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.
I understand about sometimes needed to just vent but not looking for someone to feel sorry for me. What’s odd is how often people don’t realize that’s all I need so I’ve now gotten into the habit of just stating it up front (not looking for sympathy), which seems to help.
Hey, Doug! Great that you’re doing these posts on occasion again. I do read them, but I often don’t click “like” here on WordPress because I usually see it on my phone when I’m away from home, and I keep forgetting my WordPress account (which is memorized by my desktop PC).
Christmas can be a booger indeed. This year, I decided everyone was going to get cross-stitch projects from me, to save money (I now have less money because, big exciting news!: I quit my nightime job and went back to college full-time with a small loan and a part-time job!). So after purchasing the patterns for everyone and the yarn I’d need, I realized it wasn’t gonna be cheaper, but it’d at least be from the heart and fun to do. Then I started doing the patterns (8-9 in total) like crazy before lectures started mid October. I did really well, and I had all but one pattern finished.
Then I realized that some of the projects won’t fit nicely on regular frames, so I need square frames, which you can’t get cheap: more costs. *sigh* and I still barely even started the last project. Oh boy. Merry Christmas all around. :p
ram
it is so good to hear from you again!
and congratulations on the return to college. good for you!
and thank you for contributing your ADHD type project story.
best wishes
doug
Ken
thank you. yes my problems are sorted, to be, of course, replaced by new ones. ain’t that just life tho.
i hope you have merry Christmas and that all of your problems are small.
thank you for commenting, as always
best wishes
doug
I’m so glad you’re doing some of these emails again. They are a tonic.
Always something which makes me laugh out loud and something to not make me feel alone struggling with what look like ridiculously easy things to solve.
Julia
Thank you! I’m glad you are laughing and not feeling alone. I think the “ridiculously easy things” are the worst.
thank you for commenting
best wishes
doug
ADDadultstrategies 
And hope things have improved some since you posted this.
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I understand about sometimes needed to just vent but not looking for someone to feel sorry for me. What’s odd is how often people don’t realize that’s all I need so I’ve now gotten into the habit of just stating it up front (not looking for sympathy), which seems to help.
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Hey, Doug! Great that you’re doing these posts on occasion again. I do read them, but I often don’t click “like” here on WordPress because I usually see it on my phone when I’m away from home, and I keep forgetting my WordPress account (which is memorized by my desktop PC).
Christmas can be a booger indeed. This year, I decided everyone was going to get cross-stitch projects from me, to save money (I now have less money because, big exciting news!: I quit my nightime job and went back to college full-time with a small loan and a part-time job!). So after purchasing the patterns for everyone and the yarn I’d need, I realized it wasn’t gonna be cheaper, but it’d at least be from the heart and fun to do. Then I started doing the patterns (8-9 in total) like crazy before lectures started mid October. I did really well, and I had all but one pattern finished.
Then I realized that some of the projects won’t fit nicely on regular frames, so I need square frames, which you can’t get cheap: more costs. *sigh* and I still barely even started the last project. Oh boy. Merry Christmas all around. :p
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ram
it is so good to hear from you again!
and congratulations on the return to college. good for you!
and thank you for contributing your ADHD type project story.
best wishes
doug
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Merry Christmas Doug – I hope all your problems sort soon! Ken
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Ken
thank you. yes my problems are sorted, to be, of course, replaced by new ones. ain’t that just life tho.
i hope you have merry Christmas and that all of your problems are small.
thank you for commenting, as always
best wishes
doug
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Hi Doug,
I’m so glad you’re doing some of these emails again. They are a tonic.
Always something which makes me laugh out loud and something to not make me feel alone struggling with what look like ridiculously easy things to solve.
God Bless you
Julia 🙂
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Julia
Thank you! I’m glad you are laughing and not feeling alone. I think the “ridiculously easy things” are the worst.
thank you for commenting
best wishes
doug
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Doug, THE BEST!! k/j xoxo
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Karolyn
thank you for the support and for commenting!
with love
doug
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