The Georgia Straight Covers My Campaign To Get BC Politicians To Re Open The BC Adult ADHD Clinic

by Pete Quily on May 14, 2013 · 0 comments

Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith did an great article about the 6 year campaign ( we adders can be very tenacious if we really want something)  I and others have been waging to try to  reopen the BC adult ADHD clinic by getting BC politicians to stop neglecting ADHD.

He also talks about then BC NDP Health critic and likely premier tonight Adrian Dix and the clinic.

During the may provincial election I asked BC political party leaders if they’d support reopening the BC adult ADHD clinic.

The BC Conservative Party leader John Cummins supports reopening the BC Adult ADHD clinic.

The leader of the Green Party of BC  Jane Sterk Supports re opening the BC Adult ADHD Clinic.  Read more...

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Green Party of BC Leader Jane Sterk Supports Re Opening The BC Adult ADHD Clinic

by Pete Quily on May 13, 2013 · 0 comments

UPDATE: Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith did an article about the reopening of the BC adult ADHD clinic me and the BC politicians.

The leader of the Green Party of BC  Jane Sterk Supports Re Opening The BC Adult ADHD Clinic. Great! That makes 3 of the 4 BC political party leaders that support it.

As I mentioned in my previous post 6 Years ago in 2007, the BC Liberal government under then health minister George Abbott shut down the only provincial adult ADHD clinic in BC at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver after a 12-14 month long wait list for an entire year.

Possibly politically embarrassing wait list? BC Liberals solution? Kill the clinic. No more wait list.

Why didn’t/ don’t adult with ADHD speak up about this?  Read more...

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“We Should Reopen It.” BC Conservative Party Leader John Cummins on the Closed BC Adult ADHD Clinic

by Pete Quily on May 3, 2013 · 3 comments

UPDATE #2: Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith did an article about the reopening of the BC adult ADHD clinic me and the BC politicians.

UPDATE: BC Greens Party Leader Jane Sterk also supports reopening the BC adult ADHD clinic she told me in a phone conversation. I’ll do a separate post on it soon. BC Greens Vancouver-Mount Pleasant candidate Barinder Hans also mentioned the BC adult ADHD clinic at the Vote mental health 4all all candidates forum May 7th.

Also BC Conservative candidate Duane Nickull had some great things to say about the BC adult ADHD clinic. I’ll do a post on the great forum too. He later did a great blog post on it too you should check out, he’s been very supportive of adults with ADHD.  Read more...

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For The Cultural Notion Of What It Means To Have ADHD To Significantly Shift

by Pete Quily on March 10, 2013 · 5 comments

#11. This post is a part of a series where people answer my anonymous survey question. If you have ADHD but haven’t gone public with it, what would it take to you go public with ADHD?

There are risks and rewards for going public with ADHD AND for staying hidden in the ADHD closet. See this post for context on the series.

“For the cultural notion of what it means to have ADHD to significantly shift.

Ie. for people to think something other than that people with ADHD were brought up by lazy parents who sat them in front of the television/Playstation; for people to stop thinking exclusively of the “fun” things that being ADHD entails, such as being always on the go, “random” etc., but to see that it wrecks relationships and leads to constantly being out of control.  Read more...

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Trouble With Transitions For ADHD Adults. How To Manage Them. Starting Things, Stopping Them And Switching Gears

by Pete Quily on December 18, 2012 · 0 comments

 

Many adults with ADHD have trouble with transitions. I.e., starting things, stopping things and switching between tasks. Here are notes from The December 2012 Meeting of My Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group.  Here are more notes from past Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group meetings.

Topic: Trouble With Transitions. Starting Things, Stopping Them And Switching Gears

 

Facilitator: Pete Quily

Thanks for Megan and Cara for taking the notes.

Mentioned the new online medication pharmacy price comparison tool Pharmacy Compass. You can use it to check the prices of ADHD and other medications.

What no middle path?

by miheco

Why do ADDers have more trouble starting somethings?

 

Becomes uninteresting when we have to do it.

See the whole elephant sometimes the whole herd Overwhelmed

Guilt

Fear of failure/success  Read more...

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