When I was a teenager, I was told by people I was told were important that I had ADD. I've always had issues with concentrating; my train of thought gets derailed more than it's actually....railed....and if I need to work on a project I find myself jumping from thing to thing like a madman. For instance, I'm currently trying to write a pitch for a reality TV gameshow that a colleague and I are working on, I'm trying to write and produce songs for an album I'm recording, I'm fairly active in the ministry and need to write talks and research Bible scriptures, and I have a full time job. What happens with all of this is that I find it dang near impossible to work on one task, UNLESS I'm SUPPOSED to be working on another. If I want to work on a song, the best time to do that would be while I'm supposed to be reading the Bible. If I want to work on our TV show, the best time to do that would be while I'm sitting at my desk at work. I simply CANNOT stay on track.
The reason I'm concerned, however, is that this only USED to be a unique issue. Not everyone under the age of 35 had this problem back when I was a teenager. It made me a special case, and made "professionals" (you can probably sense the disdain I have for these people) want to study me and suggest treatments. But now? Now every person in this "internet generation" is suffering from the same symptoms. How many people can you think of that simply cannot concentrate on anything? How many people can you think of have to check their email, FaceBook, etc. multiple times, even when they KNOW there are no new messages? We've all become so compulsive; our attention spans have reached "deficit" levels, and now...we ALL have ADD. But while your ADD came from the computer frying your brain, MINE came from something else, before the internet was really in full swing. So how the heck am I going to get help now?? They might be able to treat the original source of my ADD-like symptoms, but the internet is waiting on deck to knock me right back out the park. Ah forget it, I give up. Oh wait....I totally just wrote this whole page without stopping?...does this mean something? How can I harness the - oh crap I'm DRIVING!!
The reason I'm concerned, however, is that this only USED to be a unique issue. Not everyone under the age of 35 had this problem back when I was a teenager. It made me a special case, and made "professionals" (you can probably sense the disdain I have for these people) want to study me and suggest treatments. But now? Now every person in this "internet generation" is suffering from the same symptoms. How many people can you think of that simply cannot concentrate on anything? How many people can you think of have to check their email, FaceBook, etc. multiple times, even when they KNOW there are no new messages? We've all become so compulsive; our attention spans have reached "deficit" levels, and now...we ALL have ADD. But while your ADD came from the computer frying your brain, MINE came from something else, before the internet was really in full swing. So how the heck am I going to get help now?? They might be able to treat the original source of my ADD-like symptoms, but the internet is waiting on deck to knock me right back out the park. Ah forget it, I give up. Oh wait....I totally just wrote this whole page without stopping?...does this mean something? How can I harness the - oh crap I'm DRIVING!!
