Monthly Archives: March 2022

Can COVID make your brain shrink? A recent Oxford University study revealed changes in several parts of the brain after people contracted the virus, including those who experienced mild symptoms. Source: Al Jazeera Posted by Fred Bassett DOCTOR’S NOTE Features|Doctor’s Note … Continue reading

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“ADD or ADHD”. Decades and finally there are some indications that it could apply to you. Excellent article from ADDitude. “I am an Excellent Starter. The Trouble Is Finishing.”

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“When the student is ready, the tutor will appear”. He did and introduced me to the quest to find answers through reading, youtube, lectures. What I found out most recently is that the foundation of much of the anxiety started when I was 3 years old and hounded by nightmares of those close to me “dying”, being murdered by a Volkswagon car. At age of 32 a traumatic brain injury changed my destiny, the level of perfection which started from childhood, became the real rod upon my back. Perhaps this is why the neuropsychologist stressed to me that the outcomes from brain injuries differ. ADHD was not talked about in the 1960’s but with the benefit hindsight, it needs to be looked at now. Perfection is a hard task master and it consumes your brain … my advice is be alert to it and learn to accept “Enough” not “Perfection”. ADDitude “Adults Living with ADHD” is an article I can concur with. See below. (I highly recommend this article, each and every line, I can identify with … and I am a believer in lifelong learning…6 decades now).

Inside the ADHD mind ADHD Adults Health & Nutrition Emotions & Shame When Perfectionism Stems from ADHD: Challenging the Fallacy of “Not Good Enough” Perfectionism, when unhealthy, drives a person to exhaustion striving for a flawlessness that’s neither reasonable nor … Continue reading

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