ADD in LA
September 16, 2009 6:05 PM Subscribe
ADD help in LA?
Diagnosed with ADD NOS right before I left college, then moved to LA. My success in managing it comes and goes, but seems to be at a particularly low point right now. Which, combined with unemployment, means I just feel like my life is out of control and I can't focus on any one thing long enough to get my life back on track.
Since I'm unemployed, I'd prefer options that are cheap or free until I can get back on my feet. I've tried GTD and similar organizational structures and have had no luck sticking to them. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can only seem to follow any routine until something unexpected happens, then it's all lost in the shuffle and ugh.
Anyway, ideally a professional. And friends in other places who also have ADD seem to have done well with drugs and CBT. But in trying to do some research on options here, I've been fairly snowed under by the myriad options and the high percentage of dubious-looking advertorials.
Diagnosed with ADD NOS right before I left college, then moved to LA. My success in managing it comes and goes, but seems to be at a particularly low point right now. Which, combined with unemployment, means I just feel like my life is out of control and I can't focus on any one thing long enough to get my life back on track.
Since I'm unemployed, I'd prefer options that are cheap or free until I can get back on my feet. I've tried GTD and similar organizational structures and have had no luck sticking to them. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can only seem to follow any routine until something unexpected happens, then it's all lost in the shuffle and ugh.
Anyway, ideally a professional. And friends in other places who also have ADD seem to have done well with drugs and CBT. But in trying to do some research on options here, I've been fairly snowed under by the myriad options and the high percentage of dubious-looking advertorials.
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The other trick is that when you are feeling focused, make sure to "point yourself" in productive directions.
For a lot of people with borderline or milder cases of AHDH, I think, the pressure of various deadlines of work tends to have a stimulative effect and reduce or obviate the need for other treatments. When there are no more deadlines, the ADHD becomes much more active. That's how it is for me.
Good news, bad news: before I got myself treatment for ADHD, I simply could not follow any of the life organization regiems that I tried. I was the most effective when I didn't even try- I just went with the flow and pretty much got things done. Unfortunately, that approach doesn't make for easy living.
posted by gjc at 8:09 PM on September 16, 2009