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Post by anopheles on Aug 31, 2017 13:53:11 GMT
I don't think they're doing anything with this.
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Post by anopheles on Jul 25, 2017 16:23:01 GMT
I dunno. Rory Bremner, other actors, Richard Branson, the guy who invented the electronic air ticket...
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 11:16:29 GMT
Lol, came in to say something, already posted above and had forgotten.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 11:14:39 GMT
Yeah i had a load of ideas too (electric carpet tiles that store and release kinetic energy, google binoculars, mobile phone eye jockeys, etc), most have already been done or a trip to Google Patent disabused me of the notion of originality.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 11:08:47 GMT
Google Patent. www.google.co.uk/?tbm=pts&gws_rd=cr,ssl&ei=6KNLWdTSH8ykwAKUz4OQDw If this link doesn't work, just put Google Patent into search. It looks like a normal google search page, but if you put in something like 'Electric Wellington Boots to keep your feet warm' or something, then it shows all the patents that relate to that. This will help you find out if your idea is original. It can be disheartening if you find your idea already patented. However, remember, you can still have a patent if it has a significant difference in design. So, for example, your Electric Wellington Boots idea can still be patented it if they Change Colour when it rains or if they warn the wearer of incoming rain, but not if your design is just a different colour or material (if that material doesn't bring anything new to the table). You'd also have to show that how it does the 'feet warming' part differently from the other Electric Wellington Boot (they use chemicals, you use circuit boards or if you both use circuit boards, they warm the feet using different methods like warming water or warming the air).
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 10:59:50 GMT
I used to get them a lot before sleep. One thing my meds has worked on (still forgetful, dreamy and time management incompetent during the day.)
I still get the 'racing images' (almost real quality images of stuff i have been doing when I close my eyes), before sleep if I have been on the PC Gaming a lot. I try the technique of aiming my mind at a blue sky and racing upwards. Sometimes it works.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 10:56:22 GMT
Not quite the same, but I have to have a 24h ecg fitted because of an unexplained faint and one reading off the static ecg not being quite right. Not been told to go off my meds though.
Perhaps you could ask for the non stimulant strattera? It's takes an age to kick in, apparently, but won't affect your heart rate like the stimulants can.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 10:52:04 GMT
It's the Deficit word. It's not completely right.
We all know that our attention is not deficit all the time, sometimes we hyperfocus. It's more a lack of control over its modulation.
Perhaps it's should be called something like Attention Dysfunction (or the fancy Medical Greek for this) Hyperactivity Disorder?
If we were bold enough to change the Acronym, it's should probably be called Neuroatypical Executive Control Dysfunction Disorder (N.E.C.D.D).
Thoughts?
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 10:43:26 GMT
The people to love are the ones that make life easier. If they aren't making life easier and more pleasant......
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Post by anopheles on Jun 22, 2017 10:33:49 GMT
I'm easily offensive. I tend to lose entire social groups at once. So much more time efficient than losing individual friends.
We are not thoughtless, rather we are so full of thoughts that we have to store the spare ones in our mouths.
Not a lot to be done, they have the right to be offended and who to be friends with. Try to get your family or friends to think of the intent, not the content. It's not difficult to tell when we are trying to be offensive. Good news is that we tend not to make the exact same mistake twice, even if we do make lots of different mistakes once.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 21, 2017 18:41:29 GMT
I'm think of a spreadsheet on that thingy web program who's name escapes me.
It would have to be:
Anonymous: We'd go off user names. No phone or email swapping. This is because:
No Agony Aunting: This would be entirely for 'practical' help. For example, You have an appointment, a due date or a target. You put it on the diary. if you don't edit it on the day before/early the day of the appointment/due/target, then you send a message on these boards to remind them. We don't want to risk giving bad or even harmful advice and plenty of places offer that kind of help anyway.
Free: naturally
Still Ultimately Your Responsibility: We can chivvy and remind, but if you miss the appt, it's still yours to own.
That's what I'm thinking so far.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 11:05:33 GMT
Or 'I forget my keys sometimes too'. What, like 5 days a week, like I do?
"Everyone has a little ADHD, don't they?"
I'll give you the a, the first d and even the h, but the second D is the big D and it stands for Disorder. If this thing isn't fucking your life up, then it isn't ADHD.
Mini rant over.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 11:01:09 GMT
Dammit. Every day at my flat. leave the taps running. Luckily, the flow is so weak that it never over runs with the overflow balancing it out.
On some glorious days, I over run the bath, then pull the plug out to get it down to a nice level, forget about that and then have to start from the beginning again. Fortunately, never had to do that more than once in a day.
Yesterday, I let the bath over run. I pulled the plug out and wandered off. Realised. Spent ten minutes excoriating myself with self loathing. Went into bathroom and found I had let the bath down to a good level and put the plug in. I'd just forgotten I'd done that.
Sometimes, I am in danger of knocking my house down with my forehead thanks to frustration with myself.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 10:54:37 GMT
I''m on it.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 10:53:28 GMT
I'm probably not the only person to suggest this, but how about forming an informal support/coaching ring?
I know my own life is chaotic, but I take comfort from another area of my life. When I write most things on the PC, I have to edit about 60 times because I can't see all my own errors at once, but when I look at the writing of others, all the errors pop out like neon.
So maybe the same is true of other parts of life and for other people too?
Is anyone interested?
We'd probably start off tentatively, being text based. I know a lot of us are vulnerable so I wouldn't want us all sharing telephone numbers or even email right away, if ever. I know there are issues with this, but let's see if we can't break those down and overcome them rather than not moving for fear of the issues.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 10:46:49 GMT
I wish coaches were funded or subsidized, but alas not. If you can afford one: super, but if not you are hoping to find a trainee wiling to do it for free or having to pop down to your local uni to see if any pyschology students want you for a case and can help.
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Post by anopheles on Jun 20, 2017 10:40:49 GMT
Not sure if 'addicted' is a helpful word. Hyperfocussed on something you enjoy. That's what it is. Because it is porn, it is a societal grey area that some people don't like or like other people liking. If it isn't affecting relationships, isn't of an illegal nature or getting in the way or more important stuff, try to relax about it. If you'd like to stop, the only way is to find something more distracting and exciting.
Your medicine may not help because it's an activity that tends to take place late at night when meds have worn off and taking another stimulant could stop restful sleep.
PS; stimulants can also cause erectile disfunction too.
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Post by anopheles on May 26, 2017 19:33:20 GMT
Aye, one of the signs you have adhd is typing out a paragraph on the internet and having to go and correct it only the five or six times.
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Post by anopheles on May 24, 2017 13:32:10 GMT
Assuming you're eating enough protein, how about trying natural MAOIs? Coffee is very good if you're not affected by caffeine. Parsley, ginger, ginkgo, (I definitely had some benefit from gingko), I think Siberian (def. not regular) ginseng has a natural MAOI too. Turmeric, especially with black pepper, is a good one to try as well. Actually they're still good even if you're not eating enough protein! P.s. Gratz on the job! Also, was it the measurements that were wrong, or was it the width of the saw cuts that messed things up? Not got as far as sawing yet.... No just the measurements. Somewhere my brain frazzled itself. Terrible at work, you deny making a mistake like this, they show you the proof. You now look dishonest AND incompetent.
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 15:34:34 GMT
Tried the link, came up as not working. Shame. I really, really need a coach on a budget.
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 15:32:37 GMT
Hi there I'm new at this so I will be very brief. I have suffered depression ptsd anxiety and the rest still suffering from birth till date. I've recently been diagnosed with with Adult ADHD. Never claimed benefits but got to a stage in life I need help. So my psychiatrist told me to apply for pip. Just wanted to know is there any hope as I have my home assessment on weds. Thanks Sorry v late reply. Hope you are, like me, on PIP now.
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 15:30:48 GMT
I told Pixie Gloriosa the other day that I knew I love her because she inspires me to make stupid faces. 8 years! My longest relation by about.... 8 years! (well, 6.5) because we are two broken bottles that happen to fit after and explosion in a glass factory (and, it turns out, we both have ADHD, diagnosed within the last two years).
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 15:24:36 GMT
I describe it in a few ways using metaphors (it's how my mind works).
One: medical - Colour Blindness and Cerebral Palsy anologues.
Like Colourblindness, ADHD makes the world a bit more tricky to navigate. Instead of a lack of colour, a lack of time awareness and impulse controls (verbal, mental, emotional) and other symptoms make day to day living challenging and, like colour blindness, it's invisible to an observer.
Cerebral Palsy is a condition were neurons misfire and signals prevent the person from moving their muscles as they wish. ADHD is like that but instead of muscles, we struggle to control our 'excutive' brain fuctions like concentration, control and memory. We have no real say over where our thoughts land, what interests us or what level of interest we will show or what we remember. Unlike Cerebral Palsy, because people (both sufferer and observer) tend to link thought to personality or character we tend to not realise that although we may really, really, really want to concentrate on what you are saying we can't if it isn't interesting us or if it is sparking impulsive thoughts about connected (but temporarily irrelevant) things. Similarly, some ADHD people, although mechanically able to read, cannot read more than a few lines of text before impulsive and intrusive thoughts have taken over and they lose time or give up on the text.
Some of us will seem intense as we speak quickly about a subject, or unstable as our Emotional control can be difficult to use. Our emotions can fill a room. Some of us cannot be a little bit sad, a little bit angry or a little bit happy. This can make us seem (and think we are) unstable or trigger happy.
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Two: Other Metaphors
We have a Ferrari brain but shopping trolley steering.
We are the passengers in a car driven by a driver who insists on taking you on the scenic route even on simple A to B journeys. He will not listen even if you beg him to be direct.
We have Olympic Sprinter brains that will travel the 100m quicker than most other people but it's just that we may find ourselves, at the end of the sprint, in Row Z of the Stadium or half way across the javelin field....
We are like people who are trying to watch an exciting tv program in the lounge and making a meal for the family in the kitchen at the same time. We are in the doorway, not really doing either task particularly well.
We are bonfires who dream of being lasers or even candles. Some of us fear to leave the fire pit.
We are kites that require someone else to hold the string.
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 14:59:46 GMT
I've tried ritalin (it made me fat, go 5% chance!) both slow release and fast acting. Nothing, even on full dose. Trying elvanse. Nothing at 30mg, nothing at 60mg. Next up is 70mg.
The Elvanse makes me less tired (until i miss one) but I am not getting the 'Light switch moment' nor the 'Slow down' feeling of control over my brain. I still suffer from hyperfocus (especially late at night when the meds have worn off), fugue, lack of concentration.
For example, it's taken me 4 hours to make 14 small measurents and draw the lines on wood at my woodwork class (making a coffee table) - and despite concentrating as hard as I could I have had to redo 40% of them because I measured them wrong (should have been 27mm for a tenon and mortar joint but some how I managed to make some that were 20, 22, 25 or 30mm. I have no idea how. I just loathed myself for failing a task not far from being successfully attempted by a trained chimp). You can now see why employment past 3 months was a real achievement).
I definitely have ADHD, I scored highly 2.0 on the Swedish test for Concentration (and 1.8 for hyperkinesis) and have all the usual tics mentioned above.
Stil, the medication is making me have the paranoid thoughts that i either don't have ADHD or underneath the diagnosis I am still a vague, impulsive, daydreaming numpty (or on good days, I have a related condition to ADHD).
What do you do when all the treatments don't work out?
Accept the vagueness and the lack of ability to do even basic tasks?
I am lost and scared and fed up.
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Post by anopheles on May 23, 2017 14:45:58 GMT
In front of the computer, in the bath, lying in bed, putting my socks on, seemingly frozen in time but with my mind abuzz with everything for what sometimes seems like hours. Are there any reliable techniques for disengaging from hyperfocus and getting on with, in this case right now, washing up and leaving the house? Depends on context. Some things have a natural conclusion such as a need to be somewhere, a scheduled appointment, sleep, feeding the kids. If it's something late at night you have (if you are single) pray for a power cut, a desperate urge for the bathroom or a small local natural disaster. If it was easy, it wouldn't be hyperfocus. If it was a simple mental trick that could stop you, then it wouldn't be hyperfocus. Don't feel guilty, if you could have it another way, you would have it another way. It's a palsy. A person with Cerebral Palsy may get frustrated that their feet won't go where they want them, but they don't hate themselves because they, and everyone else sees it's not their fault. Because our 'palsy' is based on our thoughts and we mistakenly take thinking for character we (and the ignorant other) tend to give ourselves a good kicking 'Oh, why can't I just focus!" Basically, you are who and what you are. Nobody will die on the operating table. You may disappoint some people or make your life or someone else's slight less comfortable for a brief amount of time. Try, by all means, not to do so but accept that from time to time it will. The only real non medical treatment for hyperfocus is self forgiveness and acceptance. This makes me sound like the old hippy I most certainly am not, but it'll stop a lifetime of self loathing. Practically, alarms aren't guaranteed to work as it depends on the attractor's strength; 'Just five more minutes'. Another person as regulator is generally the best way for important time scheduling whatsits. As far as housework goes this works for me, but it fits my own pyschology, is that as I am 'attracted' by people's good view of my house I tidy up. So the only time the house work gets done is when I expect visitors.
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Post by anopheles on May 7, 2017 8:28:54 GMT
I've been on Elvanse for 3 months and it has got rid of my mental tiredness/actual tiredness (unless I miss it when it comes back with a vengeance, like most stims I guess) but it hasn't touched my concentration problems yet. It as also given me amphetamine teeth tapping, but not to an annoying level and after being on it for 2 months. I've also lost a bit of weight because I was one of the lucky 5% that puts weight on with methylphenidate.
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Post by anopheles on May 7, 2017 8:18:48 GMT
Could I just ask, if anybody obsessess over pretty muchanything that interests them?. I have gone through life jumping from one to another. Many of which not being good. Sport, different sports, woman, work, drugs, people and pretty much anything that I can enjoy. Yeah, it's different from true obsession though it can look and feel very similar (especially at the beginning of relationships), but as the other poster says, the difference is that every time you are out of the 'range of the attractor' there is a chance that the hyperfocus will break while true obsession is unlikely to.
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Post by anopheles on Apr 14, 2017 16:12:03 GMT
This has interested me since my diagnosis. I had to work around some issues and one of them was 'If i have so many impulsive thoughts, how can I tell which impulsive thoughts are really mine and is what I think I want what I really think I want and so which thoughts indicate the real me?' The relatively simple (in theory) answer was to let the first thoughts come and go as I have no control over them, but pay extra attention to the second thoughts but not to a point were you come to a stand still. Still, in relation to the theory of mind, it's interesting to compare it with some known facts about how the brain works. For example, there is a test where volunteers are connected to a brain activity monitoring machine and asked to point at a symbol that appears randomly. The brain sends the signal some time before the conscious mind thinks it is making the decision. Much longer than, say, the pain reflex and although the time doesn't seem much (a fraction of a second) in 'brain time' that is an eternity. Since a lot of us have trouble getting our unconscious and conscious minds on the same page, I thought this was interesting. Could it be as simple as a longer delay between unconscious and conscious decision making that allows unconnected thoughts to enter the 'decision making space'? Or, as in a condition like Alien Hand Syndrome, the different parts of the brain are not in sync or is the conscious mind is rebellious against the unconscious? Another thing that came up was 'When do you become 'a bad person'? I may have mentioned this before (what with my memory I may have even made this thread before), I sometimes walk into my local bank and think about robbing it. Planning the caper in my head. Does this make me a bad person? I talked it through with a counsellor and we came to the decision that, despite appearances, there is no malice in thought. Only malice in deeds. In other words, you are not a bank robber or 'a bad person' until you buy a balaclava and start sawing down the shotgun. Concerning malice in thought, the act of treating people badly is the malice, not the thought. We all have black crows flying over our fields occasionally, the trick is to not let them land. Ah, it could be said; Bank Robbery is all well and good, but relatively trivial. What about bad thoughts about problematic sex or discriminatory thoughts and, at first glance, people could put them in a special catergory of bad thoughts... but you shouldn't. It's best not have those opinions, obviously, but unless you are acting on those discriminatory or problematic thoughts, then there is no harm, but in the worrying about them... This is not permission to think discriminatory thoughts are OK, as eventually those thoughts and attitudes will/are going to leak out of the hole in your face or turn into an act that is malicious, but the thoughts themselves are not intrinsically malicious. Otherwise we start putting things like time limits on them and they are arbitary. Time limits? Well, for example, thinking man who stood on your toe a moment ago is a clumsy fool is ok, but what about in ten minutes, an hour, three weeks? Just some neuroatypical rambling, but it helps me get to sleep and now it can help you.
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Post by anopheles on Apr 14, 2017 15:43:59 GMT
I know, I know, the Doctor will know. But... You know, you know, I'd like to know right now. I've been on Elvanse for 4 months (30 for a month and then 60s) and for the last two weeks I have been noticeably tapping my teeth. I looked out a diagnostic site(I recently had a partial colonectomy for cancer, so everything out of the ordinary is now AUTOMATICALLY CANCER! even though I am officially free and clear) and the one that struck me was Amphetamine use and, blow me, I'm on those. I always thought side affects would come on quick, considering that they don't stay in the body long. So can they come on after months? It's not a deal breaker for the medicine, but i wonder if other side effects might come on.
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Post by anopheles on Oct 18, 2016 23:46:09 GMT
If i've been very stimulated (film or pc games usually) when I go to bed I get rapid flashing images of what's interested me. Going very fast. Not hallucinations because i know they're just images and not dreams because they keep me from going to sleep. Anyone else have these? I found the only way to ignore them was to imagine going straight up into the sky until I fell asleep.
I do have wierd sleep though because I appear to dream from the moment I close my eyes (I've dreamt on the way down after fainting and I've dreamed during catnaps while waiting for trains or if woke shortly after going to sleep) to the moment I wake up. Probably dopamine related. I don't have narcolepsy and my depression is managed.
Anyone have that too? I think a sleep survey of ADHD people would be very interesting.
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