ADHD?

"Explore your possibilities. Your mission is to live your life to the fullest, nurture others and be be nurtured, be minddful of the planet and all living creature, and share yourself and your talent with others."  Sandra Lindsey Smith, Life's Garden of weekly Wisdom.

I’ve always wondered if I have had ADHD that was never diagnosed.  Do I have that condition, or do I just think globally?  I always have many projects going at the same time and find it hard to sit still when I am watching television. Sometimes I start an affirmative prayer treatment in my mind, and a little bit later I realize that I haven’t finished it.  I find that writing a prayer out is a better alternative for me, because I keep thinking while I am writing.  Maybe that is one reason that I like to write so much.

I read a cute article in a magazine that talked about a woman who woke up in the morning and went down stairs, to go out the front door, and bring in the trash cans and pick up the mail. On a table by the front door she noticed a receipt she had been looking for, picked it up and walked into the office to file it.  There she noticed a towel that needed to get to the laundry room.  The phone rang and she went to the kitchen to answer it. She noticed a tear in her curtain she needed to mend and sat down to sew. One thing led to noticing another thing, and another, and another.  At the end of the day she didn’t understand why she was tired, and realized she had never brought in the mail or her trash can.

Since I last started this entry, I have discovered that I do have ADHD and I have developed coping techniques that have kept it under control.  I have to remember not to cut people off before they are done with there ideas, and when I am cleaning a room I need to set what doesn't belong in that room into the hallway so that I stay on task. It actually is good to know that I can deal with some situations that annoy other people by being more mindful of the things I say and do. I think when you have ADHD that sometimes it's hard to understand what is is you are doing that can bother someone else.

"Surround youself with only people who are going to lift you higher."   --Oprah Winfrey

Do you have ADHD or know someone who does? What are your coping mehanisms? I am lucky in that all of the jobs I have had, leant themselves to my condition. Teaching drama as well as being in ministry allow me to see the big picture of situations and to go with the flow.

In love and light,

Sandy Smith

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
 WHY WORRY?                                          "Worry is the dark room where negatives are developed."                                                                 Raymond Charles Barker,      -- The Power of Decision Oh that hamster wheel late at night, just spinning with all of the things that happened yesterday, and the things on your calendar that you still need to accomplish. Will the wheel never stop? How do you dismount from the wheel?  I have discovered that worrying about the past is pointless. If it was an accident, I cannot undo what happened. I may think of it as a learning experience as to what I might do the next time to avoid an accident. As to the future, it hasn't happene...
Read more
Image
 BE KIND TO YOURSELF "Things always get better. When you believe this, it becomes true. In the same way as you don't believe it doesn't get better, it doesn't get better."   Sandra Lindsey Smith, -- "Life's Garden Grows" Have you ever noticed how readily we rush to forgive other people for the minute, negative observations they say about themselves, but it is much more difficult for you to forgive yourself for the very same tiny thing you say about yourself? All the, "I AMs" that come out of our mouths are packed with the potential to show up in our lives exactly as they spring from our mouths. So, no: "I am so stupid"; "I can't get my hair to look right; or, "why do I even go in for this job interview, I can never express myself well under pressure" NO! Those are not the, "I AMs" that you want to spring from the depth of your soul. Instead, "I could have done that a different way", "...
Read more
Image
  RELAX INTO THE FLOW "A good diet, refraining from excessive desires, and daily meditation all lead to peace of mind, and this peace of mind is beneficial."     Little Book of Inner Peace,    --The Dalai Lama What happens when a person is caught in a rip current in the ocean? A lifeguard would tell you to swim parallel to the shore and that would break the hold of the current. When panic sets in it is sometimes very difficult to remember that idea of relaxing enough to swim parallel to the shore. Isn't that true about the challenges that we go through in life? We get caught in the idea of events becoming more than we can handle. When it occurs to us, that  Spirit surrounds us, moves in, through, and as us, we can remember to relax into that Divine Presence, and a shift happens. It allows us to respond, rather than react to the situation. There are many times that I have been so focused on the problem, that it takes me a little time to say, "God...
Read more