Adult ADHD

"Robert, stop it!"

These words came to me almost my whole life, when people were overwhelmed by my behavior. I do not understand what was their problem. Neither has one of the voices in my head.

The voices were constant and all of me, not God or spirits, and they did not tell me to do something about anti-social. Rather, each (I counted eight) was a regular stream of thoughts that are running simultaneously, as an eight-track tape plays all tracks simultaneously. I have oftenwandered into a conversation mode by friends as "Robin Williams monologue describes making the telling of jokes, puns, jumping from topic to topic, and even changing voices and character.

But my head has always been so. For me, pulled all the others, thinking slow, took forever to get to the point. I drove my friends, colleagues and family nuts, and I could not help it. I was also a bag of empty, hurt my health. Even my decades of meditationPractice could not control the internal unrest.

Then a strange combination of events led to help. My sister-in-law, Tina, an army doctor who has suffered an injury and needed help drive home from Illinois to New York. I was available, so I spent three weeks with the family, during which time Tina told me observe at close hand. Soon, told me bluntly, "I'm really, really, really think you have ADHD." When Tina, a lieutenant colonel and powerful diagnostician, using three"Reallys" in one sentence, you'd better seriously.

But ADHD? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Me? I had thought, ADHD, ADD, and all the other new acronyms have been teething problems. I would not have ADHD, I was of the generation that found super fast flashing of the movie trailers and TV shows with handheld camera work hard to see, even painful, too. My attention span could be measured in minutes and hours, not milliseconds, and audio files. I was a trainedsystematic zoologist, a professional organization dedicated to compulsive to huge amounts of data. No, I could not ADHD.

But when we discussed my symptoms, it became clear that children have no monopoly on the brain chemical imbalances. I have tried all the usual suspects symptomatic. Despite earning my two masters and a doctorate in school was always unbearably painful for me off, always remain in my place too slowly with difficulty following lectures. I tested badly, because I read eithermuch into a question, or knew of the rare exceptions. In conversations I've often finished sentences of other people.

Getting to sleep was always an ordeal, because my thoughts would not turn off. Although I am very goal oriented, I found it difficult to do some tasks because I had so many projects happening simultaneously. For example, I had a year to burn a CD-ROM key to the sharks and rays had the world, but always pushed it a commercial release. For some tasks Ifocused like a laser, while others that I was as dark as a candle. I saw my own doctor and a neuropsychologist and safe enough, got the diagnosis of ADHD.

ADHD was first described as "lack of moral control" by a British physician in 1902, is a simple failure of the brain at a level of equilibrium called neurotransmitters dopamine and norepinephrine, which regulate the mood. My diagnosis and subsequent treatment with Adderall radically and quickly changed my life for the better. ThisAmphetamine an "upper" actually relieves ADHD personality. My hunger cravings are gone, I sleep well, do more things, do it better and not been on the nerves of people lately, especially my long-suffering wife of thirty years ago! Overall, I have found in mussels and happy, not upset or ecstatic every day since the start of treatment. Best and strangest of all, I now have only one thought in my head at any time. It is the psychological equivalent, I believe, who sent with all theChildren to college, and I get the house for me.

It has always associated stigma of mental illness, it is "all in our heads." Psychological problems are still other times when the physical or physiological, and Congress refuses to mental illness, what it can be seen. This stigma is devastating. As a zoologist, I understand how my inner work is so, it will be treated no influence on my decision, but for most people are "mentally ill" is one of the bad news categorywith heart problems or cancer, or worse! People who could benefit denied to help themselves, which could significantly improve the quality of their lives. We do not know a person laugh with a bad heart for taking nitroglycerine, a person with a defective pancreas that produce insulin, or any of us cope with an impairment of the immune system or for the use of antibiotics.

Even Viagra jokes are rare in those days. Why do we see such intolerance, when another organ, the brain is sick? Many influentialPeople had ADHD, including Dustin Hoffman, Will Smith, James Stewart, Vincent Van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and of course, Robin Williams. Disorders of the brain are real physical phenomena that are often treated easily. Unless, of course, our brains get moved to another site, will always mental illnesses "are in our heads." Those of us who can are drugs, they should take, and the rest of us should be our loved ones who need support.It makes things so much happier in our hearts and in our minds.