I have never used drugs for whatever executive dysfunction I have.

At the age of 11, my mother took me to a psychiatrist and I learned GUIDED MEDICATION and BIOFEEDBACK through some experimental thing he was doing. I listened to tapes, practice breathing a certain way. I was hooked up to a computer that I could control with my mind: I could make the noises go up and down, make things move on a little screen JUST BY CHANGING MY FEELINGS.

This is probably why I ‘feel’ connected to computers 

IN any event, it was to control what I was diagnosed with: Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

My mother didn’t believe in adderall, which is what they’d have prescribed back in the early 1980s.

So, I breathed through my feet. I’ve spent my life adding on to my training in whatever ways I could to exert self-control over my thoughts and feelings.

I’d say I do a damn fine job of it, drug free.

But it’s limited and it is a lot of work. Your brain has a limited amount of “stuff” to work with and it it’s being used up supporting a failed executive function using tricks and tips and techniques and things you’ve learned,

it’s using up necessary processing power.

So, I thrive. Yet, I know that had I been on medication for it – and yes I could even now – SOME things would have been more effortless and breezy rather than constant work.

I believe the constant work has helped me in other ways, but I also don’t believe it was necessary because you can find hard work in other ways than this.