ADD and Poker - Page 2

poker-penguin · #11 05-08-2005, 11:59 AM

Also, elsewhere she discusses keeping your hands busy while trying to pay attention in a meeting. I think this is why I find myself much more attentive at B&M poker than online; I can play with the chips all day.

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Or have some chips on your desk like I do. Best of both worlds. Plus you can play with yourself online, it's more difficult B+M

billyjex · #12 05-08-2005, 12:10 PM

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Find a job you love doing.

There's nothing else to it...

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you make that sound a lot easier than it is

AKQJ10 · #13 05-08-2005, 01:14 PM

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Find a job you love doing.

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you make that sound a lot easier than it is

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Yep... Like saying that poker's easy. You just have to figure out how your opponent[s] would play if they could see your cards, and then induce them to do the opposite. Nothing to it.

I appreciate the well-intentioned advice, and if I can figure out how to get paid to do something i love (besides play poker!) then i will certainly take that advice to heart. Maybe that's fodder for another thread.

Utah · #14 05-08-2005, 01:28 PM

Hey, do the drugs help? I was just diagnosed with ADD at age 36. I havent started the drugs yet but I will in about 2 weeks. I sure hope the drugs help because I am one fidgety guy. lol.

Demana · #15 05-08-2005, 02:28 PM

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if I can figure out how to get paid to do something i love

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So what is it that you love doing?

Demana · #16 05-08-2005, 02:33 PM

Re: ADD & Drugs

You can control ADD, ADHD, OCD, or Tourettes through hard work and determination. Drugs are a doctors's easy way out of treatment and have the side effect of making you dependent on the drugs.

Aytumious · #17 05-08-2005, 02:57 PM

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Re: ADD & Drugs

You can control ADD, ADHD, OCD, or Tourettes through hard work and determination. Drugs are a doctors's easy way out of treatment and have the side effect of making you dependent on the drugs.

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Although drugs are over prescribed for these afflictions, this is still some very bad advice.

bernie · #18 05-08-2005, 03:14 PM

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Drugs are a doctors's easy way out of treatment and have the side effect of making you dependent on the drugs

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For many, the doctors misdiagnose because it's easier than actually finding out the real problem. That I agree with and it's rampant.

You do not necesarily become dependent on drugs. I didn't.

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You can control ADD, ADHD, OCD, or Tourettes through hard work and determination

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Some can't. Even as adults. When I was a kid, I couldn't.

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FiReSiStAnT · #19 05-08-2005, 03:49 PM

Just take mad adderoll

Im so good when im juiced off that [censored]
so focused on everything

its all in the drugs man...

montechristo · #20 05-09-2005, 08:59 AM

of course the adderol helps you 4-table better, you can click so freaking fast! seriously though - I always thought I had some sort of attention disorder but have never been diagnosed, I have taken both adderol and ritalin recreationally and found that both improved my focus and concentration. I felt pretty cracked out from the adderol though.