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Message: <blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3049273" data-attributes="member: 40894">electroencephalographic biofeedback. it trains your perceptions to notice when you're doing ADD things. I found out about five years ago that I have ADD, and me and the wife have been round and round about treatment. I don't like drugs, having had a lot of them and quit--on my own, I might add--I dread any new exposure, and many of the treatments, Ritalin included, are based on methamphetamines--the root for crystal meth--making them terrifying to me. I have yet to start with the eeg machine that my best friend loaned me, but I think about it a lot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> referring back to the OP, it seems that you get some good benefit from your condition, aside from the detriment. In my psychotherapist's office is a sign that says "Having Attention Deficit Disorder is like catching a dragon by the tail." We have so much potential in terms of creativity that it is very often difficult to know where to start. Once we do start something, it seems that the next thing on our minds becomes a lot more attractive, so we jump to that, casting off the dross of our previous activity. The answer lies in taking all of these new starts and making them into a cohesive effort to the point of finishing.If you are doing it right, then the finish of the situation, whatever the project might be, then the end will sort of sneak up on you.I try and keep several things going at the same time, so that my awareness never loses its stimulation. If all else fails, I get up and walk around, thinking on my feet, making that the "other thing" that I'm doing.Another thing I read about last year is a drug called Stratera. I've been told that it is non-habit-forming, and that it really helps with the distraction. I am scared of this one, too, but I think that it would be the one that I would take if I were going to medicate myself.Good luck with everything. Definitely post again if you encounter something that helps you out, because I also read that something like one-third of the population of the U.S. has ADD or some variant. Read The Complete Guide To ADHD , I think the name is, by Phil Hartman. A great deal of positive-thinking and well-researched ideas, here.Anyway. Gotta go get my boy at school, so ya'll have a great day!</blockquote>

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