I find when you've got your meds working well for you, it's easy to forget to care about whatever things your meds aren't fixing for you and your social behaviour can suffer.

What sort of things, as someone with ADD and even if your meds work great, do you find you have to self-monitor to fit socially with the rest of society?

I find when you've got your meds working well for you, it's easy to forget to care about whatever things your meds aren't fixing for you and your social behaviour can suffer.

What sort of things, as someone with ADD and even if your meds work great, do you find you have to self-monitor to fit socially with the rest of society?huh?
probably :faint:

patience, i don't have an understanding of it at all

One thing I'd suggest if you are having problems is to seek councelling with a qualified therapist. It's not one of those sit on a lounge chair and talk for two hrs like it's presented on TV. It's usually 40 - 45min once a week and you and the therapist talk back and forth (in tune) to help you deal with whatever issues you may have at the moment. I use to be in therapy and am training in this stuff at college so I know some of how it works. Hope this helps.

Andy...

I still have to work on staying consistent with things-- gym visits, staying in touch with friends who are far away. On meds I focus well when I need to do something, but I still have to set my own priorities and follow them to get where I want to go.

Now that my meds are working I also realized how isolated I have become. I have some friends, but before meds I had so little time for anything that I scaled everything back-- including social connections. I can see how anyone who got to know me would have found me odd. And I was too caught up to realize I was different from anyone else. Now I have to work on getting a "normal" number of friends and get-togethers to match my expanded free time.

It can be a little tricky to stay consistant with therapy but like a drug you get use to going and as things fall into place it gets easier and easier to get the most out of therapy...

ok

the meds can't change sense of humor,
my loves,

it changes my hate,
I do not hate much,
now,
and it feel so good,
I can give a natural sigh,
when those thoughts come by again.

life is normal,
but the way I feel about it,
is amplified and explaining it is hard.

life doesn't have to be this impulsive mess,
not anymore,
thank goodness

ok

the meds can't change sense of humor,
my loves,

it changes my hate,
I do not hate much,
now,
and it feel so good,
I can give a natural sigh,
when those thoughts come by again.

life is normal,
but the way I feel about it,
is amplified and explaining it is hard.

life doesn't have to be this impulsive mess,
not anymore,
thank goodness:D cool..well put...:p thanks xx

haha I can't quite tell if that's a poem or simply starting new sentences often but it is quite the concise explanation!

k k ... here's a poem about Ritalin


guess what I just did? :eyebrow:
took my Ritalin! :D
now I'm eating a sandwich :foot:
hey, where did my buzz go? :confused:
have a great day everyone! :) :) :)

-Author Unknown -- dead in bus/tricycle collision, circa 2002

McHuman,

I, personally 'think' it's 'human' to ponder the cause/effect of that which enables 'growth'.

Whether if *being* human is what enables 'growth, or if 'meds' enable 'growth', or if the combination of both 'meds' and *being* human enable 'growth'. (0;

From my personal view point, 'growth' is a process. (0:
IMO, 'processes' may be temporarily be 'hindered', but they all so have 'solutions'.

well that was a good post,
Nova scotia

we need to stick with our meds,
sometimes circumstance can,
be a little eerie.

i won't ever take nomeds again!

it's a lie that I need them (?)

human is an overrated definition of who we really are

anything can see that 'it' is clearly human,
who can see it all?

we are all the things we choose to be,
it seems,
nothing more or less,

only a person comes from outta nowhere and tells us

a challenge is not bad,
as Nova explains.

A challenge gets me going,
all that adrenaline,
don't you know?

But,
difficulty is an expressive quality,
I don't face well.

to be like water,
is a balancing act.

i can choose to pretend life is a "difficulty",
or swim w/it,
cuz I'll be where I need to be,
automatically.

'processes' may be temporarily be 'hindered', but they all so have 'solutions'.
all so,
I am agreeing with what was said,
that was a great help

like the way I write,
now. lol

franks everyone

my name ain't quicken
qinkin, QK, qk! foh' short

Qinkin,
Close...I'm Creole, not Acadienne (Cajun) (0:
We 'Louisianans' all *look* alike, don't we ?
LOL !

I'm just 'funnin' with ya, Q. :D
Really cool, how you *did* this, though.;)


well that was a good post,
Nova scotia

funny,

wha' about my behavior?

hmm... less easily bored,
no one tells me really lately,
I just am leveling out,
my body and what it does and reactions,

w/meds
it's not really,
I just have more in me to respond and be a part of organized,
events

w/o meds,
I'm not really up to taking whatever life throws at me.

Despite meds,
don't remember that too good,
but,
I am sure that I always seem "on edge" or disinterested/too focused.

I have a somewhat educated air about me,
people tell me.
*strange to me though

I'm always fun, @ least to gawk @
unless I'm bored and in deep frustration,
it's getting to be a very small complication.