Do you walk around in the house looking for something to do?

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WillThePerson
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30 Sep 2008, 3:55 pm

Many times, although most times I end up on the Web, reading, or watching TV.

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30 Sep 2008, 4:06 pm

I don't really do it a whole lot. I tend surf the net when I'm bored.

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30 Sep 2008, 4:16 pm

if I am bored somewhere, I will either surf the web through my phone or if there is a computer around... that is what I will do. One time I was at a family gathering (my husband's side and I feel they don't accept me) and they were all excluding me.. part of it was of course boredom but another part was just being hurt.. so I just got up and went on their computer (they said it was fine) and my husband told me to not be so rude by spending my time on the computer.. my response to him was "thats fine but under one condition... that they treat me like I am part of the family instead of an unwelcomed outsider".

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30 Sep 2008, 9:03 pm

AGMorehouse wrote:

This habit annoys me because I feel like I ALWAYS need to do something.

This happens to me. I get nervous in public if I'm not keeping myself busy.

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30 Sep 2008, 9:37 pm

Yup, it's hard for me to sit still. Happens in most places if I am there long enough...home, work, or in places where I really don't want to be & don't have an itenerary.

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30 Sep 2008, 9:39 pm

This topic hits close to home. I walk around a lot and have trouble sitting still. It's annoying because when I start at a project and I can't sit long enough to finish it. I also do it a lot when I can't go back to sleep. Kind of calms me down.

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30 Sep 2008, 11:31 pm

johnners wrote:

I'm terrible for just standing in the middle of the room and wondering what to do next. What annoys me even more is not being able to concentrate on anything for longer than about 10 minutes, I just flit from one unfinished project to the next. The only things I seem to be able to complete is housework, but that's only because I get very frutrated and despondent if the house doesn't look tidy.

Also my memory seems poor. My wife will say something to me, and a short time later I've already forgotten, or if I'm trying to read something or follow a film, I'm having to wrack my brains trying to remember what happened 10 minutes earlier.

I do the fridge inventory too, but really because I have an urge to comfort-eat and if there wasn't anything I wanted in the fridge 20 minutes ago, there still isn't now, but I'll still look!

I believe these are all signs of depression, which, in itself, is deperessing. When I was taking Prozac, my memory and concentration improved 100% and I hardly ever comfort-ate.

I am like that, and I always need to be productive. I can sit on the computer edit pictures and read a book and then complain in the evening that I have not done anything worth mentioning. I get frustrated if do not something'important'.

Reading, or even learning from mistakes should be something like I have 'done' something in the day, but my mind does not accept it as such.

I have written a book, spent 4 months on editing it and now it is difficult to find a publisher and I find I have wasted my time now. But no I should think that I have learned something from writing a book.

The same as I think I 'wasted' weeks on WP, but it is not a waste of time because I actually learned much baout the syndrome and about myself by reading ans surfing on it...

ADHD it is

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02 Oct 2008, 7:49 am

I pace around all the time, expecaily while at home. I never really thought about it that way but I guess that it is a stim. Makes reading a book take a bit longer, as every chapter or so I have to get up and pace around.

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02 Oct 2008, 11:08 am

i usually like to pace only when siting it gives relaxsing moment..well so long as u are not in scool and teacher telling u to wake up :lol:

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