A brief update and a missed article by Peter Breggin

This was posted on Breggin’s blog on Huffington Post in May. It’s about children using stimulants illegally to compete in tough schools. There is also a good synopsis of the dangers of stimulants in general, for anyone using them. ADD or no.

So I’m on my road trip. Simply don’t know how much I’ll be able to post or comment. I’m in hotels that have wireless in the mornings and evenings, but I’ll be traveling 4 straight days.

For a brief update I slept well last night in the hotel. 7 hours— which is unheard of on the second day of a trip, so my wellness activities, writing, energy breaths and meditating are really helping. I’m feeling greatly relieved.

I slept a total of 7 hours the night before after waking in the middle of the night and writing the previous post too. It’s pretty unbelievable in my mind. It’s been several years that I’ve not slept more than 4 or 5 hours especially the first few days of a trip. So, again, I’m on the mend….

I wish I had more patience about the pace of things. I”m incredibly impatient and want to be well now. I really need to learn to appreciate the moment, which is, well, pretty darned good relative to the past when I’ve been in these circumstances!!

For some reason I’m a bit sour. Any suggestions on how to cultivate gratitude? I think it’s actually there underneath my grumpiness. It’s possible the withdrawals are just making me irritable and that masks the gratitude. Because certainly, at least on an intellectual level I’m grateful. I just want to feel it in my gut.