Sensation Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I'm startin to wonder if I am really ADD, with the crappy Dr's I've had. I am having to diagnose myself most times :embarassed: *************************************************** Short attention span, unless very interested in something Easily distracted, tendency to drift away (although at times can be hyperfocused) Lacks attention to detail, due to distractibility Trouble listening carefully to directions Skips around while reading, or goes to the end first, trouble staying on track Poor listening skills Tendency to be easily bored (tunes out) Frequent, impulsive job changes Starting projects but not finishing them, poor follow through Enthusiastic beginnings but poor endings Spends excessive time at work because of inefficiencies Inconsistent work performance Chronic sense of under achievement, feeling you should be much further along in your life than you are Chronic problems with self-esteem Sense of impending doom Mood swings Negativity Frequent feeling of demoralization or that things won't work out for you Trouble sustaining friendships or intimate relationships, promiscuity Trouble with intimacy Tendency to be immature Prone to hysterical outburst Avoids group activities Trouble with authority Quick responses to slights that are real or imagined Rage outbursts, short fuse Frequent search for high stimulation ( doing many things at once, etc.) Tendency to worry needlessly and endlessly Switches around numbers, letters or words Poor writing skills (hard to get information from brain to pen) Performance becomes worse under pressure. Test anxiety, or during tests your mind tends to go blank The harder you try, the worse it gets Work or schoolwork deteriorates under pressure Tendency to turn off or become stuck when asked questions in social situations Falls asleep or becomes tired while reading Difficulty falling asleep, may be due to too many thoughts at night Difficulty coming awake (may need coffee or other stimulant or activity before feeling fully awake) Periods of low energy, especially early in the morning and in the afternoon Frequently feeling tired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Secrets, did you copy my MO? You sound almost exactly like me. My brain has been a non stop skipping record for the past 3 months. I can't tell you whether or not I do have ADD - never diagnosed, but with all the multiple things going on in my brain lately, I wonder what the hell is wrong with me. Not bi-polar, just a good heaping dose of anxiety, depression, little OCD mixed in there, prob. some ADD. Let me know where you get with this...Kris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
: ( Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 yeah this is exactly me as well tomarrow i meet with a lady who did psych testing for me so i will let you guys know what she says, in case you are interested. i certainly will be! do you guys have some social problems too, partly due to the fact that your brain is moving all over the place and has trouble staying with the conversation..? best of luck to you all and let me know if you have any strategies for managing this stuff, especially anything having to do with social situations -amanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penny Century Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Secrets, yes, i have a lot of those symptoms. is there a specific reason you doubt the dx? have you read any books on ADD? I'm fond of Delivered from Distraction which i pseudo reviewed in this thread where a few people talked about books they liked on ADD. if you want, you can seek out an ADD specalist (usually they mostly treat children, but that just means there are cool toys in the waiting room) if you don't trust your doctor(s)' diagnosis. there is also a test called the tova that is recognized as a good diagnostic test for ADD. penny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niz Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Switches around numbers, letters or words <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's a symptom of ADD? I always thought that was called dyslexia, or maybe I'm thinking of something else... (though that would be better if it were an ADD symptom since I'm always switching letters and numbers around I get worried that I had that dyslexia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensation Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Secrets, yes, i have a lot of those symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldo Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Seems like a lot of docs don't know a lot about ADD. I was diagnosed at 45, about a year and a half ago. Still have problems with the label, but it explains a lot. It's probably important to see someone who knows ADD pretty well. Even if they can just definitively say it's not ADD, that's still useful. That list looks awfully familiar. From the Amen site? Compiled partly from DSM IV? I've got a bunch of those symptoms. There's a lot of variety here. I don't think everyone with ADD has as much trouble remembering things as I do, for instance. But I don't have a whole lot of trouble with impulse control, except on very rare (like maybe 10 years apart) occasions. Then, it's memorable! (Fortunately even then, even if raging mad, I don't seem to want to actually hurt someone. Last time, the assholes deserved it, and maybe I could have gone that far, but I didn't want to and it started to seem like a real bad idea. Fortunately. (I was physically attacked while riding my bike, just to entertain them. They ended up with a lot of dirt in their car, tho. If only I'd had a cell phone, I could have put them in a world of trouble, maybe, and saved the next cyclist.) I also seem to be able to deal with details pretty well, except sometimes for forgetting where things are. For instance, I can do a semi gnarly tax return, tho I've learned it isn't worth the aggravation. And sometimes I can work myself up to make fairly attractive physical things, like picture frames with tight joints, or a nice cherry bookshelf, or carve a decent oar. And when I revise, I write quite well, tho I'm not revising very much here. OTOH, without Adderall, ignoring the TV in the pizza joint is pretty tough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dire Curves Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Four words: all of the above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensation Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Anyone know a good doc in the dc metro area. MDs here are ridiculous. I found out this week my doc gave me the wrong kind of adderall Its the generic regular kind, and I have been taking xr for months now.... As far as the memory thing, sometimes if I walk to another room to get something or do something, I forget what it was I was supposed to be doing just that quick. Ido I got that list from adultadd.com I believe, one of those sites online somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldo Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I take the generic stuff and it seems ok. Lasts 5 or 6 hours, so I have to take it again. But it's probably good for your doc to discuss that you are going to someting different before you get to the pharmacy!!! Anyone know a good doc in the dc metro area. MDs here are ridiculous. I found out this week my doc gave me the wrong kind of adderall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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