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Originally Posted by Rachie
How do you work out if you are a right or a left brain thinker?
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sometime with weights . At other times dance , figure skating . gardening.
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this was my first thought LOL!!!! and then I realized you might want me to EXPLAIN what a right brain thinker is .
Golly.
might I suggest reading chapter two ,
titled "Picture this ,the visual thinker " page 47 .
Its only 17 pages , for $17.00 to possibly expalin why you had problems in school at age 17.
heres the book . and read the positive reveiws
http://www.amazon.com/Weeks-Organize.../dp/1589793269
Do you have a barnes and nobel book store near by in your town? If so you can have this book special ordered .
Go in and have a seat and read this chapter and browes it and from there deside if this would be a great book to have .
I think it would Be Rachie.
it is by far the best .I have TRIED to read . It descrices me to a T AND it gives me the reason why I sleep in my work clothes. :P
heres a few things about right brain .
~ right brain thinker / learners visualize thoughts , as in creating images of what is written or spoken .in the mind.
they tend to look/ veiw and interpret from many angles . thinking is non linear and not oragnized or sequential .
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lleft brain thinker/learners
from the book...
" auditory learners are different in that these left- brain people process information like a tape recorder , and remember information more verbal linear fashion. because they visualize relatively pooly , they must write things down and make listsnor linear . logial and sequential . you do this then this then this . the red things and process th
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"right brained visual thinkers are rapid fire thinkers , whose ideas can take off in many directions . this can lead to a great performance or impulsivity"
" your ability to veiw things from different perspectives .......
( my insertion, like veiwing pictures or objects from many angles visually)
.......allows you to view social situations from different angles "
"this tendencey to veiw social situations from different angles can be overwhelming"
intresting.. some would say they are always missinterpreting a situation and this makes for bieng abusive ,
i guess if you believe an interpretaion that appears negative . yes thais can vause havoc.
me gettig side tracked
see this is gonna be difficult for you to folow me . its better for you to read the book . that way i don't interupt
heres a dity about right brain left brain from my own words
right brain usually does not name things .
its visual .
it sees a box and its a bunch of lines and shadows or shades .
its in the moment .
it has no opionin on what it sees.
its non verbal .
left brain names and gives logic and meaning to things .
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Just last night for instance i had so many thoughts and other such things running thru my head that all i wanted to do was hurt myself. Thankfully i didnt. I just put the headphones on my phome and listened to some really loud music on my phone while i played a game. That help alot it wore me out and i went off to sleep.
But vnfortunately things like that dont always work but glad it worked last night.
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great combo/ people with ADHD frequently have music or the TV running in the back ground . this serves a s a white noise to help focus .
I see how the music helped balst out al the other thoughts or images comming at you that you coauld not get down staright i a fashion to see what was going on /
the music allowed you to get into hyperfocus on your games this is very good for you to allow your self to Do . because it works.
the difficuty is i watching the time ..
three hours can pass and you feel like not only have yo not figured out the relationship probelm or how to accomplish a task youve used up time
so setting a limit of an hour.
but if you have the problems of a right brain thinker you wil go to rty to fugure somethig out to do get in te state of overwhelm again and its off the ote video game
and the need for something new that is intresting and callenging is what also calls us .
i would try to brain storm other combiations where you can listen to music and do a activity you enjoy as ways to redirect when your starting to get to that confused overwhelmed place.
for me it's food I go for when i get like that.
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Do you find that when you re read things sometimes that it always seems different because you missed stuff the first few times you read. That jtst happend to me (useless bit of info for the nite lol).
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YES ! its the rapid fire movement of your brain that causes u to miss thngs . depending what were expecting can make a big difference in how we read if its a cnverstaion about 'us' we can pick up key wrds and make them sound like what we are looking for rather than what the oter person is meaning .
and i also just miss stuff persiod .
te brain interuots momentairly and quickley to it makes sense as to how easy it would be to miss a few words.
so it helps to reread something . or slow down . and even take a day break and reread it looking for something positive . or new.
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The more i read about ADHD the more i truely believe i still have this. I definately believe i have BPD aswell (i think i may have already mentioned that previously sorry) i suppose the best thing to do would be to mention it to my pdoc when i see her next. then
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yes you did already mention. and I do think it woud be a good idea to mention if you self harm and that you were given a diganosis already . see what she says about this .
And please keep educating yourself .
Patricia