I was diagnosed with ADHD in the 4th grade, and was medicated for it for about three years. In the 7th grade I told my mom I didn't want to take them anymore, I can't totally remember why, but I did.

Ever since I've been a typical ADHD kid. You know, can't stop moving, and would sometimes lose his focus.

Back in those days I used to LOVE reading. I couldn't not have my head in a book. I think the last book I had finished was the final Harry Potter book back in the 10th grade. I've tried to start countless books, but they never kept my interest, not like they used to anyway.

I've been talking to my doctor because I wanted to try some medication again and see what I feel, but since then I've been thinking that maybe my problem with concentrating might have more to do with my intuition, and maybe its just moving faster than it used to. Is that what ADHD is? I have a theory that the constant fidgeting might just be me intuitively expressing the small and rapid feelings by way of motion, but I can't be too sure I guess. I'm worried that if I don't have ADHD and that really is just the intuition then I would be inhibiting myself somehow, but if its me really not being able to control it then it can help me.

Does anyone have any experience with ADHD and an INFP personality?

What is your diet like Angelo?

Hmmm, I don't have personal experience with ADHD, but I know that a fair amount of ENxPs self-proclaim that they have attention problems... it's possibly related to extraverted intuition.

Its not an ideal diet, but its not bad either. My mother is italian, so she seldom allows a dinner that isn't home cooked.

Lately my eating habits however haven't been so great, I often forget to eat meals, and sometimes it just seems like a chore. I usually justify this with something like "Well its better than eating junk." Its not so great though when I realize that the only thing I ate in the past 24 hours was a small bag of hot cheetos at work and a bowl of cereal.

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ooh! I am taking fish oil and cal-mag-zinc. Could that be part of the reason why I no longer have the AD part of ADHD?

I suspect that I've had too much of a neurotransmitter in my brain so that I get a hundred thoughts per minute, of ideas relating to all other ideas - generating combinations of ideas. Brain activity was definitely related to my hyperactive metabolism.



Tell me about Ne going on a rampage...

I know all about it!

Ne is constantly scanning the environment for abstract relationships. It's extremely useful to me in generating ideas for my creative projects, but not so useful in following through with one project at a time. It's like I want it all done ... NOW! xD

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Since I've made this post I have been prescribed concerta 27mg (though I opted for the generic, as I am a lowly college student with meager paychecks), and before I took my first dose, I was a little nervous for some reason.

Now this dose was a jump from 5mg, so it was a little strong my first time taking it, I felt really relaxed, and I seemed much more aware of my body, but what was important was the thoughts, everything seemed quiet. "Is this what its like to focus?" I found myself saying.

I made a little test for myself, I turned my tv up, blasted my music, and played a game that demanded attention on my laptop, and while this was all happening I counted to one hundred in my head. It didn't seem that hard at all really.

The doses following haven't been as intense feeling, but I still notice a nice clarity of thought, but as expected it isn't perfect. It is still nice though.

Another thing I was worried about was that it might somehow dull my creativity, as I consider myself somewhat of a writer, and I was relieved to find that it is unaffected, and I've even had some great inspiration while the drug was in effect, some of the best I've had in a while. Of course I have no idea whether or not the drug played a factor in that, as inspiration is an elusive and nigh impossible to force or plan. I certainly haven't noticed a lack of, and that is all I wanted to know on the subject.

Sometimes I'm not sure if me on the drug is what is considered "Normal" concentration. I don't really understand what that its supposed to feel like, this "normal".

I've also read it can cause depression, I haven't noticed any at all, save for the regular mood swings, which happen as often and as intense as ever (Hurray, teen angst!)

For now though, I feel like it does help a bit, and it doesn't seem to cause an problems, so I will continue until something convinces me otherwise, and I will also try to improve my diet.

Also, I am on the drug now, and I have been writing this while playing a video game on the other half of my screen and listening to music. Everything seems to be going pretty smoothly.

Yes there is a link between the two as I have it. What saddens me is that intellecutals and secularists feel that everyone must be like THEM. They think that if someone does not act within "social norms" that there must be something wrong with them. Bull**** I say! Not everyone has to be the same or act in the same way.

I personally never have thought that many people really need the medication that doctors say they do. Rather I think that they possess a very narrow minded view of what reality is all about. I don't think that people are supposed to be the same and putting everyone in a "little box" is more of an insult than a help.

Many of the most creative people have and had ADHD. Some think Mozart as well as Beethoven had it and if they have lived today doctors would have raped their ability to be creative by putting them on drugs. The problem lies with all of this "Age of Enlightenment" Bull**** where the intellectuals decided that music, poetry, art were simply unimportant and they needed to logically correct everyone becuase of their worship of Plato and the other nitwits they called philosophers (and yes I have read their writings, I never have considered them to be all that bright.)

In any case, I discovered that I have extreme creativity which I am sure most here share. In short there is nothing wrong with you other than you don't share the world view of people who if they had their way would not only eliminate all color and joy but would eradicate all of emotion if they could (I call it the Shurlock Holmes syndrome.)