I today revisted my childhood years by doing something that I use to do when I was 5,6,7,8,9 it was throwing CD's (bad ones of course) like frisbies and throwing them against the wall and watching them smash like glass.

After doing that I felt happy relaxed and calm all day, a natural high, and ontop of that it was really enjoyable. I challenge all people out there to do this if you are feeling stressed or just want some fun or a natural high. And write if it worked for you or not because it was really lovely for me. :) :) :) :D :o

Oh man there were not such as CD when I was 5,6,7,8,9 ;)

I like to color with crayons with my daughters. That was something I loved to do as a kid and it does bring me back. :)

What a good idea. Let's see....

The only thing that I can remember as an adhd child was that I used to always pee the bed until I was way too old.

They didn't have pullups back then. Now my son has inherited this terrible curse. It's on both sides of our family due to my side being adhd and my husbands side being add. I was the only one in my immediate family that got so lucky to do this peeing stuff. (Good thing I was cute, fun to be around and got good school grades.)

My poor mom had to always do the bedding (like I am now.) She said she'd be hanging out the sheets on the line while the next door neighbor lady was doing the same for her son Stevie. He's the one that would come over and climb our big willow tree to the very top after eating our rose pedals. ADHD!!!! :)

Anyway, my sister and I (who is 13 months older) used to share a queen size bed. She always woke up wet from me.

(Paybacks are a *****. Why? She was much "plumper" than me and she walked on her tippy tippy toes. Whenever she wore my clothes, she would stretch them out and make my shoes look like fat ballerina shoes. So I consider it pretty much even between us.)

Maybe I will give my sister a call and see if she wants to meet over at my Mom's today. (We all live relatively nearby.) And I will see if reliving this childhood memory makes me a little less stressful due to all of the major events of the past week. (My adhd son had a 2 day in school suspension. I had to get stuff ready and work at my daughters 8th grade class garage sale. Plus it's a full moon.) Yes...I am majorly stressed. I need a release.

The only problem is that my mom is adhd also (we now have figured out her "issues"). She is an artist, writer, cartoonist, etc... in addition to being a packrat. As soon as you open the door to our old bedroom, you are at a complete standstill from the junk piled very high. You can't even see our old queen size bed. Seriously.

Maybe I will climb on top of all the junk (with my sister at my side otherwise it won't seem as real) and I will "have an accident" on the whole pile of useless stuff that is definitely adhd related. Maybe she will have to get rid of it? Probley not. But I am definitely going to suggest my reliving all of this to both of them. ha ha ha

I think I will also call my best friend that I have had since I was 4 and see if her dad still has the bunkbeds in her room. (We are both 43 now and she still lives by also.) I used to pee in her bunkbeds too!!

WOW. Just the thought of that cracks me up. You can tell it's a full moon today. How funny.

yea but maybe you should try something like a game you made up or something when you were little because it not stressful.

FTMOM-- I"m w/ yo no such thing as a cd when I was a kid. We had these big shiny black things....what were they called??? oh yeah albums!!! I too liked to color when I was a kid & ride my bike, maybe I'll get that out sometime soon.

I walked over to my mom's yesterday with my son and our 2 dogs and took a peek into our old bedroom and laughed.

I am going to send my mom and sister an email today and mention the forum suggestion and what I want to do to relive my bedwetting memory. I will let you know if they are game or not. :)

I wanted to share with you the email that my mom sent me regarding my reliving one of my childhood memories in hopes to relieve some of my current stress. (My memory was bedwetting.) I just read her reply and I am still laughing.

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Re your idea.....it's all wet! That memory BRINGS stress to me! Wouldn't it be better to relive a memory that would make Everyone feel better...than worse? We pitched that saturated bed as soon as you left! If you want to relive that, pee in your own bed and lie in it. hahaha Try to think of something from your childhood that was funny or pleasant such as changing clothes three times before the kindergarten bus came, and the driver sitting there waiting for me to button your last button. Talk about OCD! You changed clothes every fifteen minutes! ...and remember how much you, your siblings and Marianne always liked puppies? Perhaps you all still have a little of the OCD re puppies...how many animals collectively do we have? Love ya.

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My mom's response is so true. My son changes clothes constantly too. And as mentioned in another post, we have 4 dogs and 1 cat. Way over our city limit. My one sister has 4 dogs. My friend (since we were 4) is a foster parent for a stray dog organization and I think she currently has 7 dogs and 2 cats. My mom mentioned OCD.....I knew my son had that, but me? No..... :)

I thought I said not to do the bed wetting thing but if it made you happy thats all that matters, because then you are nice to everyone.

Ichpuchtli,

OK. Fine. No reliving the bedwetting.

I thought of several other childhood memories that I could relive but most would have to be done at my parents house, otherwise, it would just not be the same and as much "fun".

I will run the below mentioned new idea by my mom today and see what she thinks:

When we were younger, my sister (who is 1 year old) and I would constantly invite my friend over to spend the night. She's the one that has been my friend since we were 4 and we are now 43 and still work together and live near one another, and who I used to pee in her bunkbed. (See....there's the bedwetting thing again.)

Anyway, we all used to always get up in the middle of the night and tiptoe into the kitchen.

(I wonder if my sister changed her wet pj's then? Or if perhaps I had not pee'd on her yet?) Sorry, no more mention of bedwetting. But I really think that if I relived it though, I'd get rid of alot of stress :)

When we turned on the kitchen light, all the water bugs would scatter everywhere and we'd all jump and try not to scream so that we didn't wake anyone up.

Note: Water bugs are those black bubble shelled bugs that crunch when you smash them. They are well known in Missouri and are mostly in basements.... or if you are add/adhd and are a packrat, they can be in the kitchen :)

Anyway, we'd open the icebox (aka refrigerator) and get out the roll of uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough and the tubes of cake icing.

We'd cut open the new roll of cookie dough and start eatting. (Yum.) Then we'd wrap the remainder up in aluminum foil and put it wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in the back of the icebox so mom would forget that she bought it and we could grab the foiled cookie dough on our next nightly outing.

After eating the cookie dough, we'd all suck down the cake icing. (yuk). That was not an easy task mind you. You had to not only suck the icing but also, at the same time, had to squeeze the tube like toothpaste to get it all to come out.

Then, being the honest, girl scout, catholic school girls that we were, we'd blow into the tubes to make them look full again and hurry up and put the caps on and put them back in the icebox. (Hmmmm???? Maybe that's why mom never put icing on any of the cakes that she made? Maybe we had eatten it all.)

I'll let you know what she says.

I just love this thread. It's bringing back all kinds of fun memories.

I love my thread to, Adhdxyz if the bedwetting thing really does help you get rid of stress do it I just don't think the other people around you would ap.....( don't know how to spell) like it very much. But all the same try it. Let me know how it goes.

I am sitting here listening to both the washer and the dryer while doing the bedding from my son's "bedwetting incident" from last night. I do not have one extra lick of energy to do bedding for myself. Guess I will have to "hold it in". :)

I mentioned this thread to my friend today and she said I can go get a "pixie haircut" like we all did when we were young and I can hide in my room behind my door and let all my friends and family tell me how nice my hair looked and try and coax me out. (I hated having an old neighbor lady that cut hair for a living. We were all stuck having to go to her basement salon for cheapy pixie cuts.)

That's probley why I am always overdo on my hair cuts. Memories of the pixie cut from you know where. It's all fitting together now....

"Pixie haircut" never heard that before what does it mean?

So what are you going to try:
1. bedwetting
2. having that sleep over thing
3. Pixie haircut
4. ?????????

Try them you'll feel like a fool but you'll be having a wounderful time and enjoy every moment of it, I hope. :) :) :D

A pixie cut nowadays is a sassy short unstructured type of a cut I think. Very chick.

A pixie cut back in the 60's-70's that was done in our old neighbor ladys basement was this horrible chopped up boy looking cut that was gross. I felt like our Shih Tzu dog when it got shaved and wouldn't come out from behind the toilet for 2 days. I should have been sent to therapy after having so many bad pixie cuts.

I have added an idea to my de-stress list too. (SO MANY ADHD IDEAS....SO LITTLE TIME.)

Instead of ????? for number 4, it will be that we will call boys all night long and give them fake names, phone numbers and addresses. We used to dial some number that was a "hotline" of sorts. It was all static but you could hear people talking like on a party line. We'd say: "Are there any guys on"....

Those were the days.

"Pixie haircut" never heard that before what does it mean?

So what are you going to try:
1. bedwetting
2. having that sleep over thing
3. Pixie haircut
4. Call boys all night
5. ????????

Try them you'll feel like a fool but you'll be having a wounderful time and enjoy every moment of it, I hope. :) :) :D

Now start trying them. :) :) :) :) :)