The last week has been stressful... Last week my hubby got a call from his mom telling him that she has received a letter in the mail from Social Security administration , informing him that his disability benifits has been cutt off . According to the social security adminstration hubby is deemed fit to work . Now none of this makes any since , because it was just back in January when hubby went to a Dr. For his disability review , according to hubby the Dr told him that every thing looked fine… Continue

After much work, trials and tribulations I have been told just this morning my wife wants a divorce. This will be my third and I am 55, devastated, alone, with no where to go, feeling a combination of numb, dumb and undone, with a dash of - what now?

Sounds pretty depressing, but, I am doing some serious grieving, which really helps. I cried my eyes out for starters and sat quietly and asked God to take full command of the situation. I begged him for a message, (alas none…

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This is the first ever ADDer World top 20 best ADD ADHD blog list!

The criteria are simple: 

• Helpfulness
• Transparency
• Frequency
• Amount of Posts
• Positive Impact

 

There are many outstanding blogs about ADD ADHD and more…

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I recently attended a training workshop organised by the HR department in our organisation. A simple tip I learnt there has served me well over the past few days.

While emphasising the need for understanding people, the participants were taught a listening technique. Very often we listen to people in order to come up with a reply to what they are saying. In the process we make little effort to understand what they are saying and more importantly where they are coming from.Hence we can…

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I haven't been here for quite a while!  I've had computer problems for several months...really monitor problems, the computer still works, so I still have my Magic Jack, my internet is still connected to my WiFi, and my speakers still work.  It's just that I can't really do anything with it, because I can't see anything.  So, I've been doing everything, for the most part, on my Android HTC Hero, which I got as a gift in October.  And, I do get access to computer when I'm at my daughter's…

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ADDers are characterized by their distractibitlity on one hand and on the other hand by the ability to Hyper-focus, a trait that is displayed by many ADDers.

 

As some of us like to term it, this Hyper-focus can actually serve as super-focus which helps the ADDer give his/her 100% to tasks that falls within his strength area.

 

However this trait often makes the ADDer look like someone whose strengths are restricted to a particular area and also one who is not…

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From guest bloggers, to doctors, to different people all over the world……I’ve had some great opportunities to connect with a lot of different people through my blog. I recently was contacted by Vincent Cram, a fifth year psychology student studying at the University of New England Australia. Vincent is asking for some help with a study he is conducting on ADHD. It’s an online survey and will take about 20 minutes of your time. As Supertramp sang in in their 70′s hit song, “…

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Seriously!! I can't remember the last time I had such high marks on an end-of-year eval. There is always ALWAYS some thing that I lose points over. (Usually having to do with poorly managed  i.e. - my mess hanging out for everyone to see -- ADD symptoms) My mess is still hanging out --- but much less of it is doing so. (Yaaaay Baby Steps!!)

I can't say that this year has been all peaches & cream -- but I haven't run into a whole lot of pits this year either. I think I will…

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