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Comment on Hello World! by seo singapore

seo singapore — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:38:45 +0000

It’s going to be finish of mine day, but before end I am reading this impressive paragraph to increase my know-how.

Comment on Then, There’s The American Way To Be Crazy by singe

singe — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:31:16 +0000

Mom started taking an anti depressant. Now instead of withdrawing and seeming sad she is more socially active and much more clear about just what it is about each of us that she wants to see change. She used to be easy to have around, now not so much…but she sure is happier!

Comment on Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad. by spastictactician

spastictactician — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:19:02 +0000

I haven’t read Hartman, but, from your description, he’s missing the part where this is a serious illness that *prevents* proper functioning. Noticing different things would be OK if a sufferer could process them effectively or if several of those things weren’t internal and unrelated to what is actually happening. The difference between “useful neurological function” and “neurological illness” is the difference between “Hey, that’s coo.l” and “Please, please stop, so I can function just a little.”

Comment on Then, There’s The American Way To Be Crazy by beebeebatz

beebeebatz — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:04:59 +0000

…Let me polish that a bit before it actually goes on your tombstone. But thanks for understanding.

Comment on Then, There’s The American Way To Be Crazy by eataTREE

eataTREE — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:56:34 +0000

Impersonating a normal person has been my life’s work. I’ve succeeded at this better in some periods of my life than I have in others, but it’s always terribly hard work. It takes all the energy I can muster just to maintain a borderline-functional condition. (This is why I’ve never amounted to a damn, in case anybody wonders.)

If it’s okay with you, I’m having this carved on my tombstone.

Comment on Then, There’s The American Way To Be Crazy by beebeebatz

beebeebatz — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:42:24 +0000

I hear you, eataTREE. Impersonating a normal person has been my life’s work. I’ve succeeded at this better in some periods of my life than I have in others, but it’s always terribly hard work. It takes all the energy I can muster just to maintain a borderline-functional condition. (This is why I’ve never amounted to a damn, in case anybody wonders.)

Also: as has Spastictactitian, I’ve learned that it’s WAY easier to just go along with my batty little hang-ups than it is to fight them — to just DO my little OCD ritual and be done with it, to just LET myself think about the squirrel for a minute (or five).

Comment on Then, There’s The American Way To Be Crazy by Barry

Barry — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:09:48 +0000

I decided long ago that this is all a big gag on somebody’s part, and I’m just going to play along.
It’s a lot like teaching kids to form a line at the coffee shop. You tell them that “We’re all going to pretend that we’re in line!” Why? Because you ARE pretending to be in line! There is no enforcement, there is no reason to stay in line, but people do it. I just figure it’s all a big joke, and most folks haven’t figured it out yet. Kinda like bagpipes.
But personally, I don’t envy you for seeing it. Take the pills. I have enough to deal with between the TS the OCD, the PTSD, and the ADD…. I’ll just take my pills that keep others alive and me out of prison. It’s easier all around, honestly.
And I can giggle at them.

Comment on Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad. by Barry

Barry — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:00:44 +0000

I like the work Tom Hartman has done on this topic, noting how males with ADD notice the gazelle in front of them… and the birds taking wing, and the grass moving wrong, and they back away form the gazelle because the TIGER that the non-ADD hunter would have not noticed is about to jump either you, or the gazelle!
Heck of a good survival trait in War, Hunting, Agriculture, and a host of other skills that we don’t use in every day life for the last 75 years or so.
So it must now be a “Problem.” To heck with the last few… er… 18 millennia.
And yet…. I think it is still useful.
Oh, and thanks for the heads-up on focus. I do the same thing, but now I know it works (-ish) for somebody else!

Comment on Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad. by eataTREE

eataTREE — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:04:43 +0000

The simple test is, does it really mess up your life? If not, you do not have a diagnosable mental illness, you have a personality.

Comment on Your joke is bad, and you should feel bad. by spastictactician

spastictactician — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:24:40 +0000

The difference is the frequency and severity of the occurences. In the same way that having the runs every couple of months does not mean you have IBS, finding that you have difficulty maintaining one point focus in certain situations does not mean you have ADD. The problem is that, for quite a while, doctors stopped seeing the distinction. This is why there is such a problem with overdiagnosis and with over prescription of pharmaceuticals.
I also have OCD. The need to complete rituals is the easiest part to deal with. Everybody has that to a degree or other. Most with OCD have it severely but, still, if that was it, there wouldn’t be much to complain about. The big issue is the constant, whirling thoughts of uncertain provedence that assault the consciousness pretty much all the time. At their best, they lead to weird rituals. At their worst, they lead to physical activities that are dangerous, counter-productive, insane or just plain contrary to actual desire.
And if I hear another co-worker complain about how OCD they are because they like to keep all their paper clips in one place, I may just wear their skulls as hats. Being anal or liking things to be a certain way is not even close to the shittiness that is OCD.