So I've been noticing that I have certain thoughts about people that I know. To be exact thoughts of situations that have happened between us. Be it romantically or platonic. Whatever. Than thoughts of what could happen manifest my brain, go over situations... over and over and over again. Than what I perceive from this obsession becomes real. To me at least. It's a weird thing. Does anyone else experience this ? Um...obsessing over situations, experiences with people. I'm trying to dissect this right now. Could it be that I don't understand things while they are happening ? I don't know! Anyone relate?

Totally, i can have complete conversations in my brain. I often think I should be a writer. I really do dialog well LOL. Makes me crazy!!! Cannot wait to see my new doc so I can get my meds set correctly
greg

I totally do!!! Its called ADD :D

It has to do with our 'creative' minds. We spend a lot of time daydreaming and daydreaming fulfills a lot of our need for excitement all the time. (this took awhile for me to believe since I have Inattentive ADD which on the outside makes me look as if I'm boring or easily pleased with whatever, but in fact we too have a need for excitement but not in the physical world - INSIDE OUR BRAINS)

This is why I have a degree in TV/Film LOL it's all about the imagination.

For example: I always thought it was weird that I always went around jokingly saying a celebrity was my boyfriend, it could be any hot new celeb, but I always tended to be like oh that's my boyfriend! I know he's not my boyfriend lol but I just have a wild imagination and I project a lot of 'feelings' unto people and things i'm passionate about.

and I also obsess about my past and guys I was into, I always think what if, what was, what wasn't, what could have been..... trust me, what you need to do is read about ADHD and ADD and how it works, you'll see what I mean.

What type of ADHD do you have, if I may ask? it sounds like your a 'dreamer' /inattentive ADD.... is that right? ADHDers are more physically active and go for what they crave, ADDers are more about thinking and dreaming about what they crave

PS: I was also obsessed with a guy from the age 12-19. I went around thinking about him 24/7, we never even dated. It's a different kind of obsession though, it's not the kind that stalks or hurts the other person. I mainly hurt myself but not allowing myself to be open to dating during my teen years. It's very comforting to know that it wasn't 'me' that it came from my ADD and I don't have to feel guilty anymore about losing 'time'. It was something I could not control do to the structure of my brain, and I have to live with that.

Im not quite sure. I think ADD. I was just diagnosed. I've been in and out of doctors offices the past five years trying to figure out what this is. I have been diagnosed with everything from OCD, to bipolar, to having PTSD. Its been a trip. I tend to gravitate to things move my mind. Irregular things. Over the past years I've found myself in some pretty ****ed up situations, loved addicts, became an addict. Obsessed about the romanticism around drugs and alcohol. Read Burroughs and Bukowski. Blah blah blah stereotype BS. Its laughable. Its truly laughable. I laugh at myself. Joined Al-anon, joined AA. Felt run down and tired by all of it. Depression-Bam! Meet someone... stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff. You know you know. AHH AHH. People try to read too deeply into me. My current ideas are moving to the woods off the grid, want to be totally self sufficient.

I invent fake people all the time. To experience that elusive "and they lived happily ever after" feeling in my imaginary conversations with them.

I still rerun episodes from my life ranging back 20 years or more. In hindsight I somehow always manage to say the right things.

Totally, i can have complete conversations in my brain. I often think I should be a writer. I really do dialog well LOL. Makes me crazy!!! Cannot wait to see my new doc so I can get my meds set correctly
greg

i am the exact same way. i used to narrate everything i was doing in my head when i was alone as a child. i thought it was because i read too much, but maybe it was just a combination of the two.

It Has been what worried me the most as noone else ive known seemed to think in this manner or like the other things in my head! I liked finding post like this on here and i still do! Its just now im comfortable with theese thoughts and all others now that ive been dxed and i know other adders are thinking similar to myself! Great is it not? im not normal! im more than normal! Im more than perfectly normal! Im a perfectly normal adder!;)

I invent fake people all the time. To experience that elusive "and they lived happily ever after" feeling in my imaginary conversations with them.

I still rerun episodes from my life ranging back 20 years or more. In hindsight I somehow always manage to say the right things.

I use to have "imaginary" friends when I was 4 or 5... and then, even to Jr. High, I would pretend a certain person was there with me watching tv with me, etc... even in church. I did that when I felt excluded from others that "seemed" to be my friend - when they really weren't. No one knew, they probably wondered why I had a smile on my face, that's all. That's why I like that quote:

"Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to"

Totally, i can have complete conversations in my brain. I often think I should be a writer. I really do dialog well LOL. Makes me crazy!!! Cannot wait to see my new doc so I can get my meds set correctly
greg

A lot of ADDers tend to be good writers cuz of this. Our imaginations run wild :D

Oh wow, I can relate to what you are all saying... reliving events, lengthy imaginary conversations, narrating everything in my head as if I was an external observer.

I hadn’t connected this to ADD, because I always associated these things trying to imagine how others would perceive me so that I could be accepted (or at least not rejected) - I never wanted to be seen doing anything that would draw ridicule, so I just got in a habit of objectifying and observing myself. I guess these types of thoughts are chicken/egg-y with the ADD.

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Since 5 years I´m working on a novel where my heros are detective rats. http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/c040.gif http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/c040.gif http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/c040.gif

are the baddies doiity rats ?

A lot of ADDers tend to be good writers cuz of this. Our imaginations run wild :D

Hey, I wonder if Stephen King has ADD or ADHD??? He's written some pretty "interesting" movies... some I don't care to see, but I like that movie, "Rose Red"... anyone ever see that one. When I first saw it - it "bothered" me big time (anxiety with a capital A), but after I started on Paxil CR, then later the generic Paroxetine, I was able to watch it without the "anxiety".