....I am so glad and relieved after finding this board a few weeks ago, it's so nice to hear everyone's stories and laugh at myself a little instead of feeling like such an idiot......
I am able to (slightly)manage and accept most things that come along with ADHD, but my one "day-ruining" problem is forgetting things. I will think of something that I want or need to do, or some other "great" idea and then be distracted and immediately forget it. Then, knowing that I had just thought of something, I spend the rest of the day trying to remember what it was, completely killing my day. I can't really think about anything else, I just constantly obsess over the forgotten thought - so wasteful and tiring.......blah, that was nice to get out......
Hi i know what you mean it is really bad.
Especially when people get upset with you because you forget something they wanted you to do for them as a favour. or you forget an important appointment.
are you taking any meds? do they help you at all with the forgetting?
....no meds, I have seen what they do to my younger brother and am not impressed...... it is just so silly to not be able to let go of something I have forgotten, obviously it is not important.....tough to move on some times.....GBFE17
I have a dry erase board and corkboard mix that I have and then I have a small notebook and a planner that I write on everyday so I don't forget and I still forget things like yesterday I have to cancel my sons therepy session and I told the counselor that I need to do it for next week and it's two weeks from now. I'm lost with out my planner I use the Customysize planner by Mead and it's small enough to fit in your purse and if your a Guy It looks like it can fit in a back pocket but I haven't tried or you can put it in your breif case if you have one or Theres a website that is free. its a planner it's called Cozi.com I have that on my computer to and it fits for all the family members and it shows on your computer even when your not on the Net. then I have a family calander that is hanging in our Kitchen I forget a lot.
I have my book with me all the time. It is just a thick exercise book with about 200pages, from the front working back I make myself a diary, two open flat pages are one whole week, I have set up weekly pages right up to next October in there, my last diary lasted over a year. In the back I have , at the very back phone numbers, about two pages, and from then on notes and scribbles about everything working from the back to the front. I have lots of sticky note-its( which I have to be careful of because can overdose on those and fill every work surface in my kitchen, computer , fridge, etc with them). I try to put a little wad of note-its in the inside of books , only 4 or 5 and then i can always whip one off if need it.I can only operate like this.I also do the post it notes have you used the long lined posted notes?I havent ever seen them, how do you use them? I use the post it notes to stick in the middle of the dinner table so that I just can t avoid the thing written on it which is usually just a one-liner. My diary I make in lines downwards , that is how I work best , I work from left to right in long thin colums just wide enough to write two words in, which progress from left to right. I've found them at Walmart but I'm sure they have them at office depot or staples. at walgreens they have 2009 calanders for the desk its 2 dollars and for the purse they are a dollar they have them in navy blue and Burgundy I couldn't pass that up. hahha I do that to My Husband always says How do you understand that. I live in Germany but am English, we do have Walmarts here but i would have thought not with half of the range you have in the states. Funny to think we are all over the world in this forum. ...only on an add forum would this have turned into a discussion on post-its and walmart......good luck, folks.....
I'm doing that annoying obsessing thing right now. I had read some of the posts on here last night and my initial thought on going nuts trying to remember what I forgot was I don't do that. Then just caught myself doing it and had no choice but to laugh at what a goofball I am. I know I forget and I know I obsess, it just never really occurred to me that I obsess about trying to figure out what I forgot.
SILLY ME!
A great tip I've come across to help remember things that are a day or more away is this. I have Gmail and it has a feature where you can set up a calendar and like Outlook it will send reminder emails to you. Used to be invitation only but now I'm pretty sure you can just go to gmail.com and sign up. If I'm wrong, PM me your email address and I'll send you an invite. I do this for every doctor appt myself or family has. We each have our own email address on gmail so when I make the appt, I log in and set the appt in the calendar as well as to whom I want reminders sent to.
As long as you're on obsessive email checker, it works fine. Those of you who don't check your email every single time you think about it, use the scheduler in your cell phones! I use that one too just in case I can't check email for some insane reason. Both ways work fairly well.
does the reminder get sent to you the same day of the appointment? because I use Cozi.com and it's got a reminder but it gets sent that same day.
You can set up gmail calendar to notify by either minutes, hours, or days. I nearly always require a 2 day in advance reminder, then 1 day, a few hrs & 30 min. It's a pretty flexible reminder if you need more than same day reminders and you can choose between pop up reminders or emails to your gmail acct.that's cool thanks watson
|
Enter Your Email below to claim your Free Book |
Copyright© 2006 ADHDNews.com. All rights reserved