Adult ADD Strengths

Update

They have the video on the global TV news site. Click on the link that says Adult ADD wait list. Don’t know how long it will be up there for and their lack of permalinks and javascript flash video makes linking troublesome. I hope to get a copy of the video up on the blog and website later. Comments tomorrow.
By Global TV reporter Catherine Pope

Should be on the news hour at 6.00 PST. I’ll be talking about my previous post about the BC children’s hospital Adult ADHD clinic stopping to accept referrals for adult’s with ADHD and not providing somewhere else for them to get diagnosed.

Alternate title 1 Year Waiting list for an entire year embarassing? Solution. Close the clinic.

Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group
Leader: Pete Quily (604) 263-6997

NEWS RELEASE

30 Jan 2007

Adults with ADHD Abandoned As Clinic Closes Doors

VANCOUVER, BC – Despite a year-long waiting list for an entire year, budgetary restraints have forced BC’s principal diagnostic and treatment centre to bar further referrals of adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, while they do a “review” of the program with no target completion date. The clinic, located at Children’s Hospital (CWH) had been accepting adult patients for only two years, during which time its adult caseload had grown to 50 per cent of its patient total.

Pictures and a movie of a live volcano (Mount Erebus) erupting in Antarctica.

Must be an interesting experience getting lava bombs dropped near you when you’re surrounded by ice and snow.

via Digg

Here’s a short interesting video on ADHD in Children at WebMD, found it from an email in one of my many ADHD e groups.

It shows the different types of ADHD inattentive and hyperactive impulsive and goes on to show the wide range of differences in people with ADHD. It’s definitely not a one size fit’s all condition. Many people with inattentive ADHD don’t get diagnosed since they’re not causing problems for other people, which seems to be the main reason for getting diagnosed for people with ADHD.

You don’t often get a chance to tell the Govt what to do on an issue like this so please take advantage of it. Deadline Thursday Jan 25. It’s a simple one page survey no name or email required. Thanks Claudia for the tip.

The purpose of this consultation is to allow you and all Canadians to share your views on mental health and mental illness, particularly federal priorities in this area and the proposed mental health commission.

In particular, we would like your views on the following:

I did this post last year and given the time of season, I thought it’d be useful to repost it. My theme for this year will be sustainable growth. Sustainable being the challenging part for an ADDer. Enjoy.

How many of you actually carry out your New Year’s resolutions? Honestly. In full.

I’m no paragon of virtue here myself.

I believe that after too many failed attempts at New Year’s resolutions, most people start to attach strong unconscious negative feelings towards New Year’s resolutions, but continue to create a new one or a batch of them each year in part out of guilt, or perceived social pressure.

Update:

Maybe the pattern is stronger than I thought. via Canadian Cynic

Conservatives confirmed what Green party leader Elizabeth May and Macleans.ca blogger Kady O’Malley blogged about when they saw the government lobby of the House of Commons.

When you walk in the door, all you see are pictures of Stephen Harper,” said Ms. MayI’d say between every window, in every available space of the wall, at eye level, every available space has a photo of Stephen Harper.”

“You’ve got photos of Stephen Harper, but not of previous prime ministers,” she added. “Photos of Stephen Harper in different costumes, in different settings, dressed as a fireman, in Hudson Bay looking for polar bears, meeting the Dalai Lama, even the portrait of the Queen had to have Stephen Harper, but in a candid, behind her.

Serial Filler talks about the true cost of stuff.

It takes time and energy to take care of stuff. Physical stuff, intellectual property, outdated issues, unresolved traumas and conflicts, even memories. I have a choice: caretake my past or build my future.

How true. Many of us ADDers like the stimulating process of accumulating physical and intellectual things, (something new! cool!) and fail to consider the true or full costs of those things beside their initial purchase or creation prices. Which in the long run is often the smallest cost.

Every posession you have you need to:

• find a place to keep it, and in doing so reduce your available space to move in.