What "sets off "an adhd moment? | ADHD Information

Here's a new one:

'twas my life before RitLA,

When all through the house, all the creatures were stirring, yes, even the mouse...

And all the self-meds, were hung up with care,

In hopes that somebody just wouldn't dare

Think that I'm crazy, or put me in _______ (<there).

When up in the attic, there rose suchuk ladder,

When I fine'ly found out, that I is an ADDer.

gosh, I feel so friendly toward...well.. a lot more people than before. Maybe its when you're on MEDS that you get an adhd moment, something happens that just overrides your meds and you get all zoom zoom again!!!

I never blew up a chem lab..even though I've blocked I'm pretty sure I would remember that..I guess that's part of the others suffering..sounds like a great story though...you may want to share that sometime....or not Profile
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Account Status: Active Online Status: Online Real Name: Davidornadog Joined: 23 July 2005 Last Visit: 07 September 2005 Posts: 800 [17.39 posts per day] Location: United States Date of Birth: 06 October 1910 Homepage: http://notgotonesorry.com Loud low bass noises TOTALLY do it to me... I can't
even concentrate enough to pack my wallet, keys etc.
to go out for coffee, if a neighbor is, say, practicing
their bass guitar. It's worse is if they are regular, like
in a bassline, vs. the rumbly sound of trucks passing
(which is much more random - or steak: today I
bought a bag of frozend "steak cut" fries which were
absolutely random - I mean, there were homefry
sized pieces, shoestring sized, wedge sized/shaped
pieces, one that was actually 5 inches long... man. In
fry land, steak=random).
Clocks ticking in an otherwise quiet place drives me
NUTS and I can't sleep in a room with a clock like
that.
Also, music (especially low bassy music, or highly
repetative music) which is just quiet enough not to
be heard clearly, or (of course) ridiculously loud.

If there are people having a loud conversation in
English or French (languages I mostly know), I can't
even focus on a crossword puzzle (which I love).

And any time a TV is on, I can't have a conversation
(sound of the show, the moving image - I MUST look
at any moving images, at bars where there are TVs
and such... I don't own one for this reason,
because... WHOOPS! there goes, like, 5hours...) -
that people do this, use TV as background, baffles
me!

One thing that works well for me is the constant and
predictable drone of public radio (CBC for me),
which has the added bonus of a reminder EVERY
HOUR on the hour of time, weather, and just the fact
that another hour has gone by...

Waking up in the morning....what do you mean???..

DO YOU HAVE ADHD TOURETTE'S STYLE?? It just comes out of nowwhere...boy I wish I had could have moments rather than the continual with you every moment kind....now, if you ask what makes it WORSE than USUAL or
when do you notice you are getting worse in general..such as my PMS makes everything bigger, badder, more aggravating.....
So does mine... is there a trickster in the house?

’m watching time now until I hopefully get a "special" order of Adderall tomorrow from an independent pharmacy.... like I'm waiting for a dream to reoccur...

okay little gpkid, I still can't wrap my mind around an ADHD moment... its not like pms...something physical occurs and then you usually start to come around...but this? I haven't filed income taxes for 8 years, haven't had a drivers license since I was 17, never owned a car, never married , own no stocks, no passport, have only ever tied my shoelaces the funny way, incessantly late for everything (have improved, I hate that about me now that I realize), and I hold ...grip my pens right at the bottom any higher forget it and I can barely read my own writing even at that and on…and on...swiped my little brother and took him to school for show & tell???? could that be true? kicked out of classes in school, skipped out, tripped out…I mean no…it’s a continuum, there are only moments the way there are moments in your life…
you don’t say oh….I had a life moment
….maybe…I had a lucid moment

depends. why you want to know?

Do you know their logo is ADDerall? not Adderall? I think. Therefore I am. I think.

I think we can safely say that PMS is like PAS (pre-ADDerall syndrome) for the ADHD. e.g. 'Don't worry a/b him. He's just PAS'.

Hey, I thought Canada was a socialist nation. Why file taxes? I was behind for 4 years myself. I'm caught up to t2o, now.

So how old are you? We know you're at least 17. So what do you do? Ride a bkie? Or the bus? There's no buses out here. Taxi, though.

Never married can be good, or bad.

No stocks save you money. No passport makes you a wetback around here. If you're foreign.

I wear boots, or ziplock sandles. If they're buckle snadles, I rearrange them and make them slip ons. I prefer going foot naked. AS a matter fo fact, I drive naked footed. I even go to church naked footed.

I was married barefoot. We got naked later.

Yes.

I blew up a chem lab, and forced everyone out of phsyscis lab, and closed the school for half a day. Does that count?

I used to write and sign my own tardy and absentee slips.

I am older than 17 too.

I tripped out too, and skinnied my knees.

I have a freidn named Lucid, too! She's my lawyer.

Sabina,

My feet feel that same way! I hate socks too! There should be a law that says you can go barefoot everywhere if you choose.

Ha, you see, its not just me....in the winter I go crazy as my landlords keep the heat down and my apt. is on the corner so it gets cold (live across the street from the beach..really) but I refuse to wear socks and end up with ice feet. I can barely stand getting into bed w/myself.

Maybe that's an ADHD moment. When you can't be with your feet!! lololol

when a trickster is around funny things can happen...

dust flies, heads spin and egos can take a beating...like a soufflé that falls as soon as you stop incubating

sure we're a socialist nation, in a schizoid sort of way... we are torn between being nice and being rich, being environmentally smart (home of Greenpeace) or being the world's biggest producers of garbage per capita (which we are).

Canada not only has buses (some have accordions in the middle and look like snakes…bloody things always popping up), some buses have bike racks but they took the little igloos off the roofs as they felt it was dangerous for the Eskimos to ride up there, what with global warming and all

Here I am at home on the front porch. I live across the street from the beach and its crazy all summer…

I bike everywhere...my ride to work is a metaphor for my life….steep grades with beautiful views that I can't stop and admire and little respite from the grind even at the end (up, up, up) and when you get there everyone is crazy or going crazy..and along the way you can get smushed by any number of outside forces...

I hate wearing socks, its like suffocating your feet, you can hear them screaming

I was looking at dictionary entries for ADHD…not good, how can anyone understand what the heck this is by the party line? There has to be a better way to describe this. I'm going to experiment with my drug now...nobody else will do it for me

For me, low,loud bass sounds tend to mesmerize me, but I can usually still think. In a car, if the windows aren't rolled all the way up or down,it creates a Very Low Frequency that I can't understand anyone speaking at the time.

The worst thing is when the high power furnaces are running at different frequencies (very loud), I even have trouble speaking, not to mention it messes with my memory the same way. Is anyone else affected by bells, whistles,flashing lights,etc., ,, let me know I'm not the only one.

daniel

Hello everyone, I just joined; first post here.

Lots of different conversation going on at the same time will completely lock out any though process I have going. Waaay to confusing for me. Example is when I'm in my cube working and there are people standing outside of it having a conversation and some folks in near cubes having conversations as well.

You are not alone...

I love to get out in the country where all I hear is nature.

I went in to have my hearing tested. I was in this sound proof room....It was like, I could actually feel the silence. It was so peaceful not being bomb barded by external noise.

Interestingly, not low bass noises, unless they're coming through the wall and I can't hear the rest of the tune. Then I get the an irritation type AD.

What'll send me into an almost immediate catatonia is a midrange (Freqwaves 500 Hz to 1.25 mHz) rhythmic riff on a guitar. I calling it

DR i f T i n g T h e R i f F

Hey, that would make a good logo...

Try it sometimes, its like drugs. For example, one minute into Birth, and then again at 00:02:23, on the album Wet by Birth, by The Faith. Not know music well, I'm not sure ifs the frequency, or the rhythm, or the bass guitar, or the regular guitar, or all of them combine.

You know, the cops could use this. Have a "Riff Rifle", that projects a freq in that range, and I'll freeze mid-mind... But, if they left it on, they'd never catch me...

[QUOTE=Davidornado]A trigger. [/QUOTE]

Will Rogers might not like his dead horsey being beaten around, but I might be able to outrun it

HIGH ho silver!!! That kemosob stole my SMOKES!!

What sets off a NON adhd moment?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I give up. What? A trigger. Like this: I just turned 500 today!

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What sets off an ADHD moment? How about the phone ringing like a jackhammer in my head! My entire week at work nearly killed me. I could not get a single thing done because every time I begin to work on a new file, the phone rings. I get off the phone, try to deal with the call and re-focus on what I was working on - it rings again - I try to work on a new problem with the other two problems I have still unresolved and then THE BLOODY PHONE RINGS BEFORE I CAN EVEN TAKE MY HAND OFF THE HANDSET!!! The cycle then repeats itself. All I want to do is get up and run, but I am glued to my stinking desk because phone makes me so behind that I have little chance of meeting my deadlines. I then stay late at work just to almost catch up. Then I get home too late to get any exersize in. Since I can't exersize I build even more nervous/restless energy and then its 2AM and I can't sleep.

Anyone ever get this???

[QUOTE=repairman]

[QUOTE=Davidornado]A trigger. [/QUOTE]

Will Rogers might not like his dead horsey being beaten around, but I might be able to outrun it

HIGH ho silver!!! That kemosob stole my SMOKES!!

[/QUOTE]

Whatever the name of that show was, for the new millenium:

The horse: HighHo. He's ADemphasisHD. He needs 6000 mg ADDerall a day, and a woman horsey.

The sidekick: Chemo-sobbie (he's depressed), needs Psychie Valuations. Until then he's self medicating with a smokable inhalant through a pipe. Peace. He needs a woman, too. Not horsey, though. Maybe Psychie Valuations will be The One.

Will Rogers: The SilverCowPerson-- He needs to be politicaly correct. He's disctactive type ADHD, as evidenced by his remotely unsimilar weekly episodes, He can hyperfocus for about a week. Then he's off to a new adventure... He don't need a wife, b/c he's had 17 already, some died (in the line of fire), some died (fell off his horse when he impulsively made a four-legged skid turn) and the rest divorced him b/c he was emotionally unavailble, although he was great in bed... So he became a gay cowboy, laughing everywhere he went. That was not queer in his day...

What sets it off for me is when I have too many projects to do and I get overwhelmed trying to figure out what to do first! Like right now, I am in the process of getting my classroom together for the new year and my room is bombarding me! Also, too many choices get me. I was at a craft sale and it took me forever to decide if I wanted a painting or not.

Also, loud noises and too many people around me. I can't stand overcrowed stores and noisy kids at the stores.

What sets off an ADHD event?

Being challenged.
It is mainly just day dreaming at inappropriate times... and arguing or making a point... being irrational happens all the time, as we lack focus..

Everything seems overwhelming and it gets worse the older I get.
bugzappers38591.8940393519Studying at the library was futile for me - even though it was quiet enough to hear a pin drop, I could still "sense" other presences around me, and hear the slight rustling of pages being turned, the faint scratching of someone else's pen on paper, and the steady flow of air through the venting system. It was almost more distracting than if 100 people had been talking at once. On the other hand, I couldn't study anywhere if people were talking, if the tv/radio was on, or if I was listening to music, either. I was kind of screwed either way.

I don't know if I have a "trigger", per se, ADD is just sort of always with you, ya know?

Ditto on the steady bass drumming though. I live in an apartment, and am quite often driven absolutely batty by that distant boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.....