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About GAF and Organisation » trouble

Posted by IsoM on January 31, 2002, at 15:12:34

In reply to I hate my GAF and want to die, posted by trouble on January 31, 2002, at 13:29:50

Trouble (I love the name), I read this post because I had no idea what GAF was & was curious. So after I read it, I went to Google to see what it was. I have an idea now, but in my searches, I came across some psychologists/psychiatrists comments that think GAF is mostly a waste of time & show little use. Does that reassure you at all?

A lot of what you wrote sounds like me. Sometimes in my search for what I need & can't find, I'll find what I was looking for the day before, or other times, I'll get distracted, do something else & completely forget what I was even looking for. My sons say I make the perfect absent-minded professor - I can tell you in detail all about animals & plants but can't even remember the basic things I need to.

For me, I found that a computer is awfully hard to misplace, so I've started immediately walking over to my computer & transferring any information on paper to a folder I keep on the 'desktop'. I may lose the paper (I usually do) but all I have to do is click on the folder to find what I wrote down. It may take a minute to find what file it is, but I've yet to lose my computer in the house.

I have a small table by the stairs leading to the outside. I keep a few open containers there so I can drop my keys, change, & any papers in the containers & boxes. At first, I still needed to look for where I put them (& still occasionally do), as I hadn't formed the habit yet of putting them there. But I've gotten better over time & most days, I can find what I need on the table. And yes, I did like you did once - looked for shoes I was wearing.

People at work think I'm so organised. I'm not. I just really concentrate on it at work - after all, I only need to be organised about work things there. At home, I have to be organised about many different things. This *isn't* a plug for adrafinil, but I've noticed that things are coming together much better now that I'm taking it & I remember much easier where, what & why I was doing or using something before.

Curious - how does a person find what their GAF score is? Is there a on-line version, or is it only something that pdocs administer & score?


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