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Treating ADHD Blog« Recent Blog PostsArchives: August 2008
If at first you don't succeed . . . try something else that's more in line with your abilities and interests and is less costly and easier to get to. You know my motto, the lodestone by which I steer, the proceleusmatic words that keep me moving forward through this life of hardship and sorrow, my very own nil desperandum. Don't you? Didn't you get the memo? OK, you slackers, here it is: "If at first you don't succeed .. . try something else that's more in line with your abilities and interests and is...Continue Reading »
I decided to follow my own advice and treat my own ADHD with a little creativity. One day, during a lull at work the phrase, "Bespoke vituperation" pops into my mind. I'd been thinking about doing a frivolous business card for myself, as opposed to one that I'd give to a prospective client, and that phrase looked like it would fit in admirably. I've had occasion to make up several business cards for my various failed businesses, and have the procedure down pretty...Continue Reading »
I bring you another source for treating ADHD-induced depression with beauty. Hard on the heels of Stair Porn, I bring you another source for reassurance that beautiful doesn't have to be artsy. Eye of the beholder, m'boy, eye of the beholder. I've came across these pictures by Branislav Kropilak for years. Naturally, I can't recall where I first saw them, but I urge you to take a look. He works in a medium known as a "Giclee print on...Continue Reading »
One way to deal with ADHD and depression is to surround yourself with creativity. 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...Continue Reading »
The first challenge of reaching a goal is learning to set realistic objectives. Finding that someone has written just what you've been trying to write, only much better, can be aggravating. Nonetheless, good guy that I am, I will refer you to a posting by "Dustin" on the Writer's Technology Companion. Dustin has written a perceptive piece about setting goals. The short story is that he believes in setting goals that are relevant, achievable and concrete. I've posted about this...Continue Reading »
Skimming ain't reading. Let me repeat that: skimming ain't reading. Skimming ain't reading. Let me repeat that: skimming ain't reading. I read for a living. Proofreading and copyediting bring home the bacon. OK, I don't eat much bacon any more, if only to avoid having to shell out for the Lipitor, but you get the idea. Everything I do should be perfect, but there's some stuff that's more critical than other stuff. If I miss a comma...Continue Reading »
We ADD adults love projects because they're big, they make us feel like we're establishing a real beachhead in the war against confusion; but then everything goes off the rails. If there's one thing we of the Deficit (ADD) love, it's projects. (So ask, already, would you?) Glad you asked. We love projects because they're big, they make us feel like we're establishing a real beachhead in the war against confusion, and because starting a New Project doesn't require any actual work. Or thought. And if we're lucky, it will give us a reason, however specious, for buying...Continue Reading »
Once again I'm plagued by that old bugaboo, indecision, and his partner in crime, bad time management. The urge to buy a USB flash drive has been overwhelming. They're just so incredibly cool, and now they're available with 32 gigs of memory. Of course, the entire hard drive of my desktop contains less than a gig of content, so unless I decide I absolutely must carry around the complete audio text of Swann's Way and the collected works of J.S. Bach (they run...Continue Reading »
My ADHD memory prohibits me from remembering song lyrics--if you'd ever heard me "sing" you'd probably be grateful. Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I was driving home from the beach last night, listening to a radio station that played lots of oldies. It's only fair to say that I've never been any good at linking up musicians and the titles of their works and the works themselves. Stones, Beatles, CCR, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Who, Zep, Hendrix…I can recognize their music...Continue Reading »
You are what you remember ... where does that leave us ADHDans? I've been trying for a couple of years to get through Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot, a self-help kind of book by Richard Restak, M.D., that came highly recommended by a brilliant, and intellectually ruthless friend. This seems like a propitious time for another sortie, so I'm off again, hoping, this time, that posting about my adventures and epiphanies will encourage me to read, and understand,...Continue Reading »
My fractured sense of ADHD self-esteem rules out sales as a career path. Sales has always been the least appealing aspect of business to me, and, logically, the one at which I'm least skillful. Unenthusiastic salesmen don't do a good job of convincing potential buyers, regardless of the commodity. The best salesmen I've known could, with some training, have been successful selling stocks, real estate, used cars, antiques, pork bellies, software or Girl Scout cookies. Personally, I would just as...Continue Reading »
This weekend, I'm reclaiming control over my life! Well, over my computer and filing cabinets anyway... assuming it's not nice beach weather. I'm totally fed up. There's so much garbage in my computer, on my bulletin board, and on my new clean-erase whiteboard — I'm not even beginning to account for the garbage in my head (see Fresh Kills Landfill for an idea of what that's like) — that I have no choice but to dedicate this weekend (assuming it's not going to be good beach weather, of course)...Continue Reading »
How math went from mind-cloggingly easy to totally incomprehensible a few decades back. When I was in second grade, my mother got terribly tired of hearing me moan about how, in November, I knew that 3 + 5 = 8. I'd heard it a thousand times. It was boring. So, without discussing it with me, she walked over to my school (very Ozzie and Harriet) and talked the principal into putting me in third grade... on the day I...Continue Reading »
Vincent Van Gogh had adult ADD. Vincent Van Gogh used the Moleskine notebook. You'll never guess what I just bought... Okay, okay. I'm a label whore. Shoot me. Yesterday I went out and bought a Moleskine. - the ruled, reporter-style notebook. I figured that having the binding across the top, rather than on the side, makes it less likely to fall apart. Fits nicely in my back pocket. Has a little fold-out pocket inside the back cover in which you can keep.. . business cards,...Continue Reading » « Treating ADHD Blog's blog « All Blogs |
    
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