does it affect you?

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Posted by aNYthing on Feb-12-2009 23:50:

A.D.D. - who got it, what you do for it, how does it affect you?

Time to establish TA-MD thread. I am noticing that I'm totally ADD at times. Actually, most of the time. Shit is distracting to the point where I feel I need to start taking meds. Strangely, some parts of the day I am better than others - for example after 6PM or so, I get hyper-focused. Just in time to go home and realize how much shit I have left undone.

Wonder how many of you got it and how do you deal with it (or not). Any meds, natural remedies, methods, etc.

c0r version: Hey, wanna ride my bike?

Posted by Excess on Feb-12-2009 23:57:

i think i have it, or at least a shortened attention span. and it just started happening since this past summer, i just can't seem to stay focused for anything. really makes work a pain in the ass since i sit there and type up forms for hours, i have to constantly go back and check if i entered the last one etc.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Feb-13-2009 00:10:

You don't get acute ADD, ffs. This learning disability is so fucking over/misdiagnosed it's not even funny. Just because you can't concentrate doesn't mean you have ADD.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Feb-13-2009 00:12:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
You don't get acute ADD, ffs. This learning disability is so fucking over/misdiagnosed it's not even funny. Just because you can't concentrate doesn't mean you have ADD.

lol beat me to it

Posted by aNYthing on Feb-13-2009 01:01:

Posted by Vivid Boy on Feb-13-2009 01:03:

its the way we livein north america. We are bombarded with soo much information all at once at all times that we're constantly scanning and can't focus on shit. they dont call this the information age for nothing.

Big Brother is watching.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Feb-13-2009 01:03:

Lol, we've made a breakthrough here, people.

Posted by aNYthing on Feb-13-2009 01:07:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Lol, we've made a breakthrough here, people.

But we haven't ruled out lupus yet...

Posted by on Feb-13-2009 01:10:

Listening to my gf tell me how her day was, gives me ADD until she stops talking.

Posted by Vivid Boy on Feb-13-2009 01:11:

ya but not listening to them gives me VD

Posted by coroknight on Feb-13-2009 01:12:

I use to be on ritalin and almost failed 7th grade because i couldn't do any work.

Posted by Dj Nacht on Feb-13-2009 01:13:

quote:
Originally posted by samochod
Listening to my gf tell me how her day was, gives me ADD until she stops talking.

I thought I was the only 1!

Posted by Silky Johnson on Feb-13-2009 01:19:

quote:
Originally posted by aNYthing
But we haven't ruled out lupus yet...

Posted by aNYthing on Feb-13-2009 01:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Vivid Boy
ya but not listening to them gives me VD

Buttseks. Buttseks is the answer. You can pretend to listen while packing her fudge.

Can I get a witness? Where my Dennys at?

Posted by Excess on Feb-13-2009 03:10:

no need to to go ape shit over what i said. i haven't seen a doctor about it, i'm just saying that i've noticed a difficulty in focusing especially recently when actually having to use it. and it's not like i haven't tried different/better sleeping patterns, eating habbits, and overall better day-to-day living. nothing seems to change the fact that i can't focus. i wouldn't be able to tell you if i've always had it or not, because i honestly didn't give a shit in high school. hard to tell if i had focusing problems if i never tried to focus.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Feb-13-2009 03:13:

If it was an issue, it would have been identified in childhood. It's considered a learning disability and has real physiologic effects in the brain. You have to go through months and months of testing to confirm diagnosis.

Posted by Lira on Feb-13-2009 05:25:

ADHD > ADD

Even though I'm always kidding about a supposed ADHD, I think I'm normal (at least in this sense). If I really had ADHD, I don't think I'd be able to read as much as I do. I tend to see everyone else as lazy bastards, though, because I'm always active and alert, whereas people around me often look so chilled, it's almost annoying.

What worries me is the fact that, the older I get, the more I feel like I'm on an everlasting sugar rush

Posted by Azz3D on Feb-13-2009 07:06:

/obvious

Posted by Meat187 on Feb-13-2009 07:16:

quote:
Originally posted by aNYthing
But we haven't ruled out lupus yet...

It could also be sarcoidosis, so you guys go and do an MRI, while Jennypie gives me a blowjob and Vivid makes a tuna sandwich.

[/House]

Oh, and:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
What worries me is the fact that, the older I get, the more I feel like I'm on an everlasting sugar rush

I can recommend three easy solutions:

1) PS3
2) Weed
3) Deep House

Posted by T-Soma on Feb-13-2009 11:27:

I saw this girl last weekend, end of the night went back to her's you know etc etc.
Anyway, I think she had A.D.D, maybe even A.D.H.D.
Should I see a doctor?

Posted by XaNaX on Feb-13-2009 12:54:

i have it, got diagnosed years ago, ironically after I had completely finished school. i self medicated my entire school career by procrastinating because I could only focus on schoolwork when I was completely under the gun and had no choice. in 18 years of school I never studied for a test or started any work prior to the night before it was due, sometimes the morning of. i can't even tell you how many times i was up all night because I was writing a 20 page research paper the night before it was due, and this was back when you had to go to the actual library to do research not just look everything up on the internet. graduated college with a 3.5 gpa by some miracle. now i get a big fat bottle of dexedrine every month, it makes a huge difference. i took a professional certification a few years ago and had my meds while i was studying for and taking a test for the first time in my life and the difference was insane. i could have had a 4.0 in college if i had my meds then.

Posted by Lira on Feb-13-2009 13:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
I can recommend three easy solutions:

1) PS3
2) Weed
3) Deep House

Funny you should mention Deep House: I can listen to Drone Ambient, but I just can't get into that stuff.

That being said, I've never smoked (or even seen) weed in my life... and I'm thinking of buying a video game

Posted by Meat187 on Feb-13-2009 13:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I can listen to Drone Ambient, but I just can't get into that stuff.

I have no idea what that even is.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Feb-13-2009 13:54:

I dunno what done ambient is either, but I can tell right away that it's nothing like deep house.

Posted by Lira on Feb-13-2009 14:12:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
I dunno what done ambient is either, but I can tell right away that it's nothing like deep house.

Yup, it definitely isn't.

Think of ambient. You know, that beatless fluffy kind of music. Now, imagine a micro-minimalist sort of ambient, and you're probably on the right track. Drone tunes are be based on a (series of) single note(s)/chord(s) being sustained for a long time (hence the name, "drone"). Tim Hecker and Stars of the Lid are nice examples of what I'm talking about. It's the perfect background music for weddings, funerals, libraries, and demolition derbies.

By the way, Jenny, listening to this kind of thing in a hospital gives you the impression that you're about to be abducted by aliens - for the love of God, don't even try!

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