I am always curious about new ADHD tips or developments in ADD research or treatments, but I’m also interested in the ever changing perception of ADD-ADHD in the public consciousnesses.
For a while there it seemed as though everyone without any personal or professional experience with ADD-ADHD and its affects thought that is was something phony made up by shrinks to explain away bad behavior by children.
Then, for a while it seemed like EVERYBODY had ADD, or thought they did. That finally seemed to culminate when Britney Spears went crazy and shaved off her hair, then proclaimed that sometimes she was like a kid with ADD even though I’d be she could barely even spell ADD.
The public fascination with ADHD seems to have calmed down as of late. I see far fewer articles in the newspaper and even fewer stories on T.V. This is good news for the ADHD-ADD community. The less surface-level attention ADD gets, the better.
To test my theory a little bit, and because I know the topic well enough to write about it very quickly, I recently published an article about what is ADHD on another website. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, HubPages is what is known as an article directory, or more derisively as a content mill. In a nutshell, it is a website that allows anyone to sign up for an account and then write articles about whatever they want and publish them on the Internet from the HubPages.com website.
There are several reasons someone would want to do such a thing ranging from pure vanity, all the way through to the purely mercenary function of creating more links to other webpages or websites for the purpose of building up Google reputation, or PageRank, in order to get higher search engine rankings for certain terms.
Anyway, I have an account over there that I started for the mercenary reason, and then sort of evolved into a good place to publish the tons of things I write for which I have no home. Sometimes, the articles are not about the kind of topics that people are willing to pay for and they also don’t fit into the themes or categories of other websites or blogs that I own. (For example, no one reading this blog, which is focused on ADD-ADHD information, would be charmed by an article about Arabian Horse that I posted here just because I didn’t really have anywhere else to put it.)
Thus, HubPages has become my sort of catch-all for any and all articles that I want to put up on the Internet, but otherwise am not willing to find a more traditional publishing location for.
The article I wrote was called simply What Is ADD?
I didn’t put any real effort into linking it or pushing it up in the search engines, although I did do the standard social bookmarking thing to make sure it got index properly in Google and Bing and the other search engines. But, for the most part, I was just curious if ADHD was a hot enough topic these days to drive the curious onlookers from the HubPages community to this particular hub.
So far, the answer would appear to be, that ADD is not a hot topic these days. As I’ve said before, I’m fine with that. I plan to leave it published there as a sort of canary in the coalmine. If all of the sudden, it starts to get lots of traffic, I’ll see it and we’ll know that another wave of looky-loos is coming.
Falsor Wing says
Hey you posted on my ADHD site earlier. It sounds like we’re both taking max doses, unless you’re a large guy. I’d say I take maybe 100 mg adderral approximately (I fudge so its more or less usually. I chug a lot of caffine as well which my counsel tells me is an attempt to self medicate. she found that surprising as I’m already as heavily medicated as can be.
You have trouble eating and sleeping? If I do feel hungry I have to drop whatever I’m doing and gorge myself as much as possible. My sleep patterns are tottally destroyed but honestly that would likely be the case without the meds.
Would you mind letting me set up a link to my article from here? your site is fairly impressive.
ADDer says
I had trouble sleeping before I was diagnosed. I think a lot of ADDers are what sleep scientists call night owls, those whose internal clock seems to be wired more for a later bed time and wake up time than others. The upside / downside of the meds is that they can have some wake up power on those really dragging mornings.
I have also noticed that the Adderall seems to turn my eating into more of a binge thing than to depress my appetite entirely. It also seems to make it more of a 48 hour block thing. So, I might not end up eating breakfast or lunch and have a small dinner, then no breakfast or lunch the next day, but at 3:30 pm I’m eating peanuts out of the jar while waiting for my microwave burrito to heat up which is the snack to tide me over until the pizza I ordered gets here.
Please do feel free to link here. I was looking at doing the same, although I was going to go from a new post when I get one put up.