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For me it helps me multi-task!

God's day to you everyone!

This is my story, this is my song:

D.O.B. (physical) 09-25-1979

2D.O.B. (...of water (Scripture) and Spirit) 01-17-2000 (Martin Luther King Jr. B-day)

"According to the Scripture": I am sinner, being born one in Adam, and depraved by nature, to later by conciously sin by breaking God's Law by choosing to commit acts of sin, in violation of my consicence, given to natural man, made in God's image, therby showing Genesis to be true. I without Christ am held responsible for being a sinner, like Adam, and yet without power to change, or be saved within myself. I, therefore, am doomed with the rest of humanity to the Second Death, the Lake of Fire justly, deserving to recieve the wages of my sin, which is death = seperation from God for eternity in conscious torment. For without the shed blood, death, burial, resurrection, and ascencion of The Lord Jesus Christ.,
there is nothing to set me apart from the next man, and we are all made out of the same stuff. I am the "chief of sinners"

"According to the Scripture" The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to everyone (all sinners) that believeth. God the Father sent His Son to earth "in due time" to "provide Himself a Lamb" The Lord Jesus Christ, God in the Flesh, born of a virgin, formed by The Holy Ghost, who therby lived a sinless and spotless life, as the Lamb of God, according to God's Law, so as to give his Holy Blood and Self on Golgotha , uncontaminated by Adams inherent genetic and moral transgression, that condems us all to Hell, to wash my sins away, and to be my propitiation to remit my sins. He gave His Holy Life in my place of the Curse of Breaking God's Law. He now though, stands resurrected, at the right hand of God, His Father, and intercedes for me, in His office of High Priest of all men to God. He has done this for all men, of every age, specially of those that believe.

"According to the Scriptures" I am now justified from my sins on the basis of The Finished Work (The Gospel) of The Lord Jesus Christ, because I trust Him as my Salvation and Life, and therby have everlasting life. My faith is resting upon what He did, not anything of myself, experience, feeling, or otherwise "according to the Scriptures" with imperfect faith, that He makes perfect, that will always unto eternity, work in my heart by His Spirit, by His Scripture. Facts produces faith. Scriptural facts produces biblical faith, with which biblical feelings follow.

"According to the Scriptures" my faith = believe = trust in Jesus Christ has wrought access to my salvation and life. "According to the Scriptures" this true faith has been evidenced by the repentance he has wrought in me, by turning from my way, myself, and loving sin, to a changed life, in and from Christ, not myself, but by His Spirit dwelling within me. I am therby saved, born-again, regenerated.

"According to the Scriptures"As the Second Adam, The Lord Jesus Christ has brought me out of my dead state and just condemnation through His Perfect Gospel Life, and I am one in Him with God, at the Right hand of the Father, inheritor of all things, that belong to my "Husband", "Vine" and "Head", The Lord Jesus Christ.

Now "According to the Scriptures" Christ has made me a Bible-founded, Blood-bought, Spirit-born (again) child of my Heavenly Father, never to be

Now "According to the Scriptures" I have been positionally counted dead and buried in Christ, on the cross, as He my Second Adam, to the Law, to my sins and sin nature, and to myself.

Now "According to the Scriptures" I am resurrected, ascended, and seatted IN Christ at the right hand of God (thats the TRUE FULL GOSPEL), and work from that victorious position that is mine in Christ Jesus, towards the inheritance and crowns laid up for me.

"According to the Scriptures" what has happened to me, He does this for His Elect, but ALL are invited to be "born-again", "saved" "regenerated" "according to the Scriptures" His election is based on an unknowable factor to humans (foreknowledge), so as to leave all men the chance to be saved, and responsible for their own destruction, if they are not, because the Lake of Fire was "prepared for the devil and his angels"

Now "According to the Scripture" I am a Soverign Grace, growing in the grace and knowledge (intellectual and experiential) Classic Pauline Dispensational, Independent, Fundamental, Soul-winning, Textus Receptus studying and using, Baptistic beleiever.

I am "Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of OUR faith" because "Ye are DEAD, and your LIFE is hidden with Christ, in God"!! I love you all, because of His love.


I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Dead, yet Alive In Christ.

JesusChristisallineed :amen:
 
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I hope I'm not the only one to respond to you. I understand where you are coming from on this matter. I was diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, and a few other things years ago. I have been medicted since college and that was a long time ago! :p

There are days that I don't fee very blessed being ADHD but, then I look at my life and who I am and it's all good!

I don't feel that it was a blessing but, I know God knew I could handle this disorder because he doesn't give us anything we can't handle! For that...I feel BLESSED!

I feel blessed that I can multi-task, and learn things so fast but, it saddens me to watch others struggle with things I find so easy. I don't always feel blessed when I can't do something simple but, a complex problem becomes a breeze! That can be frustrating. I would love to be medication free but, that's just not an option at this time. Now, my prayers are that God BLESSES my daughter with being free and clear of this disorder. If she is ADD/ADHD then, I will embrace that and love her just as much.

God Bless you and thanks for your comments.
 
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For me it helps me multi-task!

God's day to you everyone!

This is my story, this is my song:

D.O.B. (physical) 09-25-1979

2D.O.B. (...of water (Scripture) and Spirit) 01-17-2000 (Martin Luther King Jr. B-day)

"According to the Scripture": I am sinner, being born one in Adam, and depraved by nature, to later by conciously sin by breaking God's Law by choosing to commit acts of sin, in violation of my consicence, given to natural man, made in God's image, therby showing Genesis to be true. I without Christ am held responsible for being a sinner, like Adam, and yet without power to change, or be saved within myself. I, therefore, am doomed with the rest of humanity to the Second Death, the Lake of Fire justly, deserving to recieve the wages of my sin, which is death = seperation from God for eternity in conscious torment. For without the shed blood, death, burial, resurrection, and ascencion of The Lord Jesus Christ.,
there is nothing to set me apart from the next man, and we are all made out of the same stuff. I am the "chief of sinners"

"According to the Scripture" The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation, to everyone (all sinners) that believeth. God the Father sent His Son to earth "in due time" to "provide Himself a Lamb" The Lord Jesus Christ, God in the Flesh, born of a virgin, formed by The Holy Ghost, who therby lived a sinless and spotless life, as the Lamb of God, according to God's Law, so as to give his Holy Blood and Self on Golgotha , uncontaminated by Adams inherent genetic and moral transgression, that condems us all to Hell, to wash my sins away, and to be my propitiation to remit my sins. He gave His Holy Life in my place of the Curse of Breaking God's Law. He now though, stands resurrected, at the right hand of God, His Father, and intercedes for me, in His office of High Priest of all men to God. He has done this for all men, of every age, specially of those that believe.

"According to the Scriptures" I am now justified from my sins on the basis of The Finished Work (The Gospel) of The Lord Jesus Christ, because I trust Him as my Salvation and Life, and therby have everlasting life. My faith is resting upon what He did, not anything of myself, experience, feeling, or otherwise "according to the Scriptures" with imperfect faith, that He makes perfect, that will always unto eternity, work in my heart by His Spirit, by His Scripture. Facts produces faith. Scriptural facts produces biblical faith, with which biblical feelings follow.

"According to the Scriptures" my faith = believe = trust in Jesus Christ has wrought access to my salvation and life. "According to the Scriptures" this true faith has been evidenced by the repentance he has wrought in me, by turning from my way, myself, and loving sin, to a changed life, in and from Christ, not myself, but by His Spirit dwelling within me. I am therby saved, born-again, regenerated.

"According to the Scriptures"As the Second Adam, The Lord Jesus Christ has brought me out of my dead state and just condemnation through His Perfect Gospel Life, and I am one in Him with God, at the Right hand of the Father, inheritor of all things, that belong to my "Husband", "Vine" and "Head", The Lord Jesus Christ.

Now "According to the Scriptures" Christ has made me a Bible-founded, Blood-bought, Spirit-born (again) child of my Heavenly Father, never to be

Now "According to the Scriptures" I have been positionally counted dead and buried in Christ, on the cross, as He my Second Adam, to the Law, to my sins and sin nature, and to myself.

Now "According to the Scriptures" I am resurrected, ascended, and seatted IN Christ at the right hand of God (thats the TRUE FULL GOSPEL), and work from that victorious position that is mine in Christ Jesus, towards the inheritance and crowns laid up for me.

"According to the Scriptures" what has happened to me, He does this for His Elect, but ALL are invited to be "born-again", "saved" "regenerated" "according to the Scriptures" His election is based on an unknowable factor to humans (foreknowledge), so as to leave all men the chance to be saved, and responsible for their own destruction, if they are not, because the Lake of Fire was "prepared for the devil and his angels"

Now "According to the Scripture" I am a Soverign Grace, growing in the grace and knowledge (intellectual and experiential) Classic Pauline Dispensational, Independent, Fundamental, Soul-winning, Textus Receptus studying and using, Baptistic beleiever.

I am "Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of OUR faith" because "Ye are DEAD, and your LIFE is hidden with Christ, in God"!! I love you all, because of His love.


I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Dead, yet Alive In Christ.

JesusChristisallineed :amen:

Indeed, Jesus is "all" anybody needs. But I find that a hit or two of Ritalin helps.

"Multitask"? I'd be happy if I could uni-task.

To put together an essay as coherent as you have here would take me a week or longer. And then I couldn't be certain of it. (and I've had Composition 8o1.)(Got an A.:scratch: , go figure.)

Have you ever gone to the store to buy something but had to leave because the sensory input was so overwhelming; or you couldn't remember what you went there for (and I don't mean once or twice); or the list you made because you can never remember what you went to the store for is who knows where but you know where it isn't; gone in for one or two items and come out with a bunch of stuff but not what you went in for (and I don't mean just one or two times); or you go 50 miles in the wrong direction because you got east and west backwards; or can name your friends on one hand because you continually blurt out something that you didn't mean the way it sounded and nobody wants to be around you; or were always being told to sit still and you can't though you try hard to sit still and can't understand what's going on and get branded as a troublemaker and become an easy mark for teachers who take delight in bullying kids and it's your word against theirs and whose going to believe a kid that doesn't pay attention and talks out of turn and can't still in his seat; or sat down and cried because you couldn't make a decision or some simple task has become this daunting undertaking; or sat alone at home in the dark and wept because the woman you've loved for over thirty years is gone because she couldn't take it anymore?

Or take thirty+ minutes to type a short paragraph because you can't remember where the keys are (and I've been typing for 40 years) and have to backspace every other word be cause to get the letters backwards?

No, ADD is not a blessing.
 
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God knew I could handle this disorder because he doesn't give us anything we can't handle! For that...I feel BLESSED![/quote/]

But what about the others? They can't seem to handle it much. And they think you're just being a butthead.

Yes, there are some days I pray like the Publican that "I'm not like that man." But I would just like to remember to pray every day and be able to speak to God more of sentences
ithout my mind taking off on it's own.

I just thank God that He understand how I feel about Him and what my true desires are. There will come a day when I can praise our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ without distraction. I earnestly wait for that day.

Now the words are being chopped (the letters) when i try to make coretions and I can't figfure out how to get it to stopp doing that and it makes me so mad I could thrugh the computer out the window!

No ADD is nort a blessing.
 
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jesusisallineed, Thanks for the post! Needed that!

Speaking of sensory overload, these "smiles" on the reply screen - too much! Sometimes I type out my responses in Word and cut and paste them b/c the smiles drive me crazy! I'll get off my soap box now. Sorry.
 
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I think it's both a blessing and cruse because sure I have lots of engry and stuff and am really boucy but most people are overwhlemed and label me childish or imature because of it. I hate that I can't remeber the simplest little thing or that I can remeber what a word mean and can't remeber the word because someting distrated me.

Then again without the added engery I wouldn't be able to keep up with the kids I work with or live the life I do. I love being boucy and tigger like. It I wasn't so childlike in the way I behave then I purhaps would loose the way I percive the world and I like see things through the eyes of an 8 year old and haveing the wonder they have.

So as I said before ADHD for me is a curse and a blessing
 
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"Christ is all I need"

Yes, that is true. Posted in a context of people trying to navigate what is ADD, the comment is irresponsible.

It reminds me of someone with a fatal disease who ignores the signs of destruction trying to jolly himself along with the idea that smiling addresses the problem.

ADD effects me and those around me. To ignore it as if it did not exist to the mantra of "Christ is all I need", would be selfish and in defiance of loving God and Loving each other, Christs' most basic commands.

In order to address a problem, I first need to admit I have it. People of the world seem to have a better grasp of this than many Christians.

Admiting a weakness is a grand step, that without follow up to change ends in failure.
 
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