Well, I do have ADHD. (Diagnosed this morning.) So, um whoo?

But I cannot take the meds because I already have high blood pressure and other indicators of heart danger.

Anyone know a good source for non-medical ADHD coping mechanisms?

ION: a horde of St. Bernards wreaking gentle chaos in the woods. . . and most adorable helmet cam video ever. Love how she's humming to herself and her pony's fuzzy ears.

sumi,

after all this time did you have suspicions?

are you feeling better after diagnosis or just numb?

I am sitting in the break room and dodging work. I guess that counts as applying my learnings.

I had no suspicions. My counselor suggested it on Friday and I did a self-test on Saturday and made the appt with my doctor and here we are.

I'm starting to realize that it makes alot more sense but I wish I had figured it out earlier in life.

Sue, you are awesome.

They sent us one at work and I was not awesome enough to go into my work email to find it...but I knew they were out there.

Sumi, at least you have a diagnosis??? Yay? I have heard lots of dietary "cures" but nothing specific and I am not sure how credible. A lot of them seemed to involve blaming sugar/wheat/food dyes.

I just noticed that True Citrus has two version of their True Orange. One is for drinking, and has stevia, and the other is for cooking/baking and does not.

I'm drinking the cooking stuff, and it's just fine, but I'm sad about the orange/mango only coming with stevia, because I don't remember handling stevia well in the past.

Wow, that's really interesting, sumi. I hope you can use it to manage things better, or at least understand yourself better.

That cold/flu chart just pissed me off even more again at my doctor of many years ago insisting I didn't have the flu that one time.

I have no help, sumi, but I am wondering how you broached it with your doctor-- I have been somewhat suspicious for similar reasons as you, as well as having students who are ADHD. When you posted on Livejournal, I did the self test. I feel like at this age, I will sound like a hypochondriac, and am afraid I am being a hypochondriac!

I also have the weird thing where I did very poorly at school (Kindergarten and 1st grade) because of inattention and distraction issues, and then in second grade, between getting a good teacher who challenged me and learning to do other things in class as well as listen (I used to crochet, or write numbers in a series, or when I was older, do other homework) I got better, and was actually really good at school, despite being bad at doing homework on time, remembering my books, etc etc

An update to an important story:

Shipment of 18 human heads found at Chicago's O'Hare airport

Investigators probing a shipment of 18 human heads intercepted at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have determined they came from bodies donated for scientific research and were being transported for disposal, officials said on Tuesday.

U.S. Customs agents discovered the grisly package, which was shipped to Chicago from Italy shortly before Christmas, on Monday. Because the shipment's paperwork was not in order, agents confiscated the heads and sent them to the Cook County Medical Examiner for safekeeping, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner said.

The heads, which had been used by a medical research facility in Rome, were properly embalmed, wrapped and labeled when they arrived at the airport, said Mary Paleologos, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner. Foul play has been ruled out, she said.

On Tuesday, the cremation company that was supposed to take delivery of the heads and dispose of them presented the missing paperwork to the medical examiner, Paleologos said.

The medical examiner said the remains would not be released to the company until federal authorities verified the paperwork.

In the meantime, the medical examiner is photographing and x-raying the embalmed heads for record-keeping purposes, Paleologos said.

I think we can all sleep better at night, knowing this was resolved. OTOH, I am somewhat disappointed there was no paranormal explanation.

eta: Still, why were the severed heads not cremated in Italy? Why send them to Chicago? Is it because we're the city of the big shoulders?