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Battling ADHD With Creativity

One way to deal with ADHD and depression is to surround yourself with creativity.
Treating ADHD Blog | Thursday August 21st - 12:25pm | More August 2008 Blogs
 
Bill Mehlman blogs about treating adult ADHD for ADDitudeMag.com

Among the many nasty aspects of having ADHD—I mean, a specific aspect, not just the fact that it sucks—is that The Deficit provides an entry point for depression (so-named after the famously unsuccessful French general, Jacques de Pression, whose inability to win even the smallest battle made everyone in France so sad) and depression loves to put its dirty hobnailed boot on the neck of creativity.

One way to deal with this is to surround oneself with visual reminders that creativity can survive, given half a chance. There's a nifty blog called Stair Porn that features photos of …yes! you guessed it! Stairs.

Now, stairs might not seem very sexy to you. But head over there and look at the pretty photos. And take heart: you can do this, or something like it. Design your own stairs. Or start your own blog.

But do something, for Pete's sake.

2 Comments:

  • Posted by Bill Mehlman - Aug 22 2008 @ 6:30 AM
    C.E.
    Ah, Bekah, civil engineering. I remember civil engineering—that was my major when I got thrown out of school. Here I thought I'd learn about how to build highways and bridges and dams. Of course, if I'd bothered to think about it, I'd have realized that it would mean studying math. Lots of math. AAAALLLLLLLL math, all the time. I can still draw the test question in a course called "Mathematical Applications of Engineering Methods" or something similar. It involved a block, hung by a cord, which passed over a pulley, turned 90 degrees, and connected to a fixed point on a wall. Between the fixed point and the pulley, and between the pulley and the weight were springs. Given the weight of the block, the weight of the string, the characteristics of the springs and the size and mass of the pulley, write an equation describing the position of the center of mass of the block after it had been pulled down 2" and released, as a function of time, including factors for the rotational momentum of the pulley, the actions of the springs and the weight of the string. I think we were allowed to ignore friction. Twenty minutes and three cigarettes later, I still hadn't put pencil to paper, so I folded up my blue book and slunk away in search of a nice cold beer. Good luck, Bekah. I'm sure you're better prepared for this stuff than I was. And thanks for writing.
  • Posted by Bekah - Aug 21 2008 @ 9:51 PM
    WOW
    I just clicked the link to the stair website in your blog... AMAZING!! Granted I'm a civil engineering major in college, and I'm really interested in architecture so I may find it a little more fascinating than some other people but I just had to let you know that I thought it was one of the greatest sites ever! Thanks for sharing!
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