ADD vs ADHD?

[andy420]

Trip just curious how do you know so much about it?

[Puddles]

Shibby, simplified, ADD and ADHD differ in that ADHD includes physical hyperactivity, whereas in ADD it's just the mind that races.

As for anger...like you, I'm normally a calm person, but my mother can set me off like no one else can. We have strong personality clashes and when it's coming from an authoritive figure like your parent, I think it's harder to control once you become an adult...it's like you're always biting your tongue and holding back out of respect yet you want them to stop controlling you. I went to a therapist when I was in my early 30's and it helped me immensely. My therapist had me write a letter to my mother explaining how I felt about a lot of things. This letter was only to be given to my therapist, not to my mother, it was just her way of getting me to realize what all was bothering me. Well, the letter was about 4 pages long and believe me, it could have been longer. I kept that letter and a few weeks after it was written I called my mother and told her that I had a few things to say to her and for her to not interrupt me and when I was done I would hang up. I read the letter in it's entirety and when I was done I simply said good bye and hung up the phone. It took a lot of balls for me to do that, but the end result was worth it. She heard me out and I didn't give her the opportunity to argue back or "put me in my place." I took control of the situation for the first time in my life. We never discussed the phone call after that either. Things have been a lot better for me and between the two of us. Maybe something like that could help you.

[trip]

andy,

I'm a success coach, so know lot's of stuff about lot's of stuff, and dammit, lol, I've got ADD.

Okay, staying focused on PS2, means your mind is highly highly engaged, ie doing something, so you can super focus if you have too, yet just regular stuff, you can be interuppted by anything in general, when your on the ps2, well you don't allow anything to interupt.

Do you workout and stuff? What's your job?

Shib, seems like your just an intelligent guy who's young and finding his way, it's all good.

The mind wandering in and of itself is not really that big of an issue. How do you think creative and idea oriented folks get inspriation.....the mind just kind of goes.

If you're still flummoxed, buy 2-3 books on ADD from amazon, the web stuff is too general in nature too the point it is actually confusing cause it will leave most folks thinking they have it.

In general, because the mind is wired several thousand different ways, it is a very specific issue, and the old everyone is different.

As you know if you need anything PM me.