Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
I think I might have ADD?
Question:
I have really bad concentration and always procrastinate. I lose things often and have a very hard time finishing off projects. Maybe it is just my personality? I have never been able to concentrate in school. I always day dream. Even though this is the case I have always done well in school by teaching myself at the last minute. I achieved 2 A's and a B in the first year of my A levels (AS) in difficult subjects (Bio, chem and Eng). I have just finished my second year and I think I have failed all my exams because the workload was too much and it was too difficult to do in 2/3 weeks.
My teachers say I'm lazy but I really don't think I am. As far as I can remember I have been extremely messy, disorganized and I don't think I've ever done my homework. I'm good at getting the ideas for homework/projects and enjoy starting them but I have a hard time finishing them off. A while ago I received funding to start my own project with some primary school kids. I started the project and my friend had to finish it off.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
Answer:
It does not matter what name you give it but the symptoms imply that medication for ADD would certainly help. I agree, you are not lazy all you need is a motivating direction to maintain your focus and then you can accomplish anything you want. In addition to medication there are organizational skills that you can learn that will help you very much. Just to give you a start; the main thing that seems to cause the problem is the feeling of being overwhelmed. The feeling of being overwhelmed can be circumvented by making lists of what you have to do. the list can be infinitely long it does not matter and everyday you will look at the list and you will take a few things and break them down into chunks, I'm talking really small details that are easy to do, and you will do as many of those small details as you can during the day and it does not matter if you finish or not. The only thing that matters is that you start to do them. the rule for picking the few things every day is to choose the few things that when completed will give you the biggest sense of accomplishment and that seem to you to be the most important and necessary for achieving a certain goal which is whatever you decide it to be.
I have really bad concentration and always procrastinate. I lose things often and have a very hard time finishing off projects. Maybe it is just my personality? I have never been able to concentrate in school. I always day dream. Even though this is the case I have always done well in school by teaching myself at the last minute. I achieved 2 A's and a B in the first year of my A levels (AS) in difficult subjects (Bio, chem and Eng). I have just finished my second year and I think I have failed all my exams because the workload was too much and it was too difficult to do in 2/3 weeks.
My teachers say I'm lazy but I really don't think I am. As far as I can remember I have been extremely messy, disorganized and I don't think I've ever done my homework. I'm good at getting the ideas for homework/projects and enjoy starting them but I have a hard time finishing them off. A while ago I received funding to start my own project with some primary school kids. I started the project and my friend had to finish it off.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
Answer:
It does not matter what name you give it but the symptoms imply that medication for ADD would certainly help. I agree, you are not lazy all you need is a motivating direction to maintain your focus and then you can accomplish anything you want. In addition to medication there are organizational skills that you can learn that will help you very much. Just to give you a start; the main thing that seems to cause the problem is the feeling of being overwhelmed. The feeling of being overwhelmed can be circumvented by making lists of what you have to do. the list can be infinitely long it does not matter and everyday you will look at the list and you will take a few things and break them down into chunks, I'm talking really small details that are easy to do, and you will do as many of those small details as you can during the day and it does not matter if you finish or not. The only thing that matters is that you start to do them. the rule for picking the few things every day is to choose the few things that when completed will give you the biggest sense of accomplishment and that seem to you to be the most important and necessary for achieving a certain goal which is whatever you decide it to be.
How can I heal myself from emotional distress?
Question:
I've been through a lot of emotional distress during my life and these past couple of years has been really hard on me. I can't even sleep at night. I cannot afford a psychologist so what can I do to erase the pain and move forward?
Answer:
The best way to remove the distress is to look at the source and remap your interpretation of it. the reason you are in distress is because your mental perception of the "cause" continues playing in your head like a broken record and influencing your emotions. is what you want to do is stop the playback by putting in another record. in other words, remap the mental interpretation of the "cause". for example if something negative happened to you that caused the emotional distress you may want to reevaluate that occurrence and find out how it can make you a better, more experienced person. you may even be able to figure out how to use that experience to help others who are experiencing emotional distress and thereby give back to the world. giving back always is very healing. Chronic stress is almost always caused by excessive negative thinking. through specific techniques you can learn to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones.
I've been through a lot of emotional distress during my life and these past couple of years has been really hard on me. I can't even sleep at night. I cannot afford a psychologist so what can I do to erase the pain and move forward?
Answer:
The best way to remove the distress is to look at the source and remap your interpretation of it. the reason you are in distress is because your mental perception of the "cause" continues playing in your head like a broken record and influencing your emotions. is what you want to do is stop the playback by putting in another record. in other words, remap the mental interpretation of the "cause". for example if something negative happened to you that caused the emotional distress you may want to reevaluate that occurrence and find out how it can make you a better, more experienced person. you may even be able to figure out how to use that experience to help others who are experiencing emotional distress and thereby give back to the world. giving back always is very healing. Chronic stress is almost always caused by excessive negative thinking. through specific techniques you can learn to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones.
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