About doug with ADHD
I am a psychiatric physician.
I learned I have ADHD at age 64, and then wrote two ADHD books for adults, focusing on strategies for making your life better. I just published my first novel, Alma Means Soul.
Your Life Can Be Better; strategies for adults with ADD/ADHD
available at amazon.com, or smashwords.com (for e books)
Living Daily With Adult ADD or ADHD: 365 Tips O the Day ( e-book).
This is one tip at a time, one page at a time, at your own pace. It's meant to last a year.
As a child, I was a bully. Then there was a transformation.
Now I am committed to helping people instead abusing them.
The Bully was published in January, 2016.
It's in print or e book, on Amazon.
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They definitely don’t understand, but if their defense, it’s pretty hard to understand something you don’t have. My daughter-in-law has BPD, bipolar and MS. I don’t understand how she feels, but every now and then I have a tough day and I imagine that it must be something like that for her everyday. I think the key is trying to understand and accepting it when they tell you they feel a certain way. My husband doesn’t understand ADD but he knows I have it and that it impairs my ability to do certain things. When I say I struggle, he believes me. Even if he doesn’t understand, he believes me and doesn’t try to provide solutions (that work for him!) or convince me I really don’t feel that way or I could help myself if I did certain things. He just believes me and accepts me.
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homey – yes, we do need to have empathy and understanding for them, especially since that’s what we want for ourselves. It’s the ones who deny the existence of ADD ADHD, that I have trouble with.
seems to me that you have married a wonder (I actually said “winner”, but you see how it came out and I decided to leave it.).
You are both very impressive people.
Thank you for commenting,, as always.
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Hi Doug. Was “Lisa On Life with ADD” supposed to be a link? If so, it didn’t work for me. Would be interesting to read.
This weekend I printed all of my various notes to myself (24 in all) off of my computer, so they look nicer. Some were several years old, of various sizes, and quite the worse for wear. My wife appreciated this, but STILL can’t understand why I need reminder notes – as SHE doesn’t need notes (she remembers what she needs to do). Jeff
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jeff – thank you for telling me. i fixed it.( I think) here’s the link https://addadultstrategies.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/lisas-comments-life-with-add-add-tip-o-the-day-403/
its a good post, and maybe your wife could read it?
thats a good strategy, to have the notes neat – may give them more impact.
no, she can’t understand, but its not her fault.
thank you for commenting
doug
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THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!!!! sigh 😦
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alexandria-
no man is ever so sure as when he doesnt know what he is talking about.
so, should we just try to have pity on them?
thank you for commenting
doug
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