The Psychology of Security
“Security is both a feeling and a reality. And they’re not the same.”
“The reality of security is mathematical, based on the probability of different risks and the effectiveness of different countermeasures. We can calculate how secure your home is from burglary, based on such factors as the crime rate in the neighborhood you [...]
Your Middle Class Existence Has Now Come To An End. Hopefully You Enjoyed It While It Lasted.
Our popular conception of history is often at odds with the reality of history. For example, we often think that history is comprised of periods of peace punctuated by war. That is why we are often “surprised” when war breaks out in some part of the world. The reality, though, is that history is war [...]
Does ADHD Medication Ruin Creativity?
Short answer: No!
To believe otherwise is to conflate your creativity with your ADHD as if one depended on the other. When you are diagnosed with ADHD late in life you just can’t imagine life without your ADHD and, therefore, you assume that your other qualities, like creativity, will suddenly diminish if your ADHD symptoms diminish. [...]
News From The Not Too Distant Future
Mega Merger! Google & Verizon Become Googizon
Being hailed as the most significant corporate merger of the century, Google, Inc. and Verizon, Inc. have merged and will now be called Googizon. According to Googizon spokesperson Ishiro Honda, Googizon will be able to provide all of the top web and technology offerings for a fixed monthly price. [...]
Paper-Based Planning for the ADHDer
The ADHDer’s difficulty with visualizing time, along with the (inevitable) boredom that comes with the task of planning, turns this activity into a dreaded nightmare. However, I’ve recently adopted (created, one might say) a multi-part system that has helped enormously with this boring but essential life task. It allows me to plan my days and [...]
There Is No Time
Arianna Huffington. The progressive movement needs you badly. They need you now. Your website gets an enormous amount of traffic. Please dedicate your entire website to your new book Third World America.1 Please get other progressive voices on the website. We need Ed Schultz. We need Tom Hartmann. And if we have [...]
He Said / She Said: Examining the ADHD Life – Answering Questions About ADHD, Parts I & II
The latest in the He Said/She Said series is a set of questions with short, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant answers. After viewing the videos, you may want to tackle answering the questions and providing your answers in this post’s “comments” section. After you post your comments, you may want to see what some others said [...]
The Diabetic Life of the ADHDer
No. I am not diabetic. But I want to draw a parallel between the diabetic’s and the ADHDer’s life.
If a diabetic does not admit they have diabetes, if they try to live like everyone else by eating sugars and carbs, they will literally kill themselves. To survive as a diabetic you need to alter your [...]
Your Precious Email…Bah…Humbug!
You know those 8,422 precious emails that you are saving in your Inbox?
Do you really need them?
Sure, you feel attached to them. You want to hang on to them because they represent fleeting moments of thought, of time but, really, do you need them? They just clutter up your Inbox and create anxiety.
“OMG!! What if [...]
Latest Issue of ADDitude Magazine Is Dedicated To Jeff’s ADD Mind
I’m pleased to announce that the entire Fall 2010 issue of ADDitude Magazine is dedicated to Jeff’s ADD Mind. In this issue you’ll find my article, “My New Normal,” appearing on page 31 of the magazine (it also ends on page 31). It offers a look at my eclectic (some might say “gifted!”) organizational methodology. [...]
God Bless The Republicans!
Whatever your thoughts may be concerning the ground zero “mosque,” what should be of greater concern is that the Republicans have, once again, found an issue that foments this new family value of “being angry at each other.”
Answers To Your Questions, Part 26
Veritas vos liberabit
Search terms are really questions in disguise. The items in bold are the search terms that I found in this website’s statistics. I’ve provided the answers that, I assume, those people were looking for.
do adults with adhd swear more – F*ck no.
child at camp mom misses poem – You’ll be [...]
Owning The “Curse” of Adult ADHD
For years I fought my ADHD as if it were a virus that invaded my body. I tried to eradicate it but it is more cunning, more resilient than I expected. So I tried a different approach. I would wrestle it to the ground, wear it down and constrain its movement. Once I got the [...]
Advice for Living a Healthy Lifestyle
It’s easy to stay healthy. Just follow these simple rules. A suggested diet plan appears after this list of rules.
Drink eight glasses of water a day.
Drink three cups of green tea per day.
Drink acai berry juice and pomegranate juice.
Have a daily helping of tomatoes, kale, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, flax seed, almonds, granola, apples, bananas, Chinese [...]
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