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Post by jan on Feb 8, 2016 14:23:22 GMT
why has shout box been removed ? loved the shoutbox - Atticus can we have it back please ? Hey, Jan - how are you doing? What brought you back to the fold? I've been away for an eternity, too, and may not stay long, now. It's not the place it once was... I asked Atticus where the Shoutbox had gone a few days ago, and he didn't know, but said he was going to try to reactivate it. Probably slipped his mind. I do know that PD didn't turn it off, so my guess is that it was Roland. It does seem an odd thing to do when there was such a hoo-ha going on at the time about 'censorship', but there we are. Odd things happen. Shiny Hi thanks for the update, funnily enough what brought me back was someone getting banned ! - and strangely what sent me away was also someone getting banned ! one of my adhd traits is to see everything as very black or white - spent years in therapy learning to see the grey In life - it doesn't sit comfortably with me to ban people - from anywhere - reminds me of getting expelled from school, and also my daughter getting 'permanently excluded' as they call it now, and children getting put in care am a member of alcoholics anonymous and love the fact that however out of order people may sometimes be in a meeting - we never ban anyone - there's always a way back feel it leaves no option for dialogue - takes away our voice - leaves us powerless with no options I'd rather keep working at whatever the problem is until a mutual place of compromise or reconciliation is found and also of course causes a lot of hurt and pain - and as an adhd'er feel we on here should be more aware of that than most - as we are often misunderstood and harshly treated glad the shout box will be coming back and hope we're allowed to start swearing again too - as must admit all that know me on here know I have a foul mouth and its a place that I used to feel I was able to be real - this forum was a saving grace for me at an excrutionally difficult phase in my life - it was an amazing space in which I felt more supported and accepted than any other time in the whole of my life - and also it was just sooooooo much - fun I was 50 when I joined - and ironically it was because of that that I could negotiate the real world and stop living on here hope it will feel the same this second time around - i'm not good with change lol and feels like a strange territory at the mo and i'm treading cautiously - hope that it can be what you need it to be for you again too Jan
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Post by jan on Feb 7, 2016 19:25:39 GMT
hello anyone there ? no reply to my question - or request others must be missing it as well - aren't you people? ps hi all been a long time - hows everyone doing then - ? xx not expecting red carpet or bells to ring - but be nice to get a welcome back message
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Post by jan on Feb 7, 2016 1:21:55 GMT
why has shout box been removed ? loved the shoutbox - Atticus can we have it back please ?
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Post by jan on Mar 15, 2014 12:37:11 GMT
hya all you lovely mindfull people - xx well know kath, michael and jj gone (so prob not mindful ) hows rest of you doing with this then? contrarymary petra @lesley (why's lesley not coming up red with the @ thing? - have u gone as well ? just popped on to get link for cd for a mate re read most of thread god miss you people - you are all sooooooooo funny xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Post by jan on Feb 7, 2014 12:53:29 GMT
- for future reference - miss not mrs don't believe in legal slavery
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Post by jan on Feb 7, 2014 10:31:07 GMT
this country man ! - even the penguins get dx and medicated quicker than we do a ha - soooo funny maybe some of us have descended from penguins and its hereditary - symbolic the 'got wings but can't fly ' as well in it
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Post by jan on Feb 6, 2014 17:28:50 GMT
jan: thought it all went bit tooo well you just need to keep fingers crossed that i remember to post it now and that i rem to put adress on parcel and remember stamp and don't lose parcel on way to p office - should be simple enough 16 hours ago x
thats what i put in shout box this mornin - and not one of you reminded me to take money with me thought this supposed be a place for advice and support lol so of course off i went in pouring bloody rain - drenched through - all organised - get there - no bloody money Am pleased to report 2nd time lucky - remembered everything - even certificate of posting in case you dont get it and suspect i hadnt actually got around to posting it - or put the wrong address on - assuming you gave me right adress cos when jj was posting my stuff from liverpool thats what i did Am now on way home feeling very competent and proud of myself - its the little things in life in it eh (but very wet ) so hopefully you should get it by tomorrow xx
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Post by jan on Feb 6, 2014 11:39:54 GMT
Sorry takes me ages to get back on here sometimes! I have tried everything except the injection and haven't managed to find a single hormonal contraceptive that works without either causing problems with my PCO or giving me horrendous headaches and mood swings. I have evening primrose oil, to help try and reduce the mood swings a bit, but with no success. For now I give up and would rather let my hormones go to what levels they want. check this out - I have spoken to people that find magnesium can be the answer Morley at GotMag.org hope so - I used to be such a wild thing - my drug of choice now is magnesium
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Post by jan on Feb 5, 2014 22:29:34 GMT
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Post by jan on Feb 5, 2014 13:53:13 GMT
Ooooo. No smileys on quick reply Am re assrssing whether is ood thing coming back on here - Am now over 2 hours late fir work Came out without my phone And forgot leave key out for prodigal daughter ( who has lost hers again !!!) - and is just returning from a ten day exclusion zone ( cos she asked nicely oooo i've become harsh in my time away from here ) Had go back Am now waiting AGES for bus - in pissing rain -( but am strangely pleased as hope its sign that tube strike is going well - lot of scabs on northern line ) This has to be your fault people rolf Cant be me - this is just not productive
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Post by jan on Feb 5, 2014 13:03:21 GMT
fuck - not complete success - Kathymel you forgot your hat and scarf still - we used to near success in it and means you gotta come back now - cos god knows you need a bloody hat and scarf in Wales in it jj thanks for my pressie - is gonna see me through end of winter xx contrarymary - remind me to ask you about clonidine fuzzywuzzy - no particular message - just don't want you to feel left out gotta get together again soon girls - together we could rule the world shit am so late - gotta go xxxxx
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Post by jan on Feb 5, 2014 12:42:14 GMT
hya - quickie cos late as usual - and need to get out to work before i carry on saving the world kath just left and safely on way to wales we are very proud got to meeting exactly 1 min past 7 amazing for us two - together (and back) (without using tube) was fab meeting you all new and old ages since been in company of loads adhd'ers love you all - you quircky weirdos am over my strop about the one that's missing so may be around more often again - imbetween saving the world and destroying condemn goverment ooooo but now gotta go xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Post by jan on Feb 2, 2014 17:16:41 GMT
hello add people see its mostly usual suspects still posting (apart from one ) which i'm finding difficult to understand that no one seems to give a fuck !!!! where's the adhd solidarity then ? will be at this months meeting thanks to encouragement from kath SAD has had me for months hope to see some of you there xx
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 20:18:31 GMT
bollocks in it !!!!! i've just stopped thinkin about it full stop don't wanna talk about adhd anymore just ploddin along being me - done it for 50 years - otherwise will drive me (even more ) mad wishin you luck with it anyway xx
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 11:29:46 GMT
Waking up at sunset is such a drag. not always - depends what you do next
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 11:28:23 GMT
Either that or being locked away didn't recognise u there for a minute mighty
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 11:07:23 GMT
Hate Christmas, love dogs. So never been a problem for us. Watch out for relatives giving your dog Christmas treats. Some foods are just not compatible with our canine colleagues Sent from my GT-I9505 using proboards especially chocolate ps journeyman with you on the hate christmas bollocks have joined 'women and turkeys against christmas ' am not taking part this year - not sending cards that end up in bin anyway not buying presents that nobody needs anyway not buying food that wont get eaten not spending money that havn't really got - and not forgettin some important christmassy thing that'l get me in shit - am stress free and its wonderful
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 10:42:48 GMT
my daughter was dx with this last winter i had a cyst years ago but it disappeared hormones with it are mental !!! get a light treatment from lumie.com for the acne (if u get it ) works much better than the creams and stuff
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 10:37:04 GMT
am the opposite - all my life guys have got wrong message and think i'm flirtin with them when i'm just being my ordinary friendly self and women hate me cos think i'm after their bloke and lezbians accuse me of playing games then when they ask me out get accused of - shit forgot what its called now i swear to god i've got early dementia !!! my daughter even says i flirt with her female friends - i think - its just the way of the welsh (just remembered - cock teaser )
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 9:45:16 GMT
And 5, my fella loves me for me. If I didn't have these quirks, I might not have my fella. ha ha - when first read this read it as 'and my 5 fellas love me ' - was thinking WOW this girls got some serious adhd energy
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Post by jan on Dec 14, 2013 9:38:24 GMT
1. Nothing 2. Nothing 3. Nothing 4. Nothing 5. Nothing DITTO
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Post by jan on Nov 17, 2013 12:00:48 GMT
Hey! Does this still happen? Might go along to next one hya mighty - yep it still happens - you just missed this months - was last tuesday - was about 20 of us - it varies from month to month - i have been plannin startin another one in north london on the 3rd wed of month - was a lot of interest - have booked a room for 20th nov - at a pub which is being squatted by occupy london at mo but court case has been brought forward to this thursday so will have to see what happens first - so watch this space just to let you know - eviction happened (30 baliffs/police, dogs, 2 riot police vans - fucking ridicilous!!!!!) so meeting cancelled on 20th at this venue - will think of somewhere else and get back to you - though am so involved with all this at the mo have nearly forgotten that i have adhd (living room gettin fuller homeless hunk and stonking squatter now - gettin so have to book lap top time in advance ) though universe still on my side as stonkin squatter may be taking darling daughter travelling - 2 down one to go - though not feelin need for alone time at mo - am too fired up !!!
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Post by jan on Nov 15, 2013 21:22:48 GMT
I guess people making friends and mini groups on here and get to know each other. It's not cliquey on here - that's not what I'm suggesting. It's just friendships, but if you don't follow all the talk, it can feel kind of odd... aaaaw odat you were my first - when i was aadd.org posting virgin - if you get my drift so you'l always be special to me xx - and get what your saying - i only been gone 3 weeks and feel very much like that - like strangers have moved into my house soon get to know everyone though - cos we're all so alike in so many ways its just like meeting the same people over and over sort of twilight zone
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Post by jan on Nov 15, 2013 20:46:48 GMT
been off here too long - quotes not working was gonna say thats not how i imagined you look like petra and grim - you got your head on right way round - hooray - and jj - is info about tin hat from wiki - or your sister ooo and forgot - reason i posted - just to say someone asked me the time the day before yesterday and i looked at my wrist to see - but i havnt worn or owned a watch for about 20 years !!!! weird
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Post by jan on Nov 13, 2013 18:18:41 GMT
just to let you all know if you ever need to go to the passport office in London that when you walk into Victoria station there is a blue line on the floor saying 'pass port office ' which you can follow all the way through the station to the passport office how great is that if only more of them existed for other places I have to go to - life would be so much easier eh !
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Post by jan on Nov 11, 2013 8:50:56 GMT
Hey! Does this still happen? Might go along to next one hya mighty - yep it still happens - you just missed this months - was last tuesday - was about 20 of us - it varies from month to month - i have been plannin startin another one in north london on the 3rd wed of month - was a lot of interest - have booked a room for 20th nov - at a pub which is being squatted by occupy london at mo but court case has been brought forward to this thursday so will have to see what happens first - so watch this space
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Post by jan on Nov 1, 2013 21:39:19 GMT
Today's wikipedia excursion leads me to believe ADHD is very closely linked to GABA, especially as it appears that GABA based cell communication has a latency advantage over typical neurotransmitters (electrical vs chemical). I liken this to a primary/backup link scenario. Have we, for some reason, 'failed over' to GABA due to some dopaminergic/axonal deficit and never 'failed back' (IT speak)? If the dopaminergic response elicits action from secondary/tertiary systems en route, does this explain the poor working memory? You may have a perfectly formed dopaminergic pathway but if you're not using that pathway, it won't get committed anyway? For ages, we've likened ourselves to 8GHz processors with 128MB of RAM. If the above is true, it's more likely we are 8GHz processors with plenty (8GB+) of RAM that never makes it outside of the processor cache It might also explain why some of us feel stupider on meds. Flooding ourselves with dopamine (meds) possibly helps our brains fail back to the dopaminergic pathways? At least briefly anyway. Food for thought. Speaking of which, I am ravenous Perhaps ADHDers just need to be rebooted into Linuxdunno what the fuck that means but it sounds funny (lovin the new name by the way )
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Post by jan on Nov 1, 2013 7:00:00 GMT
Hya CB wow where do u find this stuff - interesting - can't do long post as still got no internet and on my phone ( the universe doesn't want me communicating at mo it seems ) - i really relate to most of this stuff - hard to rem all of it - nit the extra weight bit as was dead skinny most if my life - shopping centres are places i detest - missed the sea so much when first left wales - live next to the woods now. Am thinking may be part if reason that i had melt down after confrence as well - too much adhd excitement floating about - thoughts cant flow on this tiny bloody key board on phone will think on this - thanks - it cements a lot i had sussed about myself but often forget funny the day if the week thing - have always felt that and often wondered why i enjoy feel of certain days even though am not doing anything diff from another day - love sundays - and the easter thing - exactly me - fuckin hate mondays so much - even if not working xx
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Post by jan on Oct 27, 2013 10:37:14 GMT
someone sent me this yesterday - maybe i'm a bit slow and you all seen it before - but just in case thought i'd post it for all to see anew (or again ) - (especially those particularly struggling at mo - petra mighty grim @almostrelieved Kathymel tesss_ jonmdavies @jellybatt just to remind us all how truly fuckin fab we really are hope it touches you in that place where you need inspiration xx
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Post by jan on Oct 25, 2013 20:55:11 GMT
For the longest time, I've been through ups and downs, times when I feel everything is there and I'm going to conquer the world... and not such good times. I think I manage myself really well considering, thanks to a combination of mindfulness, journaling and trying to stay healthy. Even so, I think it might be time to discuss this fully with my psychiatrist. reckon that sounds like a good idea mighty - if you've got a long standing relationship with him/her and you trust them they can help you better if you tell them exactly whats going on with you and how your feeling and hopefully if they can't they'l be honest and refer you to someone who can. hope you can work out what's going on with you and get some helpful support The one thing I do know is that you can plan and prepare and predict, but things never turn out as you'd expect. ain't that a fact Intend to write some blog-type stuff soon! looking forward to it xx
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