Coming Out of the (A.D.D.) Closet
After five-plus years of taking Wellbutrin; after the recent addition of Vyvanse to my daily medication1; after turning 50 years old2; after experiencing some wonderful and special friendships as a result of this blog3; having increased my daily physical activities, and, miracle of miracles, seeing my memory improve, I am finally confident enough to come [...]
The Curse That Keeps On Giving
A.D.D. is The Curse that Keeps on Giving. It never stops. It never lets up. It never gives you a break. It is a curse from Pandora’s Box. You can’t put it back in. It stays with you till death. You can’t take a drug that will wipe it out. You can’t get a transfusion [...]
It’s All About Choices
To be human is to be confronted with choices. Each choice, like a fork in a path, takes us in a different direction. Some choices are inconsequential while others are, literally, life changing. Collectively these choices make up who we are at any point in time.
We live our lives as if we know that a [...]
2009 – Another Year of ADD/ADHD
I'd like to thank all of you who read my blog and especially those who comment on the posts (sometimes publicly and sometimes through a private email). It is heartening to know that I am not blogging in an echo chamber. It can easily degenerate into a form of digital masturbation where the blogger is [...]
The Older A.D.D.er
A.D.D.ers spend years in a dream world. Spinning ever more elaborate fantasies (financial conquests, sexual conquests, social conquests) life seems like a far-off horizon, something that stretches out before you in an infinite regress but which you are never able to reach. Today you have failed but you live to fight another day, holding on [...]
Adult A.D.D. and Getting Older
Dealing with A.D.D. requires stamina1, something which is in relatively shorter supply as I get older. My ability to intentionally hyperfocus is becoming more difficult to do.2 This doesn’t mean that I can’t hyperfocus anymore (what kind of an A.D.D.er would I be if I couldn’t hyperfocus) but focusing the hyperfocus to the very [...]