ADHD on trend

Who’s afraid of ADHD? Well, perhaps me, a little bit. This era of phones and screens and sound bites and instant gratification has made me one heck of an impatient customer. Trust me to imagine a dozen ways for service staff to serve faster. I simply cannot wait - and now I fear I’m being led down this irreversible course of irate customer-hood because of ADHD.

- Joseph T. Gonzales [e-mail]

But wait, is that ADHD in truth?

Or perhaps, it’s the troubling incidents where I’m less likely to finish tasks. I open the phone, intending entirely to do something, and then I see a notification or an advert, and I chase the rabbit until I am irreversibly lost. As in, I forget why I even picked up my phone to begin with. Is that ADHD? Or simply aging?

Perhaps it’s time to call in the pros. An organization that tackles ADHD head on. One that has been doing precisely this for the past 25 years. And oh --this month is their month, with a national conference slated to be held in Pasig, and to be opened by no less than mayor extraordinaire Vico Sotto.