My Head Hurts: Life As A Natural Born CTD
Must ADHDers struggle with the same issues? Admittedly, I am not like every other ADHDer so perhaps my situation is unique. For example, I’m quite good-looking, intelligent, witty, entertaining, creative and modest. I was also diagnosed late in life so the benefits of ADHD (in addition to modesty), such as the inability to handle money, [...]
Anger Management & Handling the “Are You An Idiot?” Problem
In response to my post, Don’t Worry…Get Angry, Jay (his website is Addled: Grappling with Adult ADD) tells us that while his medications help him deal with frustrating situations — he doesn’t blow up — it does nothing to reduce the anger. He feels paralyzed, stewing in his juices, unable to get passed the anger. [...]
Don’t Worry…Get Angry
I use Verizon for all of my communication needs. I have four cell phones (one for each family member), one land line and one FIOS internet connection. I receive two monthly bills. One bill is for my cell phones, the other bill combines the charges for my land line and FIOS internet…well…it used to. On [...]
The Public Record of a Personal Transformation: Blogging About Adult ADHD
I am now in my fourth year of blogging about Adult ADHD. My thoughts about ADHD have changed. I’ve entered my post-ADHD phase.
Have You Seen This Missing…And Angry…ADHDer?
I receive emails from many of my blog readers and I’ve decided to use the opening of this post to respond to a number of them. To those who have been wondering if I have been leaving her satisfied or wanting more, the answer is, “satisfied.” Therefore I have no need for those enlargement pills [...]
A.D.D. Rage or The Centerless Facets
In an earlier entry I described the A.D.D. personality as being, not a coherent unit, but consisting of “facets” of a personality. The daily struggle is to keep particular facets in public view – the “good dad” facet or the “good worker” facet.1 The facets are much like facets on a jewel, i.e., they are [...]
Two days of A.D.D. Rage
Theoretically, being on Wellbutrin should have prevented this from happening. Nonetheless, I spent two days in an absolute rage and now, at day 3 (this is being written on Monday July 16), I still have some residual anger. It started, as all A.D.D. rage episodes seem to do, with the smallest of triggers, the proverbial [...]
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. [...]
