Organisation | ADHD Information

I really think the definition of ADD is DIS ORGANISATIONWe really DO need a chatroom in this forum, especially Saturday night.

Moonbeams...I've always called my home organized chaos, too! Only I don't clean up for guests anymore...I just don't let anyone in my place.    I live in a tiny 8x22 travel trailer. If I fall over everything, imagine a guest in here -- and I don't carry insurance! Remember that game where you move one tile, then another, so on to create a picture, or whatever, well that's what it's like in here. I move one thing to get to another. That thing replaces the first, etc., etc., etc.    Welcome to my world! I find it difficult to be organised.  Most of the time my house looks like a bomb had hit it.  If I take my medication I become very organised and tidy up and it all looks great.  (Usually when I know family or friends are visiting).  I really find housework (I do clean though) very mundane and time wasting.  You tidy everything up and before you know it the place is a mess again.  Maybe because I have so many different ideas that I just go searching for stuff, find it, leave it there and then go searching again for other things I have ideas about.  No one understands.  I am living in organised chaos

My chaos isn't as much organized as it is spontaneous. I had to take xtra medicine today because I was dying at 9:00 and I have a test tomorrow. I had a grocery list of things to get done at the house this weekend and sunday night rolled around and nothing had been done, worked 20 hours and watched the super bowl though!  Here it is one in the morning and now I cant turn it off. My house was a wreck and is now emaculate. It seems it collects for days or weeks at a time and then something finally snaps to make me get it clean. Now I sit and await for the piles of laundry to return, paperwork on the desk needing to be filled out (urgently), and last but not least post it notes on the walls that remain unanswered until days like this. What's the point in them anyways?

Paul

who won the superbowl.. i fell asleep... burned my self out..waiting for it. I remember up to the 2nd half and Paul Macartny... he was rubbish

I have been battling depression all my life--
1/3 genetic, 1/3 environmental and 1/3 ADD.
The meds seem to be helping both.

The chaos was from both the ADD and the depression.  I have found that if I tackle one small area at a time, I can keep order.  Then my depression is easier to deal with.

HOWEVER, it doesn't take much for me to 'fall off the wagon' and everything to go to hell-in-a-handbasket again.

~sigh~

Esther

I'm actually quite organized. At least, I try dammed hard. My bedroom was always neat when I was a teenager, and today my co-workers joke that I have no work because my desk is so clean.

Now here's the reason:

I have TRAINED myself to be this neat and organized. If I wasn't, my life would be an absolute mess. Untidiness and chaos turn my brain to mush - I physically can't deal with it. Also, I KNOW that when I receive a bill in the mail, it immediately goes to my spot by the computer, or else it will get lost, guaranteed. Then I just have to actually remember to pay them. Right now, I have a "tax pile" on my bedroom dresser. My forms, and all my receipts, T4s, etc, are accumulating there right now, because again, if not, they would become hopelessly misplaced.

Of course, this isin't a fool-proof plan. I do goof quite often and end up having to tear my apartment apart looking for the stupidest things, but the system I think is as good as it is going to get, and I am thankful that I can at least do that much.
The medication helped me a lot. i am not so much organised today so much as I am not complete chaos.  It's a matter of degrees. Someone else might think I live in chaos  still but, it is nothing like it was before I got help. I take care of  stuff much faster now. THere are still the piles that pop uo but, I have been clearing them rather than just making new ones. The stuff I pile on the stairs to go upstairs makes it there now.