The Problem of “Keeping It Up” & Other Random Thoughts
Random Thought Number 1023: It can be difficult to keep it up each and every time. There’s the pressure to keep it up. There’s the embarrassment of not keeping it up. What’s even worse, you work so hard to make sure you can keep it up and sometimes you just fall flat on your face. [...]
The “Brilliant Reality” of ADHD
In my head I’m a brilliant writer and I’m chock full of ideas that are, quite frankly, brilliant. I’m often amazed at my own brilliance, the ways in which I can turn a phrase, analyze a complex situation or solve a vexing puzzle. Perhaps that’s the “brilliant reality” of ADHD. As a legend in my [...]
Thoughts on a Wellbutrin-less Theme, or My Search For the Gift of Adhd
Thoughts on a Wellbutrin-less Theme, or My Search For the Gift of Adhd if only I could sit if only I could sit I’m sure that I can write a novel or three a history book or two. if only I could sit I could write a new computer game, or create a painting or [...]
A Young Boy’s Description of ADHD
A young boy describes life as an ADHDer. I recommend watching this in full screen so that you can easily read the English subtitles.
In the ADHD Blogosphere: Moms and their Kids
The Argonne Chronicles: “Tales from my mixed-up life: mom of a creative and imaginative boy with ADHD; wife of a wannabe rock star; and a working JoAnn who yearns to be a successful writer and travel the world.” “Mommy needs therapy or a bottle of wine: Kristine blogs about her family of two boys, one [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
From The Archives: 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. [ Read More ]
Minimize The Effects of Adult ADHD With Holt’s “ADD Simplified”
Adult ADHD has a serious downside. It effects every aspect of your life. Even worse, you cannot get rid of it. However, just because you are stuck with it forever that doesn’t mean you can’t reduce its impact on your life and this is where Sidney Parker Holt’s ADD Simplified: Strategies for Minimizing the Effects [...]
ADD / ADHD Candid Health Series Videos
I’m proud to present this series of video interviews with ADHDers. In these videos you’ll meet Meagan, who talks about how she deals with her learning disability. You’ll meet Cardon who discusses his early diagnosis and his problems with his prescribed drugs, and you’ll hear how Dozie was able to succeed in school once he [...]
Adult ADHD: The Silent Killer
Sometimes I try to imagine how different my life would be if I was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. (From the perspective of age 52, a “younger age” would be 36.) The changes that have occurred in my life during the past few years — improvements in memory; ability to meet deadlines (well…sometimes); ability to visualize the future (this is improving in leaps and bounds)
STFU! I Silenced My BlackBerry And Lived To Tell About It
I love my BlackBerry™. I’ve written many posts on my BlackBerry. I’ve replied to many comments and emails from my BlackBerry. But with eight different email accounts all going to my BlackBerry (and Twitter, FaceBook and WordPress for BlackBerry too!), the device can become quite distracting. Each time it beeps when an email arrives, I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
