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Working with ADHD?
Famanoran asks: "I've recently been diagnosed ADHD ? and am now taking Ritalin. I've found that it helps me rather significantly, but I'm keen to try other things that may help. My question is to the ADHD'ers on slashdot: How have you coped with ADHD, and how have you found it affect your work performance? Do you object to having ADHD? Have you tried natural alternatives such as DPA/EPA (Omega3), 5-HTP (natural precursor to serotonin), and what were your results? Also - How do you find it working in groups of people, either as the only ADHD'er there, or in a group of ADHD'ers? Do you think that your ADHD contributes to your abilities technically, or is it a hinderance?" Previously, Ask Slashdot dealt with ADHD in children, now what suggestion do you have for the grown-ups, with the additional burden of a career, who find themselves in the same situation?
I keep reading something about ADH...whatever. Oh look! String!
Vote for global prefs bug
Being ADHD has made my very difficult and arduous in even doing the most simple of ta-- ooh! A butterfly! Whee!!!
I just want to clear up some of the preconceptions of this awful mental problem so that we don't get 101 trolls and joke-masters scoring mod points.
Basically, ADHD stands for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder.. oh my god, this is so boring, let's talk about Perl!! NO! NO! NO! Let's talk about Java!! Oh that's off topic, I gotta go program, no I gotta go eat, yes eat lots of stuff!
I'm getting so sick of sitting at this computer I'm gunna go and ta
mogorific carpentry experiments
I suggest Focusyn, but beware, side-effects include making you think Major League Baseball is watching your every move!
...ADHD kids does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Wanna go outside and play?
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Blockwars:go play!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
I was diagnosed with ADD. SCO is suing IBM for $3 billion in computers that were remotely destroyed by a senator. DVDs are self-destructing robots and ICANN are shipping wireless LAN technology.
Ug... what was I talking about? Oh yes, and my karma is negative from getting "offtopic" mods.
I've found a potential solution that doesn't involve taking all these crazy medicines. When I find that I have difficulty concentrating, I just go off and furiously masturbate like a banshee. 5 minutes later I could concentrate on a Ben Stein law lecture.
and have tried to wein myself off of caffeine
Does that make you a weiner?
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Recently I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. -- Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how this insidious disease manifests itself:
I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trashcan under the table, and notice that the trashcan is full. So I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take m y checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of pop that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the pop aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.?
I see that the pop is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the pop, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need to be watered. I set the pop down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of pop sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e- mail.
From Neal Boortz
i'm also appalled! but for a different reason. All these jokes are the same. and there aren't enough refferences to SCO! And what about poor Sen Hatch. He's been left out completely. Also, there is an entire eps of the simpsons dedicated to ADHD, yet I see very few simpsons quotes. This is an OUTRAGE! A /. outrage.
PS: It's good to laugh at yourself once in a while
YOU SUCK BALLS!
"Drugs dont truely cure anything, they hide problems from people who refuse to understand themselves."
Tell that to an asthmatic who's just about to die because they can't find their Ventolin inhaler.
You stupid fucking twat.
That was classic intercourse!
There is a beautiful course that certainly has HELPED and/or cured alot of people suffering from various mental illnesses, ranging from depression, autism, ADHD to criminality and suicidal tendencies. It is called the Art of Living course, which features a unique breathing-technique called the Sudarshan Kriya. It has been researched and tested in medical studies conducted in India, the findings proving that it actually helps people.
Follow the link in my sig if you're interested. Or click on this one to read about the Art of Living course: http://www.artofliving.org/c-basic.html
Here is a link to interesting summaries of medical research-papers:
http://www.artofliving.org/apex/research.htm
The course will also help any individual wanting help. The way we live in the world today, with stressful situations and a fast-paced lifestyle, it is a course for everybody who wants to catch up with their breath and calm down. It is simple and perfectly safe, yet very profound, effective and powerful. It is a course anybody can follow and benefit from.
Art of Living is a global international organisation. You may locate the nearest course-location to you in this link: http://www.artofliving.org/contacts.asp. Even if you have to travel a bit to reach the location, the course is definately worth it. It is a course for life, on how to live life in joy, peace and harmony.
Personally, this course has helped me tremendously and is continuing to do so (I practice the techniques taught at the course daily). I personally know many other people from every corner of the world, it has also helped them in many different ways. I will recommend it to everybody, any day.
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Theres no scientific proof that ADHD even exists. This is all experienced based. People with ADHD reporting to so called experts, experts watching people with ADHD and conducting studies and tests.
The real problem is that they wont let us do cool experiments like cloning ADHD kids, growing them in boxes, and then disecting them at the end of the experiment. Damn Congress, getting in the way of science.
Jokes just like that just aren't funny. They're just boring. Like Windows. Microsoft people would probably like that joke, I like to call them MicroSofties. I don't know why. Maybe it's because Windows needs some TLC. That channel is boring. #boring on efnet is another boring channel, but I guess that wouldn't be for the same reasons. It sucks that so many IRC networks are down these days. I guess they just can't handle the load as much these days. That makes no sense though. There aren't really that many new people on IRC networks compared to ICQ or MSN ones...Microsoft should have made MSN messenger removable in Windows XP professional. I had to hack the registry to get it to stop coming up back when I was working as a full time computer tech, and that sucked. Kind of like this joke.
And that's why I think Ike Eisenhower should be president.
It's been a long time.
It is. Anger management problems ARE a recognized disorder, people get treated for it all the time. Hell I was treated for it.
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Oh yeah? How did that work out for you?
HOW THE FUCKING HELL IS MANIC DEPRESSION A PERSONALITY TRAIT.
Please explain to me how the f*ck people trying to KILL THEMSELVES is a freakin PERSONALITY TRAIT.
regularly reoccurring bouts of SUICIDE are NOT an "issue" to be worked through, THEY ARE A SERIOUS FREAKING PROBLEM.
Oh. I see. Well, I'm glad you got the help you needed.
*steps back a few feet*
Well. Um. I guess, I'll see you later!
*bursts into full sprint*