This may not seem like a big deal to those of you without AD/HD (which is the new all encompasing term for both ADD and ADHD)... but anyone with it will understand instantly. :)
I was able to clean my ENTIRE living room. Top to bottom. Walls, floors, nick nacks, furniture... all of it. And I did it without interuption. Without stopping after five minutes because I discovered 100 other things that needed doing. I spent a few hours cleaning, and working on one room. I completed a major task.
For those of you without AD/HD imagine this: You are beginning to clean your front room when you notice that one of your plants looks a little dry. You stop cleaning to water your plants. You are beginning to water your plants when you notice that there is a dead leaf on the floor. You stop watering the plants (leaving the pitcher right where you are) to start picking up the dead leaves on the plants and floor. You are starting to pick up the leaves on the floor when you notice that someone left their boots by the stairs. You go to put the boots away when you notice that the bathroom light is on. So the boots get left where they are as you go to turn off the bathroom light. You start walking to the bathroom when you notice that the dog is running past with mud on his paws. You take off after the dog to wipe his paws, and notice.... it just goes on like this forever. Never getting one thing finished. The list of things that need to be done just seems to keep getting longer and longer as you jump from one task to the next... never finishing what you'd started working on because something else has grabbed your focus.
I cleaned my living room. Top to bottom. And when it was done? I sat on my clean couch and had a nice glass of ice tea. Calm... Relaxed... And feeling like I'd finally accomplished something. :)
Boy... a little methylphenidate goes a long way. *lol*
Speaking of which. What a difference. :) I don't know how people put up with me before. *lmao* Seriously. When I've forgotten to take my pill on time, good grief, watch out. I just don't shut off. Yak, yak, yak. I really like the quiet normal me. It took some getting used to... I'd had such a busy brain for so very long... but it's really nice. I can get things finished, I'm not as fidgity, and I'm not nearly as flaky or flighty. *lol*
Right now, I'm taking a five mg dose roughly every five hours. If I forget to take it at the five hour mark watch out. *lol* I honestly don't notice the difference until I'm full blown back into the noise. DH will usually ask if I've forgotten to take my pill before I stop enough to realize I'm back in overdrive. I'll start yaking at a mile a minute about all sorts of things, jumping from topic to topic, all over the place... and unless he points it out, I really don't notice... just because I'm so used to it. I have to tell you though. I definitely prefer the me that I am with the medication over the me I am without it.
Once DH has pointed out that I'm back in ADD mode I really notice it... It doesn't feel right any more... not now that I know what it feels like to have a calm relaxed head. :)
I've got a doctors appointment today. So will ask about something to help with my over focusing. Seeing how nothing I'm taking now helps with that. Actually... when I'm over focusing on something is when I usually forget to take my pill. I just lose track of time, and suddenly it's been six hours from when I took my last pill and I'm just loopy. *lol*
We're (meaning DH and I) are going to see if we can find an alarm of some sort that can be set to go off every five hours. A reminder, and way to help me remember to take my next pill. I really have a small time frame in which to take it before I start reverting to my ADD self. I take a pill, and then five hours later I need to take another. If I don't... at about five hours and forty five minutes I'm a nut job again. :)
Oh, look at that. *lmao* Speak of the devil... the time has just blown by. I need to get ready to leave. Good thing DH walked in (he comes home for lunch) or I'd never have realized how late it had gotten. :) I'll write more another time.
Take care.
I was able to clean my ENTIRE living room. Top to bottom. Walls, floors, nick nacks, furniture... all of it. And I did it without interuption. Without stopping after five minutes because I discovered 100 other things that needed doing. I spent a few hours cleaning, and working on one room. I completed a major task.
For those of you without AD/HD imagine this: You are beginning to clean your front room when you notice that one of your plants looks a little dry. You stop cleaning to water your plants. You are beginning to water your plants when you notice that there is a dead leaf on the floor. You stop watering the plants (leaving the pitcher right where you are) to start picking up the dead leaves on the plants and floor. You are starting to pick up the leaves on the floor when you notice that someone left their boots by the stairs. You go to put the boots away when you notice that the bathroom light is on. So the boots get left where they are as you go to turn off the bathroom light. You start walking to the bathroom when you notice that the dog is running past with mud on his paws. You take off after the dog to wipe his paws, and notice.... it just goes on like this forever. Never getting one thing finished. The list of things that need to be done just seems to keep getting longer and longer as you jump from one task to the next... never finishing what you'd started working on because something else has grabbed your focus.
I cleaned my living room. Top to bottom. And when it was done? I sat on my clean couch and had a nice glass of ice tea. Calm... Relaxed... And feeling like I'd finally accomplished something. :)
Boy... a little methylphenidate goes a long way. *lol*
Speaking of which. What a difference. :) I don't know how people put up with me before. *lmao* Seriously. When I've forgotten to take my pill on time, good grief, watch out. I just don't shut off. Yak, yak, yak. I really like the quiet normal me. It took some getting used to... I'd had such a busy brain for so very long... but it's really nice. I can get things finished, I'm not as fidgity, and I'm not nearly as flaky or flighty. *lol*
Right now, I'm taking a five mg dose roughly every five hours. If I forget to take it at the five hour mark watch out. *lol* I honestly don't notice the difference until I'm full blown back into the noise. DH will usually ask if I've forgotten to take my pill before I stop enough to realize I'm back in overdrive. I'll start yaking at a mile a minute about all sorts of things, jumping from topic to topic, all over the place... and unless he points it out, I really don't notice... just because I'm so used to it. I have to tell you though. I definitely prefer the me that I am with the medication over the me I am without it.
Once DH has pointed out that I'm back in ADD mode I really notice it... It doesn't feel right any more... not now that I know what it feels like to have a calm relaxed head. :)
I've got a doctors appointment today. So will ask about something to help with my over focusing. Seeing how nothing I'm taking now helps with that. Actually... when I'm over focusing on something is when I usually forget to take my pill. I just lose track of time, and suddenly it's been six hours from when I took my last pill and I'm just loopy. *lol*
We're (meaning DH and I) are going to see if we can find an alarm of some sort that can be set to go off every five hours. A reminder, and way to help me remember to take my next pill. I really have a small time frame in which to take it before I start reverting to my ADD self. I take a pill, and then five hours later I need to take another. If I don't... at about five hours and forty five minutes I'm a nut job again. :)
Oh, look at that. *lmao* Speak of the devil... the time has just blown by. I need to get ready to leave. Good thing DH walked in (he comes home for lunch) or I'd never have realized how late it had gotten. :) I'll write more another time.
Take care.
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