My Bipolar Complacations

[wonderwaleye]

Dear Bipolars


This should explain why I am the way I am!

I have recently been diagnosed bipolar with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over
at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there
is mail on the porch table that I brought up from
the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail
in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the
can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take
out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox
when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay
the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there
is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go
inside the house to my desk where I find the can of
Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push
the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I realize the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should
put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of
flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be
watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my
reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm
going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container
with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone
left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking
for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen
table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs,
but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on
the! floor.

So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels
and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was
planning to do.

At the end of the day:
the driveway is flooded
the car isn't washed,
the bills aren't paid,
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
there is still only one check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long,
and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some
help for it, but first I'll check the CF posts.

Do me a favor, will you? Post this message on
CF, because I don't remember if i did or not . Steven



BUT I ALWAYS REMEMBER:




XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )

 

[Lilli]

Oh my! I hate to say this, but, that was funny. I see myself in that story too - so I gotta laugh or I'll just end up crying.

Thanks for posting it!

Blessings,
Lilli

 

[goldenviolet]

lol funny and sorry. the story is funny. my dad is ADD. just learn to work with it. no biggie.
and use lots of post-it's and notes.

just thought of something. my dad's attention span would never make the posts you do, or read like you do. you must have a good level of concentration.

 

[Col303]

You just described a day at my house!! You totally made me laugh! Thanks for the post.

 

[lemonflavor]

Ouch, that big purple text is really hard to read. Readability studies have shown normal sized black text on white or light background is easiest to read.

I'm not really ADD but I often start doing something then remember something else I need to do. Because my memory has gotten worse, I think I better do that so I don't forget. Then I remember another thing I need to do and do that because I don't want to forget.. Then I can't remember the first thing I was going to do.

 

[I'ddie4him]

That was quite funny WW. My days are similar, But, Not quite to this degree.
I found out just about a year ago I have ADHD also.
My Dr prefers to treat the BP than the ADD.
Surprisingly enough, I make do with it.
I make my wife a bit wacky somedays, But, She most times will laugh and say something about later in the evening.

 

[wonderwaleye]

And I Thank YOU for your wonderful and caring HEARTS.

It sure wasn't my intent to step on a soul and if I hit
a sensitive issue PLEASE
forgive me.


I can't believe that GOD doesn't want us bipolars to smile to. Steven




BECAUSE OF GOD'S LOVE:




XEven though you can't see Him, GOD is there!O
( click on the X and move to the O ) ( then feel who is around you )