Hello,
I have just this week been diagnosed with ADD/Depression. Started that day on the road to educate myself.
I have a question about impulsiveness. I have gone through this scenario many times..I see something new...really cutting edge..it's not something I really need but I have to have it..must have it in fact. I start my search at local stores then the internet and of course I always end up on Ebay. ( I have saved more money on stuff I didn't need ...lol )
The point of this is, I know deep down I don't need what I am looking for, try to forget about it (I have managed it on a very few occasions) but it keeps at me. Is this something common with ADHDer's.
BTW: Most of these things get pushed to the side once I have them...anyone looking for a GPS watch? Laser Rangefinder? I'll have to make a list...lol

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Geo

That sounds pretty ADD to me. In my 20s, when I was bubbling in a stew of un-dxed ADD, depression, and anxiety, I used to order things impulsively all the time. I got a lot of discount book catalogs, and for awhile I was placing orders all the time. Once the packages came, I had little to no interest in them. (I was, after all, still depressed.) Camera equipment held my interest longer, but it was still the "hunt" that excited me, not so much the items themselves. For awhile, I nickled and dimed myself to death with small impulse purchases. If there had been this many cool cutting edge gadgets in those days, I would have been in heaven. (And even more broke.)

I still have a weakness for techie toys ... I'll bet the GPS watch rocks. ;) But since I now have kids and a house, the money goes elsewhere. I only buy a few selected toys now, and I have less difficulty fighting the impulse to spend. I attribute this to being older, taking meds, and having long-range goals for where I want my money to go. But I still notice that if I don't take my meds, I'm more prone to pick up extra items at the store, just for the **** of it... ;)

Hey Geo: Definitely ADD like.....AND you sound like you'd make a great investigator of some type.......It sounds like you love the "chase" of looking for things.....but once you've found them -- and the excitment is over -- well you need another chase.......

Can you set goals to actually "look" for things -- the best and the cheapest -- but then don't buy them???

It sounds like you don't want to find the things....but just look for them.....

>Can you set goals to actually "look" for things -- the best and >the cheapest -- but then don't buy them???


hmmm...never tried that.

:bowl:

Or, depending on how good you are at "the chase" and finding great bargains, you could buy and resell them! I know a person (who I am sure is ADD) who makes his living doing that. You just have to fight any urge to hold onto the stuff once you've got it. ;)

Hey my hubby is begging for a laser range finder for Christmas this year. *giggles*

Here's what I do. I have a list of my bill's the harsh, big pain in the butt call you every other day until it's paid off ones first. Then when I have the urge to spend money I send some to them. I've passed my spending urge into a productive route. Would that work for you?

Firm -

It's so common I don't even DO E-bay. I walk around in denial pretending it does not exist. Otherwise I can't think what my financial state would be.