From Trash to Cash: the river overflows

nixinixi

"yay" for Paula - and just checked I have had someone follow the link from my blog to your Etsy site. WooHoo!!!! How did you get on at the doc's hun?

Skint- Court sounds interesting, hopefully! Sketch pad for cake designs is a good idea though Really impressed with your fundrasing - you put me to shame How do you find time for it all??

MMTWGR (missed typing that lol!) - didn't even attempt matched betting, too complicated for me to try and get my head round!

Mambury - Congrats on the job, can you just put PM on the backburner for now? I really think it is a fab idea and has a successful future but maybe the timing isn't right for you yet. Hope you are feeling better now too.

Yay for you and your OH Rosie, hope the steroids do the job quickly I really need to stop and get my head around christmas...and Halloween and Bonfire and DDs birthday....AAAARRG to much to do lol!

Wow Nikki what a total!!

Hi Jenna, Hi Elly, Hi Dilly (can I come to your 6th birthday party please?)

My news is that I am relaunching NixiSpeak tomorrow - it will have much more of a magazine format and I will 'publish' every friday, which means I need to have things to write about and giveaway lol, so if anyone has any business news, or wants to offer a giveaway please let me know (I know I am beiong cheeky but I am really wondering what have I got myself into!!??? ) Also have a new PR client this week.....thanks to Mabel!!!

N xx

jo70mo

Wow Nixi it all sounds exciting and busy. Fantastic news about the PR client.
Jo x

jo70mo

Just sending a big hug for Paula. Hope Dr was friendly.
Jo x

skintbint_2

hi all - quick post for Jo and anybody else who has little ones who like peppa - this was on the grabbit a peppa pig tote bag for £2.97 delivered!!! just incase you missed it
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2760990

paulabear

Oh, can I come to the birthday party too? I could just eat some cake
Nixi, she sounds really lovely, her dress is ace going to start on the topper tomorrow night but thank you again! I will do a freebie for you, suggest something xx
Thanks for the hugs, Jo, they are much needed after a day with my dad - who constantly tells me what the kids are doing and what I should be doing about it, without ever thinking he could actually just do it himself and help me instead of making me feel crap - then took the kids to the fair, which was a nightmare and we all got upset when we got home, especially me...lol.
Doctor was very harsh with me, said he didn't think I had ADHD and told me sometimes people on antidepressants who feel they are 'just OK' but nothing great has happened feel like they want something else to make them have a better life, basically. I just sort of burst into tears because I've been bloody fixated on it all week because it just seems like exactly what I'm like. So I felt like a div and he was lecturing me and saying there was nothing he could do right then, maybe he thought I was just after drugs to help me keep up with the kids lol. Anyway so I'm going back next Wed to have a 20 minute appointment to discuss the list of personality traits associated with it - I'd told him I could give examples for all of them - so I'm going to cut and paste the list and just go through it giving examples, writing how I am and stuff. Does that sound OK, do you think? Part of me keeps telling myself it's just me thinking too much about stuff too much and getting worked up. My best mate just told me that it's like I always have to find a reason for stuff I do and I should just accept that I do it and that's that...argh, I'm all mixed up and tired and upset. Why is there no cherry brandy in the house. Gah xx

jo70mo

Hugs Paula - sounds like a hard day hun. Not a surprising response from your GP really when you think about how adult adhd is regarded in this country. Whilst I think ADHD is really overdiagnosed in kids and over-medicated I do think it exists. Some experts believe that it is not a "malfunction" but more of a normal "variant" which no longer fits our lifestyle and so is seen as a problem but historically would have had a lot to offer particularly in a hunter gatherer lifestyle. I found that quite fascinating.
However I find it strange that there is such widespread diagnosis in children and yet it is not recognised in adults. In fact a friend of mines son was given a different diagnosis on reaching the age for adult services cos it wasn't recognised or catered for in the adult services. surely it makes sense that if lots of kids have adhd then there will be adults with it too.
Plus the picture in girls is more often the inattentive without the hyperactive picture so less picked up too.
I guess the question for you is do you pursue a diagnosis which would be necessary in order to get medical treatment but may be hard to do or do you follow the route of many adults and educate yourself about it and try and find non-medical strategies for managing it? hard decisions I think.
plus if you do decide not to go for official diagnosis you need to take care that you don't in future put everything down to adhd and miss getting help with things that may masquerade as adhd.
I am by no means expert on this at all so can't really offer advice but hope you find the right way for you.
Hugs again
Jo x

paulabear

Thanks Jo
My worry about not getting diagnosed is that I have a lot of difficulty concentrating when driving. There are cognitive behavioural resources around to glean info from for stuff like organisation and coping with forgetfulness but with the driving, I sometimes have these 'blanks' where I'll just have a kind of mini mental block and have to really struggle to get back to concentrating. It only lasts a second or two but I thought it was something I'd get out of when I'd been driving longer. Now I'm concerned it might be just the way my mind works and maybe I should push for treatment because of it. There's also the frustration I've felt so much, that I could be using my brain to have a much more satisfying career, if I could only focus properly on getting things done in an orderly way. Since struggling so much to complete my degree I've kind of lost faith in myself. That was when I went on the antidepressants. My other motivation for diagnosis is that I just want to prove to myself that I haven't just been rubbish all this time, and all the incidents I feel ashamed of haven't been entirely my fault. I was an awkward kid, with no real friends, who made a complete div of herself at every opportunity and did nothing but read constantly. At the same time I'm worried I'm over-dramatising things and I'm just a bit weird and shouldn't worry about it.
I think I'd go for the treatment every time, as well as doing my own research, rather than going along with whatever the docs said. I'm already on meds anyway - although all they really do is make me feel somewhat better generally and subdue the stuff in my head going round and round - but I've found a support group that seem really friendly so I'm going to ask them lots of questions lol xx

paulabear

The doctor did say that there are other things that can seem like ADHD. I'd be happy to be diagnosed with something different so long as it can help me sort myself out. I need to stop fixating on the whole thing though as it's not helping me and is just getting me wound up. Just got Village of the Damned on TV, scary kids in blonde wigs xx

jo70mo

sounds scary.lol
oh before I forget thanks for the heads up on the peppa pig bag Skint. not sure will get it but theres some other stuff on the same site that we may get so the discount and free delivery would make a difference. Cheers.
Jo x

elly68

Hi guys sorry not been on much but hey where do i start Mums oh is in itu unlikely to recover,managed to detox mum over 2 nights so babymoo when i was harsh about the addict thing you now know why been dealing with it since i was young.however on the bright side managed to get her to her pre op assessment and a date for op then we can move on from there ,downside on the way back from hospital my car died.
As a supersticious person i am counting my car as no 3 so hopefully things can only get better as the song goes it keeps playing in my head lol now its in yours so for all of us dealing with life as it comes just remember
THINGS can only get better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OO9LloDSJo for us oldies
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIj-6fr2SlI for the youngsters or young at heart

happy days will check in soon probably with a glass of wine and a smile