Celia
01-31-04, 09:31 PM
Hi everyone,
I recently became a member. I have been benefiting a lot just from reading about you all's experiences and recommendations in regards to dealing with ADD. I grew up with undiagnosed neglected and mistreated ADD. I have another two conditions that I am still treating with therapy and medication. I believe ADD, which I consider part of my temperament influence both conditions and my both other conditions influence my ADD. Some times it's hard to know what is what, but with many years of therapy and a lot of emotional work, I have been more able to learn to deal with each to help myself heal from the emotional overload that I carry in my body and continue growing. It's nothing but hard work. It's good to know there are plenty of people like me. I often push myself to corners just because other people seem to be so different than me, or me from others. I was actually born in a different country. I have lived here a long time though. School has been very challenging for me, but I love learning and fortunately I am a very stuborn and persistent person. Of course the stuborn part hasn't always been helpful.
I tend to be mostly distracted and mellow rather than hyper. Yet I do have a mixed type ADD. It's still more quiet ADD as I said. I tend to be very, very, "dreamy". It's NOT hard at all to think and entertain myself with other things when exposed to a boring situation or lecture in school. I also have tendencies to escape situations by dissociating but that is another story. I do have a lot of trouble getting closer to people in general. I feel very threatened by authority figures because of childhood abuse, and ADD accentuates my fears and hang ups a bit more. I kept my problems I had in school becasue I feared people found out there was something wrong with me. I did not want to feel even weirder in the world that for some reason or another treated me so badly when I was little. It took me seven years to get my bachelor's. I took five years off after I graduated and now I'm back to get my master's. I tell you it's not been easy and it isn't. I get sooooooooooooooo distracted. I start hearing more noise when threatened, it's nothing but anerving and depressing some times. But as I said I don't give up. I'm really looking forward to become part of this community. I'm already benefiting from you all's stories, I hope I can be of help to you too.
Sincerely,
Celia
I recently became a member. I have been benefiting a lot just from reading about you all's experiences and recommendations in regards to dealing with ADD. I grew up with undiagnosed neglected and mistreated ADD. I have another two conditions that I am still treating with therapy and medication. I believe ADD, which I consider part of my temperament influence both conditions and my both other conditions influence my ADD. Some times it's hard to know what is what, but with many years of therapy and a lot of emotional work, I have been more able to learn to deal with each to help myself heal from the emotional overload that I carry in my body and continue growing. It's nothing but hard work. It's good to know there are plenty of people like me. I often push myself to corners just because other people seem to be so different than me, or me from others. I was actually born in a different country. I have lived here a long time though. School has been very challenging for me, but I love learning and fortunately I am a very stuborn and persistent person. Of course the stuborn part hasn't always been helpful.
I tend to be mostly distracted and mellow rather than hyper. Yet I do have a mixed type ADD. It's still more quiet ADD as I said. I tend to be very, very, "dreamy". It's NOT hard at all to think and entertain myself with other things when exposed to a boring situation or lecture in school. I also have tendencies to escape situations by dissociating but that is another story. I do have a lot of trouble getting closer to people in general. I feel very threatened by authority figures because of childhood abuse, and ADD accentuates my fears and hang ups a bit more. I kept my problems I had in school becasue I feared people found out there was something wrong with me. I did not want to feel even weirder in the world that for some reason or another treated me so badly when I was little. It took me seven years to get my bachelor's. I took five years off after I graduated and now I'm back to get my master's. I tell you it's not been easy and it isn't. I get sooooooooooooooo distracted. I start hearing more noise when threatened, it's nothing but anerving and depressing some times. But as I said I don't give up. I'm really looking forward to become part of this community. I'm already benefiting from you all's stories, I hope I can be of help to you too.
Sincerely,
Celia