Thanks for your tips! ATC, that is indeed helpful. I think I'd like to just embrace my crazy way of doing things, and I thought about it after reading your post, but really, the way I work just feels bad. I don't like feeling scattered, no matter how much I get done! And then there's the matter of my not being able to sit down and read a book or sew or do whatever, because I'm too distracted.
Jayne, great advice on the exercise. I started doing tai chi, and I also do kung fu and see a personal trainer for weights and the occasional yoga class. I really enjoy these because when I have to concentrate on a movement, I don't find my mind wandering. During the tai chi class we also do chi gong breathing, and I find I like the exercises where we move a lot and breathe better than the ones where we do little actual movement. I have to focus on what I'm doing.
That said, while those exercises are great for a respite from my scattered brain, I wonder if they'll help in the long term to reduce ADD symptoms so I can, say, concentrate on working or sewing or reading or whatever it is I'm doing instead of thinking of a thousand other things? Have you found this to be the case?
Thanks again,
FW
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