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Apr 7, 2010 17:05:05 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 7, 2010 17:05:05 GMT -5
Anybody have experience with attention deficit disorder, as an adult? It slowly came to my attention, my GP agrees that I have it. And nothing... so I am glad to put a name to the forgetfulness and the fact that my mind wanders like a bee in a flower garden, and my general weirdness. I do sudoku in work and also write up figures for my boss to help me focus on my job but it'd be great to develop more coping strategies. I try to think more before I speak as my conversations are horribly hard to follow for my new colleagues. I tried to tell my boss but he seems to confuse it with ADHD and dismisses it as 'you don't have any problems sitting still except when you've had skittles'. I told him in a friendly capacity rather than as a work but that makes it more difficult for me to say 'listen to me stupid'
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Apr 10, 2010 18:27:31 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 10, 2010 18:27:31 GMT -5
Well this is poo for me! I like to share. I'll trawl and post whatever I find here in the hopes that it helps a future member. If I remember that is. Joys of ADD!
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Apr 10, 2010 19:09:41 GMT -5
Post by Karen on Apr 10, 2010 19:09:41 GMT -5
Sorry, Cherry! I had many, many, many former students with ADD and a former boss!
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Apr 11, 2010 0:13:45 GMT -5
Post by desertflower on Apr 11, 2010 0:13:45 GMT -5
Well I ways had problems focusing and paying attention but no one ever said I had ADD so I never really taught about it.
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Apr 11, 2010 9:14:35 GMT -5
Post by JC on Apr 11, 2010 9:14:35 GMT -5
I don't have it but my older brother has ADD and dyslexia, and my younger bro has ADHD and also has Asperger's Autism. It's very difficult to live with! Did you go through all the testing to be diagnosed? Are they going to try medications for you? It's interesting they way they treat this. The medications are actually stimulants but for people who are truly ADD/ADHD, they actually act as calming agents. That's a for sure sign you have it.
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Apr 11, 2010 9:32:14 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 11, 2010 9:32:14 GMT -5
My doctor is all over the place with this jenaya. They suspected it in school and did nothing except label me. I brought it up with a doctor cos recently the issues have really affected me and while he agrees 'you have it' there has been no official testing. I wondered about that actually! One thing I have always noticed is that with things that stimulate me, like caffeine, I feel like I come 'down' to a normal level and can interact a little better. I focus. But then again sometimes I get so so tired with caffeine too which i know is a common thing for everyone. So no, no medications to prove or disprove and no solid diagnosis. So now I look strange! I will press the testing issue with my doctor. And if it's not ADD then I have some weird-ass and unexplained issues which for some reason are getting worse and I need help in coping and getting back in line because I feel very scattered at the moment with trying to manage. I don't know how I'd feel about medicating because after my second brush with anti-depressants I am so averse to stuff that messes with the brain. I just need help coping. I find that doing 2 things helps, but at the same time if someone asks me to mutli-task I completely lose the thread.
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Apr 11, 2010 10:24:23 GMT -5
Post by JC on Apr 11, 2010 10:24:23 GMT -5
Well I don't know a whole lot but if you do have it, I can imagine that anti-depressants would really jack you up. I think to get an actual diagnosis you have to go through psychiatric testing with an actual psychiatrist. I'm not sure exactly what they do but I don't think your general practioner can give you all those tests. I think at most, the GP can prescribe you the medications to see how you react to it but I'm not a big fan of treating before diagnosing. I think all us endo women have been down that road. lol The two drugs I know of are ritalin and adderall. Unfortunately these are medications that get heavily abused because they are basically legal meth. They get passed around like candy on college campuses. People crush this stuff up and snort it and it gives the same effects as cocaine. But if you truly have ADD then they do the opposite, they are a calming agent. I found this link. It has a lot of good info! helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_diagnosis.htm
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Apr 11, 2010 10:26:01 GMT -5
Post by JC on Apr 11, 2010 10:26:01 GMT -5
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Apr 11, 2010 11:40:56 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 11, 2010 11:40:56 GMT -5
Thank you! The top link has given me lots to read. I scored enough on the assessment to push for a proper evaluation too, in fact all 6 were 'very often', this is only very lately that it has gotten so bad. I try to set easy reach benchmarks to even start getting organised. A rota has not been written up, and I have yet to buy the much needed diary. I had one and lost it! I had broached the subject with a friend a while back and they asked me to tell them what was 'up' so I copied and pasted every thing that applied to me from a list (on a site that I've forgotten the address of, damn!) and explained why each one was a marker. He argued with every single point and we didn't speak about it again: Constantly distracted by thoughts or stimuli that interrupt actions or conversations Needing to change physical positions often, getting out of chair, moving; history of childhood hyperactivity Spacey or daydreaming, trouble concentrating Many thoughts and ideas, seemingly all at once Multi-tasking, often doing several things at once (such as TV, e-mail, talking on phone, reading) Focusing so avidly on an interest that everything else is forgotten Tactless, saying the wrong thing at the wrong time Missing social cues, behaving or speaking inappropriately Needing to write or doodle in order to pay attention in meetings Inability to concentrate or sustain focus on reading (not necessarily dyslexia) Poor short-term memory Chronic lateness, poor time judgement Inability to work effectively without imposed structure Chronic clutter and disorganization Inability to prioritize Inability to get started on tasks such as bill-paying, laundry, mundane paperwork Procrastination Perfectionism Poor follow-through on completing projects, leaving "loose ends" Inappropriate anger responses, defensiveness, placing blame on self or others History of fractured relationships, misunderstandings Thinking in black / white terms; things or people seem either all good or all bad Often taking on more than can realistically be accomplished
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Apr 11, 2010 14:53:35 GMT -5
Post by hellsbells on Apr 11, 2010 14:53:35 GMT -5
Hmm, I scored kinda high too. Not something that's ever crossed my mind. Instead of chronoc lateness though, I have chronic earliness! My mind constantly wanders during a conversation to the point where I often don't hear what the person is saying to me even though I'm looking them in the face! Food for thought this!
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Apr 11, 2010 15:04:30 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 11, 2010 15:04:30 GMT -5
I do that constantly. And it's never that I'm bored, I literally can be distracted by shiny things. It must seem so rude to other people but I'm 'the' person to go off on a tangent.
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Apr 12, 2010 14:36:09 GMT -5
Post by hellsbells on Apr 12, 2010 14:36:09 GMT -5
I was talking to a guy in work today, standing over his desk, nodding at him, looking at him then I realised I had completely tuned out of the conversation and was thinking about something completely different! Wow, never realised my attention span was so bad!
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Apr 14, 2010 4:25:22 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 14, 2010 4:25:22 GMT -5
I'm training for 2 weeks starting this Monday and it's causing real trouble already, my lack of focus. I thought I'd be ok cos it's something I'm genuinely interested in but I zone out constantly and it's only that I already work here that has allowed me to keep up. People think I'm a bimbo because I laugh it off but the manager who had me the last 2 days was getting genuinely peeved.
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Apr 14, 2010 14:33:42 GMT -5
Post by hellsbells on Apr 14, 2010 14:33:42 GMT -5
I've noticed more and more I can't talk to someone for more than about 15 secs before my mind wanders. And if I'm trying to deal with a handful of things at once I can do it, and I love it, but I get reaaaly hyper!
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Apr 24, 2010 2:13:05 GMT -5
Post by cherry on Apr 24, 2010 2:13:05 GMT -5
Well I really messed up the other day, forgot to complete an appointment that meant someone's cremation could have been completely wrecked. Luckily someone picked it up, which is a rarity... I sit there looking at this screen and always forget 'complete' it's getting me down now. I've come out of training worse off than before I went in.
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