Adult ADHD
After decades of struggling with ADHD, adults have learned strategies to cope, or have developed secondary disorders like Depression or Anxiety. Either way, Adult ADHD looks different.
Full Moon
August 17, 2010
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BTW, I have a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University. So, we’re close in educational levels?!!
I’ve worked at a VA Hospital and there really were more admissions during full moons, especially October and March. There are scores of studies that say the planets don’t affect people, too, but they DO affect the oceans. THAT doesn’t make any sense, does it?!! Anyway, having been party to some of the “scientific” method (as a secretary to several researchers), I do believe that “facts” can be manipulated to show what one wishes to emphasize. Other information may be dismissed as “irrelevant.”
Anyway, your rant may have a lot of merit, Rick, but there are some things that personal experience and anticdotal evidence really can outweigh the science. In my opinion.
Best part of this whole rant…the last line. Truely LOL!!
Minor point, Rick, but not all of us who say we are willing to die for our religion mean that we are willing to kill for it.
Mennonites and Quakers for example, have a long history of dying for their faith, rather than killing for it.
I had a huge argument with my sister about how earth is being visited all the time by aliens… she also thinks they didn’t land a man on the moon, cause of an article she saw… I showed her the mythbuster episode where they disproved every single conspiracy theory about the moon, but she didn’t believe it… this has got to do something with an unfulfilled childhood or something… she wants to believe in magic… she’s like a 5 year old… and she gets to vote?!!
ThanX for this site & this vid. Perceptions can b a funny thing. So amazed am I by the many articles and advertisements I find on the net hawking snake-oil “cures” for ADHD. Some one must be buying into that nonsense. Some day, when your at a pharmacy, go 2 the pharmacist and ask ‘em what sort of over-the-counter remedies they have for ADHD.
I just read this great book “The Thinker’s Way” by John Chaffee and he writes about most of the issues you were “ranting” about.
http://www.amazon.com/Thinkers-Way-John-Chaffee/dp/0316133337#reader_0316133337
I thought the book was excellent because, well, because it teaches you how to think. Think critically. In fact it’s part of the manta of his book – “Think critically. Live Creatively. Choose freely”.
I wish I had this book when I was in my 20′s and just trying to figure out all this stuff about life. It’s sad that most of us have given up on thinking. It’s amazing how many decisions we make based on emotion, or subliminally, or spur of the moment, never fully realizing the consequences. Never mind the impact of ADD….
And, according to Chaffee, critical thinking is not as scary as most people think. It’s not about philosophers sitting at some Paris bistro discussing existentialism, but how to use basic tools to make the best decision for your life at that point in time.
It’s a book for non-thinkers and he takes you through the process, by using logic and analysis to freely arrive at decisions. But don’t be afraid of the Mr. Spock “It’s not logical” kinda stuff, there is a lot here about creativity; the inner artist we have inside, that for one reason or another we never fully use as part of the thinking process. Or, even to allow creativity as part of the rational, thinking process to generate new solutions for vexing (I’ve always wanted to use that word…) problems that are just on the edge of eluding a solution.
Robert Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” said that sometimes we just have to sit and wait for a solution, by doing something different, or nothing at all. He uses the analogy of fishing when trying to come up with solutions when accessing the sub-conscious. Fishing is a good metaphor, because you throw the line out and wait. And wait. And wait. But then there is a nibble and you’ve made a connection.
Thinker’s Way is becoming one of my favourite books and I’m going to put it next to my copy of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
By the way, Rick, I use my model-railroading as a way to access my creativity as well as relaxation, and it really helps to pace my thinking. A form of meditation. I can spent hours doing this and there’s the only downfall. The “temporal distortion” we ADD folks have. My wife now gently nudges me away from my hobby activity rather than get upset because we know the root cause. What a relief being diagnosed as ADD has been.
Maybe in at a future time you can discuss how important having a hobby, or any other creative outlet is for us?
My brother and I were talking about this sort of thing, just the other day. There’s something on YouTube, called “Dance Monkeys Dance”, which sums it all up beautifully.
Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX24