Alexandra,

Sometimes I think that I am too hard on myself. I think a lot of people are like that, as I see it in others all the time. But sometimes maybe I am not hard enough on myself. T would say most of the time it's the latter. Part of what I am working on is learning to see myself as others see me, especially when it isn't favorable. That is hard, but it is important too. I think I am supposed to have the acceptance part down by now, and be working on change. At least that's the message I get from T. Maybe if I haven't got it by now I just won't. I don't know.

Another thing that may be a problem for me is that I think I do have problems with attention. ADD hasn't been addressed because it isn't my main problem, so nobody has really looked at that. It isn't one of my official diagnoses, but I think I have that too, and definitely had some major attention problems as a child (that I was sent to resource to work on for a couple of years). My ADD symptoms are all related to attention and internal mental processing type issues. I never had much by the way of physical symptoms - wasn't hyperactive. I hadn't connected mindfulness to attention before, but that makes a lot of sense, and maybe practicing mindfulness is something that would help me to focus better.

I will have to look at those articles later, as I am getting too tired tonight. I am sure that I will want to discuss them with you.

Thanks again,
Rap