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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 23:47:03 GMT
Would love to hear more about zombie appocalypse survival techniques. I only recently found out that they can walk underwater, so my plan of getting a boat is in the drink. As far as I am aware so far, best tool kit so far is cigarettes and booze, lighter, flame thrower, ham radio, and of course the trusty flymow strapped to your chest. I really enjoyed Anne Rice's Blood and Gold, if anyone likes vampires? That one is a stonker.
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 21:43:27 GMT
my g/f is Jewish, so a happy Pesach to you too and thank you for reminding me!
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 19:52:11 GMT
Hey how is the coaching going? Would love to hear more We dont have anyone coaching for ADD here in the Bristol area, although I think there may be a psychologist connected with the psychiatrist who you can only get hold of through him or something? Do we have any stats or anecdotal on the state of progress in coaching? Is it something that is useful while its all new and shiney or is it making a valuable long term difference? Gonna read Kohlberg and Nadau soon which looks great, but have to adimt, in my case I really liked and resonated with aethelreadtheunready's humour on the subject of diaries and calendars on the main website, hilarious.
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 7:29:23 GMT
Stop that it's silly
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 7:15:23 GMT
Do not click on the link below. It is the best one yet, but do not click on it. Final warning. Do not press the big red button.
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 7:09:27 GMT
You know you have ADD when....
.......you have had the Harlem Shuffle stuck in your head for longer than you can possibly remember
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 7:06:09 GMT
;D
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 6:40:44 GMT
Oh, and my comedy advice is never live with an ADHDer! When we are good, we are very very good, but when we is bad, we is [glow=red,2,300]horrid[/glow] We definitely, at the very least, need things like man caves to crawl off to and cool off in
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 6:31:11 GMT
Lovely replies: will go back over those a few times Indecision and confusion is definitely a trait, as much as passion. I have never managed more than 3 yrs myself, and am looking forward to having an ADD specialist therapist help be work out all these relationship nightmares that finally seem connected to the condition. Mayb they can throw some light I know that what always throws light for me - is resting my busy busy and often utterly exhausted and broken overcooked brain (going into the sidelines as you put it maybe ) The best way for me to do that now is guided mindfulness meditation. Especially regularly. Not thinking about it all, and observing and then slowly relaxing my body, breath and mind for a bit. Works wonders at helping me get perspective. It really helps with all my interactions. Calm, clarity, comprehension, and often insight. Although one time early on, it did help me really focus on my anger lol I dont think that was a particularly good session LoL, although the assassin from Fish Called Wanda might disagree there are many flavours of meditation PS if you are interested, am particularly impressed with Sharon Salzbergs 28 day course at the mo, (wish I could afford the 8week classes in a group) but Bruce Frantzis is a good way in if you like eastern martial arts? There are tons, all of varying persuasions, approaches and standards. I have a huge and ever growing library that I mentioned in a thread called: Topic: guided audio meditation (mindfulness, etc) and there is a little more info there... If you want to help get an ADDer into this as well, it is obviously really important to find one they actually like, and the meditation monitor (HRV biofeedback) I have also works wonders. Much more visual and scientific, for those that like to be able to see progress and actual results on the screen. I should have a post up about that soon PS obviously not suggesting you should try and force anyone into it, very counterproductive, but just doing it yourself might work wonders, is slow but powerful stuff, and sometimes slowly contagious too, it really helps me connect, and to see when not to try. Peace and clarity can change your whole perpective. We see the world through how we feel....at that moment!
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 28, 2013 5:35:50 GMT
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 27, 2013 19:41:54 GMT
It seems we cant upload the images we choose ourselves directly to here, we have to provide a URL So I shrunk it to teeny tiny and hosted it else where, but still I cant get the photo I want to show on my profile here, from facebook, photobucket or google+ photo repository. Can it be any URL or will it only except certain kinds? Other peoples images (mostly) show up fine on my profile here, I even got a moving gif to work Am I just being stupid? Are computers just winding me up again? PS it says we can only have 100x100 pixels - but some of you have way more than that! What is the real limit? That image below is 100 by 50 or so Attachments:
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 27, 2013 15:33:09 GMT
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 27, 2013 3:43:07 GMT
Love to give it a go, please do keep me posted Who is LANC ooohshiny? I am finding HRV biofeedback really positive, just under £200 a machine, and around £250 for a four week course. Low income discounts available. I will be providing this training towards the end of the summer to give me more time to do test cases with ADD. Feel free to volunteer but even if you are being a free trial, you still need to rent (or buy) a machine. £100-120 deposit, 20pwk rent. Which can easily be arranged. I absolutely love it, among all my other meditation, and mindfulness practices But desperately wanna get into neurofeedback! Both to have a go on the 256probe qEEG assesment in 3D, and do biofeedbackwith that (very expensive kit), I dont think my diagnosis will be standard, cant wait to see all the different types, and I really wanna do a meditation study, not to mention biofeedback in high res And then also have a go on the little portable four probe biofeedback machines, under a £1000 with just one probe, is the cheapest I have found so far, suitable for producing the work of the 70s to the 90s (i could list the main practitioners if you like, but I am most interested in Cade and Wise at the mo) There is also the more advanced 10/20 neurofeedback ones in the mid range which sound interesting but pretty expensive kit Might have to set up a group, but if anyone can find out ways we can help take part in studies or pay for sessions, please please please let me know
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 5:28:53 GMT
I think we should implement, for their own safety, a policy where children are only allowed to use rubber knives and forks. And rubber plates and glasses. And rubber scissors. It is just too dangerous for them otherwise.
I think they are banning school playgrounds soon and instisting that only fully supervised and monitored virtual ones be used in break time. I am completely in support of this. You can get a nasty grazed knee in a playground you know
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 5:22:45 GMT
Health and safety! You are in breach of Culinary Regulation 624b part 3. Back away from the pointy flapjack. You could have someones eye out with that!
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 2:37:41 GMT
Sorry, and one last point. You know you have ADD... ...when you have to actually ban yourself from ADD Forum This is worse than facebook #] see ya x
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 2:05:38 GMT
I really better walk the dog. It is a good job she doesnt have a watch. She seems to have given up ages ago, so it will be a nice surprise at least. I have been compulsively fiddling with this since about 12, but at least I am not still sat here with my coat on, maybe one last quick read through....
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 1:40:08 GMT
And deadlines OMG. It seems the more I try the worse it gets. People think I miss things coz I don't wanna go or coz I don't care. I miss massages! These are rare things. That I desperately want and need! (I have comorbid MPS) That I have to pay for whether I turn up or not! Or I turn up late, having had all morning to not get distracted in, in a rush, with only half a session to stop sweating and calm down in I have totally given up with the library books, I never read them in time, and it is blatantly way cheaper to just buy them And when I went travelling, I had four planes to paradise (one was back home, and on that one I missed, I panicked and ended up in germany thinking it was easier, but oh no...). So yeah, four planes to paradise, that I desperately wanted to catch, and out of the four, I missed five of them!! ...because I managed to get them to take pity on me and rebook me one of the ones that I missed, and then was confidently lost reading a book thinking nothing can possibly go wrong here, what can possibly go wrong....in the wrong bloody departure lounge! ADD really is a blessing and a curse. Well for one thing, at least we learn from an early age to laugh at ourselves... ...lest we cry ;D
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 1:19:20 GMT
You know that you and two out of three of your mates have ADD when you start leaving for the lake at 10 in the morning, and you get there just before sunset, luckily, but by the time you get there you have baked a cake, had lunch, been to town, brought speakers, several boats and surfboard, books, blankets, chairs, toys, gaffer tape, repair kits, tool kits, first aid kits, multiple cooking options, enough food to last all week even though you are only going for the day, have multiple false starts while people go back to quickly just get what they forgot, three cars, one of which gets lost, (mine) (and its only just round the corner) and then you have to spend all evening in A&E anyway coz one of them started nattering while chopping firewood. Good job you brought so many first aid kits, eh
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 1:18:08 GMT
You know you have ADD...when you have to drive a mahoosive great big van so you can find where you parked the car ...when the more you try to get the shopping in the bags quickly coz everyone is staring at you, when the supermarket queue is massive, and the more you try and go faster, the more things you drop and the longer it takes and the more they stare at you, and the more they stare at you the more you try harder and the more things you fumble and the longer it takes Slow down! A blacksmith ADD friend of mine once said the wisest thing he was ever told is "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast" In my case slow is definitely fast ....when quickly tidying your room so you can find something you lost, takes at least until dawn coz you keet getting distracted by the things you were supposed to be tidying, or at the very least lost in setting up systems to help keep things organised that completely miss the overall point of tidying the room, and by dawn you have still not finished, and although you cleared the floor, both the floor and the bed are now covered with a load of paperwork that you decided you really must tidy, or it will never get done, and then you remember again that you were looking for something... ...when the dog is still staring at you three hours later because still you haven't quite made it out the door, neearly there, sorry, I just need to quickly....
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 26, 2013 0:13:00 GMT
ROFLMAO I wish I could 'like' peoples comments. So many made me laugh. I am generally strapped to everything important, but still leave money in cashpoint, cards in machines, forget to pay etc etc I have two oyster cards (generally somewhere sensible, I know, there is a system) and I dont even live in london I have at least 5 tape measures, two sliding squares, more pencils than you can shake a stick at, and still I cant find any of them, or the bloody stick! And why do you always find things in the last place you think to look? Eh?
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 25, 2013 2:42:15 GMT
Personally (I completely avoid caffeine have massive sleeping problems and) methylphenidate is a last resort for me, but I Fully support those that do. For me, I would rather try modafinil as from my research so far, it is supposed to be less sympathetic ANS stimulating, even though it is still being assessed for ADHD I think
I think that having a sympathetic doctor makes such a difference, but who was the senior officer that is saying her job would be on the line if she prescribed it, and how much would it be on the line? As much as usual for any off-label prescription, or actually on the firing line
If you need it you need it
I know its much easier if you get help to find the right dose, because apparently you dont think it is working on you, only those around you can see the difference, but, if they are going to make it impossible, can you not get it shipped in from abroad and get friends and family to help? Is shipping it in cheaper too?
Is that illegal?
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 22:43:18 GMT
OMG I love you ALL!
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 22:42:04 GMT
I am off to find some squirrels
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 22:12:55 GMT
oh yes! and beer! (Oh my god thats good) is that a political view point?
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 22:10:01 GMT
confirmed agnostic front as in know that I dont know Anything, apart from that politics may well be a big distraction from what is really going on ps i love your orange can I have one? oooh sweet ta
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 22:07:30 GMT
Daoist
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 20:18:42 GMT
There are many kinds but I am using HRV biofeedback. Thats Heart Rate Variability. I will put a proper post up about it soon coz I have been using it all year to great effect and I really hope it can help others too. I dont really wanna hijack this thread about coffee sugar and make it about HRV. Am a booze man myself anyway lol Spk soon
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 24, 2013 0:39:57 GMT
Ooh, I will definitely get back to you on this one, in fact now it is written, that is way too long for your thread, and you may or may not like it. There are definitely a lot of BS books out there capitalising and rehashing. If you wanna read my opinions, go to my thread on the subject
Would absolutely love to hear more about Safren, and Zylowska you mention, and also about the book by Brown that is due out soon
Personally I find mindfulness or meditation of some kind utterly indispensable to normal functioning. But then I cant access the methylphenidate yet. Cant recommend regular practice highly enough, for depression& stress, calm, focus and concentration just to begin with. Although I am just a free thinker, some might view me a some kind of bleeding heart liberal lefty hippy i guess. Everything is relative. To each their own, suck it and see. But I must be clear, I like everything based in science, or better still personal experience as well. I love science but am fully aware of the limitations of the scientific paradigm. We see what we look for etc etc
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Post by fuzzynick on Mar 23, 2013 18:37:46 GMT
Hi are there any people out there that want to help make some rigorous scientific studies on the effects of various forms of meditation / mindfulness / biofeedback on adult ADHD? There aren't nearly enough studies. Most of the evidence is currently anecdotal WE should do this right, take it into our own hands, for free, for the good of our community. I want to explore any ways possible to make it easier for the ADD brain to meditate, relax and stabilise. Would love to help others find how much it can benefit them and generally evaluate its efficacy in our community PLEASE only USE THIS POST TO briefly VOLUNTEER YOUR DETAILS (and a brief summary of relevant skilled experience ideally) IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING. In any way, shape or form Thank u Lets get a massive list of skilled people, and research assistance (advice, financial and otherwise), as many meditation teachers of any serious persuasion as possible, and set something up. I am 100% up for doing this for free, and I have been studying it really hard in so many directions and practicing many techniques. It helps me with stability and clarity so much. I can't wait to share what I have learnt so far and find out other peoples experiences and tips It is extra difficult, but possible also extra rewarding for the ADHD brain to learn to meditate, so lets work on evolving techniques that match our needs and then scientifically evaluate them My skillset is currently limited to boat loads of research into various techniques. I really need help with this. Who out there has been involved in the making scientific studies before?
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