ADHD / ADD Support Group

It's not an easy question for me to answer. I think the frustration of impulse control on every level is what challenges me the most. The impulse to fix everything, to figure it all out, to explain myself to every last detail, to recognize that I talk,talk and more talk and I get irritated by the need and impulse to do so. This impacts me as a professional, mother, wife. I did not get dx until this year so the relief of knowing that all these "drama cycles" do have a reason....yet now that I have knowledge have no excuse.....see the difference......I don't use my dx as an excuse to do this this or that.....now I just try to use positive self talk and say....because I have this condition i have a tendency to .....over react, be too sensitive, or find my self so disorganized i shut down because i become so overwhelemed.....To tell you the truth.....I have become a better mother...my daughter goes through a lof of the same stuff i went through and goes through.....so i know how to validate her feelings with out justifying her behavior.......I get upset because I don't want to deal with this......but sometimes these challenges in life are blessings ....I can relate and have empathy with others like NO OTHER.....I hope this gives you what you were looking for..
Blessings--------TARA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO8... check this out

Oh my goodness! Well lets see....I have been so impulsive that I put us through bankruptcy...and continue to spend money even if it put our relationship in jeopardy. I start things...like my jewelry designing and drop them for no reason...then I pick up where I left off about a month down the road. I have REAL issues getting my thoughts to come out of my mout right. You name it...I am a classic ADHD. Michelle

I have problem finishing jobs and I tend to start too many things a once I have horrble time management issues (my mom has always said time does not stop for you ) I am a horrid speller very disorganized and I forget things easily and I am attracted to shiny odjects like if someone is wearing a lot of jewelry it distracts me =)

i'm so bad, that i can only take one day at a time, otherwise, i don't even know what day it is. now if i can figure out what the date is, i'd be set.

i want to get this shirt i foud that says, some people say i have ADD, but oh look, a chicken. lol the only problem now, is i can't find it again.

Give It Over And Rest

As I wrote my weekly reflection on the gospel this week I thought of so many things. I have Severe Anxiety Disorder as I know many of you do too. Oh how I wish I could take may own advice as I pray over things and write my reflections, lol. I have a lot of pain, but I know there are so many others worse off than I am and that there is a reason and a purpose for everything and I can hand that over to God. I have this disease that could potentially end my life, but I don't worry about it and I can hand that over to God as well. But gosh, when it comes to my wife's ADD, and I mean severe ADD, It can be really difficult sometimes.

Melissa's ADD has caused a lot of pain, anxiety, frustration and even some dangerous situations for my children and I. She is on all the "right" meds, but her ADD is so bad she sometimes forgets to take them. She doesn't do the things she has been asked to do by the docs to help her with it, she says she forgets. This makes my anxiety go through the roof. It has caused so much trouble for us, our marriage, our relationship and what worries and frustrates me the most is how our children have suffered because of it. And that is usually when I have to draw the line, sit down and talk to her, remind her of her strategies and ask her to please try and do better. I am not exagerating when I say I have to remind her of things 5, 10, 20, 50 times. Man do I pray for the grace of patience often, lol. I need to just continue to help her and remind her that she needs to step up and do the things she has been asked to do by her docs. This will only help her, our family, our children, our relationship, our marriage. I just need to continue to give it over to God so I can rest.

I have to remember this,
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”