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Posted by Ted Brosnan on November 2, 2004, at 13:57:06
I been to my doctor today and he suspects ADHD. He has reffered me to a neurologist to make a definite diagnosis.
I am both relieved and scared!
I have huge concentration problems but they might well be because of my Avoidant Personality Disorder. AvPD causes left me in complete isolation, I have no social life. I go to college and have really difficulty in motivation, energy, drive and of cource concentration.
My doctor suspects that some of my social "deficts" are due to ADHD.
I have difficulty in concentrating in what others say but yet it might be because of the anxiety.
At home I swich from channel to channel without been able to follow up completely whole film or series... I feel that my brain is just full of racing thoughts.
I have huge poblem in discipline. I am just master at wasting my time off.
How does it feel to have an adult ADHD?! I am not sure if I have had it since childhood. I am 22 years old in some days time:)
Posted by Eljakeo25 on November 2, 2004, at 14:06:13
In reply to How does it feel like to have adult ADHD?, posted by Ted Brosnan on November 2, 2004, at 13:57:06
Have been in your same exact situation, read my post about my medication update right below your post for further insight of what may work the best. I was Dx with ADD at 22 in a psychiatric hospital, and ya they may be over diagnosing ADD, but when you get diagnosed with it in the adult unit of the psych ward, then you have ADD. Plus all the school report cards actually listed most of the symptoms of ADD on them going back all the way to kindergarten!! Medications however don't cure the condition, just relieve the symptoms and not always at 100%, so yes I still stuggle with the ADD symptoms at times, but it is a h*ll of a lot better in my life than it was before I was treated. Exspecially when things became so frustrating and bad that I committed myself to a fine psychiatric hospital for treatment because I could not take stuff like the amotivation and depression resulting from ADD for example any longer. Hope I will give you some insight.
Jake
Posted by Crazy_Charlie on November 3, 2004, at 3:40:27
In reply to How does it feel like to have adult ADHD?, posted by Ted Brosnan on November 2, 2004, at 13:57:06
Hoi Ted
I was the one doing the conversations and the tests on ADHD people at my work place untill I moved out of my country and thereby quit my job.If you didn't have ADHD as a child, you don't get the diagnosis now... at least that's the rules in Europe. One of the main requirements to be diagnosed as ADHD is that you had symptoms of it before age of 7.
I don't have ADD/ADHD, so I can't tell you how it feels.. but from what you write I get more the idea that it could be ADD and not ADHD, but I don't know enough about you to tell you anything for sure.
What I know is that my patients experiences verty bad consentration (but not in all sitations), low motivation, high aggression and friustration (those are linked), an dthey were all very motorical restless. They would constantly be moving on the chair, doing something with their fingers etc. They swapped conversation subject all the time, and had problems focusing even when I did my best to help them. They couldn't plan or organize their day, and had problems keeping a job out of several reasons.
Be aware: my patients usually also had drug problems (in my opinion a result of untreated ADHD) and other social problems as well. This makes the symptoms come out a lot more.
Good luck!
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