Posted by Susan47 on April 19, 2005, at 11:44:09
Did you know that most studies of ADD have been done on teenage boys who also suffer from hyperactivity? Did you know that ADHD is more widely recognized in boys than it is in women, and that ADD is often ignored in women because of the way it's been studied?
I have ADD, it's caused me to trash a great deal of my life because of misunderstanding, not understanding, blocking out, inability to control feelings ... I could go on and on. And I took that book to my last T. And he said, thanks for the reading. He gave it back, I'm fairly certain, unread. This was after he terminated me, of course, because while I was with him I never would have presumed to give him any reading material ... but if that man had known what he was doing, he would have written, I believe you can be helped through this. Find a GP who's supportive and a psychiatrist who specializes in treatment of ADD and manic-depression. You can be helped.
Instead I got this note, Thank you for the reading.
Here's a question: are psychologists not required to keep up in their field? Not at all? In a field that's this crucial, this important to human welfare, to humanity as a whole, why on EARTH are T's not REQUIRED to enroll in lifelong learning???? Are they, or aren't they?
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