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myADD.org is a new project. To start I'll be telling my own stories and reporting as much ADD / ADHD news as I can find.

But the truth is, I cannot do this on my own. I need your help.

Don't lurk in the shadows anymore... show your presence, Let us know you're here...

Take 60 seconds (literally) and do one of three things:

• Sign up for a myADD.org account.

  I have ADD which means I hate online forms.

  You're probably the same way.

  That's why the only personal info I ask for is your email address.

  I will *never* give your email address to a third party (I hate spam too... actually when I first started the site I tried to not even ask for an email address, but spammers kept posting links for "V1AGr4" so I have to require some sort of verification).


And then, after you've created an account...

• ... comment on one these articles (like this one). Let's get a discussion started. I don't care what you say... just say something.


• And if you would rather lead than follow, post to your personal blog which will automatically show up on the front page.

  Write anything you want... The blogs were originally designed so that anyone could have their own "ADD journal"... but you can post anything you want: ask questions about ADHD medications and treatment options, relate ADD news, post a link to an ADD message board thread that you found of interest...

Our goal is to compile as much information on attention defecit disorder as possible... whether that takes the form of anecdotes, statistics or current events is up to you.

Here are some ADD / ADHD related news stories of recent:

Child suspended for not taking Ritalin and surprise, someone's getting sued.

And equally shocking, apparently college kids abuse stimulants like adderall and ritalin to help them study. College kids using illegal substances to achieve alternate states of mind? Unheard of.

And this guy wonders "is ritalin the new corporal punishment?" He asks "Are the types of children who were getting the strap when I was at school 25 years ago, now being given drugs instead?" Of real interest is this factoid: "More than 5800 prescriptions were written for Ritalin in January this year, compared with 523 last August."

And my favorite of them all... apparently removing your tonsils cures ADHD

In college I had the above poster on my wall. I had to take it down when I realized I was taking the message too much to heart.

I'd say 70% of my ADD/ADHD related issues are procrastination related. The typical cycle is this: I can't get started on something, so I put it off for fifteen minutes... which becomes an hour, then four hours, and then its 3am and I'm trying to start something that should have been finished at 10. Sometime around 5am I convince myself that "I'll just sleep for a couple hours... then I'll get up and nail this thing."

I have never once actually gotten out of bed in "a couple of hours" to work on the thing. But yet somehow every night I convince myself that this time it'll be different.

Of course, getting out of bed ain't easy when you spent the whole day worrying about a project that you're no closer to finishing... so I'd oversleep... get up at 2pm and the cycle would start all over again.

And it always starts with one thing.

It was a google search on "chronic procrastination" a year ago that put me on the path to discovering ADD. I've been trying to analyze how and why I fall into this trap. The concerta is huge help, but I'm finding that there are typically a few key situations that arise in which I am more prone to procrastinate. Specifically I've found that times when I have three or four options, but haven't yet made a decision or times when I do not know exactly how to complete a task I've very likely to put it off and ignore it as the problems grow.

In that pursuit, some of you may find this article from Cal Poly interesting. It covers reasons we procrastinate and strategies on breaking the cycle.

Got this email from an online support group I'm involved with. Pretty good description of what ADHD is like... does this strike a chord with any of you?
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This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at
my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there
is mail on the porch table that I brought up from
the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail
in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the
can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take
out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox
when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the
bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there
is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go
inside the house to my desk where I find the can of
Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push
the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I realize the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should
put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of
flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be
watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my
reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm
going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container
with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone
left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be

I've got one pill left of the 30 from my original RX of Concerta. I can say that the last 30 days have been the most consistently productive 30 days of the last 3 years of my life. Its been great to be able to come up with a list of things to do and then, almost like magic, they get done.

Today was one of the best days I've had yet. I'm working on starting a new business and had some promising interest from a couple of potential customers. Made some great progress on my "real job" as well. The meds are helping... alot.

Its interesting to see the public's perception of ADHD meds. Check out this article on Anderson Cooper's 360 Blog. Of particular interest to me are the seventy some comments on the article. Its fun to see the public's (often uninformed) opinion on the matter.

There's a natural reaction to want to slap the people who say things like "These drugs are akin to speed - they keep you up but barely improve focus and performance. If armies of insomniacs is what we want then these drugs are the solution." But, I gotta remember that I had similar hesitations in regards to the meds no more than two months ago. Even after I got diagnosed I was incredibly reluctant to start the meds as it seemed like a copout.

The deal I made with myself was "I'll try them, and if after a month or two life is better, then I'll keep taking them. Otherwise, I'll quit."

Tomorrow I'll be going to the pharmacy to get another 30-day supply...

This article has some cool stuff about using bio-feedback while playing video games to increase concentration ability. From the article:

If they just play video games on their own, they will zone out," he says. "When they play on this system, if they zone out, the video game doesn't respond any more," acting as an incentive to improve focus and concentration.

ADDers are diagnosed by their weaknesses. Typically weaknesses in organization, promptness, financial management, concentration, the ability to complete an assignment, etc etc etc.

At least that's why I went to get diagnosed.

Finances are one of those areas I'm not real good at. The last two months have been the first time in my life that I have actively reviewed and "managed" my finances. At some point I realized that I really didn't know what I was doing...

I guess that shouldn't be all that surprising considering that, well... I never actually learned how to manage finances.

I tend to suck at things I never learned how to do.

I'm not bad at everything though. I have a blackbelt in karate. I am a "good" fighter in the same way that a kid that plays varsity through highschool is a "good" basketball player.

I'm not genetically predispositioned to be a good fighter... it wasn't some luck of the draw or some freak occurence. I can fight not because I was born able to, but because I spent six years of my life studying and practicing the techniques taught to me by more succesful fighters.

Wouldn't it be cool if I could do the same thing in other areas of my life? If I don't want to be broke, study and practice the ways of fiscal management. Find people that aren't broke and ask them how they did it.

This isn't witchcraft here... its just numbers and whatnot. There's gotta be a reason why some are successful and some aren't. How hard could it really be to figure out what those reasons are?

I tend to become good at the things which I decide to study -- it never happens over night... but it does happen.

So I want to know, where do I find these resources? What is the best way to *learn* how to manage money? To get organized? To concentrate?

Any ideas?

The last few weeks since I've been on the meds I've noticed all the stuff that's on the advertisements... increased concentration, abillity to stay on task etc. Stay tuned for more info on that.

But the meds are just one of the tools in the belt that I've been using to attack the ADD.

Two items in particular have greatly increased my abillity to organize and prioritize my thoughts and actions.

The first is the Treo 650. I cannot stress enough how much difference this device has made. See, I meant it so much I used bold. That's how serious I am. Bold.

A future entry will cover details, but the basic idea is this: calendar, task lists, contact organizer and email all wrapped up in my cell phone that never leaves a 10 foot radius of my body. Plus its tech toy and I'm a nerd.

But hi-tech can be constricting. Thus the perfect companion to the Treo 650:
Moleskine Notebooks. I've been using the pocket sized ones for years in an attempt to always have pen and paper on me.

It catches some good ideas every once in a while and when you fill up one there's a warm and fuzzy sense of accomplishment.

If you're going to get one, get the sketchbook. Why? No lines.

Have at least one space in your life with no rules and no order. Play.

I've been on meds for just over a week now. Concerta 36mg. I think they're helping. At times I'm not certain... alot of the time I don't necessarily "feel" different. But I definitely have been more productive this last week.

But I think the *aha* moment today was when I went to the bank. Typically I *hate* going to the bank. I hate doing any errand. I hate doing anything that involves lines, processes or beuracracy.

But it wasn't until I was very calmly and slowly putting all of my stuff back into my bag, after methodically laying out each of my four checks and signing them and adding up all the numbers on the slip...

That's when I realized that its never been that easy before. Never.

So I think they're working.