although i have given a long comment on crimsons article, and requested for her advice….i do have some very positive things to share which might help everyone here.

1. Firstly, connecting with god, the creator, in a spiritual not religious manner, should bring great calm and awareness to ADD folk. Please dont think im being preachy or goody-goody.This connecting with our true divine source can be acheived through silence, sitting in lush gardens and admiring the beauty of trees and nature, by telling beads, by chanting buddhist chants such as nam yo ho renge kyo, by talking to god and the angels as an ever present loving compassionate family and surrendering the symptoms of ADD to them to take back to the Heaven as love and light.

2. GET ATTUNED TO REIKI OR GET SOME HEALER TO DO REIKI DAILY FOR A MONTH AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL. to bring about the state of peace, harmony and focus, Reiki is of tremendous help, as reiki heals on mental, emotional, physical and spiritual levels, brings about a state of alpha calm mind, causes radical changes in awareness and compassion levels, soothes the brain and brings instant relief at hyper distressing times, cuts through illusions, and even better than receiving healing, GIVING healing is the best way of beginning to heal, and give service to other souls, and actually bring out the reality that our true identity is Soul. It also fills the heart with forgiveness, compassion understanding and unconditional love. It helps one to be care-taker to others and self. It can only help, never harm. Its like meditation on a daily basis. Most important it can truly heal the condition. I am personally a witness of impossible miracles with Reiki, where diseases disappear and conditions reverse totally. I myself am a miracle in the making with Reiki.

3. We should daily request our creator to help us to act from our higher selves, listen to uplifting music every moment in car, at home, journal loving and honest daily communication with ourselves, and focus on beauty and make it create for us. Mainly, if we can radiate unconditional love, and stop focusing on the add things will be wonderful.

4. Everything is thoughts. All negativity arises from focusing on negativity. If we start making deliberate attempts to shift our focus to peace, nature, god and those things which bring us joy, abundance will begin to manifest itself as the outside reflects the inside.

Lastly, I wanted to share that “as we think, so it is”
So those who are harshly critiscing those who are trying to look at the bright side of ADD, by calling it a gift, by saying add people are very talented, better than non-add people, should ask themselves why they are limiting their own potential. We should admire those folk who are looking at this condition with hope and trust, rather than calling it a curse. “two men looked out of the prison bars one saw mud and the other saw stars” As we see it so will it be. Reality is not absolute, all of you know the law of attraction. Be cautious, follow the remedies, but lets believe we can all be healed and in a perfect state of mental health as our god intended us to be.

Warm regards and lots of love

indra

lets put aside the logical mind and begin to see ADD as a loveable, endearing term, practice the methods ADD experts are suggesting,do reiki for selves and ADD caretakers to do reiki as well, make efforts to bond and express emotions, to transcend duality which someone said is the “misery matrix” and radiate unconditional love, and strive to be happy. And soon there will be no ADD any more.

That would “Useful” to me..if it was possible…se la vie…..Scott.

Whether or not a person feels a need to adopt a “special” trait has more to do with overall adjustment, just as it does with anyone. There is nothing wonderful about having AD/HD. Traits are both handy and inconvenient; all people (almost) have some of both. Science has made it clear none of them are specifically attributable to the condition we call AD/HD.

I am happy to finally realize my feelings of being contrary to ordinary in my thoughts and actions,all my life, may be a result of ADD…So I will contradict the statement I made…:”The reality of having ADD is not a “GIFT”or a “MYTH.”It’s way to real.”…..By saying..”The realization of having ADD is a “GIFT” to me.” “The reality of ADD is not a “MYTH”.”..It is way too real.

Thank You for Your comments,and I admire Your abbilty to word them in a respectable structure.

Scott.

You have both shown a very interesting perception(which I agree with)about human nature,and what I have learned about myself,following ADD dial….before that>

Thinking that I can fit in with any group,and solve any conflicts they have w/me, within that group, w/my way of thinking about things,that they are not realizing. Which has,always resulted in conflicts among themselves…That’s when I realize, I will not fit in,and go on to find a group I can fit into.Same results.

After diag.,and reading about ADD(just the ones that tell me I am so “Gifted” and intelligent).It’s very easy to believe I am lucky to have ADD. That is the BIGGEST MYTH I fell for! Yes,there are positives,but the reality of having ADD is not a “Gift” or a “MYTH”…It’s way too real.

Scott.

Absolutely.

We all identify ourselves with a group – in one case the other people with the diagnosis and in the other case the other people with a suit.

Looking for signs of similarity is the most natural in humankind, because it makes us feel safe and in some way “normal” within that group. We belong.

/Anders.

That would seem to apply to everything in life…no? We choose the myth that best describes us. Ask a successful businessman how he did it…he’ll say it was brains and hard work and the “magic” of the free market. He’ll completely ignore (or be ignorant of) the role of class structure and plain ‘ol luck.

Jeff

My experience is that each person will pick up that particular myth which seems to fit the best for that particular individual.

You see yourself as creative, you’ll buy into the myth that it has anything to do with the diagnosis.

/Anders.