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Re: How I Used ADD to Build Great Businesses

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Post by reeses » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 10:16 PM UTC

bennyg wrote: post #27

lloeki wrote: post #25

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> If we are successful with ADHD, then we would only be more successful if we didnt have ADHD. Indeed, ADHD is a bane, not a superpower. Yet, more? I don't know. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, which in turn makes you able to overcome ordeals and achieve things, sometimes worse, sometimes better, and anyway differently. This is how I live with ADHD, how I learned to work around or abuse it, how I made it a…

ADD == ADHD-PI now, there is no ADD anymore

Only psychiatrists and others in the medical profession still call it ADD. It all boils down to a diagnostic/billable code anyway. 314.00, 314.01, etc.

Re: How I Used ADD to Build Great Businesses

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Post by dualboot » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 11:16 PM UTC

nollidge wrote: post #39

materialhero wrote: post #23

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And I have the inverse. No hyperactivity, thus diagnosed with ADD.

The term "ADD" was officially dropped from the DSM in 1994 in favor of ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_disorder

It was a cruel thing for them to do, honestly. As someone with ADHD-PI who was diagnosed at 11 years old (jeez, 24 years ago) I never appreciated being lumped in with hyperactive people. I am the opposite of that (although I am prone to mania.. but it's very rarely manifests physically) by nature.

This damned problem has been just that. I went without medication for over 18 years but in the last year have had to seek treatment again. I definitely needed to do it sooner but as life becomes more and more complex and I'm beholden to other's schedules something had to give.

Life with the medication is a much better place for me. Wish I'd pursued it again sooner.

Re: How I Used ADD to Build Great Businesses

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Post by Buzaga » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 3:23 AM UTC

reeses wrote: post #60

Buzaga wrote: post #57

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Well but then diagnosing this equals to making our own nature wrong(or sick) by definition and then it's a paradox... if we need to start synthetically molding our body and cognitive functions that are healthy for the animal we are because it doesn't fit the society we designed and built for us ourselves to live comfortably... well, then something's wrong.

As a species, those of us in the developed world stopped evolving in many ways since the industrial revolution. Traits that increased the probability of reproduction hundreds, thousands, or millions of years ago stopped becoming a competitive advantage. What you describe is not a paradox. The brain can self-diagnose and regulate the individual. Sometimes it's the introduction of foreign chemicals into the system (foo…

I think your armchair biology is not quite right too.