Very Funny All ADs Must Read... | ADHD Information
I woke up and started reading my E- mail(twice), read I had a post,checked the site and now its dark outside . Now Ive got to work on three hours sleep because the VCR clock was wrong. Just another day for me,Its hard to tell them apart .Also garden not watered!!!
That sounds like a pretty typical day to me.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it
needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I
brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under
the table, and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage
first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out
the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 check
left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to
my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm,
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the
counter catches my eye--they need water.
I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've
been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water
the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water
and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I
realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the
remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide
to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the
flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the
floor.
So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the
spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
- the car isn't washed
- the bills aren't paid
- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
- the flowers don't have enough water,
- there is still only 1 check in my check book,
- I can't find the remote,
- I can't find my glasses,
- and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really
baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail.
This is so like me it hurts to read it.
Really I am saddened, my days go like this so often and I always ask where did the day go? I've been shaking a leg like a tail of a pup and I am exhausted but where can I point to and say here is what I've done?
LOL This is SO me!!! My Prozac is making me not quite so bad but I still have these days. Ha ha
Get this, I took a week off for vacation - came back to work and I had 868 emails sitting in my work inbox! I have a feeling that most of them will NEVER get read.
You've survived. Isn't that enough? :-) [QUOTE=Ferramentum] I decide to water my garden.As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it
needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I
brought up from the mail box earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under
the table, and notice that the can is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage
first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out
the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. aaahhhh! This is as far as I got....
I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 check
left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to
my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Coke is getting warm,
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the
counter catches my eye--they need water.
I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've
been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water
the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water
and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I
realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the
remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide
to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the
flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the
floor.
So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the
spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
- the car isn't washed
- the bills aren't paid
- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
- the flowers don't have enough water,
- there is still only 1 check in my check book,
- I can't find the remote,
- I can't find my glasses,
- and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really
baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail.
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Hey, that happens to me every weekend. At least at work I can hide behind my staff (it's a pretty big staff for me to hide behind).
So, why FerrantiuM? Are you nuclear powered, or something like that?
Davidornado38579.9030092593
I woke up early today to get some work done. It's 1pm and what am I doing? Checking out the boards... needless to say no work has been done...
the poem is so my life... my month, my day, my hour...
I'm almost surprised at how I crammed a couple of degrees and a decent career in between...
This used to be me - I hated Saturdays because nothing ever got done.
But I have been crawling with the exercises in the book Stopping ADHD and my life is different now. I can truly say that things are different. I get things done. I know where my car keys are. I finish projects. I organize things. I don't misplace papers. I still need help with the bills, but my life is VASTLY improved. If your ADD or ADHD is caused by a reflex like this book claims, (I KNOW that mine was) these exercises can help you.
I hate to post here and sound like an adverstisement for the book, so usually I don't post so obviously, but when I read all these posts on this thread, I just cried for you guys 
I know just how you feel. I have been there too!! But now, things are different. If you will take the time to read this book - check it out of the library - the older version is called Stopping Hyperactivity by O'Dell, you will immediately see if their theory makes sense to you. You don't have to buy anything else, you don't have to go go to their clinic if you don't want to. I have done the exercises from the book and that is all I have purchased. I found it at Barnes and Nobel one day and my life has changed for the better.
I still am my creative self - which I worried about. But now, I can sit comforatably at plays, or in the car. I can write more legibly. I can finish projects. I remember appointments!!!! It is really amazing to me.
Good luck to all of you and the choices you make to help yourself with your ADD and ADHD. I know that many methods here have helped many people. I just want to share what I have found.
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I purchased a few months back... procrastinated reading until now.. will try to put on my to do list.
How do you think the excercises help?
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The authors of the book have a theory, that 75% of all ADD and ADHD cases are caused by a reflex that everyone has as a baby, but that not everyone matures. If a person does not crawl for 6 months and in the correct position (not dragging a leg, or doing the spider crawl) then they will still have this reflex bothering them.
Here is what the reflex does: When your arms and legs are both bent at the same time, this reflex urges you to move forward - it is the reflex that gets us to crawl and walk as a human race. Well, this reflex can stay with us, so that when we have both arms and legs bent at the same time, we feel this reflex bothering us, urging us to unbend one part or the other, or just stand up or stretch out.
Well, the book says that if this reflex stays will us, it will distract us. We will have to fight this reflex just to do normal every day things like sit at a desk and copy material from the board at school.
By doing crawling exercises - I know it sounds silly - you can mature this reflex and get rid of many of the symptoms. I have done these exercises (2 months worth), and from my perspective these women who wrote the book are right. At least in my case they are right. I have had many improvements in my ADD since I have started these these exercises. You have to do them for 8 months, so I have a ways to go, but it has all been very good so far.
Read away guys, tell me what you think.
That is sooooooo my in denial ADHD Mom. I'm going to email your post to her and ask her if anything sounds familiar.
I think you should seriously start your own website and post this. To me it is a must read for anyone with ADHD. I have laughed so hard all day and found so much comfort in the fact "it is not just me". I also wanted to say thank you for taking the time to write a typical day for yourself. It sounds just like a typical day for me. And i especially like the comment as to "why am i so tired? i didn't get anything done". I wish i had a dollar for everytime i have said that. I would be a millionaire. I am not sure if i feel more like a hamster in a cage who gets in his wheel every morning and runs like crazy all day but then at night he actually hasn't went anywhere, or if i feel more like i am vacuuming in the desert. All day i vaccuum but at the end of the day you cannot see anything i have done. I started on Adderal CR 3 weeks ago and "oh my gosh" what a difference it has made. I actually get things done. Its amazing.