I don't want to incorrectly self-diagnose and I know IIN is no substitution for a professional opinion, I just want your thoughts on this.
I'm a reasonably clever guy and I've always found school work relatively easy to comprehend and, when I manage to complete it to the best of my ability, attain decent grades. My problem is throughout school I've had a real difficulty maintaining attention and organisation. I think around the age of 14 or 15 I started really struggling - struggling with attendance, completing work and organising myself. This has caused a lot of stress and anxiety for me. It's not that I am apathetic or lazy, I just genuinely can't organise my brain and apply myself.
I am now at university but the problem remains. I'm genuinely concerned that my head will keep screwing things up for me. Any self-directed projects I can start but struggle to finish, my work is erratic and I have a fear of attending classes and group sessions because of my poor attendance and organisation. I can't maintain a normal sleeping pattern, I've had one job but struggled to get there on time and found it so hard to concentrate and sit still all day.
So IIN I think I have ADD?
Is there any other explanation for my issues? Thanks for reading, I'd really appreciate your comments! :)
I'm a reasonably clever guy and I've always found school work relatively easy to comprehend and, when I manage to complete it to the best of my ability, attain decent grades. My problem is throughout school I've had a real difficulty maintaining attention and organisation. I think around the age of 14 or 15 I started really struggling - struggling with attendance, completing work and organising myself. This has caused a lot of stress and anxiety for me. It's not that I am apathetic or lazy, I just genuinely can't organise my brain and apply myself.
I am now at university but the problem remains. I'm genuinely concerned that my head will keep screwing things up for me. Any self-directed projects I can start but struggle to finish, my work is erratic and I have a fear of attending classes and group sessions because of my poor attendance and organisation. I can't maintain a normal sleeping pattern, I've had one job but struggled to get there on time and found it so hard to concentrate and sit still all day.
So IIN I think I have ADD?
Is there any other explanation for my issues? Thanks for reading, I'd really appreciate your comments! :)
If you are serious about increasing your attention span and ability to concentrate you should start with a balanced diet not some quack getting you hooked on amphetamines.
Fresh fucking food my friend, trust me.
Get bored by the 'wrong things', i.e. School work, and you'll get labelled ADD.
"ADD is characterized primarily by inattention, easy distractibility, disorganization, procrastination, and forgetfulness."
Often, people that are diagnosed with ADD can find other subjects interesting and are in fact capable of learning. (just other topics)
They may attend a technical college rather than a university, or get a job that involves more practical or physical work.
In my opinion you only truly have ADD if you can't pay attention to anything and everything.
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...and, from your post, it sounds more like a lack of motivation than ADD.
thats not a real illness/ disorder
Doctors tend to dish out diagnosisis to quickly and often incorrectly but it does exist.
I have ADD and the best way to describe it is like my mind is always running at full speed. It can get so busy in my head it can be VERY hard to focus on whats going on in reality. I certanly wouldnt call this a gift, it is very tiring. I am always restless and anxious, it is very hard to relax.
Yeah I'm really creative but I can't apply my creativity to an academic structure like University because I can't organise myself or focus on anything. Feels like I'm failing constantly even though I know I have talent. But I don't know if I have ADD I'm just speculating. I guess I really want to understand why I have such a hard time doing things that the average person finds easy.
And for the twat that thinks its not real, it is, its just that a lot of people self diagnose themselves and go around saying they have it but for those who do actually have it it can be very difficult to deal with especially during school, so fuck you :)
No sir... *enthusiastic voice* Fuck you!
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ADD/ADHD are as fake as they come.
The medicine is designed to dumb, numb, and calm kids into submission and causes damage and shrinkage to the brain. LOOK IT UP.
Everything Big Pharma does is to make money.
Doctors make money when people get sick, they prescribe medicine. (I have heard cases where doctors admit they don't even know what is wrong with a patient, but yet prescribe a pill for no good reason.)
Pharmacies and Medical Supplies production companies make money when people are prescribed medication or buy supplies. Some of these medicines treat the problem, but most treat only the symptoms. If you treat the symptom and not the problem, you only get worse, not better.
Prolonged usage of some drugs can cause unwanted (by you only) side-effects. Then you can go BACK to the doctor, and he can give you another pill. And another, and another. You know, "A pill for every ill."
Pills are designed to treat symptoms so that you will HAVE to keep buying pills.
Mental disorders are just another tentacle of the monster, Big Pharma. Know one actually knows what causes these "imbalances" in people's brains... and yet we have a pill for them.
(This destructive cycle also applies to Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Banks, etc, etc. Big Oil causes dependency on oil with political interference. Big Ag (look up Monsanto) causes dependency on GMO seeds and has destroyed thousands (if not millions) of beehives by pushing through new systemic pesticides. And Big Banks, well, you already know what they do don't you?)
Don't believe me? Then double check, I'm not going to hold your hand. You do it. :D
Use the internet to it's full potential, there's ALWAYS alternative methods out there.
As an example, I just learned of a common plant in the South that almost no one (even elders) know about. Jewelweed. It grows where ever you find poison ivy, and it totally neutralizes it's toxins!
It may sound corny, but nature WILL provide!
Good luck!!!!
I think it is child abuse to medicate a child for something like ADD/ADHD. It makes them stay very skinny and some medications lead to depression. I think the fact a child is hyper ,jumpy ,and has a short attention span is normal.
Try describing what a child is and think about it. They are small ,hyper ,jumpy and do not pay attention. This means all kids are ADD/ADHD and medicating a kid with these issues does not allow them to grow out of it.
Which most kids do after a age so you are messing up the social and physical development of the kid. Not to mention how long it takes for some people to find a dose. Also many doctors say it only works if the child thinks it will. This proves it is having a "Placebo effect" and it is not helping the patient.
Anyway, I'm an adult, all this talk about medicating children doesn't relate to me because I'm in control of my body. I can't be forced to take medication for ADD.
Of course I have pity for children misdiagnosed or unfairly forced to take drugs. But you were responding to my comment about how I wouldn't necessarily take drugs if I were diagnosed. And you pretty much focused entirely on children with ADD or ADHD.
I said "all this talk about medicating children doesn't relate to me", then you say it does and I'm being cold and have no pity for suffering kids? You're irrational!
I didn't even read your full post you sound like your reciting something you read of a blog or website and now think you know absolutely everything.
"Just because you have a theory.... research and tests done..." It's not only MY theory, lots of people have come to the same conclusion, you just have to know who to ask. As far as the "research" and "tests" done, you just have to follow the money trail. If a too-big-to-fail corporation wants something done, they get it done, regardless of the research, or the law.
"Don't need pills... longer to process information..." I'm glad you aren't taking that garbage, I REALLY am, truthfully happy for that. I know ADD/ADHD doesn't affect intelligence, I said the pills will do that. The pills will damage the brain, look for Ritalin on wikipedia. I know some VERY VERY smart people who are "diagnosed" with ADD/ADHD, so I know. And I have no doubt you have an intelligent head on your shoulders as well.
"Extremely ignorant... only have an opinion... sound like your reciting off of a blog..." I'm not ignorant by any stretch of the imagination. I'm just observational and thoughtful. To me, it only makes sense that money rules the world right now. People in power have money. Corporations have money. The rest of us live paycheck to paycheck. If you want to know if my "opinion" is in whole or in part truthful or not, you would have to do your own separate research. Keep an open mind, and NEVER let anyone tell you what to believe. You must think for yourself. If you can do that, you'll find the truth in the world.
"Didn't even read your full post." Now that just hurts my feelings. I go through all that trouble to make a valid point, while trying to be concise and nice about it... And you didn't even read it?? Makes a girl wanna cry... I only wrote such a long post because I figured you might discuss the topic like an adult, but I guess I misjudged you.
While you aren't completely mature, you still sound smart. You actually questioned what I said, which is a start. Now question others, question power and authority, question ritual and day to day actions, question everything. Trust nearly nothing (especially the main stream media, lol) and then you'll find truth.
http://www.add.org/
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_adult_symptoms.htm
People didn't think Dyslexia was a real condition until the last 20 or something years, now it's actually taken seriously and recognised as a condition. I think ADD is the same.
Please don't tell me to eat a lie on my IIN question, that's rude of you.
Google "conduct disorder" and ODD. They're "behavioral mental disorders". Basically, if you're anti-social, or a rebel, that's a disorder, too.
Some people struggle with being 'outside of the norm' and having a disorder. If someone was considering killing themselves because of their severe depression I wouldn't say to them that they shouldn't seek help because their 'disorder' is just them being outside of the norm. Some people want assistance, whether it be chemical or therapeutic.
Just because someone's a scatter-brain doesn't mean they have a "disorder" or something WRONG with them. There's a BIG BIG difference there.
That's not common sense... That's lunacy. If you can't define the problem, but only the symptoms, then you just can't fix it. Better yet, there's nothing there to FIX!
You're better off finding ways to deal with the "problems" you face in life, internal or external, on your own, without depending on medications that may harm you. Period.
And in the end, there are just some people who can't/won't/don't ever get the help they need, from themselves or others.
And by help, I don't necessarily mean medication. I don't get what you and Allistalla's preoccupation with medication is. Just being diagnosed with a disorder doesn't mean you have to eat drugs.
There's behavioural therapy, counselling, all kinds of therapy that doesn't involve medication. It isn't the option between drugs or "finding ways to deal with the 'problems' you face... on your own", life isn't that black and white. If I feel I have internal problems that are preventing me from achieving realistic goals in life, then I see that as a disorder, and I don't see why I shouldn't seek assistance in UNDERSTANDING and OVERCOMING those obstacles.
Doctors aren't all out to get you hooked on something.