Must....stop...reading...forums....all day.

This has always been a huge problem with me. I can never just do something like a normal human. I either do it all day everyday or i dont do it at all.

Yes, I know what it's like. I took a short break from studying the other day. Five hours later I was still taking a break.

Do you think something like setting a timer/alarm to remind you to do other things you want / need to do would help you?

Must....stop...reading...forums....all day.

This has always been a huge problem with me. I can never just do something like a normal human. I either do it all day everyday or i dont do it at all.man do i have this happen to me. my wife says i get overly compulsive in things i do. If i start a new hobby, its not just a little bit here and there, it takes over my life.

It has its benifits when and if you can direct it at something constructive...<o:p></o:p>

Hyperfocus can be both the greatest and the worst aspect of AD(H)D in my opinion.<o:p></o:p>

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Story of my life. Whatever new interest I have dominates my existential horizen. I buy every book I can afford on a the subject (most don't get read) and talk incessently about it. After a while when the newness wears off I place the obsession to the side until something revives it or I find a new obsession. Right now it's ADD. :eyebrow:

I have great difficultly maintain two passions at once; e.g. when I'm studious I tend to not exercise and eat right; and conversly, when I get the athletic bug I stopped studying. I never really been able to intergrate competing passions. Anyone else have this problem?

SL

SolarLife,

I go through those same cycles, however it may be more seasonal.

I'm more likely to go out and ride my bike if it's sunny out. : P

Hyperfocus can be both the greatest and the worst aspect of AD(H)D in my opinion.<o =""></o>
<o =""></o> Definetly, i'd like the year of my life i wasted on world of warcraft back. Even a serious drug addiction would have been more productive than playing a video game 18 hours a day.

I hate it when I do that..I can switch of from an obsession and totally forget all about it..
I don't mean to switch off, it just happens, and something else grabs my attention and I go with it :-( It's a shocking, terrible personality trait of mine :-)

D.B.? Add up my posts and check my join date; then try to notice my decline in daily posts latey ;). I did it too, and this too shall pass...but yea, hyperfocus definitely sucks sometimes, yea, definitely. It just happens.

Crazy :cool:

Its not just this forum though, sometimes im reading 4 or 5 at once and auto refreshing every few minutes like a little ocd robot. Admittadely, i have some personal gain to get from a few of them like www.vendlus.com (http://www.vendlus.com) a record label my friend owns. (not advertising, i doubt anyone on here cares about obscure norwegian bands making forms of music you've never heard of)

:D I do that too D.B. and may the person who programmed tabbed browsing be forever blessed!

"and may the person who programmed tabbed browsing be forever blessed!"



Ya, I have 12 windows tabbed right now, I can't even remember how I did this before tabbed browsing. : /

When the communication gap between computers and AD(H)D persons is shortened (perhaps ghost in the shell / matrix style), we will be unstoppable!

Definetly, i'd like the year of my life i wasted on world of warcraft back. Even a serious drug addiction would have been more productive than playing a video game 18 hours a day.ha! amazing! if you ever got into wow, i'm amazed you actually started doing other things! i know that game is a drug. my roommate (also add) recently weened down from playing almost 24 hours a day, some days skipping sleep. this is because i told him he NEEDS TO GO TO WORK AND EARN MONEY!!!

but i also get too much into things. right now i'm looking at three shiny new books i randomly bought the other day, "PHOTOSHOP CS2 - In Easy Steps" and "108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt" (I've never sewn in my life), and a book of the New York Times Crossword Puzzles (200 puzzles!!- which I finish).

wish i could hyperfocus on cleaning, at least for more than half an hour, when i usually decide i need to go back on the computer :rolleyes:

what is TABBED browsing, and HOW can I do it???

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/tour/tabs/

Tracy here is info on tabbed browsing! you can download IE& and set it all up unless your computer is to old to upgrade to IE7-you are probably ok though.

Let me know if you figure it out.

I can show you the link-just can't teach you how!

RADD

Story of my life. Whatever new interest I have dominates my existential horizen. I buy every book I can afford on a the subject (most don't get read) and talk incessently about it. After a while when the newness wears off I place the obsession to the side until something revives it or I find a new obsession. Right now it's ADD. :eyebrow:

I have great difficultly maintain two passions at once; e.g. when I'm studious I tend to not exercise and eat right; and conversly, when I get the athletic bug I stopped studying. I never really been able to intergrate competing passions. Anyone else have this problem?

SLYes!

Earlier this summer keeping in touch with old and new friends was my passion. Then that went away. Later it was reading ADHD books. I haven't finished the last one, didn't open it for weeks. Studying has been my latest fling.

And that's just the ones that stayed with me for a while. There were several shorter ones.

I still want to stay in touch with my friends and I want to continue to read Driven to Distration, it just doesn't feel as interesting anymore. It doesn't "turn me on" so to speak like it used to.

ClearConfusion,

Thank you for affirming what I have suffered with my whole life. Just a few months ago I quit smoking, coffee, meat, and exercised daily. It lasted several weeks; and, of course, I did little reading. Well, that's not entirely true, I read things consistent with the aforesaid cessations.

The good news I still don't smoke, but the other commitments have lasped. Now I obsessed with this forum, which I think is a good obsession for the moment. And the Adderall is really helping me sit and read for pleasure (even though I'm reading for several hours at a time). But on Adderall I have been experimenting with intergrating various "compulsions" in a more modest way with some success.

Adderall is helping clear my mental air but I'm learning it's not a magic pill. I am trying to do what needs to be done despite my feelings, for feelings are fleeting and uncontrollable.

I like this George Bernard Shaw quote: "Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."