The Symbolic Condom: Why Depression and Anxiety Create Stories, but ADHD Doesn’t
One thing that I've noticed seems to unite almost all fearful-avoidants is a preoccupation with the search for meaning. When under stress this often manifests as ADHD-type symptoms: the system is desperately trying to determine where it ought to focus its attention and direct its resources.
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Heidi Priebe 🏃♀️ is in motionx.comWhere trance is the indisputable mainstay of treatment, however, is in the dissociative disorders. Disorganization, procrastination, and the avoidance of mental work are not, in adults, only manifestations of ADD as a neurophysiological problem but also the consequences of a dissociative condition, a disjunction of left-brain planning functions
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As for brooding, this is the special blessing and the bitter curse of ADHD. You have a vision. Maybe you’ve come up with a novel technology for making an unbeatable knife sharpener. Or maybe you think you have the plot to the perfect novel. Whatever your vision, you go at it like you never have before.
But then, what you’ve created…disappoints. It’s
Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey • ADHD 2.0
• ADD is about the structure of time. • ADD is about the disparity between conceptual abilities and performance abilities. • ADD is about difficulty getting comfortable. • ADD is about controlling levels of stimulation. • ADD is about trouble compensating for other deficits. • ADD is about insecurity and self-doubt. • ADD is about the struggle for
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Two of our natural ADHD tendencies—divergent thinking patterns and lack of emotional regulation—collide to create vicious and scary monsters from everyday occurrences.