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Post by laura on Aug 24, 2009 21:32:58 GMT
i found these great simple but, could imagine being very effective if used, time management tips ;D add.about.com/od/adhdinadults/a/runninglate.htmive also been thinking about time, im obsessed with knowing what time it is but it doesnt help with my time management at all. i find it makes me run later because im always stopping to look at the time! ;D and i know its always the same speed but it seems to speed up and slow down, like theres never enough time or too much time i think im just starting to go off on one so ill stop there ;D
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Post by forgetnotme on Aug 25, 2009 17:52:32 GMT
hi laura just been to have a look at that site. I feel lost when I haven't got my watch on when I'm working. so many things have got to be done to a time. if I don't keep an eye on it all the time then I end up having to rush and the tendency to make mistakes is increased. having said that though I love taking my watch off on holiday and losing track of time. it's very refreshing just like a holiday should be. I remember as child we were always late for everything. (not sure if it was my mum or my dad who had the adhd but i actually suspect both of them) It made me feel so bad that it motivated me to try not to let my own kids down in that way. We had some good screaming matches at getting out of the house and to school on time I think we made it mostly.(i could drive pretty fast) but I tried not to be late picking up from school. much better that i sat waiting than they should feel forgotten. I absolutely hate it when things don't happen on time. Anyway picking kids up was a good excuse to stop work and go for a (predetermined) wander. I must ask my now grown up kids if the taxi service worked satisfactorily. oops its now time i should have started dinner ,better get a move on. What can you expect work has finished for the day back to chaos. good site with other interesting info
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Post by boo on Aug 25, 2009 19:54:00 GMT
my time management is appalling but i dont have many clocks in the house, well i spose i do but theyre all on the cooker or the dvd player etc, except for my alarm clock, which as i said before is as much use as a chocolate teapot...anyway.......
i skimmed the link and there are some good tips there, i have found that i already do some of the things it mentions, i guess we all pick up tricks along the way i totally agree with you laura about time speeding up and slowing down, i reckon it does it on purpose to trick me....................
now theres paranoia, thinking time itself is ganging up on you ;D
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Post by haydreamer on Aug 25, 2009 20:26:20 GMT
I don't like it when I have too much time on my hand, as I over analyse stuff to much and the thoughts are like a washing machine-going round and round and round!! I always look at my watch at work, then when I know my shift is coming to an end-I start watching it too much, then really start to want to go home:)
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Post by laura on Aug 25, 2009 21:38:56 GMT
yeah i found i already do some of them, its amazing some of the coping mechanisms we come up with, ive only just started noticing mine. i think time does do it on purpose! im going to buy a watch, well ive been saying that for a few weeks now but i will actually get one soon i dont know if itd be better or worse at work tho, when time is ganging up on me do i really want to know, sometimes it can be evil, 20mins can seem like hours! i won an ipod at work a few weeks ago and i dont know how i lived without now, i dont have as many washing machine in my head moments anymore, my headphones might aswell be surgically attatched to my ears! ;D
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Post by forgetnotme on Aug 25, 2009 22:02:39 GMT
I like to try and trick time. the clock in the car is always five minutes fast that way I have a little more time to get there. there are two clocks in my kitchen you guessed it one is five minutes fast to keep- me moving and the other is one of these always right clocks with a signal from somewhere(probably planetdave way) to keep it right. that one tells me it really is time to go to work. two no three in the front room at the back(don't ask) not sure what they are for. OH always winds them up. I'm beginning to see a pattern here...... Matching his and hers in the bedroom.... is this what they call strategies? as for coping mechanisms i didn't know i had any..... but it all seems a big bundle of them. R4 to keep me in the kitchen when I'm cooking. not quite a perfect stategy but put that with only cooking meals take about twenty minutes then the pans are safe. didn't think I did pan burning till the other day when i fancied making stroganof. had to leave it simmering for about an hour or so went to look about 40minutes and ooo it had a layer at the bottom about half an inch thick and it was brown. ooops then I remembered the time a made, and burnt packet soup. I'd forgotten to put the water in. definitely not good. anyway time has got me again I was going to have an early night guess I missed it ::
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Post by boo on Aug 25, 2009 22:24:43 GMT
i set my alarm clock fast too, but i shut my eyes when setting it forwards and dont look at what time it gets set to, so i dont know how fast, if i did know, i would tell myself that i could go x minutes longer knowing thats how fast it was
i find if i do something with time to spare, i end up with a horrible feeling that i have missed something or forgotten something or left out something crucial and it doesnt feel right.
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Post by andy12345 on Aug 26, 2009 1:22:02 GMT
Oh, the coping strategies are legendary. When I was having that CBT stuff over christmas last year, my first appointment was like 915am.
Now, for me, as I don't like that time of day and I never have really had to get up at that time due to my working patterns etc, I needed a method to get me up.
Well, I have a 500 watt halogen worklamp and a timer switch.
I just put the worklamp onto the computer desk and then set my phone alarms, mains alarm (which is a good 9 feet away)
When that light came on, it was like a sun in my room and it certainly helped, but then jesus, when a 500 watt halogen is pointing at you from er 6 feet away, I defy anyone to ignore it. I told the cbt man and he said it was like a military operation hehehehe.
I don't do the fast alarm clock stuff, but I like your idea boo, you get a feather in your er hat/cap/thinkingcap/tinfoil hat for that, you smarta$$.
Never underestimate the creativity of neurodiversity!
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Post by boo on Aug 26, 2009 11:38:33 GMT
but then jesus, when a 500 watt halogen is pointing at you from er 6 feet away, I defy anyone to ignore it. OMG andy, thats hilarious, i can see it now like some sort of major overload flood lighting in a sleep deprevation torture room doof doof doof... that'll get you up ya b@staad (did you like my sound effects ) i'll get me coat .................
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Post by andy12345 on Aug 26, 2009 14:07:33 GMT
Yeah, would be really bad if I only had 1 hour sleep and my eyelids were surgically removed and I was face clamped near the light................
your coat??? You lost me there... Just don't put coats onto a 500 watt halogen, it's guaranteed to turn up the heat.
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Facebook.
Do you know what, this facebook thingy emails "do you like me" "are you interested" jesus its actually quite pathetic and reinforcing the old looks are wonderful regime. At first, I used to look, then after a while, I thought, NO, I DON'T LIKE YOU, PHOTO WOMAN!(if there was a photo lol) you are so two dimensional and have a flat personality (that is a pun, btw)
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Post by laura on Aug 26, 2009 20:17:44 GMT
i like your idea boo, not knowing what the real time is would at least get me out of bed to look for the real time. i tried changing the time on my watch when i had one but i always remembered it was fast, what a thing to remember id prefer to remember where id put my glasses! and yeah i always feel like ive forgot something important if i manage to get out the door with time to spare, i usually have and its usually my contact lenses so now ive got millions in my bag just in case. forgetnotme, whats R4? and loads of clocks i could see that being good, and does this really special technical clock even tell you the correct time when the clocks go forward/back? because that would be amazing! the amount of times ive forgot and got to places early/late ;D andy - im guessing thats a bright bulb my brightest is 100watt (ive ran out of the other wattages) and thats bright! thatd definately wake me, actually i wear an eye mask thingy so maybe it wouldnt i want to get one of those radio alarm sunset/sunrise things. that imitate the rising of the sun in the morning to slowly wake you up, obviously alongside the other many alarms.
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Post by andy12345 on Aug 26, 2009 23:16:06 GMT
Laura.It's a 500 watt halogen, not just standard incandescent. It's quite dazzling. It would certainly be good for seasonal affective disorder or just to generally get some of that bright thingy in the sky effect whilst I lurk like a trapdoor spider in front of my pc. Hmmm, pineal gland malfunction possibilities? off I go...... Just a little one......... www.marysherbs.com/anatomy/anat-pinP.htmwww.mmlights.com/sadinfo.htmlstyle.uk.msn.com/health/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=149248976QUOTE www.antidepressantsfacts.com/pinealstory.htm3. The Pineal Gland The Pineal Gland -also called the epiphysis- looks like a miniature pine cone and is situated in the middle of the brain beneath the two brain halves, surrounded by the ventricles, under the roof of the corpus callosum (cross-beam connecting the 2 brain halves). (see picture) This active organ has, together with the Pituitary Gland (see picture), the next highest blood circulation after the kidneys. It is not protected by the blood-brain barrier and therefore makes this gland fragile to any substance entering the bloodstream. It is, for instance, very sensitive to fluoride.
Another factor involved in affecting the Pineal Gland can be excessive high or even toxic levels of an SSRI-AntiDepressant in the bloodstream. Certain individuals have a metabolic deficiency in the metabolism of anti-depressant medication. In the liver, a group of enzymes named " cytochrome P-450" enzymes, particularly the "CYP2D6 enzymes" of this group of enzymes, metabolise SSRI-AntiDepressants. When not properly metabolised, because one has a metabolic deficiency, a daily therapeutic dose can build up to excessive high or even toxic levels in the bloodstream. Hence, the Pineal Gland would be an easy target, since it is not very well protected by the blood-brain barrier. It is it's connection to serotonin what makes this organ so very interesting.
3.a. The Pineal Gland-Serotonin connection Nicholas Giarmin, a professor of pharmacology and Daniel Freedman, a professor of psychiatry, confirmed that the human brain manufactures serotonin at various sites in the brain. For example, in the Thalamus, they discovered 61 nanograms of serotonin per gram of tissue; in the Hippocampus, 56 ng.; in the Central Gray Section of the Midbrain, they found 482 ng. But in the Pineal Gland, they found 3140 ng. of serotonin per gram of tissue. The Pineal Gland was unmistakably the richest site of serotonin in the brain! This discovery implicates the Pineal Gland as an important site of serotonergic activity.
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Post by boo on Aug 26, 2009 23:37:50 GMT
andy are you a secret optician ;D
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Post by andy12345 on Aug 26, 2009 23:59:11 GMT
No, I just seem to delve into things until I get bored....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2009 6:33:50 GMT
I just blunder along Time management, lol
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