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qwerty67890 New Zealand. Sep 12 2011 07:47. Posts 14026 | | |
Went for my 2nd meeting today with the Psychologist.
She asked me first some questions about alcohol and drug use and stuff. Im not really sure what the angle was, I think people who are hyperactive-ADD tend to medicate with substance abuse. She said that people with ADD get really bad anxiety when they smoke weed but ive never had that, just hungry and sleepy. Some questions about drinking. It was really wierd having to tell someone how much you drink coz it always feels like too much too often.
Then we talked some more about my family and my relationships. People with ADD tend to have black/white thinking and tend to be quite pedantic about stuff. Which was funny because i had an argument the other day with my dad because he suggested I went to a culinary school to learn some cooking skills and i interpreted that as becoming a chef which started the whole argument.
She also showed me a graph which looked like this:
So normal people usually fall into a category where something is quite interesting or quite boring. ADD people find loads of stuff boring and a little bit of stuff intersting. They have a hard time moving something to a "normal" level. For example, you could be extremely messy and learn to be tidy, but ADD people would go from being really messy to being overly tidy and obsessive about tidyness.
When i was at school i was always told id find something i enjoyed or fall into something eventually. Its now i start to see there must be a problem because i havent fallen into anything for very long and theres no way people have an interest in marketing or communications or networking at the level i would need to finish a degree in it.
We also talked about routines, which are a ADD persons best friend. Ive been in a routine a couple of times in recent years, like when i was in Thailand i had a routine of getting up at about 7am, playing poker for 3 or 4 hours, going to the gym for 1 hour, going shopping, then back home to watch TV and relax for the rest of the day. I was really happy when i was in this routine.
Problems come when other things arise. People with ADD have problems if things dont go exactly as they planned and will get really disappointed with it, also over quite trivial things. For example if you organise a party but people dont turn up when you expect them to, you tend to dwell on it.
So theres a lot of stuff about how we interact with others which was interesting. Also things about intrusions and extrusions, patchy memory leading to relationship problems, like being asked to do something and not doing it correctly because you patched together what you heard incorrectly. Ive always been quite aware of my inability to listen to people. I even find myself consciously thinking about giving off the right social reactions when talking and have no idea whats actually being said.
There were times at work when id have a meeting with my boss where he would want me to perform some quite important task, he would talk through the whole thing and i would get back to my desk and realize i had no idea what i had been told to do.
So some time in the next week ill get a call from the Psychiatrist now, who i will see for a session and if they decide to theyll prescribe me some medication. If i do ill probably start of trying to read a book, a rather ordinary task that I have never completed (a book, cover to cover)
There are also some art projects that I started and lost interest in that are sitting in my closet that I would like to finish. So these will be the test as to whether or not they do anything.
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Zorglub Denmark. Sep 12 2011 08:50. Posts 2870 | | |
The medication does wonders in the beginning but sadly for me they lost effect over time, so I had to take more. Of course you can't keep on doing that so I have to take quite long breaks from the medication in order to get some of the effect back. |
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Interesting, keep posting about the progress here. |
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P1mpdaddy Austria. Sep 12 2011 09:45. Posts 1370 | | |
Very interesting indeed. Please keep posting because this somehow sounds very familiar. |
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PplusAD Germany. Sep 12 2011 11:12. Posts 7180 | | |
MMA Fighting helped me quite a bit with my ADD
I also know some fellow MMA fighters who have ADD, too
Biggest problem for me is i simply cant learn stuff i am not interested in.
Poeple who dont have ADD cant understand.
But its close to impossible no matter how hard i try
Give me only 10 sheets of information i am not interestd in an give me 5h to learn that stuff . Afterwards there will be a test where i get 300$ if i have 50% of answers correct.
5h later i will have read the papers 8-10 times and still wont have a single clue what i just read.
>-<
Cause in case some subject doesnt particularly interest myself there are hundreds of things that draw my attention completely away
I cant learn stuff unless its important to me in the sense that i really want to know that stuff for myself |
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zionlll Belgium. Sep 12 2011 11:55. Posts 169 | | |
This is excactly how i've been told about adhd by my psychiatrist.
Also you'll love the feeling of the meds you'll get if they all feel the same .
I get relatine . only downside don't take it past 18h or sleepin is insane , (ie if u take 1 at 23h you'll b perfectly sober/awake untill 03:00)
Hungry feeling will dissapaer wich sux
Also if u take it before u get drunk u can't get really drunk.
If u take it after ur drunk u won't get stupid drunk but you'll stay alert drunk . (perfect stuff to give to annoying too drunk people)
If u take it on weed you'll not b stoned.
You'll b able to mass poker with relatine.
Everybody i know nags me for pills during exams .
You'll tend to b more talkative and caring for people.
in the end everybody wants to have adhd . :o |
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Surprise United States. Sep 12 2011 22:02. Posts 275 | | |
I can relate to too much of what you just described. |
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ShLiM United Kingdom. Nov 04 2011 22:53. Posts 940 | | |
this is exactly me
especially what PplusAD said
omg im scared now, but at least found out, what it was. |
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Gumster Sweden. Nov 05 2011 14:30. Posts 2291 | | |
your blog has made me realize that a friend of mine with 99% certainty has ADD, he is pretty sure himself but has not sought any kind of help, but im kinda curious byrnesam how much you have benefited from "seeking help" from professionals?
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