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Perhaps you can help me, I need a spell or a potion or something to help me focus. I have ADHD, and I don't necessarily want to get rid of it completely because it helps me be creative, but I find it hard to stay concentrated on one spell. Usually halfway through the spell, my mind begins to wander. What do you think, can you help me?

Dear person,

ADHD doesn't make you more creative. It's mostly just being unable to cope successfully with stress. Get rid of stress, your ADHD symptoms recede and your creativity increases. Simple cause and effect.

Secondly, EVERYONE'S mind wanders. All over the place, at that. It's not about it not wandering (although the more stressed you are, the more it "jumps" and the more disjointed it gets, and once again that applies to not just all people, but even dogs, horses, monkeys and dolphins as well!) it's about bringing it back to where you want it to be.

Now the more interesting a person finds what they're doing, the easier it is to get back to there after an interruption (such as hearing a sound, or being reminded of something else briefly). That's a direct cause and effect. The more deeply fascinating something is, the better and longer the attention span. As in schools, stuff is neither interesting or beginning to be fascinating, folk come away thinking they're no good at concentrating - but put 'em in a concert with a pop star they're in love with, or in front of World of Warcraft, and it's astonishing how good their concentration suddenly becomes!

Thus it is important that the spells you do should be totally fascinating TO YOU. Re-write the spells so they turn you on. Shorten them. Note where your attention wanders and do something else there, it's probably gotten boring or irrelevant at that exact point and needs something else to "light your fire".

Most of all, DE STRESS YOUR SELF.

That's the key to everything.

See here:

http://silviahartmann.com/specials-anxiety-stress-selfhelp.php

ADHD is a weird labelling of a hotch-potch of stress related symptoms, created by a handful of psychologists, most of whom were in the pay of the pharmaceutical companies who like to have the entire population on Ritalin for their entire lives long so they earn plenty of money and have an assured income.

Don't take this ADHD diagnosis seriously.

If you have major freakouts, they are stress related. Learn how to manage your stress and you will have control of yourself. Fair enough, it might take a year or two to get really good at it, but it's a life skill that isn't being taught at present.

I'm not saying there is totally nothing whatsoever wrong with you, but speaking as a parent of a person who was diagnosed with that stupid ADHD catch all for behaviour problems and offered Ritalin 14 years ago, refusing it, and going the behavioural route with the result of recent repeat tests finding NO TRACE of anything that relates even vaguely to the original diagnosis at age 18, I can tell you with confidence that there is much you can do to compensate and eventually completely make this ADHD "diagnosis" a thing of the past altogether.

Wishing you good luck and sending a swarm of tiny faithful positivity demons! (they attack and snap at people who try and bring you down :-)

StarFields

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