Do you have ADD?

[Yummybud]

I'm trying to study and I just realized that I keep on losing my concentration, maybe it's just really boring stuff I'm reading but still my mind will start wondering and thinking about random things right in the middle of a sentence and then I'll like daydream for 10 minutes and be like shit I got ot get back to reading and then read another paragraph and then space out again.

think this means I have add lol. anyone have add , do you take meds?

I don't want to take meds or anything, any natural ways that will help you concentrate? I know add has to do with overstimulation so that's why coffee etc would make you worse I think or better, I forgot which it was.

 

[Irishslappop]

ADD is a myth.


theres a pill for every fucked up mind.
and a cure for every fucked up child.

 

[Tirs]

I don't know if I really buy into ADD. Label something a disease or disorder then you can sell a pill for it. Some people just have a harder time focusing on some things or just don't have the motivation. But then again whats better than getting kids hooked on speed?

....wait what was the original question?

 

[Tarkus]

Shit, I was diagnosed with ADD in the 4th grade I believe. I only really took Ritalin for a few months over the course of 8 years. The only thing it did was make my already finicky appetite all but vanish. It was bullshit. However, my parents and all the psychiatrists/psychologists (quacks) thought I should stay on it. Prescribed me 40 mg tablets, 3 times a day, which is a pretty good dose. Whatever, I sold it so I could buy weed, and sometimes just traded for it. All the kids I knew loved the damn stuff.
I do not believe I have ADD, if it even exists. I can pay attention if I really try or is really interesting. But pretty much anyone will lose concentration at some point if the subject is boring enough. I remember taking one of many tests for it in which I sat in front of an all white computer screen, and every second it would flash to a new screen, all white. I was to click my mouse if a black dot appeared in the screen. So there I sat, in a lame office, a nice chair and no music for 45 minutes. How many seconds has that been? 20?? I better click it 8 or 9 times...
Then came long lasting Concerta...made a lot of off that

 

[Tirs]

damn irish you beat me by a few seconds

 

[Yummybud]

I agree these days doctors don't take the time to figure out what the kidd has and they just do a quick generic test and say yeah ok he has add take these pills.

but ADD is in fact a real disorder I forgot if it was understimulation or overstimuled nervous system that causes it.

I think it was actually understimulation? when you have ADD you constanly need more stimualtion so ridalin, speed or whatever will increase your stimulation so that you are at a normal level of stimulation and don't need more stimulation

when you read a book or sit in a boring class a person with ADD will be too understimulated so they can't concentrate.

I guess caffeine or coffee would help with add but then taking constant caffeine is bad for you.

 

[Relapse]

One thing that helps my concentration are Ginko Biloba pills, all natural and if taken in 3 pills a day for a good amount of times works wonders. It increases blood flow to the brain and helps with memory loss.

 

[Yummybud]

yeah I'm right understimulation of your nervous system causes ADD

overstimulation causes anxiety because you can't take any more stimulation or else you get overwhelmed.

but then how can you both have anxiety and add......

 

[Yummybud]

One thing that helps my concentration are Ginko Biloba pills, all natural and if taken in 3 pills a day for a good amount of times works wonders. It increases blood flow to the brain and helps with memory loss.

never heard of it. Is it safe to take, like any possilbe side effects?

 

[Tarkus]

Yes, a lot of my friends that were ADD drank coffee and they said it helped them to concentrate. I found that to be bullshit. Nothing ever worked for me, if I did not want to concentrate I was not going to. There was no miracle cure that was gonna make me all of a sudden give a shit about Shakespeare. I hate it, so of course I am gonna let my mind wander and hope I can bullshit my way through the day off of what other people say.
I always had a pretty low heart rate, not that I am an athlete or anything. It just runs in the family. But Ritalin would raise that shit way too high when I did any exercise at all. Other people said it would make them do all their homework in 45 minutes and clean their room and mow the lawn and all this other crap. Speed is speed.

 

[Yummybud]

lol sweet study my exams in 45 minutes then go mow the law at 2 am while on speed lol

no thanks. I'd never take ritalin but maybe caffeine when I'm studying or something else that helps.

 

[Yummybud]

Yeah I'm stuying for my archeology, human origins exam and it's pretty boring stuff, talking about all the names given to the differnet genus and specis of homonoids it's just giving me a headache.

 

[SEEDYNONO]

omega 3 foolz..

 

[mangled]

i also was "diagnosed" with ADHD... and they tried to put me on adderal(YUCK)
ADD is bullshit, all it does is kids addicted to amphetamines

i cant believe they give like 11 year olds amphetamines daily for YEARS...they brains are ganna be fucked....

 

[stihgnobevoli]

ADD is a real thing, just because you dont have it doesnt mean you should make fun of us that do have it. I dont just find things boring and dont want to concentrate, i find everything boring and i cant concentrate on anything for any fixed length of time no matter how much i may want to. I also have anxiety disorder and i was taking pills for them, but liek any medication there were side effects i would rather have not have to deal with vs my symptoms so i stopped. My friend who has ADD also says drinking a little coffee, like half a cup will help you concentrate. I dont know as i cant stand coffee, and the only time i ever drink it is when i need to stay awake for a long time to get work done. Whether the coffee helps me concentrate or not i dont know, but i do know that coffee helps me stay awake longer, and resist hunger.

 

[SEEDYNONO]

and go watch the secret

 

[Yummybud]

yeah I agree, ADD is real but many kids who don't actually have add are diagnosed with it and given meds but that doesn't mean add doesn't exist.

 

[genkisan]

Wanna mellow out enough to study properly, Yummy......





Start getting laid.....there is no substitute, and IMHO, yer concentration will never git better till yer sexlife does too.

 

[SEEDYNONO]

lol

 

[Tom Hill]

"lie down here son"

"What are those?"

"Those are leaches, they will suck the bad blood out of you"

"Are you fucking crazy man?"

Nothing wrong with most kids today that a good fast & change of diet wouldn't cure.