Personal experience
As many other mental illnesses ADD must be diagnosed by a professional, but as a explained in the last entry "Living with ADD in a third world country" there is a lot of people that may find difficulties to get a psychiatrist in Latin America, so in this entry I'll give you a set of advices you might find useful for pre-diagnosing ADD.
There is a particular symptom that add shared with many other mental disorders and that is that the malady is cerebrally negligent, this means that it negates itself. In other words you may find yourself repeating things like "I'm human and humans make mistakes", "Yeah I lost that class but I'm tired and I would probably be sleeping in the classroom" and the old "I'm like this and there's nothing I can do". The very problem with ADD is that you could be missunderstanded as a loafing person: If you're oftenly skipping your responsabilities maybe you're suffering ADD. This could be clearer if you don't find a real solid reason for doing it. For example take this case: Even when you're liking math classes and you're not paying attention because you're not in mood.
Ofthenly an ADD carrier could not meassure correctly the consequences of their actions. This is a difficult one to explain, there are so many cases in wich you could take bad decisions and is unclearly if they where driven by the illness. So I made a very logic way to distingish a kind of ADD bad decision: When the consecuence of your choose could be solved in a specific period of time that you know and you take that temporary loss. For example, skipping courses on the university, you could take it later, you loose a semester but eventually you'll have a chance to course it again, another example is when you stay up late, because you can sleep during day. However if I have addressed this kind of bad decitions as ADD related doesn't mean there are not other kinds of decision you would made as a result of the symptom. In my personal case I could enumerate the following: Fighting with friends and making it worse, confesing to a girl that clearly doesn't like me, constantly lie about unimportant matters, choose to do a task instead other when I can take both, drinking coffee even when told not to do by the doctor and buying things with money I need to save for other things.
Procrastination is a very good friend of ADD. For many years I blame myself for procrastinating a lot, look for many options to avoid it but it was impossible. You're not capable of stay attached to a single activity for more than 4 hours, in the worst cases you will be taking a step out of class in less than one hour.
About ADDA take from add.org:
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) is the world’s leading adult ADHD organization. We are an international non-profit – 501C – organization founded over twenty-five years ago to help adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) lead better lives. Since its inception, ADDA has become the source for information and resources exclusively for and about adult ADHD. ADDA brings together scientific perspectives and the human experience to generate hope, awareness, empowerment and connections worldwide in the field of ADHD.
The test would give a solid answer whether you have ADHD or not but don't take it too serius if are incapable of interpret the questions or the teoric justification founded in the website, you should instead speak with a psychiatrist.
That's all for now, thanks for read. My next subjects will be:
- A story about symptoms and how you could missunderstand them.
- Is meditation really a cure?.
- Some benefits about ADD.
Ofthenly an ADD carrier could not meassure correctly the consequences of their actions. This is a difficult one to explain, there are so many cases in wich you could take bad decisions and is unclearly if they where driven by the illness. So I made a very logic way to distingish a kind of ADD bad decision: When the consecuence of your choose could be solved in a specific period of time that you know and you take that temporary loss. For example, skipping courses on the university, you could take it later, you loose a semester but eventually you'll have a chance to course it again, another example is when you stay up late, because you can sleep during day. However if I have addressed this kind of bad decitions as ADD related doesn't mean there are not other kinds of decision you would made as a result of the symptom. In my personal case I could enumerate the following: Fighting with friends and making it worse, confesing to a girl that clearly doesn't like me, constantly lie about unimportant matters, choose to do a task instead other when I can take both, drinking coffee even when told not to do by the doctor and buying things with money I need to save for other things.
Procrastination is a very good friend of ADD. For many years I blame myself for procrastinating a lot, look for many options to avoid it but it was impossible. You're not capable of stay attached to a single activity for more than 4 hours, in the worst cases you will be taking a step out of class in less than one hour.
Netflix documentary: Take your pills
If you have a netflix account you must check this documental. "Take your pills" speaks about the farmacy industry that supports the adhd and how this drugs are being taken by normal persons to improve it's own concentration. The documental give a lot of context of about ADHD history and showcases a lot of people involed with the disorder. You may feel some sort of identification with theese interlocutors and that's a serius ground to think you're in the same circumstances.A solid way to pre-diagnosing ADD
If you have prefferences for scientific tested methods isntead of a person experiences you should look for the add test found is this link featured by ADDA.About ADDA take from add.org:
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) is the world’s leading adult ADHD organization. We are an international non-profit – 501C – organization founded over twenty-five years ago to help adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) lead better lives. Since its inception, ADDA has become the source for information and resources exclusively for and about adult ADHD. ADDA brings together scientific perspectives and the human experience to generate hope, awareness, empowerment and connections worldwide in the field of ADHD.
The test would give a solid answer whether you have ADHD or not but don't take it too serius if are incapable of interpret the questions or the teoric justification founded in the website, you should instead speak with a psychiatrist.
That's all for now, thanks for read. My next subjects will be:
- A story about symptoms and how you could missunderstand them.
- Is meditation really a cure?.
- Some benefits about ADD.
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