Acceptance and Will

[kycahi]

Do you actually subscribe to the ADD diagnosis.

I do, until something convinces me otherwise. I had a girlfriend for awhile whom a housemate lady said has ADD, as did her (housemate's) ex-husband. I had heard of it only. This former girlfriend, with whom I continued a friendship, got a new boyfriend. Over time, she "drove him crazy" and they broke up badly. He learned about ADD and urged me to buy a book that he used to understand this syndrome so that we could discuss her with common data, and I did. Many but not all of its descriptions of the behaviors hit home.

I lucked into seeing on TV an author of another ADD book, and I ordered it online. It says that ADD has six distinct types, and I identified mine as Type 5, Limbic--his chapter on Type 5 was all about me. I followed his recommendations and also saw a psychiatrist. This put me on the path of big improvement. Probably the best improvement was just knowing that I share that syndrome with others, and it has a name.

Looking back, I was every elementary school teacher's worst case, with classical ADHD behavior. I was also a huge challenge to my parents.

I can't take the best doses of my two prescriptions because they cause tinnitus, but I am better off with them than without. I also take some supplements that greatly help.

I still learn. Recently I found this site, http://totallyadd.com. That site's founders made a TV program/video/film called 'ADD and Loving It?!' that listed my positive traits as also tied to the syndrome. That helped my self-perception, which had already improved over the years, thank goodness.

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For a moment, I felt sad when you came out with or declared your personal condition (ADD)...I need not subject you to my needless unasked for sense of pity :-/

Very proud of you, kycahi. Thank you for being a anchoring point of positive strength. You must have chosen the condition as part of an incarnational limitation to offer great STO service to the world, which your higher self must know in totality.

Thanks, Confused. You're right, I don't need pity and I must have programmed the stuff before incarnating. I'm not happy about that now :-/, but lots of people have issues that they put on themselves to goose up their catalysts for the One, so I accept mine.

Being here is a symptom, too. I find bring4th too distracting to stay away from, even though I have a lot of stuff to do.

Edited to add hyperlink to film title.