Posted by garnet71 on April 27, 2009, at 17:26:35
In reply to Re: Am I bipolar? Someone please....advice, posted by desolationrower on April 27, 2009, at 13:03:01
Oh I'll tell you about the procrastination later. Yeah-I only took 1/2 dose of dextro, but it was odd that by the 3rd day, I didn't really feel it after a noticable affect on days 1 and 2. I'm trying to conserve my pills...no pdoc appt. for 2 mos.
I want to know your thoughts on this (about the tonic and phasic DA..in relation to ADD (so I can think more about meds)) (except for swrings.lol):
> > "there is too much up and down in enjoyment level (ie, DA swrings, too little tonic DA).."
> >I never read ADD/ADHD scientific lit, but just websites..but I think I've learned more about it from you than from anywhere else.
This makes a lot of sense-
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> i'm not sure if its direct or secondary. i'd guess the ADHDi subtype is hypoactive though and this would correlate to procrastination. and if you have access to books or games or hwatever distraction, thats going to cause procrastination. probably general prioritizing and goal-orientation problems are involved too. delay-gradient thing probably mattesr, only things that are more complex are capable of being procrastinated, because just finishing something is the reward for most things.
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getting stuck being unproductive and not being busy and excited can make it worse. it'll get better. sounds like you're functioning, just it feels overwhelming.
>Yeah, that sure makes sense...stuck w/unproductiivty and not being busy and excited.yeah, functioning and overwhelming.. that's sound exactly what it is right now.
After I read this earlier today--I thought, well my life has been quite different over the past year--and I have gotten worse. No traveling for one year, no dating, change in types of course material to less appealing subjects (less contextual-more mathematical/scientific--and I am a creative person), less going out with friends, nothing exciting going on w/my life anymore compared to how I've lived in the past.
I really learned a lot from this whole thread, about myself. I love this forum. :-) Hey, do you have ADD-I, or ADHD, or ADD mixed, or whatever..which one do/did you have? I never had ADHD, but my son did; he grew out of the H in ADD...but I've only had ADD-but do all that squirming and fidgeting in class stuff...lol
Growing up, well my mother told me I always 'bored' always, though I don't remember much. So I used to read my parent's books. When I was a little kid, I was reading Freud...though can't remember any of it, I think it's still in my subconscious (transfers to intuition from absorption).
Thanks d/r :-))
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