Jonesy

The time distortion thing is something every experiences... like 'time flies when you're having fun'. When you have this dopamine thing, it's almost like you get a more extreme version. It's so bad for me, my father and brother used to make fun of me. They called it 'NST' - Nick Standard Time.

I literally can't tell time at all... sometimes it feels like 5 minutes when it's actually been 2 hours. Or maybe 5 years seems like 2 days. I don't notice the changes in my own perception. For me, everything is always the same; for others, I move at different speeds.

At this point, I can hyperfocus deliberately. I would think if I was trained since childhood, I could have complete control and use it at will.

Jonesy

The way it works is when I focus, I move extremely fast. When I don't focus, I move extremely slow. When I say extreme, I mean... extreme to the point I look very weird to the people around me. When i'm going fast, they think i'm on drugs or if it's in a sport, they think i'm cheating in some way.

For me, I tend to focus on things I really like or I love. And I unfocus on the opposite. Maybe if you are trained properly, you can hyperfocus on something you don't like - like work. Or you could learn to love work.

Jonesy

Here's one way... with a manager learning what the person likes and dislikes, he/she can give them work accordingly.

Jonesy

Another way is to develop more freelance systems. It's like what I do, but currently the bureaucracy does not pay me.

Jonesy

Contemplate this homey's and homette's...

What if part of why we have different species comes directly from these chemical differences? Think about it... the cat cannot be trained in the same way as the dog. The cat has 'cat-like' reflexes. Maybe it only appears to have fast reflexes, but the real reason the cat is so fast is because it hyperfocuses.

CosmicRocker

do you have access to a trained Psychiatrist, with a clinical background?

Not a psychologist, they can only work with your behaviors, or compulsions, or phobias.

It does sound to me like you might need you meds adjusted.
If not - you need a better understanding of what the meds do to you perceptions.
The psychiatrist should be able to explain to you what each med does, it's side effects, and how each med
- and all of them taken together
work on your organics.

A better understanding of your body chemistry, will help you understand your therapies.

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Brainpolice

Interesting topic. I think that mental disorders exist, but a lot of the recent ones (such as ADD) that have popped up I think are essentially bunk and are being used as an excuse to continue patronage between psychiatrists and pharmacudical industry in order to pump people up on drugs. The solution given is always more drugs and I think they often screw some people up more then they were before.

I've always been convinced that ADD in particular doesn't really exist because I think that most people diagnosed with it are just bored teenagers who have other things on their mind, are just going through the process of growing up and are simply choosing not to pay attention to certain things. If they actually care about something or are given real incentives to be inspired, their attention is just fine if not amazing.

Another question the OP seems to hint at is: do people with mental disabilities or chemical imbalances have compensating differentials? In some cases, yes, there are rather amazing compensating differentials. Just look at autistic people. Some of them are technically geniuses in specialized areas, while being completely disabled for common functions. Some people can't wipe their own ass but are musical geniuses.

I've always been fascinated with how blind people end up with improved hearing, deaf people end up with improved sight, and so on. I'm sure that the brain and its functions in general may very well work similarly. If one area is disabled there is a possibility that other areas will increase in strength to make up for the difference. So yes, compensating differentials exist. Although it is rare for them to be extreme.

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Dawnling

yass yass & yass.

This is one of the most important fields of study for the future.

Prisons aren't effective.

Interestingly enough, most of the non-food things that humans put into their mouths started with trying to stave off hunger.

Alcohol is just a sugar.

(mmm, I was good and random on this one! )

slowhand

Dont forget to remind him that his meds dont work when he's drinking 151 Rum..

CosmicRocker

alcohol fucks up everything. the crap is literally poisionous - it can kill you, straight up.
If it doesn't do that, it will do it over time.

all things considered, i'd rather be a junkie than a wino

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Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison
```````````````````````````````````````
sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon
going to the candidates debate
Laugh about it, shout about it
when you got to choose
every way you look at it you lose

Mrs. Robinson - Simon and Garfunkle