Other ways to keep ADD in control than taking pills?

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Well, I'm Inattentive, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have problems with it my whole life. But I also don't think that it's an unsolvable problem. There are ways to work with ADHD-I just like any other kind. You do have to take into account that you won't be able to keep things in your head; I have to write everything down, post everything, keep my brain on organizers and bulletin boards and sticky notes and my smart phone. While it might be easier to deal with the hyperactive sort, it's not like this is impossible or anything. It just means you'll probably need to learn lots of adaptive skills to deal with it.

Working memory and memory retrieval deficits? They don't pick apart AD(H)D beides hyperactivity vs. hypoactivity where I live and I'm pretty sure I'm not at all an inattentive type. But reading up on "SCT" and "ADHD-PI" I seem to have those very same problems, minus the extreme severity of the motivational deficit and plus the hyperactivity and impulsivity.

I'm pretty sure, C.
I got 18 years on ya. So far it has been instone, I'm afraid.


Great point^
I think the whole terrible ordeal for me or anyone with this, is traveling through life, undiagnosed. You go to doctors and they give antidepressants. These do not work for this. I was stuck thinking it had something to do with schizophrenia, as several in family have( had) this.

I could see how one could develope a PST from this- I've seen this posted up, by such ones.

The substances in my above posts keep SCT at bay, and I don't know the dynamic here, because I have an undiagnosed sleep disorder( in the past a sleep walker, sleep talker, sleep paralysis) - that morphed into insomnia later, as I aged. But this is cured with"lecithin."

I'm relaxed with "this", thus allowing better W. memory performance.

Strangely before, I'd SCT like someone who was bipolar, I'd shift in an out of SCT on a cycle. People who knew me well could tell something, but thought I was "Bipolar," I'm not. I don't slip into SCT cycling now, or if I do, it's a shadow that can be slept off.

Can you do aerobic exercise like brisk walking, jogging, running, swimming, bicycling or in-gym equivalents? Aerobic exercise increases blood flow to the brain, oxygenating the tissues. It's supposed to increase mental focus.

There's also video games. They increase my attention span. I like Mario Karts on Wii.