[caption id="attachment_2915" align="alignleft" width="324"] Clara Hughes and Bell Canada say “Lets Talk”[/caption]As marketing schemes go, this was a good one. Bell, Canada’s telecommunications giant, has been ramping up to February 12th, choosing that day to put mental health in the limelight.
I know this brought them a great deal of publicity, but I don’t have a problem with that. The money they spent on this campaign could easily have gone to slick commercials and a cadre of spin doctors figuring out how to make saving a nickle look like something worth the money and effort needed to invest in getting signed up for that “save a nickle” program.
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Hello first forgive the typos and miss spelling as I am writing f this from a very temperamental phone with a horrible spell corrector. Anyway I was diagnosed with ad HD at age 4 my mother said you could fill a room with me the way I was all over the place. My sleep patterns have always been sperattic and I remember when my dad still live at home I would constantly get in trouble for making so much noise at 3am a lot of mornings. Anyway after a bad susation at home and running away and choosing to stay in mental wards as oppose to home I got diagnosed with aspergerssyndrome. Finally after a better part of year in and out of psyche wards six months I spent at UCLA Neropsyche which is where the aspergers diagnoses came in. I was released to a group home attached to the special ed school I was attending and I was taking the meds i
Sorry this is part two of the above as my stupid phone would not let me type anymore on that one. I was taking my meds in that group home and became close to people there bit eventually got kick out because of behavior problems. Also while doing my my year stay hiding out in mental wards I was consevered
GPart tree since my phone likes to send things before I am ready. I got off conservatorship shortly after I finished high school. I moved in after my stay at there at the high school group homes ended I moved unsuccessfully in to a regional center group home. Services applied for around the same rime I got on ssi which happen in the hospital. For those who do not know regional center is a place that funds different programs for people with developmental disabilities. Ihated it and got kicked out eventually got an apartment where I decided I did not need my meds and stopped. The years that have followed till present have been hard filled with isolation and loneliness and anger outburst
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And at twenty one I began experimenting with alcohol and loved it and became a good alcoholic never wanting to admit that I was different I eventually found my way into the rooms of alcoholics anonymous and planted myself there for the next almost three years this took place from 27 to 30 then about 2 years and six months I began to have these anger outburts where I just would cuss people out and say whatever I thought in the moment I was in. I alienated myself from rooms of alcoholics anonymous. I could not explain why I was doing this and I figure this all had something to with the
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Aspergers diagnoses but was not sure. Yet during my almost tree years in aa I just wanted to be an alcoholic so I could finally have a place where I belonged. I have spent and still spending a great deal of this life as if I am on he outside kooking in. Then about a year after my relapse I found a forum on the web on aspergers and read the little snippets people left there about their lives and it and it seem to fit with mine and finally at about 31 I finally got my as pies but deep down I knew aspergers was not the full picture as t
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As there was something missing and could not explain why I had these uncontrollable anger out burst or controlled what was commingle out of my mouth. So when I lost my last apartment and failed multiple times in aa (please note where there is as in a lot of this it is suppose to be aa shorten for alcojlics anonymous just my spell corrector changes it to as I think I got a lot of them but in case I missed some I just wanted to leave a heads up.) I decided I did not have a place around people and headed out on the road for three years afraid to be around people because of the short live relationships I had with people and the what I refer to as verbal vomit where I have to tell people what I think in the meant I am thing I
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Last part was suppose to say in the moment I was thinking it. So not knowing how to over come this and assured this was part of my aspies which is a mock name asperger people give them selfs I head out on a three year road trip as away not to have to deal with people as a result of shot lived relationships in life. I moved around California and Nevada not shire what was going on thinking my behavior problems whereby aspies and feeling screwed as the only food doctors out there who where autism specialist wanted 150 to 200 an hour and I did not have that to spend. Yet at one point I did post a comment o
On an aspie support site and someone posted a video from some well know doc in the field of add talking about the uncontrollable out burst people with it can have and up to this point I just thought add was a short attention span and then after that clip was done I watched another clip from a talk by this doctor an it blew me away how he might as well had me up on stage and talking about me. But for some reason even after that aha moment from the video nt in response to me I still had not seen add as much of a factor still considering aspergers was all I had. Even though there was no denying the uncontrollable anger the forgetfulness ans
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Just the inability to follow threw on anything it still had not taken hold of me that my primary problem was not aspies but something else. Ocean this could do with the fact as an aspie I was stuck with it if I had adhd there was help and I could get better and maybe I was not ready for that yet. But that is a speculation. I mean on the road I was constantly getting kicked out and asked not to come back because of what I call my verbal vomit where I have to say what is on my mind the moment it is there and usually it something rude andvolgure
Hi david,
I’m sorry your phone has made such a hash of your comment. I think I get the gist of what you’re saying though.
Asperger’s and ADHD do share some symptoms, making it hard to diagnose one if the other is present and already acknowledged.
Be advised that neither one can be “cured” no mater what the “marketers” tell you. But it is true that ADHD is said to be the most treatable mental health issue. Medications, therapies and programs all help.
It sounds like you’ve been through a lot already. The problem is that you still have to deal with your issues every day. You are on the right track though, recognizing your issues is the first part of dealing with them. You know that already from AA, and it applies to all aspects of life.
Thank you for sharing these points, thanks for reading my blog and taking the time and trouble to comment, I appreciate that very much.
Kelly
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Then a few weeks ago after I moved back to los Angeles I was feeling good one night and was thanking God for something and metrical happen I for the first time saw the love Jesus had for us and understood that He died not because I needed to be perfect enough to receive the cross but because of my sin I was in need of the cross. That cross was not a punishment but away out of punisent into grace that it was love and that was what i experienced that nighyt was the love of Jesus before that the cross was a cold place cause irbment that I had to accept hell. Now I see it as my freedom grace and salvation once I am a believer always a believer. Yet before I give you the impression that Jesus fixed it all I want you to know that I still have these uncontrollable anger issues and do not know how to make them stop.I grown to accept them just the way crippled man accepts life in a wheelchair. But last night I was praying and asking like I have so many times before that God give me answer to why I this way and why I fly off the Handel and I came across this book at Barnes and noble about add and bought and have been reading it and everything I had been doing from the fights I been picking with people to the reasons I had this anger where all there. I understood that the beast in my life is not as pies though
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It might be some of it but my problem is adhd only case. I put this here because I know there are others like me dealing with this and have no idea why. See for a long time I just thought that add was just lousy attention and follow through now I know at least fore it effects me inch deeper ways than just being a mere learning disability. It took three and a half years and the Savior to open eyes to why I was this way. If your wondering why did not post the new of. The book or the website I use for aspie support it is because I did not want this message to be filed as advertisement for either of the two and I wanted this to be put out there emailing me can be done for add support at screaminfinsilenty@Gmail.com. thanks again for reading!
David, feel free to post the name of the book, and of the website. If I feel it to be inappropriate I will not approve it.
Again, thanks for the comments,
Kelly
AlPlease email as advocacy is what I want to do with my life aseas I have no trouble telling people about my issues even inspire of the dirty looks I get like it is somehow my fault that I am this way. I even had peoplerfuse to sponsor me when I told them I had aspergers. I hate that I like to get to a point where mental health and developmental disabilities are main stream topics on tjenews . Not just something talk about for awhile after some tragic event like the kid who shot all those kids. Because it seems like these issuses are pushed to the aide an forgotten until an event like the kids getting shot happen. Also if it where a more main stream issue less people would feel embarrassed talking and getting help for there issues and maybe others will not have to go through those looks distest or lack of support from most people that I have experience d in my life I really so not care I’d tje whole world knowsi have aspergers and adhd.
The name of the book is healing add by Daniel g amen and the website is wrongplanet.net that is the apspie support site.