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Re: ADD meds/motivation/concentration » metric

Posted by garnet71 on March 27, 2009, at 7:42:18

In reply to Re: ADD meds/motivation/concentration » garnet71, posted by metric on March 23, 2009, at 17:08:41

Hey Metric, maybe you are either a chemical engineer/ex-pharmaceutical guy or a computer science person who is self-taught in neuroscience from MIT open coursewear..lol. Just ignore that, it's just a curious guess. Maybe there is rivalry between the pharmaceutical co's and psychiatrists? Sort of like the rivalry between loan officers and real estate agents, DOD and State Dept., cops and lawyers? lol. I've seen it in most fields I've worked in; it's a very common phenonemon.

I know it takes a lot of education and training to understand meds and their effects on our brains. Learning and talking about it in the only way I can, however, has helped me, considering I've been given meds that made me miserable or non-functioning over the past 3 years or so until I came to this forum in December and acquired some insight about it. I think, too, that anxiety is one of the least researched areas in psychiatry or science, just a guess from a layperson...As far as the Buspirone goes, it appears, at first glance, to go hand in hand with SSRIs in efficacy vs. placebos. I really don't know if it will work when I get under extreme pressures again, but I'm going to keep at it until that happens. I'm not sure right now what my other options are for anxiety. I am lost as to why I can't handle stressors the way I used to, though the simultaneous stressors I recently had were enough to affect mentally strong people too. Not that I still don't have them all-I only got rid of one major stressor.

Thanks for the programming tips, but no thanks..lol. I only took that class as an elective to see how it all works, well also because it would look good on my transcript for grad school application. My unconventional view is that programming sort of operationalizes all our societal institutions, so there is great utility in learning how it works. Long ago, my dad taught himself to program as a hobby from reading books like that, and carried it to his job by writing programs that made the company more efficient/profitable. I don't understand how so many business leaders can be clueless about technology. Not in a sense to micromanage, but in a sense to capitalize upon opportunities. From what I learned, most IT people at organizations are normally not trained in business concepts, which creates a wall between the two; a divide bet. business and technology.

I could really use the math help though, but can't even keep up with books for school, let alone anything extra. Wish I came across your advice in that regard a couple years ago. Tom Apostol, hmmm. Maybe I will get it anyway.

Do you have any tips to learn something like this:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Spreadsheet-Modeling-Decision-Analysis/Cliff-Ragsdale/e/9780324656633/

I cannot learn the steps in creating the math models from class, though the Excel Solver/Crystal Ball thing after you create the models doesn't seem too difficult. I tried to learn this, but the whole time the professor was talking, though an awesome professor, I just kept thinking if/how these types of models could be used for medical diagnosis and other unrelated things. I can't learn steps to do anything, can't pay attention for longer than 5 seconds, and I learn by absorption, which can't be used to learn abstract stuff like this, not that I know of anyway. Can learn the 'arts' but not the 'sciences'. Went from UG arts degree to Grad Science degree-and had to take leave from grad school when I quit taking meds and developed panic attacks again, but am going back soon and have to take that class. I like it alot, but am dreading it because I don't know how I'm going to pass. Any advice in regard to that decision modeling class?

Thanks for sharing all that with me!

 

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