Ritalin and Graduation

I went to my general practitioner today who handed me a prescription.It’s a low dosage. It’s normal release (as opposed to an extended release version of some medications which change the requirement from twice to once a day.)I know that many people have...

Therapist Shopping II

All right. I had my session with my counselor–we’ll call her Sherry– last week. It was a little nerve-wracking, to be sure. I had lots of thoughts about what I wanted to say to her if things even slightly began to veer off course. Plus, when I got...

Therapist Shopping

Well, I’ve taken the plunge.Or at least I’ve tried to. I started seeing a psychologist a few weeks ago who specializes in ADHD in order to talk to her about medication. My symptoms were so obvious that she diagnosed me with the inattentive subtype after...

ADHD Anecdote–AP History

My AP United States History class my junior year was kind of a horrifically funny experience for me.I had just moved that year to Oregon from Utah. And one of my discoveries was that Oregon schools, at least for me, were more difficult than my Utah education had...

Am I back yet?

Yeah. I’m starting to feel it again, methinks. I’m going to campus tomorrow and should have some extra time on my hands, so I’m planning on doing some kind of something with something here or something. Some. Thing.Sweet.Really, I’d like to do...

A much needed break

But I’m back (I think). We’ve gotten a little glimpse at how things go at times when I lose consistency. Lots of promises of what I’ll do next in an attempt connect myself to what needs to be done, and then a successive sequence of not following...