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11/15/08(Sat)02:17:35 No.2132731  >>2132504
I
am pretty sure ADD is real. I was one of the first children diagnosed
with it decades ago in my country, and ended up in some clinical trials
of various treatments, some of which involved really stupid medications
like dexadrine. I did not believe that it existed at the time and I did
not trust the doctors or psychiatrists at all but now I am an adult in
my late 30's and I have not had any type of drug in over ten years, yet
my thoughts still will not slow down. I cant just sit somewhere and
have a blank mind. I am always considering everything i hear see and
smell, and not just acknowledging the imput, my mind is absolutely
flooded with the logistics of everything around me, how it was built
and placed, the infrastructure necesary to manufacture it, where the
materials came from, how the technology was invented, the workers
involved in all steps of the processes, so many things at once its hard
to describe. Every thought I articulate is basically a drop out of an
ocean of the thoughts that fly through my head at any given moment.
Sometimes
its maddening, I lose so much when I try to slow down a though long
enough to condense it into language, but sometimes its very useful. I
find myself able to extrapolate to an extreme degree from even the
tiniest shred of information without even trying (in fact I cant if I
try to force it, not at all), and I benefit from this greatly in my
professional life.
I do have extreme problems managing sleep but I
work around it succesfully. In fact I am generally the most productive
when I am tired.
Its interesting to say the least, and I do not consider it to be a "disorder" at all.
In fact I sometimes think that it could perhaps be part of a step forward in human evolution. |
