Comments for 'The Devil Made Me Do It' http://adkadhd.wordpress.com The Random Ramblings of an ADHD Mind Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Life Update by Susan Van Hyning http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/life-update/#comment-31 Susan Van Hyning Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:39:22 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/life-update/#comment-31 Finally getting around to 'meant toos' and read of the issue with Abilify. Sounds horrid and it reminds me of my LAST stay in York Hospital Psych ward. {Damage was 1000x's worse then initial issue for which I admitted myself and took almost 2 years to get back to the condition when 'voluntarily ' checked in}. They gave me Seroquel, hich was presented as a 'non narcotic version of Ativan', another addiction I neither wanted nor requested}. I agreed. And maybe it is? BUT within 24 hours it created what you alluded too. Uncontrollable movements in extremities, severe restlessness~what I call an ADHD x's 1000 condition. When mentioned to staff, who refused to call a doctor as I rapidly got worse, they told me 'you don't have a rash so it's not the meds'. Despite repeated attempts to make me take it I refused and JUMP BACK, the negative effects abated. Always a challenge to take charge of our own medical treatment. Hope things are working as you need. Finally getting around to ‘meant toos’ and read of the issue with Abilify. Sounds horrid and it reminds me of my LAST stay in York Hospital Psych ward. {Damage was 1000x’s worse then initial issue for which I admitted myself and took almost 2 years to get back to the condition when ‘voluntarily ‘ checked in}. They gave me Seroquel, hich was presented as a ‘non narcotic version of Ativan’, another addiction I neither wanted nor requested}. I agreed. And maybe it is? BUT within 24 hours it created what you alluded too. Uncontrollable movements in extremities, severe restlessness~what I call an ADHD x’s 1000 condition. When mentioned to staff, who refused to call a doctor as I rapidly got worse, they told me ‘you don’t have a rash so it’s not the meds’. Despite repeated attempts to make me take it I refused and JUMP BACK, the negative effects abated. Always a challenge to take charge of our own medical treatment. Hope things are working as you need.

]]> Comment on About Me by Susan Van Hyning http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/about/#comment-22 Susan Van Hyning Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:01:44 +0000 #comment-22 Truly enjoying reading you blog. And despite past 'bumps' in the further education road I am sure you will continue to make progress in achieving your ultimate goals. For every 'failure' or mis-step we endure increases the odds of sucess. Like a maze in which we often come to dead ends, if we keep our minds open and learn from the wrong turn, it eliminates hitting that wall again. Susan Truly enjoying reading you blog. And despite past ‘bumps’ in the further education road I am sure you will continue to make progress in achieving your ultimate goals. For every ‘failure’ or mis-step we endure increases the odds of sucess. Like a maze in which we often come to dead ends, if we keep our minds open and learn from the wrong turn, it eliminates hitting that wall again.

Susan

]]> Comment on The Positive Ways to Describe a Wonderful Thing by spacecamper http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-21 spacecamper Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:16:33 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-21 full of surprises innovative full of surprises
innovative

]]> Comment on The Positive Ways to Describe a Wonderful Thing by pafeocealay http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-20 pafeocealay Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:50:49 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-20 Thanks, a very informative site here, i will definately be back. cheers Thanks, a very informative site here, i will definately be back.

cheers

]]> Comment on The Positive Ways to Describe a Wonderful Thing by Peggy http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-19 Peggy Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:48:58 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-19 childlike energetic enthusiastic childlike
energetic
enthusiastic

]]> Comment on The Positive Ways to Describe a Wonderful Thing by Jen Martin http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-18 Jen Martin Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:40:04 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/the-positive-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-18 Dynamic Enterprising Joyful Quick Minded Intelligent Witty Charismatic (I like this one best!) Dynamic
Enterprising
Joyful
Quick Minded
Intelligent
Witty
Charismatic (I like this one best!)

]]> Comment on My Own Little Rant!! (Otherwise known as one of my pet peeves.) by spacecamper http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/my-own-little-rant-otherwise-known-as-one-of-my-pet-peeves/#comment-17 spacecamper Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:07:51 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/my-own-little-rant-otherwise-known-as-one-of-my-pet-peeves/#comment-17 You speak my mind, Bob. Maybe we are better suited to lives that are both simple and risky - like in the good old days when kids played outdoors for hours after school and did chores that mattered and adults could make a living actually doing something - Argh! this falling snow is crazy-making! You speak my mind, Bob. Maybe we are better suited to lives that are both simple and risky – like in the good old days when kids played outdoors for hours after school and did chores that mattered and adults could make a living actually doing something – Argh! this falling snow is crazy-making!

]]> Comment on Blog Name Change by spacecamper http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/blog-name-change/#comment-16 spacecamper Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:45:13 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/blog-name-change/#comment-16 Bob - have you read Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo? His description of the main character's thinking as he just has to rile the trigger happy cop by driving on the sidewalk (if memory serves) will probably feel as true to you as it does to me. Bob – have you read Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo? His description of the main character’s thinking as he just has to rile the trigger happy cop by driving on the sidewalk (if memory serves) will probably feel as true to you as it does to me.

]]> Comment on ADHD Books by Pat Allen http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/adhd-books/#comment-15 Pat Allen Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:56:04 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/?page_id=34#comment-15 Hi Bob: Read your article in the Post Star today. I am also in South Glens Falls. I and other parents of children with ADHD and other disabilities started a grass roots organization for parents called, Adirondack Family Support System, in 1994. We have monthly support group meetings for parents and a lending libarary (with many of the above titles included). I also do one-on-one advocacy for children in the schools at IEP and 504 meetings. We should talk sometime. Pat Hi Bob:

Read your article in the Post Star today. I am also in South Glens Falls. I and other parents of children with ADHD and other disabilities started a grass roots organization for parents called, Adirondack Family Support System, in 1994. We have monthly support group meetings for parents and a lending libarary (with many of the above titles included). I also do one-on-one advocacy for children in the schools at IEP and 504 meetings. We should talk sometime.

Pat

]]> Comment on The Many Negative Ways to Describe a Wonderful Thing by Bob http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-many-negative-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-14 Bob Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:08:19 +0000 http://adkadhd.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-many-negative-ways-to-describe-a-wonderful-thing/#comment-14 My son came up with a good one. 'Use the brain that God gave you.' My son came up with a good one.

‘Use the brain that God gave you.’

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