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Post by easilydistracted on Jul 5, 2017 22:01:43 GMT
We seem to have an admin shortage at the moment - and as a new poster your post won't appear till approved by one. Why wait? Diagnosed before with just Adhd, now with aspergers too, oh the fun
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Post by easilydistracted on Jul 5, 2017 21:54:48 GMT
Hi @tyler River, We seem to have an admin shortage at the moment - and as a new poster your post won't appear till approved by one. Your post does seem on-topic so reposting it for all to see... I'm concerned wether I have ADHD or not (I am 16). For me some symptoms fit perfectly were others are not me at all. For instance I know that I have a short attention span and I'm ether fidgeting and constantly moving or lost in a daydream. I often make silly mistakes on tests and essays even though I know the correct answer. Most of the time people talk to me I don't remember what they have said and this has gotten me into a lot of arguments with my mum as I often forget to do chores or remember events. I have realised that I sometimes but isn't conversations and people that talk slow really iratate me. I flit between tasks (when I was younger I used to play with toys for a short amount if time and then move on to something else) and often loose things which has also started arguments. I feel uncomfortable in situations that are not stimulating/boring and I often get the urge to leave rooms that I'm not interested in (for instance I find it hard to whatch films with out doing something else at the same time or fidgeting. However dispite this I have very little problem paying attention in class. I do fidget a lot in lessons and move around in my seat to the point we're people have commented on it, however I do well in class and have achieved high marks on most of my exams. My parents don't know what ADHD is and i only found out after searching symptoms. I don't know if I should get checked out or talk to my parents about it (I don't think they will believe me) also my dad has characteristics that fall under ADHD. sorry that this is such a long paragraph I just want to blurt everything out as I'm feeling really frustrated and confused.
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 23, 2017 19:47:26 GMT
gc7Taking the slightly cynical attitude that 3 weeks into the month they have used up their budget. That being adjourned means they plan on being nice to you but can't yet!
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 10, 2017 13:52:30 GMT
The Tories are still clinging on and they are about to team up with a political party that denies climate change, is anti-abortion, sectarian and homophobic. Don't forget creationist. There must be a lot of Tory voters wondering if this is the price of power, is it worth it? Theresa May might have won the battle, but she lost the war. This Yes There is hope for the future, thank you
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 8, 2017 19:12:20 GMT
@boost
I think you are the only one getting emotional here.
You offer no suggestions yet say everyone else is wrong.
Past performance is the only true measure we have, what do you suggest? Their promises?
The only thing that is true is that if a promise worries you it's mostly truth, if it cheers you then it's mostly lies.
You've stopped even attempting to make any point and are now casting disparaging comments on other posters judgement.
Ok, have it your way
The only thing you have said of any truth is that you don't know shit for shit.
Even your statement that you love to argue is wrong, argument suggests knowledge and logic and you are displaying none.
You are simply disagreeable
Goodnight
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 8, 2017 7:09:37 GMT
@boost
You start with assumptions and get them wrong.
You then seem to argue that because the underfunded NHS makes mistakes it should be abandoned.
Remember the alternative is private healthcare for those that can afford it or none at all.
Private healthcare is only making coin off the misfortune of others, what sort of society thinks that a good idea?
And education? Do you think it only the privilege of the high born?
Employment protection, now, I've been sack justly, with that I have no complaint, I deserved it. I've also come damn close to, what I consider, unfairly losing a job and had it not been for employment law I suspect I would have.
The civil service, like any admistrative system, needs the occassional disembowling. It will never sign up for a diet itself and will only ever grow fatter with increasing numbers of do-nothing managers talking to do-nothing managers.
I suspect you are looking at the ECHR and the decisions held against us, remember, any law that protects the good also protects the bad. To throw the bad to the wolves also throws the good.
With your last two paragraphs you shift from dismissing the points to dismissing me.
The first with the inference that my k knowledge is faulty.
The second a comment on my character.
Really?
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 8, 2017 5:42:44 GMT
How sure are you that any of that is true?
Quite sure indeed and if you want I'll point you to the piecemeal privatisation by stealth of our health system or the re-introduction of grammar schools, which by virtue of catchment area driven primary education is a two-teir postcode and thus wealth driven system.
If on the employment front you question my facts I'll point you at the reduction of redundancy notice or the difficulties now in going to tribunal.
On the human rights fronts I'll point you to the protections it has given us from some of the more bizarre decisions of the state, on anti-terror laws I'll point you at the many abuses of the current ones.
How sure are you that any of it has value?
Are you suggesting that a child should receive less education because their parents are not wealthy? Or poorer health treatment?
Are you suggesting we that live under the threat that each day is our last?
Are you suggesting that we have blind trust in government, accept every decision made regardless of how unjust. Or forget that systems to monitor or censor for one purpose, once in place, can have that purpose extended on whim?
Or are you suggesting my opinion has no value?
How sure are you that the terms 'left' and 'right' are not deprecated?
They are, but 'caring' and 'selfish' while equally correct are equally easy to poke holes in, 'left' and 'right' are broadly understood and far less pejorative and so will do for now.
I have policies more than politics, many more questions than answers and dislike the extremes on either side.
If we look like we are going too far in either direction you'll hear me argue.
But today, the threat is that we throw the baby out with the bathwater. We have the ultimate sanction now of walking away from Europe, let's play that hand gently and make sure it benefits us all.
So today, nudge us back from the right, lean left a little.
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 7, 2017 20:11:18 GMT
I won't be voting for Theresa May.
Why?
I like the fact we have an NHS, I like that we have one education system for our kids. Neither is the best in the world but it's better than none at all
I like that we have a degree of employment protection, I have no wish to see the country return to people queueing at factory gates for a day's work in the name of employment flexibility.
I like that our membership of Europe has reduced the worst excesses of "Ripoff Britain"
I like that we have human rights legislation that protects us from the state intruding further into *our* lives to protect *themselves* from the problems *they* caused. I'm not so gullible that I believe that human rights laws only protect bad people, I'm not so naive not to think that the same tools that can be used against terrorism cannot be used against free speech or won't, after all, it's just a matter of degree.
The right wing of the country may have set the Brexit direction, now is the time to prevent it becoming a dangerous and irrecoverable lurch by easing it left.
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 4, 2017 21:34:42 GMT
Where do the CQC fit into this? Or rather, given that they appear to be running round your area with a hot poker and sticking it up peoples backsides atm... can they be made to fit?
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 4, 2017 15:31:39 GMT
Oh FFS Marion! Will you please STFU about protein? Hi Bee, it's that inner self-destruct button, that mousewheel feeling that every day is the same. Not necessarily a bad same but a same just the... same. And it sounds like you have things pretty sorted and working well for you. But none the less it's the sameness. And over there you can see crazy, chaos, fun and (mis)adventure, the kind that you knew you were escaping when you got into your new life, the current sorted sensible one. But that niggle grows and it's feeling pretty compulsive at the moment? It's a drive, an energy that you haven't felt in a while. It's also a train crash for your current life. There's no dipping your toe in the water, no eating just one crisp and leaving the rest of the packet, no just one ciggie.. Anyway, you get what I mean. Yeah, sure it won't swallow you up in one go, you'll get away with it for a while and you'll go a bit further next time and the next time further still Until it all goes wrong. And you suddenly realise what you have lost or about to lose and you'll be desperately trying to claw your way back. And that sameness that is making you itch so much will be all you want and you'd give anything to have it back again. I resisted for a while and then gave in and one day there was no going back, that door was closed to me. Take up abseiling, white water rafting or base jumping. anything else that will add the buzz you need back into your current life. But stick with that life, sounds like you've doing well Stay strong and good luck
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 1, 2017 19:33:27 GMT
Lets you read then when you write a reply and hit send it logs you out and eats the post you've just written
Does it warn you when you hit reply? Noooo, far too fucking sensible, it waits till you've written it all and press send then it says fuck you and logs you out
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Post by easilydistracted on Jun 1, 2017 19:30:23 GMT
Can you ask the Ombudsman for the evidence on which this decision was made? "We've taken all your money cos the nice man with the ball under the cups says there's a ball there, no we haven't seen it either but he's a really nice man so he must be telling the truth"
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Post by easilydistracted on May 26, 2017 11:15:32 GMT
Hi Janasjki12,
Giving you the benefit of the doubt that your advice may be well intentioned.
You yourself would have to admit that taking investment advice from someone you don't know would be a tad foolish...
Especially if that advice is to invest overseas.
If you can't see anything wrong with that then I know a Nigerian Prince who has some great offers too...
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Post by easilydistracted on May 21, 2017 22:16:19 GMT
Sheer bloody minded obstinacy is maybe the most powerful tool we have.
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Post by easilydistracted on May 21, 2017 20:38:50 GMT
Hi! Well, you have the advantage that you already have a dx and that, it seems, is the slow part for almost everyone. Apart from that, I guess you'll be bracing yourself for the inevitable barrage of "What's changed? Why now?" questions from the doctor. Maybe, even if you don't have the answers today, just the conversation itself, the act of bouncing your answers off the doctor, will reveal you the answers you need. Good luck
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Post by easilydistracted on May 21, 2017 17:54:01 GMT
Hi Marion, I don't doubt for a second your belief that a protein defecit is at the root of ADHD. Nor do I doubt Dr Vatsal G. Thakkar's belief that sleep problems are the cause. Or for that matter do I doubt Dr. Paul Haider's belief that meditation can cure ADHD. Or even David Icke's belief that it's all fictious and just part of the Ritalin Conspiracy. But then I also don't doubt his belief in the Lizard Illuminati or Tony Blair's belief in the justification for the Gulf War. People are entitled to their beliefs What they are not entitled to do is ram it down other people's throats and certainly not to mislead, confuse or otherwise divert attention away from possibly better approaches. That you should be promoting your beliefs over over the accepted medication here, here or here as just a few examples on a forum where many people are genuinely struggling is both arrogant and unbelievably reckless. By all means, set your stall in *one* thread of the Non-Medicinal Treatments, Aids, & Strategies section of the forum, but please there and nowhere else. Thank you
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Post by easilydistracted on May 21, 2017 0:57:58 GMT
Hi dude Some of this is very familiar Like you I didn't see it coming. My wife, quite uncharacteristically, bought me drink, then drove me down to see the bank manager and got me to sign all the debts into my name. Then she moved out taking the kid with her. And for Christmas that year I got a letter from her solicitor. I had no job and a stack of bad debt piling up un-opened behind the front door. That was the way 2008 ended. Started going to AA more regularly, it wasn't a cure, far from it, but it did mean the odd dry night. And that was an improvement, no, wrong word, it merely slowed the pace at which it was getting worse. Picked up a bit of agency work and visited the Citizens Advice Bureau who got my debts frozen. 2009, bad year, 'nuf said. 2010, stopped drinking. This is when it really got painful. Without the ability to switch off I had to face it all, no hiding from it. Every day just seemed to reveal another pile of shit. Towards the end of 2010 things started to pick up, more regular work meant the possibility of trying to fix the mess. ... 2017, still sober and this year I finally pay off the last of those bad debts. The family I've lost though, there's no fixing that, I don't even hope for that. It's been a shit 9 years, there's no other way of putting it. *However* That corner is finally turnable, this year I get to start a new page of the book, finally, at long fucking last. It's long overdue, it's been a painful, lonely journey, I won't lie about that, but it's a doable one. Stick in there
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Post by easilydistracted on May 20, 2017 18:48:24 GMT
Hi all, After having various mental health issues over the last 18 months I've come to wonder if I could be a culprit for adult ADHD. Until I 'discovered' ADHD no other 'conditions' ticked all (or remotely any) of the boxes. My school reports very much tally up with those of other adult ADD'ers and things things from my teenage and young adulthood tally up too. I'm now early 30s, female, and my mental health 'unravelling' happened when I had to take on full responsibility for a house. I've seen a couple of GPs and a nurse at my doctors surgery over the last year with my symptoms but the only thing they could offer me was a tri-cycle anti-depressant or CBT. Neither of the doctors thought the medication was suitable (and I did even less!) and one doctor actually told me he thought I'd learn more from a book (Chimp Paradox) than CBT so I did nothing about that (but the book seems good from the re-read-many-times first chapter!) Anyway, after discovering ADHD a few months ago I had a GP appointment last week and from reading these boards today I think it went well but I can't tell if I've been 'mugged off'. The doctor looked through my notes and said that I had complained of more than 2 symptoms on more than 2 occasions over the last year he's put me forward for a <b>referral via the community mental health team "to see if it is ADHD or isn't". So my question is, do you think I have been put forward for an actual assessment or more 'off loaded' to the community mental health team? I didn't think assessments were this easy? I'm ringing the community team on Weds (7 days after Docs apt). Thanks in advance and sorry if the above is a bit of a ramble! B.O.F. Hi! Your post is being held for moderation, but as it seems ok, why wait? That's what I was told by the GP too, that she was referring me to the MHT who would then decide whether I was ADHD bonkers or just plain bonkers. After a while, ( part of me thinks a month and a half ) I phoned the GP who told me to phone the MHT who told me my case had been sent straight to the ADHD team. From there the *slow* ball started rolling... By slow, think "wait 2 months for a letter that says we'll see you in 2 months time" slow But it did happen Good luck!
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Post by easilydistracted on May 20, 2017 15:47:31 GMT
On a more practical note
It might be worth looking again at your medication, why?
It can have a massive effect on mood
I took a break from Concerta for a few days, my mood tanked, another time I started Zyban and OMFG did I plunge into the abyss. But it passed, it was a rough 3 days, but it passed.
If your meds are giving you a scary head, don't try to hide it, let the doc know.
In fact let him know now!
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Post by easilydistracted on May 20, 2017 15:35:07 GMT
Hi Dude,
Guess it's a bit of a shit day?
My life is also... hmm... slightly less than stellar.
If nothing else, the same thing that makes me a bit of a serial eff-up is the same thing that keeps me plowing onwards.
Or put it another way, I may not know what direction I am going in or what direction I should be going but I don't let that stop me!
Maybe every day is just another day of monkey versus typewriter.
But
As long as that monkey is there, attacking that typewriter every day, there is that hope, that chance, that it will work out, that somewhere there's a happily ever after for little ole me.
So stick in there dude, tomorrow's a new day
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Post by easilydistracted on May 19, 2017 20:00:22 GMT
Altered Images - Insects
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Post by easilydistracted on May 19, 2017 19:20:52 GMT
*snigger* Sticker seen on a pub table today
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Post by easilydistracted on May 8, 2017 20:50:59 GMT
I do finally feel at home reading some of the posts. Fealt alone for a long time. So I suppose thats something. It's a big something too, knowing you are not the only one, nor are you the first, nor will you be the last to come on this little voyage. Until I get bored of it. Then where am I? Cured! It's a massive thing for you at the moment, it's in the forefront of your thoughts, that's to be expected. In time you will have days when you've forgotten about all this, you have other things in mind and are simply getting on with life.
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Post by easilydistracted on May 8, 2017 19:16:36 GMT
Ah, Pandora's box is now fully open Welcome to the rollercoaster, the euphoria and damnation of discovery. The high of finally understanding and the low of accepting your newfound flawed status. Would I unlearn if I could? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Today no, it's better to know hmm, maybe ask me later Welcome
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Post by easilydistracted on May 7, 2017 16:29:00 GMT
If you have control over it it's "just" a problem, if it has control over you then it's addiction
And binges/benders are a loss of control as well.
Sorry dude, trying to pin it on anything else is just denial in a different hat.
Mine was drink.
Now whether we are predisposed is a seperate question!
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Post by easilydistracted on May 7, 2017 12:46:19 GMT
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Post by easilydistracted on May 6, 2017 16:23:41 GMT
Lots of coping mechanisms!
And yes, in hindsight the dots were all there.
Was passed this vid, it's aimed at kids but...
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Post by easilydistracted on May 6, 2017 16:12:38 GMT
IQ tests are bollocks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotientSo unless you need to practice them to get a job with some company so effed up that they think they have value it's just a waste of time. So too would taking the test just so that you have a score that can be cock-waved in someone's face. Luckily, we smash it where it really counts And that's all that really matters
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Post by easilydistracted on May 4, 2017 19:07:16 GMT
Overwhelming, yes! It was my elephant in the room - the one that everyone else could see and one I was blissfully unaware of! but knowing is better than not knowing. Yep! Can't say I've learned to embrace the elephant yet, just knowing he's there still weirds me out a bit. I really should name him, that might help Finbar? Tigger? Twinkle-Toes? Bob! That will do!, Meet Bob, my not-so-secret autistic elephant!
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Post by easilydistracted on May 3, 2017 20:19:56 GMT
Hi nickywMaybe like me, you'll have been looking at the adhd signs and it's a bit like a jigsaw with a few pieces that just don't fit together right. Turned out there was a piece missing, add the asd and the pieces all clicked, suddenly it all fitted together and all made sense. Remember you are still the same guy that walked into that assessment room, except now you have that missing piece, now you know how it all fits together
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