Post 2304
- 8 years and 199 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
I don't know whether ADHD is rampant, or whether it has surpassed rudeness as a cause of interrupted speech, but having spent some time with someone who is ADHD to an extreme, I've been interrupted a lot lately.
Whenever I'm interrupted, I stop speaking until the interruption has run its course. Sometimes that terminates whatever I was going to say, because the interruption has rendered it moot, or because by the time I can resume, I've forgotten what I was saying.
Either way, I feel a burst of anger, then I let it go. It's a matter of personal policy.
I, myself, have been clinically diagnosed as having ADHD. Yes, there's a test for that.
I was terrible about interrupting other people. I always felt bad about it, always understood it as bad impulse control, and bad listening habits (I try to practice active listening now).
To get this terrible symptom under control - it is under control now, for the most part - I had to forgive myself for doing it. It took some time and effort, but was key to controlling the impulse to interrupt.
And now I forgive everybody who does what I did. It takes a second, but the anger I feel subsides almost instantly, forgiveness is given immediately, and then (and, really, only then, when the anger is gone and I've forgiven the person I was responding to), I let it go.
I'm grateful for this bit of wisdom that makes my life less stressful, and allows me to understand better what other people mean to me.
Food and Diet
Whenever I'm interrupted, I stop speaking until the interruption has run its course. Sometimes that terminates whatever I was going to say, because the interruption has rendered it moot, or because by the time I can resume, I've forgotten what I was saying.
Either way, I feel a burst of anger, then I let it go. It's a matter of personal policy.
I, myself, have been clinically diagnosed as having ADHD. Yes, there's a test for that.
I was terrible about interrupting other people. I always felt bad about it, always understood it as bad impulse control, and bad listening habits (I try to practice active listening now).
To get this terrible symptom under control - it is under control now, for the most part - I had to forgive myself for doing it. It took some time and effort, but was key to controlling the impulse to interrupt.
And now I forgive everybody who does what I did. It takes a second, but the anger I feel subsides almost instantly, forgiveness is given immediately, and then (and, really, only then, when the anger is gone and I've forgiven the person I was responding to), I let it go.
I'm grateful for this bit of wisdom that makes my life less stressful, and allows me to understand better what other people mean to me.
Today's Weight: 200.6 lbs.
Previous Weight (7/17/19): 200.6 lbs.
Net Loss/Gain: - 0.0 lbs.
Diet Comment
Food Log
Breakfast
7:30 pm:
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
12:05am: Carrots and homemade mayonnaise, Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread toasted with guacamole, and two Quest bars.
Liquid Intake
7:30 pm:
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| A LEO (lox, eggs and onions). Not shown: Chopped salad (arugula, kale, chard, spinach, shaved parmesan cheese, walnuts and creamy balsamic vinaigrette). |
Skipped.
Dinner
12:05am: Carrots and homemade mayonnaise, Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread toasted with guacamole, and two Quest bars.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 0 oz.; Water: 76+ oz.;
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