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[Adeptus]

Hello everyone!!

my story might be interesting to some of you and beneficial to others who think they have ADD but they really dont...this is gonna be a bit long so be alarmed

two years ago i was sick of life and of my inability to live it like a normal human being. I knew there was something wrong with me but i didnt know what exactly. then i stumbled upon the subjekt of ADD and read its symptoms. it fits! i had almost all of the ADD symptoms, such as short concentration span (especially in social interactions) which felt like torture to me as i rarley had something to say when interacting with other people.. i always used to be in a rush walking as fast as i can to where ever i needed to go (relaxation was a chinese word to me). I had very little "body-feeling"..my long-term-memory sucked. the development of my consciousness & my inner & outer awareness was impaired..i even used to wet my bed until i was 10 ..time to seek help young man, as now i knew whats wrong with me. I went to doctor and told her about the above symptoms along with a few others. i was 21 at the time. the doctor made me do some tests and she said i have mild ADD!! WTF!!! if this is mild then what does strong ADD feel like? anyways she perscribed Reboxetin and suggested i do some jacobson relaxation.. i took the "drug" for a couple of months and didnt like it. it gave me some sexual problems..

it was around that time that i became interested in meditation which i did for a year and am still doing because it helped me a lot..

a year and half later, still confused with myself and life i was talking to my mom about my little cousin, who was lefthanded..then out of the blue she finally bursts it out! "yes, actually you were also lefthanded, when you were little, it was quite funny"..WHAT?????!!! i was left handed and you never thought to mention that??? i never would have thought of this as i was 100% convinced that i was a rightie. though it did explain the feeling of wanting to cut my right arm off and throwing it to some hungry dogs after i`ve written something for more than 15 minutes.. i read somewhere before that changing handedness has a huge negative effect on the brain, as it must work 30% harder when your writing then any normal left or righthanders brain..
i believe that my brain has made up some new mechanisms to survive , such as cutting short on the long-term memory which is one of the biggest problems i have now.



next day i started to change back my handedness.. i learned to write with my left hand and tried to do every thing in my daily life with my left hand. i learned things that need both hands to strengthen my corpus callosum such as touch typing and juggling. i also have a keyboard that im learning to play..i use the computer mouse with my left hand. eating, driving, everything is left now.. recently i felt like my RIGHT hand is dying, maybe because im not using it much. it feels weak and the left half of it including its fingers feel like they depleted of energy, quite strange. i better make it short as it doesnt feel nice now either..

recently im having the idea that my brain juices are sorta "used up"......

do you think that noots will repair/restructure my brain to the way god intended it to be ? if so which ones will be most beneficial in my situation? if i used noots for say a year and then stopped, will my brain go back to where it was, or will it keep the changes that come with noots?

a couple of things i wanna throw out there:
- when i was six i skipped first class, went straight to the second where i was able to memorize anything i read.. just had to read it once or twice
- i started talking late..
- people with ADD ask your mothers about your handedness when you were litte + watch your childhood pictures and see which hand you used most... most people like me have no idea whats wrong with them, it was pure coincidence for me to find out...

sorry for tha bad structure

any suggestions will be much appreciated

[SATANICAT]

I know what you're talking about. My teacher and her husband are left handed, and in elementary school their son was forced to write with his right hand -- he had an awfully hard time doing it. And, ever since he changed his handedness he couldn't spell any words correctly. The only way he could spell correctly was by typing and using both hands, or saying the letters out loud. And, the elementary wouldn't let him switch back to his left, hereditarily dominant, hand. My teacher believes that handedness has a lot to do with how our brains work. She says about %70 of all students who enter her calculus class are left handed.

[SucubbusLT]

i read somewhere before that changing handedness has a huge negative effect on the brain, as it must work 30% harder when your writing then any normal left or righthanders brain..

- thats interesting. Where did you got that information? I am left handed myself and i was not forced to write with right hand(But now i wish i was). Why? Because i think that learning to do something with not your main hand is mentaly harder but also better for the brain(like learning to play with piano), as it gets more exercise and cognitive improvement because of that. My left-handed uncle was forced to write with his right hand, now he has doctorate degree in technology science and is smarter than me. I like to think about the brain as the muscle - the more you exercise it, the more you can lift in the end. I would say that writing with other hand is an ability which needs serious work to get it, just like learn to play with piano, but in the end its only good.

[NR2(x)]

I would go look through the DMVs creteria, ADD maybe symptomatic rather than casual. I believe you have disclosed enough information to make another diagonise more likely.
There is evidence that your basal ganglia and stratium are dysfunctional compared to your relative cognitive potential. Training for multi hemisphere task, will help. Maybe your choice is to be either a dominant left hemisphere or a dominant right hemisphere, rather than commonly functional. Right hemisphere personality outperforms in social domains, were as left hemisphere outperforms in academic activities(generally).
A good nootropic stack can help you alot, focus on metabolism and working memory.