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Believe it or not—there are three therapists in our office with DG—and one without it but with obsessive compulsive traits so she is growing even more obsessive because of the issue. As the Cat said to Alice in “Alice in Wonderland”—“you can’t help being among mad people—we’re all mad here”. So, if we can admit our foibles perhaps you can consider yours. Or not.
What one of us has observed in the other three therapists are some of the following:
- confusion about where things went, are, need to be
- people who sometimes work twice as hard as she does when it comes to organization
- missing pens, glasses, coffee cups, Palm Pilot styluses, lipsticks and sometimes little gifts left in the office
- creativity and wonderful ideas (some of which really come to complete fruition)
- the ability to move from subject to subject rapidly.
You’ll note there are positive traits here:
- like the creative gifts the obsessive therapist receives. The gifts are items forgotten and left behind on a desk, chair or sofa. The less tangible gifts are challenging ideas, even if they don’t come easily to completion. Do you know someone like that?
If so, then perhaps, as Sari Solden describes them, they are disorganizationally gifted or DG.
So, if you think you or someone you know maybe disorganizationally gifted, check it out in our office. We can help evaluate this and then help you develop coping skills that will make your life run more smoothly. Those others of us who suffer from a more compulsive issue get to be much more relaxed! And, if testing is needed to verify the concern then Beth Sikora can do that with you quite conveniently.
So, have you figured it out? Well, Sari Solden wrote the book “Women with Attention Deficit Disorder”. So, maybe it really is you. Check it out—with assistance life can become less “mad” and much more satisfying. And guess what, you get to keep the creativity.
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