I sometimes wonder if I have a form of ADD, but I don't really know. Either way, it's something that can be worked out naturally. Taking drugs for every malady one has isn't the answer.

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Whether it exists or not, whether you have it or not, doesn't really matter so long as you think you have it or at least present some symptons. I summarized a couple of tips (from well-researched professional book: A Comprehensive Guide to Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults: Research, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Kathleen Nadeau) for someone some years ago, but I'll pass them along beacause you or someone else may find them useful.

TIPS

General

• Develop good habits through constant practice; have rituals.
• Make deadlines.
• Learn how to set and carry out goals.
• Manage time effectively.
• Prioritize.
• Avoid procrastination.
• Exercise.
• Live alone or live in a space to allow for periodic isolation.
• Work in a private office
• Take a break from necessary but boring activities.
• Intersperse low-interest activities with high-interest activities.
• Create challenges to increase interest and motivation.
• Learn and constantly apply problem-solving techniques.


Self Recognition and Control

• Begin each day thinking about what your plans are for that day.
• Recognize when one being distracted or procrastinating.
• Routinely question the appropriateness of your activities. (e.g. “Should I be doing this now or is something else more important?”)
• Handle documents/items once. Do not put them into a “To Do” file. Similarly, do not get “I’ll decide later if I will throw it away” mentality. Take care of it once.
• Schedule “down time”; do something that is pleasurable.
• Have positive addictions like exercise.
• Recognize when you are hyperfocusing or going off into tangents.

The Social Environment

• Learn social rules.
• Improve your ability to read body language and demonstrate your own body language.
• Learn how listen.
• Improve your conversation skills.
• Pay attention to other people.
• Avoid premature closure in conversation; cutting off comments, interrupting.
• Keep in touch with those people that have positive impact on your life and lose tough with those that don’t.
• Make an effort to schedule time for socializing or just letting off steam.


Visual Aids

• Keep an appointment calendar
• Block out time in schedules for priority tasks.
• Block out time in schedule to reflect on the day’s tasks and gather one’s thoughts.
• Break long tasks into small units.
• Build mini-rewards into projects.
• Make and use lists.
• Keep a pen/pencil and paper near you at all times to write down thoughts when they occur to you.
• Post visual reminders in strategic locations. (e.g. On a T.V. or other distractions.)
• Use color/design codes for organizing files/

For the Student

• Allow yourself activity while listening or memorizing.
• Distributing practices sessions: taking frequent breaks.
• Active learning; repeating material heard or read, restating in own words.
• Building incentives for concentration.
• Avoid situations of over-stimulation or under-stimulation.
• Choose a career path of high intrinsic interest.

Last edited by Spacey Orange on Feb-04-2005 at 17:52

AD/HD is a neurobiological condition that results from a chemical imbalance or deficiency in the brain. You may think you have AD/HD but in fact it is common amongst younger people to feel like this, where if you have AD/HD your traits will be extreme. If you really feel you have AD/HD then go and see your doctor, don't let ignorant people tell you otherwise.

Last edited by TranceMuzik02 on Feb-04-2005 at 18:30

I think ADD was invented by the high powered guys behind the pharmecutical companies to make us spend more of our money on stuff we dont need.

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Originally posted by ZzZ The Goddess I think ADD was invented by the high powered guys behind the pharmecutical companies to make us spend more of our money on stuff we dont need.

You're right.

The concept of a neurochemical imbalance itself is a fraud: there exists no thorough and accurate way to measure the chemical status of a living person's brain. Furthermore every attempt to die a "mental illness" to any chemical abnormality has ended as a failure.

No ADD/ADHD study has ever demonstrated ANY type of physical or chemical abnormality in ADD-diagnosed subjects other than abnormalities known or suspected to be caused by ADD treatments those same test subjects were taking.

In fact, there is no scientific evidence that ADD is a disease or disorder of any kind, while there is a wealth of evidence that every symptom of ADD can result from environmental problems.

The worst thing someone experiencing these types of problems could possibly do is allow themselves to fall into the victim-ideology of ADD as a disease - something which is afflicting them and something they have no control over. It only serves to reinforce their lack of self-control and their inability to solve their problems properly.

ADD is a work of fiction and anyone who is duped by it is a fool.

Don't be one.

its kind of like saying that depression is real due to a seratonin imbalance in your brain. So they give you a drug that fixes that.

What they arent taking into consideration is that you hate your pudgy blobby body, no girlfriend, no friends, bad job, poor ass life and are depressed because of that. Maybe if they got off their wallowing-in-self-pity ass and applied to a few different jobs, actually talked to that girl they think is so hot, and tried buyin some people drinks at the local pub, and went on a run occasionally theyd feel better?

Now some people DO suffer from a bad brain. Most people just need to get their ass in gear.

I know a woman whos kid just attacked 2 teachers in middle school. shes an iffy acquaintance of the family. That fucking kid even tried getting on my motorcycle once, and when we had a trailer hooked up to our truck on a HILL he fucking disconnected it and the fuckin thing almost broke the metal stand and rolled into our other car.

I grabbed the little fuck, lifted him off the ground and swore to fuck at him and told him im not his mom and i dont think hes funny or cute and if he ever touches my shit again im gonna splatter his fuckin head all over the pavement. Then gave him a good rough shove.

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he has ADD. But weirdly enough he remembered to never come within 10 meters of my shit again. Most of these kids need a good ass kicking instead of the namby-pamby liberal bitchsquad parents that came out of the 70s. I need to start a camp. I guarantee I could FIX these fuckin kids in 2 weeks. Hell, ill even do it for free.

Well I think ADD is caused by a combination of factors. If we look...at..

wait hold on man I saw this really cool movie last night

Oh what did u ask?