Adhd

When Mrs. Fallon first described this project to us, I was a little bit skeptical


        about it. I kept thinking that I had no problems in my life and that I didn’t


        need any type of conditioning. But then I thought, I’m definitely not perfect


        and I knew I was definitely overlooking something. Recently I was diagnosed


        with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and I felt like I was


        cheated out of so many years that could have been productive ones. So I


        decided that for my conditioning project I would test how much medication I


        should use that would keep my body stable enough to begin a sort of healing


        and moving on process, kind of like a second chance. After I finished my


        conditioning I realized that I was a lot different then when I started. My


        parents noticed that once I started the project, I was paying attention a lot


        more to what they were saying to me. My mother was worried though that I


        was going to hurt myself by taking a lot of the medication, but I told her that


        people have experimented on themselves before and look at the results. I


        also had calmed down with my dorm mates. I felt a lot more comfortable


        around them and I had begun to trust them a lot more. I now felt like I had


        accomplished something to make my physical body and my mental body


        better. In the areas of school I felt like I had accomplished a lot. I was


        handing in reports and I understood things I was learning. In high school I had


        trouble in most of my classes and my grades were up and down. I felt like I


        finally overcame something that bothered me more than anything. As a person


        interacting with other people from another ethnic...