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Quote: Originally Posted by mADD mike I've made great strides, and my mom has as well, toward success in this area. She's obviously farther in the journey, and was able to help me see how distorted some of my thinking is. If you want to achieve success, I think it is important to look up cognitive distortions on wikipedia and read through them. When you can conquer some of those, you will find more happiness and less perfectionistic...

Quote: Originally Posted by daveddd sorry didnt read whole thread do a google search on brooding , see if it relates to you its a seriously overlooked sign of depression or ocd Quote: Originally Posted by excel It helps my anxiety without sedating me. the thoughts cause the anxiety , not the other way around in my case , believe or not alot of times those thoughts are you brain trying to self correct something , are they fears about yourself,...

I've read that one of the ways ADDers compensate thru rote memory which goes into long term memory. I think there may be some difference tho between those who learn primarily aurally and those who learn visually but I can't find anything about it right now. I remember all sorts of stuff and yes I'd make a great trivial pursuit player except categories I've never shown an interest in.

Ooooohhhh Mike, Thank you thank you thankyou!!! Once again you have been able to articulate something I know is in my head and not coming out. You hit the nail on the head!!! -I ran the flag of perfection for many years. I was proud of it. I excelled in school, not because I studied and worked my rear end off, but because I was naturally intelligent and completely obsessive (perfectionistic) about everything. It wasn't enough to answer...

Quote: Originally Posted by jett1111 Oh, forgot to say... I also have struggled with depression much of my life. When I was a teen I went through a fairly deep depression, but I've continued to have a low level of it for years. Just enough to make me feel a little tired and down and that simple things took too much effort sometimes - but not enough that I took medication. That is gone now with the ritalin/concerta. It's great. I...

The only times I have "thoughts" racing through my head when I am trying to sleep is when I have composed a poem in my head and I need to get it typed out before I lose it! Most, if not all, of my best poetry has been composed while I was sleeping. In fact, I just composed a poem in my sleep last night and woke up at 1 am to type it out... I then posted it in the Creative Writing Forum at 3:17 this morning. The statement below is...

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yes; I've really wanted to say to people who get annoyed with my forgetfulness: "HA! but, can YOU tell me what you wore on the first day of all four years in high school?" but then where would that get me? some day all of this will be useful, I'm tellin' ya!

As others have said, nobody can beat themselves up as hard as...themselves. A series of events can go so right for me, but all that confidence I suddenly felt go away with the first failure afterwards. I go back to the drawing board. Or I get on a roll, take on too much and feel crushed by the weight, leading to failure. I'm my own self-defeating reality.

I'm there, for sure. Getting better. Certain things are still probably more a priority than they need to be (ie, GPA) but other things can slide occasionally. I still tend to really suck at working in groups or on teams if I feel like the other people aren't doing things "correctly." I squirm in meetings if someone misspells a word (but I can avoid pointing it out, which wasn't a skill I had in, say, high school).