Hyperfocus pre-meds; hyperfocus post-meds | ADHD Information

I was kinda wondering about the topic of "hyperfocus". Before being introduced to Adderall XR; my life was full of hyperfocusing on negative things. If I e-mailed someone for instance; and they didn't e-mail me back; my hyperfocus would zero in on their "inconsideration" and I'd get a "tude" toward them. Then I would go into depression because I felt I was not liked. Or....if someone in traffic would cut me off or tailgate me; I would take it personally and work myself into a mild road rage. Same thing with crowds; I would feel singled out and opressed and my self esteem would go into the dumper.

So after medication; now I hyperfocus on construtive things. Inconsiderate people don't bother me any more. I don't think about it. If they tailgate me in traffic; I consider that maybe they have ADD and are stressed. If I'm working on a project; my hyperfocus really "targets" the task and everything else seems to fade into the background; (but it's controllable). I can now just blend into crowded situations  (like going shopping in the "Walmartians and K-martins" buildings with my wife) because I now hyperfocus on the task of finding what we are looking for. It's kinda like wearing an emotional "flack jacket" now. But it's all still hyperfocus. Just in a different, more constructive direction. Does anyone relate to this?

One other side effect however. I seem to be displaying a "dyslexic" type of sympom. Sometimes when I speak; I turn words around. Like saying I'm "lysdexic". It happens when I type too. I reverse letters. Just in this post I've had to go back and correct the reversed spelling like 4 times. Does that happen to any of you in your "post-med" state?

I definitely indulde in road rage, I have not crossed over - but have you seen that movie (Fried Green Tomatos)? Yup, that is how I feel somedays, just use the car to push the one out of the parking spot they STOLE kind of things. My husband definitely gets mad being a passenger with me, and is more then willing to tell me when I am being too aggressive - so if we are together most times I just let him drive.

Road Rage, lets me indulde in my 2nd favorite thing, blowing up and cussing - yup just feels a lot better when you can cuss a person out that can't hear you. I use to have grand ideas of imagining getting in fights, LOL yea right get my butt kicked this little 5 foot lady here!

On the typing, I try to type to keep up with my mind and stumble over the keys sometimes... same thing with talking, get ahead of myself and quite often can't pronounce half the words I know in my mind - when I try I just twist it all up.

 

I thought I was the only one!!

I'm constantly doing that when talking to people. On or off meds. It's so goddam frustrating! Or should I say damgod tratfrusting! I have a tendency to trip over my words and just come out with garbage. They all come out jumbled. I used to think that it was because of the shape of my mouth or something physical like that but I'm starting to doubt that more and more now.

I do it when writing too, or typing. A common one is that i'll write a word out twice next to each other like: this this is so annoying. Why do we do this? Is it to do with the speed our brains work?

Thats what I was thinkin. Maybe that the Adderall has put my brain into high gear; and my mouth and hand can't catch up with it.

Hey, I feel the same way. The e mail and roadrage thing i felt before regular adderall 20mg 3 times a day. I never really acted on the roadrage, but I often joked to my S./O it would be nice to have a gun while i'm driving! ( ADD  & a gun )? Not a good combo. If i E mailed someone, and they diden't answere within a few days, i thought maybe i had done something to make them mad. how paranoid is that!

Now crowds, i'm still not comffortable with. And the  getting speech mixed up, I  thought i owned the patton on that one! With or w/out meds, i still get my words confused. some days are worse than others. I feel so foolish!

Writing ,typing and talking, especially right after taking adderall, i think my brain thinks faster than i can do either. Maybe thats just how our rains are geared

 Hi Nightstar, when me & my husband are together, he also preferes to drive. He says i am a good driver, but sometimes quite rough. He says i can turn a corner & the passanger would end up on the steet! lol.

I'm not much taller than you, 5'3 so i do ALOT of cussing & sometimes my middle finger works overtime! I can only hope they aren't packin'. My husband says God made me short for a reason. If i was real tall, roadrage would definatly be one of my favorite :sports".

LOL - that is too funny, ya it is a good thing I live in a small rual town and not somewhere like Chicago, so I am just but a small town bully when it comes to the roads, lol

Funny last week took husband up to another town to go out to eat, and caught up to a lady just going really slow, like 20 miles. I was cussing, and my husband was telling me to calm down - well that was until she stopped all together on purpose.

He kind of seen red atfer that, suprised me, I was still moving and he had the door open and boy she took off! lol

 

Haha! Yep; for me; the road rage never got me into serious trouble; (except 1 time when it was close; a guy wanted to fight me) ; but I can sure relate to the "Fried Green Tomatoes" story! I cheeered when she flattened that little chics VW! I probably wouldn't do that; but it sure feels good to think about it! After Adderall; I haven't had ANY incidents at all. I don't care about the other drivers any more.