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Welcome back

Welcome back. Good to see you again. Glad to hear you managed to quit smoking. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 11:55, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome back. :-) You are a gentleman! You really do not like smoking, do you!? :-P It does suck.--MrADHD | T@1k? 21:13, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

ADHD to GA status

Wondering if you would be interested in helping with this? It is one of the article I am planning on getting translated as part of this effort here http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:37, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I can help. :-) I don't think I could do it on my own though. It may be worth getting a peer review done on the article? That could focus mine and others attention onto the areas needing most work to get it up to GA.--MrADHD | T@1k? 00:08, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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In addition to the above info about not linking to disambig pages, also note that you should not create a wikilink to the very page that you are editing. So don't link "ADHD" in the article Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It simply takes the reader to the same page. Thanks. Cresix (talk) 21:27, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah I know, sorry about that one. Problem was I copied and pasted similar text from social skills article that I had added there and forgot to remove the self-redirect.--MrADHD | T@1k? 21:38, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Help?

Hi Lg. Wondering if you could analyze a diff to see if it seems reasonable, or perhaps should be undone? Thanks, --Hordaland (talk) 13:26, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Hiya Hordaland. How goes it? Not sure about lamictal, whether drowsiness is a common side effect or not. I don't like the sweeping statement about first generation antidepressants. First generation antidepressants were MAOIs and they are quite activating/stimulating. I assume he is meaning tricyclics antidepressants, when he says first generation antidepressants, some of the tricyclics antidepressants certainly do have prominent drowsiness as a side effect. The removal of benzodiazepines and replacing it with text saying but they are supposed to make you sleepy, is self explainatory and a silly change and does not strike me as being very encyclopaedic. I think that antidepressants should be listed by a named type or class and not as 'first generation' etc. Does this help?--MrADHD | T@1k? 01:46, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

All a bit over my head, unfortunately. Could you fix it up a bit? --Hordaland (talk) 12:24, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Sure. I made a start, hope this helps.--MrADHD | T@1k? 16:48, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Bless your heart! --Hordaland (talk) 23:31, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your good work on the ADHD article (and many other ones)! Lova Falk talk 15:04, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

You are welcome Lova! Thanks for your appreciation and thank you for all of your good work that you do! :)--MrADHD | T@1k? 18:52, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

WikiMedicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:56, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Cigarettes=Bad, Nicotine=Not So Much

Reading your user page made me wonder about nicotine and ADD. I know that nicotine does increase focus so I decided to duck nicotine and add. My non-medical nerd opinion after a quick perusal of the results and reading some of the articles is that nicotine treatment (patches yes, cigarettes no) is in the beginnings of evaluation for ADD treatment.

I question if/when the research will progress as, in the US culture, nicotine is almost as evil a word as hemp.

While nobody wishes to spend their life on meds, it is wonderful to have them when you need them. I'm glad that the MAOIs are helping but they are not the easiest meds to manage. Perhaps nicotine would be easier.

I would never recommend intentional nicotine addiction as it is such an addictive drug. Especially for people with ADD who seem particularly skilled at addiction (kudos for kicking the habit). But you may wish to explore it under proper medical attention. Neil Smithline (talk) 21:16, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi Neil. There would need to be a lot of research done on the safety of nicotine or nicotine related drugs for ADHD before they could be recommended. I think there are some concerns about nicotine's effects in the developing child and adolescent brain but then again so do a lot of other drugs.. See this reference and this reference. Apparently nicotine is as effective as methylphenidate (Ritalin) in ADHD. funny you raise this now as only a few hours ago my friend was talking to me about his son who is suspected of having ADHD. I did suggest if medication was necessary he first try an experiment with coffee to see if that helped his son's behaviour given the caffeine and high levels of beta-carbolines in coffee. Might do something similar to other stimulants such as tobacco smoke or methylphenidate with less side effects. Nicotine is horrifically addictive to me, I get terrible withdrawal symptoms from it and cravings to boot. i did read a paper that nicotine withdrawal is often worse in the ADHD population, which makes sense. The MAOI that I take, moclobemide is a reversible MAOI so you don't get the dangerous tyramine food interactions like you get with the older irreversible MAOIs, as the tyramine can displace moclobemide from the Mao enzyme and be metabolised properly. Yey. :-) Thanks, kicking smoking was difficult. :) Second time giving up but intend staying off this time. Thanks for your message. :)--MrADHD | T@1k? 00:03, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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Review article

Somebody just sent me a link to this review article. I thought you might find it interesting. Cheers! Lova Falk talk 13:54, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

You have been nominated!

I thought that you deserved something a bit extra for all of the amazing work you've done for the project. I've nominated you for a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation!

Lova Falk talk 16:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

That is lovely of you to do that. Thanks! :) I hope that my contributions are of value to our readers.--MrADHD | T@1k? 02:40, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Sent a week or so ago, if you need me to resend let me know ;) regarding the above. Jalexander--WMF 05:30, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I have replied. :)--MrADHD | T@1k? 21:23, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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Some advice based on your user page

I saw your name at Project Med and saw your user page. Here is some old advice - "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy." - Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621. Re another remark on your user page, why is "impulsivity" a disorder? I thought that it being in others was the thing that kept the world from getting boring. Genius is .001 percent inspiration and .009 percent perspiration... and 99% being able to take the first step, which few tend to ever be able to do, especially when failure is far more likely than success. Diagnosing that 99% as a "disorder" called "impulsivity" may make for a dull world, in which case one might have to only the resort of writing of depression in order to avoid it. ParkSehJik (talk) 23:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi ParkSehJik. That is a good question. I have mixed views myself on whether ADHD is a disorder. I never felt much different from my friends and I was fairly popular as a child, made friends easily etc. Although I then developed other health problems as an adolescent which is a long story. I can see benefits and negatives to having ADHD to be honest; it is what you do with 'ADHD' or don't do that is important. I think I know where you are coming from.--MrADHD | T@1k? 23:50, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

If you never met a mugger, met one, refused to give up your wallet, got hit on the head and knocked unconsious, woke up in the hospital with a very bad heaadache (thereby having a concussion), then met the same mugger again and changed behavior, and gave up your wallet the second time, you would be diagnosed, not as "having learned a lesson and gotten a concussion in the process", but as having a "mental disorder", per DSM, a disorder called "Personality Change Due to a General Medical Condition". The problems with overbroadening categories of what is called "mental disease" is now so widely recognised by experts that, if not for the enormous money involved in its delays (which interferees with prescription of many new drugs), DSM V might never come out. That does not mean that many or most mental diseases are not real or in serious need of treatment, just that who decides whether and how to categorize others is not as clear as some would have others think. ParkSehJik (talk) 00:05, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Just noticed this. Park is conflating impulsivity and boldness. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 05:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Another topic, ADHD

I have yet to meet a high producing mathematician that, if a psychiatrist got hold of them as a kid, was not diagnosed ADHD. I don't have sources to say that, but there may be some.

I also don't have sources for this likely fact, few (if any) can resist a prescription for amphetamine salts once started, so going along with an ADHD diagnosis both pays the psychiatrist for life on a regular basis, makes money for all branches of the psychopharm industry, and is irresistable to the patient. Who is left to argue with the diagnsis of mental "illness"? Do you know any RS as to this point? ParkSehJik (talk) 00:16, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually I believe ADHD often causes a weakness in mathematics and the somewhat related topic area physics (my worst subject). Usually it is high functioning autistics who excel in maths (and physics). Regarding stimulants for ADHD, there are some controversies about whether they are overused and there are concerns about their misuse and abuse. There are so many sources on ADHD, just do a search on PubMed. :)--MrADHD | T@1k? 08:22, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

did you vote?

hi there, your vote in ArbCom elections triggered a spoof CSRF alarm. Would you be so kind as to please confirm that you actually voted? :) Apologies for the inconvenience. Pundit|utter 07:40, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Oh dear. Yes, I can confirm that I did indeed vote in the ArbCom 2012 elections. Do I need to revote?--MrADHD | T@1k? 08:23, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, no additional action is necessary, I'm just confirming. best Pundit|utter 12:13, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

just not sure how to reach you

Do I answer you here or on my talk page?

I can do the edits one by one, but some of the changes were pretty major, so that at some point, paragraph by paragraph might be a better idea. The thing is, the article was mostly unchanged in context, but it really is pretty Helter Skelter, and I wanted to add flow. So I grouped all similar idea, and once I did that, the same message was repeated 3 or more times. It was then easy to concatenate them all and keep the references. I also added flow. I placed the process of withdrawal in one section so that there would be continuity of idea in chronological order, first taper, then appearance of withdrawal symptoms, then acute withdrawal, the post acute withdrawal, then protracted, then prognosis. Then I separated the symptoms in their own category. I removed the "doctors and patients " bits mostly, but I had to keep a few, because I wanted to check the references before making any more changes, to ensure that any edits maintained the essence of the citations.

I think the article does not really follow the MEDMOS format as it is. For example under prognosis, you don't really have a prognosis. I wanted to make it follow the format but could not do it because the article was too convoluted. The plan was to start by cleaning it up a little then work in the proper format.

If you think I should do a little at time, I can do that, but I fear that the article may get worse before it gets better by doing it that way, because I might have to add redundancy before I can remove some of it later in the edit. Nevertheless, I can try if you think that is a better way.Qwertyasdf99 (talk) 00:44, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hi! I thought this message could be a nice start of this final day of the year. Lova Falk talk 10:30, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

It is an excellent message for New Years Eve, especially with it's fancy blue background!! :-)--MrADHD | T@1k? 18:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Mail

Halo Jerk1 (talk) 04:50, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

		Best wishes for the New Year!
		Wishing you and yours a joyous, healthful, and productive 2013! Please accept a belated thank you for the well wishes upon my retirement as FAC delegate this year, and apologies for the false alarm of my first—and hopefully last—retirement; the well wishes extended me were most kind, but I decided to return, re-committed, when another blocked sock was revealed as one of the factors aggravating the FA pages this year. Maintaining standards in featured content requires vigilance, dedication and knowledge of people like you, who are needed; reviews are always welcome at FAC, FAR and TFA requests. Somehow, somehow we never ever seem to do nothin' completely nice and easy, but here's hoping that 2013 will see a peaceful road ahead and a return to the quality and comaraderie that defines the FA process, with the help of many dedicated Wikipedians! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

...for the kind words at the teashirt page! --Tryptofish (talk) 00:09, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

YVW. :-)--MrADHD | T@1k? 19:10, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Hebephilia

Thanks for sucking me into that by the way, it's been doing great things for my edit count :)

I skimmed the nicotine section above, did you ever try nicotine patches? If yes, what was the effect? If you don't mind me asking. No real reason, just giving in to mankind's persistent temptation to over-value anecdotes. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 03:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

LOL. Do I have good powers of persuasion? You are doing a fantastic job! Try the patches for what? Concentration? I have for concentration. It helped concentration but patches are not as good as cigarettes probably because of the lack of beta-carbolines which you get in high levels in tobacco smoke. For me nicotine is very 'addictive' as far as physically goes - really bad withdrawal symptoms, anxiety, agitation, mood swings.--MrADHD | T@1k? 03:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I suspect you simply knew if you mentioned it, I wouldn't be able to resist. Less powers of persuasion than pointing me to a page and leaving me alone until I scratched.

Ya, concentration. Not that I'm suggesting you re-addict yourself, but could you use a low-dose patch (or half a patch) to titrate (yes, "titrate" Google Chrome, not "tit rate") to a dose that goosed your concentration enough to be helpful but didn't cause any adverse effects? I was listening to Dr. Radio on Sirius a while back and they were trying to convince a guy to quit nicotine patches. Not once did I hear any mention of side effects. If the patch gives you nicotine without the cancer...doesn't it just become a matter of whether you can afford it?

I'd heard one of the effects outside the CNS of nicotine was muscle relaxation, it acted on the motor units or something, did you notice that as an effect of the patch? WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 04:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I tried going back onto nicotine after being off cigarettes for over a year - I 'vaped' nicotine on one of those electronic cigarettes for about a week or two and then went onto a patch for 2 or 3 weeks but had to cut down to a quarter of a patch because it was causing insomnia and affecting my appetite and I liked having an extra stone of weight on me and didn't want to lose it. I guess my tolerance level to nicotine had dropped and I was sensitive to low doses. Anyway - I eventually just lost interest in playing about with nicotine and thought okay well I will just stop this quarter of a patch and couldn't believe it - I got strong withdrawal! Flu symptoms - strong 'no reason' anxiety, after only 4 weeks of use and titrating down to a quarter of a low strength patch for a couple of weeks. It seems like my body has not forgotten about nicotine agonists and if I over stimulate my nAChRs the neuroadaptations come racing back!?! I dunno why I react like that - I know ex-smokers who are able to stop with no withdrawals or who are able to continue having the 'occasional smoke' - I guess I just have to either completely stay on nicotine or completely go off it - no middle ground for me. I guess I am not cut out for physical dependence, at least not on nicotine! I am quite slim but as a smoker I lose about a stone in weight and I don't want to be 'skinny' so no more nicotine for me, I think. Nicotine is actually carcinogenic - Nicotine#Toxicology, although it certainly is safer than tobacco smoke which is much worse. Nicotine as you probably know does have health benefits such as for ADHD (although not heavily researched) and for certain immune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and has lots of neuroprotective properties. I think that if nicotine is being used for a therapeutic purpose or for the determined 'nicotine addict' it certainly is a better option than tobacco smoking. I think electronic cigarettes are a pretty good idea for example. This is a long detailed reply but you like info, so I am sure you don't mind. :-)--MrADHD | T@1k? 21:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Neat! Wonder if it's oral/inhaled versus transdermal? I'd heard about IBD - from House. More info is always fun, it homes you in on the interesting bits. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 01:05, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion you were involved in.

Hi, MrADHD.
FYI, there has been a report at AN/I regarding a discussion you were in: ANI#User:Jokestress at Talk:Hebephilia
— James Cantor (talk) 23:43, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for informing me. I have supported a topic ban against this user Jokestress.--MrADHD | T@1k? 10:24, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi MrADHD-- Thanks for your initial support. I believe we are in agreement that there are serious POV problems at hebephilia caused by James Cantor and his sympathetic proxies. I see that you changed your vote based on misinformation presented by Herostratus, who has already libeled me (now oversighted) and made all sorts of outrageous personal attacks on me for years. I wanted to let you know that Herostratus is trying to manipulate you by claiming a quotation by noted legal scholar Richard Posner is something I said. Some years ago I wrote an umbrella article summarizing the phenomenon of adult sexual interest in children such as "hebephilia," because I believe our coverage could use an overview of the phenomenon with the various conceptual frameworks (medical, legal, philosophical, taxonomies, etc). The title was based on the scholarly overview Adult Sexual Interest in Children by Mark Cook and Kevin Howells, and the term appears in hundreds of books and article. It attempted to summarize all the various phenomena in one place, the way were are trying to do at hebephilia. Herostratus went utterly insane and started a campaign of harassment against me. You can read the AfD here. You can see just how abusive he got there. This recent AfD is just their latest attempt at getting me banned because I work on controversial topics and believe we should reflect the full range of expert opinion, not just the one they support. I think we are in agreement that hebephilia has serious problems because of James Cantor and friends, and I believe you will find the same problem at any other topic James Cantor has edited. He is simply here to promote himself and his friends, and to denigrate his perceived enemies like me. I wonder if you would take another look and determine what I have done wrong at hebephilia. Then compare my edits to what others have done there. Regardless of what happens, I hope you will work on hebephilia, which has devolved into a POV-fest due to five editors. Jokestress (talk) 11:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

MrADHD, like I stated in the WP:ANI discussion, I don't believe that Herostratus was trying to misrepresent anything Jokestress stated; rather, I believe that he was demonstrating what type of text was in the article she created; he did use the words "with text like," and they are in quotation marks, after all. Reading the AfD linked above (whether you read parts of it or all of it) will definitely help you understand where people (one side, both sides, or neutral) are coming from. Flyer22 (talk) 17:52, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

I was not talking or thinking about Herostratus when I made the comment and have clarified as such in reply to you on ANI. :-)--MrADHD | T@1k? 18:46, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

I just replied at ANI that "I was not stating that you were, MrADHD. Jokestress is the one who stated that she did not say that and that Herostratus was misrepresenting her words." Flyer22 (talk) 19:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Tinkering

Hi, MrADHD. Please consider finishing your proof-reading and your thoughts in a user sandbox or text editor before posting on a busy page like Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case, or at least use the Preview feature. The extreme amount of tinkering you did after first saving your post bloats up the history tab and makes it harder to use. Bishonen | talk 21:30, 30 January 2013 (UTC).

Fair comment - my apologies. :-)--MrADHD | T@1k? 21:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. :-) Bishonen | talk 22:49, 30 January 2013 (UTC).

Statement by MrADHD

Hey MrADHD. I noticed that your original statement (not including responses) is 642 words long (and adding your responses it reaches around 1,100 words), but only a maximun of 500 words are permitted in a statement for a case request (including responses). Therefore, I'd like to request you to reduce your statement to meet the 500-word limit before an arbitrator or one of the clerks (including me) reduce it by ourselves (which might remove information you may consider important).

From the Arbitration Committee, — ΛΧΣ 21:59, 31 January 2013 (UTC)