Posted by SLS on December 25, 2011, at 13:12:24
In reply to Re: Can't get through school- what to try next? (long) » grapes, posted by Phidippus on December 24, 2011, at 20:14:17
> >-I was diagnosed with Depression when I was 18 >(freshman year of college)- but I did not feel >"sad". I was having trouble concentrating, >remembering things (felt like a major IQ drop)
> >to not being able to finish a sentence without an >"um" second semester. I was told my issue was >perfectionism.
> None of the above sounds like depression to me. Sounds like text book ADHD. Have you ever been on a stimulant?It is not necessary that one experience sadness or depressed mood to have major depressive disorder. What was described above would not exclude MDD from consideration as a diagnosis.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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