Is ADHD a real disorder?

americans inject video games into our brains now.

Never mind, like I said, I'm crap at jokes. Insert/inject. Argh, damn, Will, do you really want to point out how thickheaded I am. ;-)

british people have no sense of humor

ohhhhh haha. apparently i am more interested in pointing out how thick-headed I am, because I really didn't get it and wanted to get it. And I often don't get jokes (see economics thread for further evidence).

xpost I'm Canadian Mr. Que

(which I guess makes me British once-removed so your statement still stands)

Is Americanism a real disorder?

BRITISH HUMOR

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/mr-bean.jpg

watch it. That man is a national treasure on both sides of the pond.

noooooooooooooooo

TS: Bean vs

http://www.mtctickets.com/comedy/images/larry-the-cable-guy.jpg

Provigil + drinking + drug problem = THE WORST BEER SHITS OF YOUR LIFE

(not a doctor)

xpost

ooo, that's a tough one.

(ha! I was just GISing for a larry the cable guy image for AMERICAN HUMOR and yeah, both of those dudes suck. i was just kidding about brits having no sense of humor.)

A+, guys

Both sides have shining examples of good humor. Stop picking from the bottom of the barrel.

Now where's that Canadian and Belgian humor?

canada has some funny mofos

john candy

http://www.guido.be/imagegallery/VIP/standupls2.jpg

that's apparently belgian humour

http://www.barbkith.net/kithplastiks.jpg

canada humour, shrink-wrapped for freshness

The other day I heard a radio advert for that Mr. Bean's Holiday movie that actually said "If you like Mr. Bean, you'll love this movie!"

This thread is ADD.

http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Canadians/comedians.html

fuck those dudes we produced carrot top

let's not forget gallagher

http://teachingtreasures.com.au/pic/aeroplane.gif

Hey, to say something...

it is me...

HERE COMES THE THING I'M GOING TO SAY...

are you done being mad?...

it's coming even closer!

oh boy....

here it is:

HURTING DOS HERE IS A V V EXCELLENT SITE FOR CHECKING OUT INFO ON PSYCH MEDS

Dun-a dun-a dun-a, it's crazymeds.org! It's actually good, don't be put off by the URL or tha frames.

Mr. Bean Hulot's Holiday...apparently there's hella France

http://i10.tinypic.com/4t69n69.jpg

I love crazymeds.org

probably would make more sense to ask a doctor instead of ilx.

-- hstencil, Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

otm, close thread

http://www.franchiseonline.com/limg/lawndoctorlg.jpg

these are my least favorite threads on ILX because it is invariably a bunch of no-nothing dickasses (myself included) giving bullshitty-ass advice. if you don't have a medical doctorate or first-hand experience, then your opinion is worthless.

i think first-hand experience was the whole idea

ya no shit you creepy mofo, i'm talking to all the non-firsthand-experience ppl

ohhh... kay.

¯\(°_o)/¯

Of course, historically speaking, doctors are the last word on diagnosis, as anyone suffering from homosexuality prior to 1973 will affirm.

HAHAHAHahahahaha

sad but true

Happy 2008, guys!

I MEAN DO YOU HONESTLY FUCKING THINK I'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS STUFF BEFORE LIKE DO YOU THINK IT'S NEVER OCCURRED TO ANYONE BUT YOU THAT BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS ARE "CONSTRUCTS" YOU BULLSHIT COLLEGE FUCK? FUCK OFF!

-- Hurting 2, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 04:07 (4 months ago) Link

lol

^ literally the best post in the thread

the lol part or the other part

good ol' Nowell

so i am pretty sure this is a thing i'm dealing with and whatever.

my lady friend has epilepsy and thinks that must be my real problem, since 'adhd isn't really a thing,' as you say. she sorta has an axe to grind about how often epilepsy is misdiagnosed as other stuff--most often, she says, add. she's actually mad at me for reading a book about coping with add (rather than, i dunno, reading a book about coping with her pet disorder?) i can't speak to the validity of her folk diagnosis, but i know that this book i'm reading on organization strategies for people with add is resonating with me like crazy.

i've spent most of my life thinking that if i read set of symptoms that really resonated with me it was because they'd been written to be so broadly that lots and lots of people would buy The Tonic Cure being sold. 'job-endangering procrastination. need to write down everyday things in order to remember them or do them. constructs elaborate productivity systems like so much 200-foot-scaffolding and then realizes the system takes more maintanence than the work, abandons system.'

"yeah, but that's everybody...right?"

i'm starting to recognize that it isn't. whether it's add or adhd or epilepsy is deeply immaterial to me, i'm just trying to find strategies to cope with the effects wrought on my life and relationships and commitments. i'm gonna try to see a doctor this week.

also shout out to markers and the jackals, this podcast has somehow become more essential for me than it already was: http://5by5.tv/b2w

http://i.imgur.com/A1GK6f2.jpg

is this what people tune in for?

Sometimes I think I have this. I'm probably just making excuses for myself. Doesn't really matter anyway as my GP doesn't believe in it.

What's the book, Hoos? Would be interested to read some coping strategies.

Also, good luck and best wishes that you can find a way through this.

(No elaborate productivity systems here but a fine tendency to hoard self-help and self-improvement books and then never make it beyond chapter 1)

i think i have it but i don't believe in it

I'd like to think what I have is a chemically treatable condition, but I think I am just messy and lazy.

I mentioned it to a diagnosed friend once after a particularly bad couple of years of missing deadlines, planning allnighters to catch up and realising at 3am that I hadn't even started and just going to bed, etc. He basically said "oh no, no man, you'd know if you had that, normal people cannot possibly understand how hard I find it to do things"

so I guess he ought to know, but on the other hand, guy had a busy job and was still running a label and releasing acclaimed albums and had a book deal on the side, so I would've liked some acknowledgement that maybe one's internal struggle with such things is not always apparent

(I have a kneejerk aversion to "there is no way you have this thing that I have" rhetoric bcz the "depression isn't just feeling sad and hopeless, it is for special flowers like me" crowd made me think my actual real depression wasn't important enough to see a doctor about until it had got really out of hand)