August 7, 2017
Hi!
The primary goal of this site is to give support to people who are in and around the world of ADHD in some capacity – in a wide range of circumstances, we hope! We intend to begin face to face support meetings in the Adelaide metro area SOON – and with your help, spread these to be state wide.
We also hope to get specific information to help you find doctors, allied health professionals, treatment, coaching, support and any other help or information you might need, specific to South Australian residents. And we hope to remain UP TO DATE!
There was a network ADDASA who were helpful for us previously, however their information has since become out of date, and it seems the organisers have unfortunately wound down for the most part at least, and so we hope to pick up where they left off, and give our state the best grass roots peer support network out there.
If you’re from ADDASA or were involved and want to keep on keeping on – get in touch! Ideally we can join heads and make something spectacular of this attempt š
Are you looking for a support network of some kind to help you navigate the world with ADHD? Were you diagnosed recently as an adult and need some guidance? Are you new to Adelaide or South Australia and want to make friends with people who ‘get you’?
Mums, Dads and other family members – would you like to find others in your shoes? Would you like to see what ADHD becomes in adulthood? Need some reassurance, or some support?
What about information from the horses mouth? We are strongly in support of the supporters to those with ADHD (in kids and adults) getting an idea of the condition from people who actually have it – and sometimes an adult with ADHD is your ideal go-to. We’ve found information provided by the health professionals, websites, standard and well-respected resources in most cases – don’t really explain it very well at all.
Do you want to know more about 2E? What its like having giftedness AND a disability?
Inattentive vs Hyperactive – we can show you these things in action and how they vary.
Girls with ADHD – we can get you in touch with informative supporters who can give you insight into being female with the condition.
Does ADHD seem WAY BIGGER THAN IT SOUNDS in your real life, or for your spouse, child, friend or other loved one?
Would you like to see the depth and breadth of what ADHD really looks like?
Hear about challenges and talents that aren’t on the diagnostic criteria list?
Whatever brought you here – until we’re more developed on the site PLEASE get in touch! We’d be happy to help with our own support, or to point you in the right direction as best we can until resources are readily available and uploaded.
A psychologist I saw yesterday does not believe in ADD.
She told me its my responability to go get what our brain needs. Endorphins and Dopamine. Getting this through excercise and propper diet.
All well and true, but, if she does not recognize how my brain limits me in 1.organizing myself, 2.staying focused, 3. Deal with impulsivity 4. the depression that imobalizes me because I cant achieve the basics!!!!! How can she help me inmy recovery????
Its like saying to an individual who has no arms and legs “go excercise and eat well”
What dam crap! Im so upset that this took over my day!!!!!
It will be nice to hear from somebody out there.
Serafina
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She is saying āIt is your responsibility to get insulin.ā And āIt is your responsibility to get thyroid hormoneā.
And āIt is your responsibility to get dopamine for Parkinsonāsā.
All made by the same initial amino acid, and ALL are identical in their INABILITY TO MAKE Chemical xyz… thatās the very premise of abnormal and it is the very POINT of not only the medical model of health, but of medications at all.
Iām livid. She couldnāt be more uneducated, outdated, presumptuous, ignorant, and NOT QUALIFIED TO OFFER her services to adhd.
She needs to be reported, fairly and with the facts only giving emotion in terms of the impact, consequences and potential long term damage and risk to your life and health.
This woman CANNOT help you.
Itās exactly the same as the limbs missing. Tell them to walk. Tell us to walk and when we canāt it is because we are missing something tangible and biological too. The chemicals to tell our nerves to move our limbs. A quadriplegic is kissing the next but – the nerve connection to stimulate the muscle. The leg less man, the muscle so nothing can ve stimulated,
This is how absolutely physical, legitimate and how DISABLING our disorder is.
Please let me know if you can act or if you want help lodging a complaint to her, her employer or her licensing body.
So angry.
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Well the last time this site was updated was 2017? It does not look promising. Its sad.
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Serafina my life fell to even more bits and pieces. And itās been hell, Iām one girl full of messes unfortunately.
But Iām still hopeful and intending to do this
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