DISCLAIMER: I’d rather help people feel hopeful rather than hopeless.  I honestly believe I used to have the worst case of add, especially when I stopped taking my medication (I took it for over 8 years!).  I’m only here to help you and others who are suffering.
Everyone has such an uneducated skewed perspective on curing ADHD/ADD (including my doctor).

About two years ago (I was still taking medication) I tried to have a conversation with my doctor about Adderall.  I wanted to understand the science behind the “disorder”, why I have it and what Adderall does to the brain.  He really didn’t understand how it effected the brain scientifically. He only knew that it was a medication to treat symptoms of ADD, which he went on to list to me and share a sheet of paper sponsored by Shire Pharmaceuticals.

I went home and researched everything I could get my hands on, in result, I found a way to cure ‘my own case’ of ADD.

I wanted to understand what exactly is happening in my brain to create feelings of distraction, lack of focus and fatigue when I am studying something I am not interested in. What process goes on in the brain to make us feel focused, excited, positive, confident, motivated, attentive, etc?

So here’s what I came up with.

The only thing that we know for sure about ADD and ADHD is that people feel “cured” when they take medication such as Adderall or ritalin. I’m speaking only for those people, because I felt 100% great  (a little hyper) when I was on medication.  We feel (what we assume to be) “normal”.  If you find that medication works for you, basically you are already on the right path to a cure. Adderall is not a “magic pill” that suddenly removes the “disorder”. It’s a powerful amphetamine that works this way:

“It is thought to work by increasing the amount of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain. In addition, the drug also acts as a potent dopamine reuptake inhibitor and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.”

“Like other powerful stimulant drugs, such as methamphetamine and cocaine, Adderall directly affects the mesolimbic reward pathway in the brain”
We naturally produce Dopamine, Serotonin and Norepinephrine, there are ways to produce more of it “naturally” rather than through forcing an increase. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine)

Here’s a way to increase your Dopamine, Serotonin and Norepinephrine (Put as simply as possible):

*Schedule your meals (helps focus)*Consume as much organic foods without any additives, artificial sugars (high fructose corn syrup) and pesticides, try to remove gluten as well – a lot of people suffer from gluten allergies and mistake it for ADD.

*Consume Bananas & Almonds (they are high in Tyrosine and Tryptophan – they pass the blood/brain barrier unlike many vitamins and help the brain produce dopamine and serotonin.

*Consume Vitamins: All b vitamins are amazing for energy, positive mood.

*Exercise in a scheduled manner.I highly suggest exercising 3 times a day to produce dopamine efficiently (walking for an hour is perfect.

*Travel & experience new things

*Yoga

Facts to back this all up:

L-Tyrosine

Why Bananas? How are serotonin and dopamine made from tryptophan and tyrosine?

Read this: http://bit.ly/k4ZonV
What is Adderall? What does it do? Why am I on it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

What’s Dopamine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

What’s Norepinephrine?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norepinephrine

Long Term Effects of Amphetamine Use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine

The Amygdala & Fear:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1749

How Sugar/Glucose Effects the Brain

“During mental activities or exercises like thinking and learning, the brain uses a lot of energy that comes from glucose.”

http://bit.ly/k9pwMN

Vitamins for Focus:

NeuroOptimizer by Jarrow (I found it VERY effective)

http://www.mindreference.com/NeuroOptimizer.html

B Vitamins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins

L-Dopa – Naturally increases dopamine levels (crosses the blood brain barrier)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-DOPA

ATTENTION Everyone who is angry at me for disputing their belief that “attention deficit disorder is real, a “disorder”, a permanent struggle”…
If you are EVER going to communicate with ANYONE about ADD/ADHD whether you are a parent of a child who you are testing for it, a college student or an adult who wants more energy, concentration, happiness etc – you MUST read this information above. You can’t go around reading the Shire pharmaceutical promoted articles/information data sheets about ADD because they aren’t logical – they don’t tell you what is exactly happening to the brain – or give you an acurate way to understand if you really do have a Dopamine/Norepinephrine deficiency”.

Find me HERE if you want to connect.

Facebook.com/PaigePiskin

Add me on Youtube:Youtube.com/Littlemisspaigexxx

I have a lot more info on this subject, I’ve dedicated a ton of time to researching about it over the last 2 years – I just don’t have time to list it all now! lol

AntisepticFashion – coolest corsets and harnesses ever for a photoshoot. I am dying for one of these!

FableAndFury – I love her detailed jewelry. very cute!

For Professionals (Engaging in Blogging, Photo-loging & Vlogging)

Your “friend accessible” profile’s image is based around: *from most important to least* the content you share to your wall, your profile information, your profile photo, the top photos on your profile, photos you have been tagged in, your photo albums, your videos, photos you post to your wall.

Your “add me as a friend” profile’s image is based around (if optimized professionally): your information, profile photo, friends list (quantity and quality of connections), featured list, common interests.

What determines a good image? Well, that all relates to your goals.

Visually: In order to obtain an audience you must attract one.  You will do this two different ways, one being through common interest, activities, entertainment, education or work (based on your share settings (located in privacy),facebooks algorithm & searchable tools), the second being attraction by appearance. It’s not tough love. It’s true. You don’t need to be Kim Kardashian to get friends on facebook (although her fan page does pretty well), but you do need to know the “visual laws of attraction”, using strong colors, clean crisp images, strong headshot with a powerful expression, maybe even a logo, and if it works for you – you can occasionally throw something unique and cool that stands out, and surprises your audience (in a good/positive way), like a cool/uniquely themed modeling picture or something wild like a skydiving shot (but I’d only leave it up for a day or two).  Once you figure out your “image”, and you notice you are getting more activity ( Yes! It works! I’m Popular!) repeat.repeat.repeat.

Sharing Content:  This is important. Read.

* If the content you share is positive, valuable and you’re leading a healthy and attractive lifestyle you have nothing to worry about.* No boss, University or Parent will be offended if you share constructive and positive content. Facebook has become professional, it has become a “digital resume” in a sense, but it is unique, you need to know how to mix business and pleasure because that is exactly what facebook is.  If you lean to strong to one way, you will be off balance and your audience wont be as strong – you need to be everyones friend, engage, *socialize*, make conversation and share powerful links and cool cutting edge content that your audience will appreciate.

You can control your profile’s appearance(s) in your privacy settings and in the “edit profile” section.

Here is a recap of Sprout Social’s latest article:

[Read in full:  http://sproutsocial.com/insights/2011/02/google-social-search-business ]

Business owners, brand managers, and marketers need to know a few things about how Google‘s new social search results work; there are opportunities for gaining exposure for your business or brand that didn’t exist before, and it won’t be difficult to take advantage of them.

She posted a video a few days ago on her britneyspears channel and it has over 1 million views already.  Amazing!

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Whether you’ve been “borrowing” free Wi-Fi or coveting your neighbor’s avatar – or, heaven forbid, something worse – a new mobile app is designed to help you atone for it.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/08/catholics-can-confess-on-the-go-with-new-app/

video views: Youtube partners will make in the range of $2.5 to $5 per 1000 video views The most popular stars will earn $5 per 1000 views. This can really add up if you have 1 million views per video. Nigahiga for example, will earn $5000 per video they put up. This range can vary depending on number of advertising clicks.

Channel views: A youtube partner will make $.01 per channel view. If a channel has 1,000,000 channel views, the person will make $10,000.

My best friend Holly April just got her partnership, girl you better start uploading! Please comment her and tell her to submit videos .

Her channel: www.youtube.com/hollyaprilxmua

Source: http://bizcovering.com/major-companies/how-much-do-youtube-partners-make/

I love making youtube layouts. So why not? For the 20,000 people who search girly youtube layouts every month ( stat) there isn’t much cute stuff out there.  It’s kind of what got me into graphic design in the first place, nobody could create something cute/good enough for my taste back in the myspace days – so I started making my own layouts and graphics.

So  here are a few layouts. I’ll upload more to my site

Click any of the images below to save them if you’d like the try them out