Small Changes Become Large Changes
"When you work at something day in and day out, you achieve huge positive change in your life. If you don't stick to it, your results can be disappointing." "The Power of Gradual [doing a little bit every day] works because, quite simply, little things add up to a big thing if you have enough [...]
ADHD Driving
If your teen can't pass a driver's test, it might not mean more time in driver's ed is needed. It might be due to ADHD. See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103160841.htm
ADHD…From An ADHDer’s Perspective
The New York Times has published a fascinating glimpse into the lives of ADHDers, showing different ways that people have discovered and coped with their ADHD. Oh. One more thing. It’s done with audio clips and a small slideshow. (Multimedia! ADD/ADHD heaven!) See: Patient Voices: A.D.H.D.
The Curse (Revisited)
A.D.D. is a f**king curse. Each day can be a struggle and when you think you are making forward movement…you find that you did not.1 And having lived with it for 30 or more years and not knowing you had it, THEN it is definitely a curse. By then it has become an integral part [...]
Manic States
Before I started writing this post I made the mistake1 of googling “manic state.” The description of the highs and lows sound very much like A.D.D. highs and lows such as increased strength and energy accompanied by decreased sleep whereas the low is a sleep problem (too much or too little) and loss of self [...]
Like Rip Van Winkle
I feel I’ve been asleep for the past ten years…and just woke up only to realize that the whole world has passed me by. I’ve spent the past ten years in “the tyranny of now” with nearly all (most?) of my time spent on fighting the daily onslaught of too much mental chatter. On some [...]
The Phenomenology of Adult A.D.D.
That’s probably the best description of what this blog is. I’m using the term phenomenology in the sense of describing the phenomena of living A.D.D….what A.D.D. is like “from the inside” and how it is manifested in the world through one person, me. However, it is not a solipsistic pursuit but, like phenomenology in the [...]
Sick + Tired = Productive + Focused
I accidentally discovered that some of my most productive days are when I am sick or tired (or both…ha ha!). My theory is that being sick (or tired) means that my A.D.D. brain can’t go at warp speed and it slows down enough to focus on the task at hand. Sometimes I can “force” focusing [...]
Time Horizons
It is a recent discovery (for me) that there will come a time that I will not be around and my kids will be going on without me. I visualized it below. I figure that my wife is likely to outlive me (though…it is possible I may outlive her…however…because Alzheimer’s runs on my side of [...]
The Tyranny of Now
Here’s summarization of this article suitable for the A.D.D. mind. : The problem of not being able to understand past, present and future is a serious one and should not be underestimated. It is possible for the A.D.D.er to understand it on a conceptual level – such as in the discussion of such phenomena – [...]
That need for crisis…and hate…and focus
That, perhaps, explains much of the A.D.D. life…that need for crisis. It’s as if you are not alive unless there is a crisis: job related; family related, politically related (like a crisis of who to vote for…as if there were a real choice). But the point is that there must be crisis…tension…some sort of angst. [...]
“Emerging” from the Scrambled Eggs
I’m beginning to come out of the scrambled egg stage and a coherent, albeit manic, person is emerging. The puzzle is how to speed up this process, that is, to speed up the process between scrambled eggs and reemergence.
Scrambled Eggs…for Brains
There are times when my brain feels like scrambled eggs. The day is like a fog and I can’t concentrate on a thing. This seems to follow periods of clarity when I am going through a manic state of hyper-productivity. It seems that it is the aftermath of the state of clarity as if an [...]
History, Future and the A.D.D. Brain
The puzzle, or perhaps the contradiction of ADD is that it opens up a future-looking event horizon that allows for Cassandra-like vision (though sometimes a distorted or hysterical version). It also opens up a backward looking horizon (when one reflects on one’s personal history) but, paradoxically, everyday life seems like shattered glass with shards of [...]
