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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
12:19 pm [windychan121]	graduated " Oh she's not gonna make it through highschool with her disabilities. " - quote my elementary school concilor. Up on my wall right now, is my Highschool DIPLOMA , my General Arts and Science Algonquin College One year Certificate. And My Gerneral Arts and Science DIPLOMA. I wish that lady was still working at that school so I can rub it in her face saying " Hey , a person who is hearing impaired , ADHD , ADD currently recorving from a hearing aid baha surgery , learning disabilty , and a couple other things i can't remember the name off Graduated Algonquin College with a C average. Thats pretty damn good I might say. Sure , its not an A but hey , I didn't give up right? Only thing I"m dealing with right now is job hunting. My hours are cut back at work , which is very hard for me. Being add I do things at Sobeys on a timed scheduale. Working Four hour shifts throws me off completely. I'm just trying to find another job before the fall that has a more stable schedual and less crap that happening at work right now. The floppidy flopp schedual is just one thing thats making it difficult to do anything. I'm just glad I'm done school, .... for now. How I passed everything on my last semester???? Not a clue. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
8:18 pm [unchartedwaters]	Many Questions Hello everyone I'm new here. I've had problems with depression stemming back to 2000 when I was 16. I am now 24. The (quick and hasty) diagnosis turned into bipolar disorder in about 2005/6. Over the years I've had lots of psychotherapy to deal with depression and other issues and have only taken Effexor XR twice and each time for less than 6 months in order just to stabilize. The last time I took it was back before the bipolar diagnosis. Lately I've been popping Ativan when needed and it helps out a lot. I take it rarely because sometimes just knowing that I can take it will help me out a bit. This past school year, despite everything I was still having huge problems concentrating and learning. Two months ago I had a Learning Disability Assessment done and it was concluded that I have AD/HD with related Executive Functioning Deficits. I have yet to talk to any of my other doctors about this because I am trying to do some research first. I want to try some meds to help with concentration and I'm a bit lost as to what might be a better option. I'm worried that my past diagnosis of bipolar will influence my docs to not want to give me stimulants. I've read up a bit of info on some of the popular ones but they don't have that human aspect that I'm looking to relate to. I also want something that I don't have to take everyday, something like the Ativan, quick acting to be taken as needed. Any info/shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. [x-posted to other AD/HD related coms] (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 30th, 2008
3:44 pm [genderpac]	The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition is pleased to announce the release of its 2008 GENIUS Survey in partnership with Ernst & Young.  GenderPAC works to ensure that classrooms, communities and workplaces are safe for everyone to learn, grow and succeed.   The Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools (GENIUS), GenderPAC’s most recent effort to end discrimination and promote awareness, encourages colleges and universities to recognize the benefits of a GenderSAFEtm campus - supportive equitable and protective for all students. Choosing to participate in GENUIS sends a strong public statement that bullying or discriminating based on the race, sex or gender of a student, faculty, or staff member is not tolerated at your institution   Fill out the survey at:  www.gpac.org/GENIUS2008survey, and make sure that we have data for as many schools as possible. Your voice will help us continue to work towards a safe and welcoming environment for every student.   While we greatly appreciate the interest taken in GENIUS by students, staff and faculty at academic institutions outside of the United States, at this time GENIUS is only able to track schools based in the United States. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
12:55 am [pouchedfox]	breakfast smoothies? does anyone here have any recipes for breakfast smoothies that are beneficial for add? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
2:26 pm [rawbery79]	Vyvanse I just got an email saying Vyvanse has been approved for AD/HD in adults. Has anyone already tried it? What has it done for you? I feel like I've tried everything and nothing seems to work. I'm on generic Adderall, without much success (focus, calming down, etc.) Crossposted to a few places. Current Mood: curious (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
11:36 am [mariquita]	School There's some serious obstacles in my way, the main thing being my own ADD-ridden brain. If basic math is giving me so much problems, how am I going to get into college? How am I going to get anywhere, for that matter?? Current Mood: depressed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
6:16 pm [windychan121]	overload I've realized when i have too much on my shoulders, my immune system shuts down. For the past three days I had a high temperature, I called in sick yesterday and today.Course my manager is not happy, since we're short staffed right now its not easy for me to take sick days... I was under a lot of stress, being an adhd student, its even more pressure for consentrating. I have to present a seminar to a class of 50 students by myself, I chose to do it by myself, I'm already done the write up, and everything I'm just not good at presenting to a class that huge. I love presentations though. I had a mid-term on Wednesday, I guess the stress of that started this all. I still have a 12-14 page report with an interview to do for my cultural mosiac class, I have another seminar to work on with an essay from two differentt books. I found out about two weeks ago the girl i was suppose to do this 2nd seminar switched classes. So now with lack of participants, i'm stuck doing it by myself. I have one literary current essay on top of that, and have to read 30 pages from another cultural anthropology text by two weeks from now, and schools closed next week cause of my spring break.can you see now why everything in my body just shut down? I'm getting a little better, still have a high temperature. My boss called me saying the shift that was 8am-2pm is now 11am-4pm so i can sleep in a little bit. If she wants a doctors note, I'm going to have to give it to her tomorrow, my doctors office is closed over the weekend. I hate being add/addhd sometimes with the amount of homework i get from the three courses i'm in, feels like i am juggling 6 courses right now. I'm just glad this is happening before the break instead of when all my presentations are due. Call me crazy if you want to, but half the people in my class of 50 students haven't even started their prep work for the project, and I just finished it last weekend, just getting the words out for presenting part. Being an add/adhd student from your experiences, do you find you work better with groups of four or five students presenting to a small / large class? or, do you like to do big projects on your own? Current Mood: cold (2 Comments |Comment on this)
4:21 pm [_mytimetoshine_]	Managing ADD/Anxiety Very good tips: http://www.faslink.org/adhdtips.htm What works for you? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
8:35 am [windychan121]	And the list begins, Part-time job sucks Economic Analysis Papers suck Argumentive History papers suck Reaction psychology papers suck Philosophical presentations suck English papers suck Exams stink Whether sucks Anxiety attacks suck ass. and the school semester isn't even over yet! (grumbles) just wait till end of the semester and the list will build up even more... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
1:48 pm [windychan121]	aaand the pressure builds! Good thing i have my medication or, i'd loose it. I had a very disappointment argument with the registars office on Monday trying to pay for my next semeseter. If you are registered with your Disability Clinic you are STILL CONSIDERED full time student if you have 3 courses. I had the form that said " requirements under 40-60 hours...and so on" but the lady that was "helping" me out didn't even bother to look at it. So, a payment that usually takes less then 15 minutes, took an hour becuase of the arguement. the lady" Oh its not shown up on my computer that your full time. " me: I have the form, read it it says i'm full time even with my reduce course load the lady " Well, your cordinator should have e-mailed Jill and it hasn't gotten through the main system yet " me: My cordinator has the copy that my old cordinator sent off. Shouldln't it be saved in your computer system? the lady" Since your part time, you don't pay yet till December 17th after the full time students get organized me: Okay, but isn't the scheduale going up December 7th?? I got a note in the mail SAYING to pay before November 15th. If i pay before December 17th and DON"T get into my last English course I need to graduate, I'm blamming you. The Lady: *mumbles about something while facing her computer so i couldn't hear her* my mom: (who was with me thank god) " No one told us about the part time thing and the councilor said she was to pay with the full timers. " the lady : no one told me that me: Well, if I come back another year in the same program i'm still blamming you. the lady: i can talk to Jill my supervisor, to see if you can pay still. (she goes off) - i was pissed. why am i sharing this conversation ? Because lately , those with ADD and registered at the Disability Councilor people haven't been treated very nicely lately, and its not just me! (She comes back) the lady: well, my supervisor said you can pay now, but she'll register you when she gets to your letter me: Good. I'm not paying past the deadline anyways the lady: Well technically part time- me: i'm not part time for crying out loud the lady: Okay, total comes to ____ but whats with the course codes? me: -.- the course codes are different because i'm taking first year courses as well as second year courses. the lady: ooo i'll mark it down for jill *marks it up on the fall course instead of the winter* Thinking to myself : Is she playing dumb? my mom paid we walk out. 5 minutes later we come back to get the recit that she forgot to give us. My mom told my councilor " Oh , bonnie wasn't very cooperative. " Concilor " really? i'll call and see what the problem is, and make sure that Heather gets in for Winter. me: thanks! -.- almost came and got you Concilor " you should have. no one deserves a hard time while paying. " and ya, wasn't happy at all. On December 7th I'm checking my time table. And, if its not up, and it says that i didn't pay yet, believe it, I will complain. Has anyone else had this situation while trying to pay for school? or a different one? I don't understand why they give people who are registered with CSD and who has premission to have a reduced course load such a hard time. I'm not coming back in the fall, no sir re! On other notes. Hows everyone else doing?! with it being the 11 week in school (for some) Current Mood: annoyed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:32 am [samcurt]	Today's NY Times. Bad Behavior Does not Doom Pupils, Studies Say In the other study, researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health and McGill University, using imaging techniques, found that the brains of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder developed normally but more slowly in some areas than the brains of children without the disorder. The disorder, also known as A.D.H.D., is by far the most common psychiatric diagnosis given to disruptive young children; 3 percent to 5 percent of school-age children are thought to be affected. Researchers have long debated whether it was due to a brain deficit or to a delay in development. Doctors said that the report, being published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, helps to explain why so many children grow out of the diagnosis in middle school or later, often after taking stimulant medications to improve concentration in earlier grades. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 12th, 2007
8:50 pm [tentongoldfish]	Next steps. So, I trekked all the way over to my campus health center after getting lost three times (damn you, little pointy directional arrows of doom.) Sat for an hour and forty five minutes only to have them tell me, "OH HAI! We don't do AD/HD testing anymore here!" (and and and and...I had an appointment and everything too. And I skipped cog-psych class. Which is BAD BAD BAD, but I'm going to have to retake it anyway cause I'm way too stubborn to withdraw. And, I forgot about the withdraw date anyway.) And, I was like, "Well fuck me. With rusty sporks, even." (on a side note, has anyone ever seen a metal spork? They're funky looking...and dangerous.) But they referred me to the campus counseling center (we have like fifty ballizon little centers like that. I could show you a list...it's kind of weird.), because I have private insurance (that won't cover testing and medication, I think. I know I called up and asked a long long time ago, and was told no cause I'm apparently grandma now or some shit.) so they might possibly me able to hook me up with someone who can help me, and help me not make this semester as much of a disaster as it could possibly end up being, hopefully. But, I don't know. Has anyone ever been to this point before? I don't know what to expect. And it was baaad when I talked to the super nice people at the health center cause they were all like "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME IN EARLIER?!?" when I started describing what was going on. And, when they learned I've been dealing with this at this level for about a year and a half. (I've been inattentive since I was a little bitty thing, but I've been able to cope with it, and I tend to rely heavily on luck. In high school, they just said I was a combative heathen and left me alone.) So, I got upset cause for once someone wasn't looking at me like I was making this all up (as my mother has a habit of doing.) I need to call tomorrow. But, being as I'm as impulsive as I am, I'll probably end up waltzing in there without an appointment. So, what's going to happen next? Anyone want to give me a primer? I always work better if I know what's going on. AND...AD/HD is cormorbid with other disorders...is is really painfully common to have AD/HD and something like depression and anxiety? I didn't know that much about it until a few days ago. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: NOFX, Bob (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
11:32 pm [windychan121]	busy busy busy I'm wondering if my medication is working at all? i have so much to do and it doens't seem like I'm concentrating with it. I'm taking my med on Friday... not looking forward to it. Meeting to pay for school next semester (usually take 30 minutes) class after for three hours After that twenty minutes to get home Homework /supper Meeting out of town that haveta go to till 8:45pm. So much in one day? I think i might go crazy. I"m debating about gonig getting a renewed prescription for my medication... >_> or if i haveta take another pill instead of the one and a half that i take now. And so many papers to write this weekend, I feel like I'm loosing my mind!! (Comment on this)
11:38 am [drucat]	Strattera experiences? So I just got put on Strattera the other day... today was my second day taking it. I'm on 40mg for two weeks and then I'm seeing my doctor again. Anyway, has anyone else tried it? If so, what were your experiences? I've tried stimulants before but not this. Yesterday after I took it I got really really drowsy and more or less slept all day - I was completely exhausted. Has anyone else has that side effect? If so, how long did it last? I'm doing better today, I think. Etc. Thanks! (I might cross-post this, sorry in advance if I do). Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: bad tv (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 5th, 2007
11:42 am [fridaish]	Nonverbal Learning Disability, anyone? Hello everyone, So after thinking I was ADD for sure, it turns out  (after months and months of testing) that I have a nonverbal learning disorder/disability (I don't recall which is the proper word, but you know what I mean) or NLD. Does anyone else have this, perhaps in addition to or misdiagnosed as ADD/ADHD?  I can't find any discussion at all about this on LJ, and there are only a couple sites on the web which (like most LD info sources) seem to be directed towards parents of children with NLD.  One article I read said that this is a low-incidence affliction ( 1 in 1,000) but that conflicts with other stuff I've read.   And to keep this post on topic, here is the school part:  this is wreaking havoc in my attempts to return to college and get a degree.  I am 25 and have attended college 4 times, finishing one semester total.  It's hard to explain what the trouble is...the best I can do is, a feeling of being completely overwhelmed and lost in a sea of people who know what the heck is going on.  That and my math problems (NLD also mimics dyscalculia.) Thanks, everyone.  I am a former friend of this group and liked it very much, but hadn't been on LJ in months and consqeuently I forgot my LJ username.  How very LD of me!  ;D (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
10:23 pm [tentongoldfish]	Losing track of time. I don't know about everyone else, but Daylight Savings Time drives me nutters. Next week (since I'm in the states) is going to screw me up so badly, heh. Anyway, I do have a point. For once. Does anyone else have any good pointers to account for lost time? I used to set timers and all (a trick I heard about from someone with AS,) but found them more distracting than helpful. It's either branching off in two ways, this problem of mine; I get way too invested in something stupid, and end up wasting time that way; or I keep putting something off, thinking I'll have time for it later, and then not realizing that it *is* later, and I'm kind of screwed. (Did that make sense?) So, tips? Tricks? Advice? -Jin (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
10:55 am [windychan121]	If any of you have a Learning Strategist or any help offered for you to get organized. I suggest you book an appointment!! They are so helpful. Mine just taught me the " few " ways to study without getting so distracted. I laughed saying " I wish I saw her three years ago. " My favorite tip that she gave me: When reading a long chapter: ie; 30 pages long. Don't sit for an hour and a half reading from page 1 to page 30. By the time you get to page 25 your mind will be thinking about other stuff. Read a couple paragraphs, then stretch. 5 minutes later read some more, then stretch. Break it up, it will help. And you know what? It does. I have so much reading to do this semester, first I thought it'll be easy. Nope. I lost track of where we were in psychology. Turns out he only talked about chapter 3 today. other tips I already knew was: use ceu cards, highlight (which i do like a mad dog lol.) and so on. I'm not sure how I managed to A'ced,(( my first A on any test! i'm thrilled still)) my first economics class which has no reading(s) just his notes, even with his psych class I got a B on his test, and I barely read the first chapter. Its just from his notes. Just a heads up to those that skip. Go to class. You'll be suprised you'll know the material even better if you show up. Even if you have a professor that repeats himself each class for the materials that may be on the test. 75% of the time what he says is on it. My class this smorning only had 8 students. We're suppose to have 27 students. So who cares if its raining? The professor got here right?? Your not going to melt in the rain for crying out loud shiesh! Current Mood: chipper (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
3:25 pm [phishy]	how do you guys get stuff done? So hey, guys. I'm new to this comm, but like so many of you, all too familiar with ADD. I've been off meds for almost five years now, and have made it through college so far on mainly caffeine and that oh-shit-my-paper's-due-in-two-hours adrenaline. You know, the usual. :) Lately, I've gotten savvy with calendars, planners, and stuff but even those aren't very useful when you ignore them. XD So, what do you guys do to manage your time and stay on track? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
8:14 pm [failstoexist]	getting started I'm having trouble getting started on an assignment I'm working on. I've been trying to get moving on it since yesterday evening...it seems the harder I try the worse I feel for having wasted so much time. which in turn means I get a lot less done. does anyone have any tips? I'm a senior and I'm writing my thesis. I haven't been formally evaluated for ADD but at this point I know I have it. I don't know why I have yet to get tested and get help...I think I feel like I *should* be able to handle this, since I've gone so far without help already. Which is a totally lame reason. but maybe I'm just worried that nothing will really help. So basically I have no meds and no real resources at this point. so how do you get started? I usually don't have this much trouble...but sometimes when things are very important I just seem to get stuck in a rut and make absolutely no progress. Current Mood: anxious (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
3:51 pm [slutbodan69]	sigh For most students, an essay assignment at the university level in which the outline is actually graded is a gift from the marking gods. For students with ADD (okay, maybe just this student with ADD), having to express one's essay planning process in neat, point form notes is a frightening thing indeed. Sigh. Okay, now I'm going to suck it up and go make some point form notes. (1 Comment |Comment on this)