Laughter (really is the best medicine)
ADHD, anxiety, depression - all are pretty much un-funny by their very nature. Well, maybe not ADHD, since 'absurd' and 'ridiculous' qualify as humor. Laughter is kryptonite for anxiety and depression.
When you're dealing with the heavy stuff, it can really help to have a little fun with it, and maybe even engage in a few productive distractions once in a while...
When you're dealing with the heavy stuff, it can really help to have a little fun with it, and maybe even engage in a few productive distractions once in a while...
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ADD/ADHD Definitions, Served With a Side of Humor
A 'glossary' of terms relevant to people with ADD, from Kelly Babcock at Additude Magazine.
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ADDendum: the constant additions to thoughts, lists, or conversations that we interject into our everyday lives, usually at improper, inopportune, or random moments, when that addition, which is totally relevant to us, makes absolutely no sense to our audience! Most often occurs at the wee hours of the morning or on an entirely different day from the original conversation.
ADDvil: a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory sometimes used by hyperactive subtype ADHDers after overdoing everything. ADDjunked: items purchased on impulse, or things bought to help ADHDers get organized, which end up in landfills. ADDrift: the sensation ADHDers get when we feel that we’re missing something. ADDagio: a graceful interaction between two ADHDers when they meet, typified by finishing each other’s statements, laughter, and high emotion. ADDrift: the sensation ADHDers get when we feel that we’re missing something. |
ADDverse: having problems dealing with the non-ADD/ADHD world.
ADDmit: to confess to having ADD/ADHD, or to having done something impulsive. ADDress: loud clothing -- orange, purple, or chartreuse -- worn by ADHDers. ADDept: good at doing many things at once; multitasking. ADDroitness: the special quality that many ADHDers have, which allows us to excel in an emergency, even though we may have caused the emergency. ADDvance: when an ADHDer creates more piles of stuff. We ADDvance when we haven’t moved forward in our work, but feel we have because we’ve made more piles. ADDventure: a new and exciting experience, usually pursued when we’re distracted by some boring, compulsory task that has a deadline. |
Favorite Videos - Fun! Educational! Entertaining!
Laughs
How'd we get so lucky, us human beings, as to be able to laugh?
How'd we get so lucky, us human beings, as to be able to laugh?
Directed by Daniel Mercadante of Evernone
Music by Lullatone (lullatone.com)
This was made completely of clips found on the web.
Music by Lullatone (lullatone.com)
This was made completely of clips found on the web.
Grover demonstrates 9 easy steps to simulate the sensation of panic. Everything you need to know to DIY!
Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder Spot on illustration of working memory deficits in everyday life. Of course, some of us didn't actually need to wait until mid-life to be 'activated'...
The Procrastination Doctor on ADD Kim Kensington, PhD, is a Santa Monica based psychologist, ADD coach, stand-up comic & very cool person.
Her humor is about living with ADHD, for people with ADHD. Kim has presented a bunch at local and national conferences, e.g., CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit) and ADDA (the Attention Deficit Disorder Association), and she often does a bit of stand-up after her more formal, clinical/scholarly presentations.
From the 2013 ADDA Conference, "Procrastinating about Procrastination". Thanks also go to ADHD coach Jeff Copper, who produced this clip for his show Attention Talk Video.
Next, here's Kim doing stand-up at the 2009 CHADD Conference, in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio, home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You can just imagine a bunch of ADHD folks wandering around that place..."Ooohh - shiny!"
Flu Attack! Apropos of nothing but good science-geek fun, this is the most amazing-interesting-woohoo illustration of how viruses operate, from those awesome folks at NPR and Radiolab (the best-ever science radio show/podcast on the planet).
If everything was taught like this, kids and adults with ADD would have no problems with school at all!
Anti-Boredom Campaign This is the kind of old lady I want to be someday...
Etc.
“Brain Stapling Commercial - radio script”
from A Prairie Home Companion radio show
Airdate: Saturday, February 10, 2007
Garrison Keillor: Has this ever happened to you— you're in church (ORGAN QUIET) and it's right before you go up front for communion and you try to focus on it, and instead—
Sue Scott: (UP CLOSE, REVERB) Why did they serve just wine and bread at the Last Supper? - Because it was potluck and only men were invited.
GK: It's a hushed moment in a sacred place, but your mind is full of jokes.
SS (REVERB): How did the apostles know what Jesus was getting for Christmas? They felt his presents.
GK: You go into a Quaker Meeting Hall and it's time to enter into a deep stillness so you can listen to your inner light and see if God is speaking through you and if you should stand up and share this illumination with others, but all you can think of is...
SS: (INTERIOR) So this guy named Norman starts a new choir while he's on a weight-loss diet of Tab Cola and fruit, so he calls it the "Norman Tab and Apple Choir."
GK: Everyone else is thinking about peace and brotherhood and there you are...
SS: (INTERIOR) So this guy from Utah wanted to become a novelist, but instead he went into carpentry and now he's a Mormon Nailer.
Tim Russell: If your mind wanders you can improve your concentration through brain stapling. Stapling closes off parts of your brain that are superfluous and only lead you down the wrong road. (STAPLE GUN) You only use about 5% of your brain anyhow so why hang onto a whole big thing you don't need. Downsize. Ask your doctor about brain stapling. Or better yet, call AAA Surgery today.
SS: I had my brain stapled and I've been completely focused ever since. I'm all business. I come home from work and I do more work until it's time to go to bed and then I sleep a deep sleep and wake up ready to go to work again.
GK: AAA Surgery. Walk-ins welcome. All credit cards accepted.
SS (SING): Get focused today,
At Triple-A
Sur-ger-y.
from A Prairie Home Companion radio show
Airdate: Saturday, February 10, 2007
Garrison Keillor: Has this ever happened to you— you're in church (ORGAN QUIET) and it's right before you go up front for communion and you try to focus on it, and instead—
Sue Scott: (UP CLOSE, REVERB) Why did they serve just wine and bread at the Last Supper? - Because it was potluck and only men were invited.
GK: It's a hushed moment in a sacred place, but your mind is full of jokes.
SS (REVERB): How did the apostles know what Jesus was getting for Christmas? They felt his presents.
GK: You go into a Quaker Meeting Hall and it's time to enter into a deep stillness so you can listen to your inner light and see if God is speaking through you and if you should stand up and share this illumination with others, but all you can think of is...
SS: (INTERIOR) So this guy named Norman starts a new choir while he's on a weight-loss diet of Tab Cola and fruit, so he calls it the "Norman Tab and Apple Choir."
GK: Everyone else is thinking about peace and brotherhood and there you are...
SS: (INTERIOR) So this guy from Utah wanted to become a novelist, but instead he went into carpentry and now he's a Mormon Nailer.
Tim Russell: If your mind wanders you can improve your concentration through brain stapling. Stapling closes off parts of your brain that are superfluous and only lead you down the wrong road. (STAPLE GUN) You only use about 5% of your brain anyhow so why hang onto a whole big thing you don't need. Downsize. Ask your doctor about brain stapling. Or better yet, call AAA Surgery today.
SS: I had my brain stapled and I've been completely focused ever since. I'm all business. I come home from work and I do more work until it's time to go to bed and then I sleep a deep sleep and wake up ready to go to work again.
GK: AAA Surgery. Walk-ins welcome. All credit cards accepted.
SS (SING): Get focused today,
At Triple-A
Sur-ger-y.
Life's just too mysterious, you can't take it serious.