>>>>I refuse to believe that I am inferior just because I can't remember appointments, and don't hear people who talk to me when I am reading.<<<<
LOL. That is so true. I was thinking, while out just now, that ADD must, I really mean must, serve some group survival function. I'm not sure if you batched em up, like oh the Alphas or Betas put together in Brave New World, they would or could survive, honestly. I don't think they would. But the must have some supplemental, complimentary function, that has clearly been preserved and perhaps even heightened within the gene pool.
Yet, some, including myself at times, might say so do a lot of other sicko-type genes, because everything survives these days.
As for depression, I had it severely due to circumstance, pharmochemistry, and stress of illness. I didn't know what it was, and as a lot of people who've known me here will tell ya now, I believe it is brain chemistry. Situations and attitudes can help induce it, and end it's finishing stages, but the main content of the illness is pure, unadulterated, bio-chemistry.
I don't like the effects of anti-depressants either, but will take them when certain phenomena appear, to protect myself. Learned that the very hard way. It's obvious when they're not needed. I was able to stop taking prednisone this year, for one of the first longer periods in eleven years, and can tell the chemistry in my head is lightening, quickening, and improving. Here in ~ well, dark ~ Oregon, I often "disappear" this time of year. Yet I'm aggressively pursuing the rout of depression, because being in the upper stages has allowed that.
Yadda yadda, but people get the disease and don't know they have it.
It's sad, and it kills some of them.
I now watch for it like a hawk-mommy, in people I know. |
