ADD vs ADHD in adults?

[ezbtr]

I've been researching this, and see some similarities in guys I work with, can anyone give me better, real life situations? Thanks guys

 

[JB]

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I think modern styles of communication may have produced simulated ADD in our whole society.

 

[jonesg]

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I think modern styles of communication may have produced simulated ADD in our whole society.

hehe great answer. So true.

 

[tashasdaddy]

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for 6 years i have lived with an ADHD, woman. they finish nothing, get distracted, leave a mess that someone else has to clean up. they have a tendency to shop.

She is Has a masters degree, the only thing she can stick to is reading a book.

 

[ezbtr]

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was thinking work wise some of my guys.....

 

[Bondo]

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Ayuh,.... I probably qualify,...
I've got a BaZillion projects goin', though they All do eventually get Done....

 

[thefairlaneman]

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I found out I had had it for many years when we had our son checked. It did cause lots of problems in high school and in jobs I had later. I learned to adjust the best I could. It can be a terrible thing to cope with .

 

[kei9th]

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i think i have add or adhd or something, what? uhh.........nevermind

 

[rogerwa]

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Two of my sons have the non-hyperactive ADD. They use medication when they are at school or doing something that needs concentration. I quickly relized that some of the things they were doing applied to me as well.

I think I learned to cope. I could never figure why in college I did so well when I waited to the last minute to get something done like a paper. If I could get it done overnight I usually nailed it. It was things that you were supposed to work on over time that I had a challenge with.

I was opposed to the medication for the boys at first and still feel we need to be vigilant about it becoming a crutch. In my view they should not need to be medicated for life and that they need to learn to deal with the non-medicated impacts.

The fact is that I know I still have it. But I know I have it and I have created methods for dealing with it. I don't like medication if there is a way around it.

 

[J. Howard]

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I think modern styles of communication may have produced simulated ADD in our whole society.

I agree. These forums don't help much either, seeing as how I'm supposed to be working right now!

 

[ezmobee]

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I have it. It's probably why I'm on here instead of programming. I find I don't work well at all with open-ended projects. I have often requested that my supervisors give me deadlines even if they have to make one up. It can be greatly improved with medication. Unfortunately the process they make you go through to get the medication is more of a pain than I feel like dealing with so I remain unmedicated.

 

[rbh]

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Please don't mistake my laziness for a mental disorder.
To add, I as well drag my butt till crunch time then fly at it.

 

[CN Spots]

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My 2nd daughter and I have it. We have to medicate her too and I HATE it. That ain't my kid setting there when she's on that stuff. Me and Rogerwa could be carbon copies. School and work was the same for me. I'd rather have 15 minutes to finish a project than 15 weeks. I tend to over plan everything if I have too much time. I think the planning is just something I started doing early to keep my mind busy until I actually need to start on the project. I learned to tackle large projects (like a car resto) as a thousand little projects, not one big one.

As far as you co-workers go, it depends on the person and the job. I've never had a bad review. But my company seems to always have "emergency projects", and in those situations, it's been an asset. If I had to sit in a security booth all day and watch monitors I'd lose my mind. Think Border Collie locked in a small, empty room. Not pretty.

If you're sure they have adhd, keep them busy at all times, I bet you'll both be happier. I'd give them more hands-on training too as manuals are most often useless.

spots

 

[mscher]

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I have had ADD most of my life. Never paid attendtion in school or turned in homework, typical procrastination, but would panic at the last minute, study like crazy, to get that D-.

In USAF Radar school, most students would drink beer and get A's on the test. I would study for hours, but was constantly distracted about other things that needed to be done, that could have waited until later. I barely passed the tests.

I'll write out detailed plans for a project, take them to the garage. Instead of starting the project, i'll start messing with 3 other things. Pretty soon, I don't have the slightest idea, where the original plans went. The 3 other things are now scattered everywhere.

I have piles of clutter on my desk, workbench, toolbox, everywhere. I hate it, but somehow I get some level of comfort, having stuff piled up. If I spruce everything up nicely, I love it, but a week later it looks exactly the same as before.

Procrastinate on nearly everything, rushing around to get things done, at the last minute.

I took a Ritilin once and felt so motivated, that I could become as sucessful as Donald Trump. Never taken ADD meds, especially now, that I'm a CDL driver.

My oldest boy has it. He'd be an honor student, if he turned in his homework. He plays guitar one week and the next it keyboards, or something different. Always distracted.

One day at a time is about the best I can do.

 

[rbh]

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I really want to throw out the hunter/gatherer thing.
food and lodging, sleep, go and do it again.
now we are thrown all these curve balls???
It was a lot easier in the really old day's, as long as you could find and kill your supper.
MAYBE??????

 

[jonesg]

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I have had ADD most of my life. Never paid attendtion in school or turned in homework, typical procrastination, but would panic at the last minute, study like crazy, to get that D-.

In USAF Radar school, most students would drink beer and get A's on the test. I would study for hours, but was constantly distracted about other things that needed to be done, that could have waited until later. I barely passed the tests.

I'll write out detailed plans for a project, take them to the garage. Instead of starting the project, i'll start messing with 3 other things. Pretty soon, I don't have the slightest idea, where the original plans went. The 3 other things are now scattered everywhere.

I have piles of clutter on my desk, workbench, toolbox, everywhere. I hate it, but somehow I get some level of comfort, having stuff piled up. If I spruce everything up nicely, I love it, but a week later it looks exactly the same as before.

Procrastinate on nearly everything, rushing around to get things done, at the last minute.

I took a Ritilin once and felt so motivated, that I could become as sucessful as Donald Trump. Never taken ADD meds, especially now, that I'm a CDL driver.

My oldest boy has it. He'd be an honor student, if he turned in his homework. He plays guitar one week and the next it keyboards, or something different. Always distracted.

One day at a time is about the best I can do.

I had it and tried all the meds. Now I don't have it or need meds.

Heres some clues,

procrastination is a form of defiance.

Living one day at a time is the best anyone can hope for,
but many are stuck in their yesterdays with fear of tommorow.
That leaves them unable to function in the present.

Put that together and you have the answer.

 

[lowkee]

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Let's say you're a drug company and you're mixing some new cocktails and testing them out on people dumb enough to sign a waiver, and you notice the people all turn lethargic and can only focus on one thing at a time. You think to yourself, "Well, I've seen bored children in the grocery store, all running around, trying to entertain themselves in spite of being forced to live a sedentary lifestyle in an apartment in the middle of a big city, where their parents never let them exercise or play games with local kids. Instead they are forced to sit inside all day and stare at a boob tube while getting fat on snack foods. This drug will stop those kids from being bored and help them sit there, content to do nothing, get fat and become the next generation of underachievers. Their parents will never hear them scream again, will not be bothered by annoying questions like "Will you play with me?" or "Can I go outside?" or having to honestly answer difficult questions like "Am I only a tax break for you?". All of this is now possible from this new drug you randomly created.. now if only you could buy off an FDA official and get it classified as an "overachiever disorder", but something less appealing, something overachievers will feel ashamed of and underachievers will feel better calling overachievers behind their backs.. what could it be?"

 

[jonesg]

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Let's say you're a drug company and you're mixing some new cocktails and testing them out on people dumb enough to sign a waiver, and you notice the people all turn lethargic and can only focus on one thing at a time. You think to yourself, "Well, I've seen bored children in the grocery store, all running around, trying to entertain themselves in spite of being forced to live a sedentary lifestyle in an apartment in the middle of a big city, where their parents never let them exercise or play games with local kids. Instead they are forced to sit inside all day and stare at a boob tube while getting fat on snack foods. This drug will stop those kids from being bored and help them sit there, content to do nothing, get fat and become the next generation of underachievers. Their parents will never hear them scream again, will not be bothered by annoying questions like "Will you play with me?" or "Can I go outside?" or having to honestly answer difficult questions like "Am I only a tax break for you?". All of this is now possible from this new drug you randomly created.. now if only you could buy off an FDA official and get it classified as an "overachiever disorder", but something less appealing, something overachievers will feel ashamed of and underachievers will feel better calling overachievers behind their backs.. what could it be?"

I'm not calling anyone, but that described me, I now consider all the disorders I was labled with just polite medical terms for selfish spoiled brat.
It might not apply to everyone but I had to do some growing up.
The medications gave relief but growing up gave freedom.

Someone once asked "what if Mozart and Beethoven had been medicated for their obvious disorders".
What would we have now instead of what they wrote.

Theres a misconception that mind is limited to brain, but brain isn't limited to whats in the skull , it reaches out to every area of the body with nerve endings, sound silly?
Recent studies just showed that botox in the face puts limits on a persons ability to smile and a lack of nerve feedback to the mind, these people tend to be less happy because of that physical fact. Very strange but true.
Smiling a lot builds healthier minds, we can actually act our way to good thinking. The conventional view is mostly the other way round, that brain controls mind but its a 2 way street, good thinking builds a new brain path.
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