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Limelight
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Are these symptoms of ADD/ADHD?
#5837890 - 07/09/06 04:55 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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ok, i just made these posts on another board but no one really cares, and i figure people here have better advice anyway. ill post my posts, and also a few replies i wrote which are equally important. thanks 
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I ate ecstasy about 7 hours ago, and now im just really feeling the speed. its forcing me to think a lot, and come to realizations about my own thinking that i normally can't allude to. im wondering if these are symptoms of add or what. ill describe below what is actually going through my mind during times of contemplation (which is a lot).. usually when im reading my mind will go off on tangents on every 10th sentence.. or if someone is talking to me even.
-my brain basically explains it's own discrepency. like the actual words going through my head... my stream of consciousness, is identical to this very sentence here. its a rationalization or some shit, or trying to explain it. it's explaining something to myself.. im talking to myself, yet i dont know what its about. i only relate it to other things.
^^ that very paragraph will run through my head.. and then ill stop and be like WTF.. WHY?? that paragraph makes no fucking sense. its just rambling on about explanations with no conclusion.
i think basically i dont have focus.. like the part of your brain which remembers info from the last thought, and puts it to the next one.. i think thats worse off on me, because i cant stay focused on one thing long.. even this post im going off on tangents in my head.
so is this ADD? adderoll (and this cracked out X) feeling really help it i think.
like when people talk i can actually stay focused on what theyre talkinga bout, and not get distracted.
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fuckin a right man. i have these thoughts but they are like 1/10th of the magnitude as in my first post. they are still there though.
what my GUESS is is that my brain from day to day is trying to explain why its not working to its full potential.. but that very problem is preventing it from finding a valid conclusion, therefore all its own conclusions are tainted from the start. this factor which does this is the no-focus thing and not being able to keep on a straight thought pattern.. it just zigzags everywhere due to my.. add?.
Thats why i think i want to take adderol. can anyone with ADD confirm my thought loop?
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dude im way coming down. it doesnt freak me out at all. i think the x is giving me the focus i need to realize the problems which plague my every day conscious. its seeing the other side of the fence so to speak. i jsut want to see if what i say is valid to other people who have gone through the same type of thing.
*** someone asked me this: are there any behavioral symptoms that go along with your running mind?
ADHD is more than lack of ability to focus.
my reply:
meh, not really at all. the only main one is during casual conversation, i dont really follow the conversation closely in my mind, so i never have much to add. i have to be really interested in it to get more into it. if its just talking about mowing lawn stories or something, ill just zone out. then ill realize i should talk.. ill force myself to focus for about 45 seconds (which is fatiguing to me).. THEN, ill somehow remember a sweet story about mowing lawns.. ill tell it and people will laugh, then 20 seconds later im already zoning out again. then the cycle repeats. my brain doesnt seem to catch on to the fact that if its not zoning out.. i can focus on whats going on around me. i realize that, but its not changing, thats why i think its physical problem. its not like i dont know whats going on. thats also why i think my brain is trying to explain everything to itself. i am smart enough to know whats going on, but maybe some sort of physical deficit is keeping it from learning.
btw this makes it all sound really severe, its really not. i mean i act 100% normal, and im analyzing this shit a lot while im tweaking out a bit, but in my every day life the same behaviors/thinking occur, just on a way weaker level. enough to annoy me when im in conversations.
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Edited by Limelight (07/09/06 05:21 AM)
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Limelight
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Re: Are these symptoms of ADD/ADHD? [Re: Limelight]
#5837891 - 07/09/06 04:57 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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its like im given the ability to focus so i can create a non-judgmental of the situation in my head. but when im not speeded out... i cant focus enough to come to a clear conclusion, so it just spiral and spirals. not necessarily down.. just around and around.
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Re: Are these symptoms of ADD/ADHD? [Re: Limelight]
#5837893 - 07/09/06 04:58 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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then again all that shit in my post could be some random loop too.
who knows. i just want to know if someone with add who was treated by adderoll can confirm what im trying to say.. and to tell me if it goes away or not, or what can help... because simply 'not thinking about it' doesnt work. i dont have enough personal effort to get reverse effort to work.. i need aboost.
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Re: Are these symptoms of ADD/ADHD? [Re: Limelight]
#5838108 - 07/09/06 09:08 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Be careful about ADD/ADHD diagnoses.
I know 3 seperate people who went to see on psychiatrist and he pigeon-holed all of them into an ADD diagnosis. They all went on the drug therapy and their problems remained. One turned out to have full blown bi-polar disease.
Talk about a mis-diagnosis!!
Pick a physician wisely and see what their "specialty" is. If you go to a doctor that specializes in ADD, sure enough that will probably be the diagnosis from him/her.
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Re: Are these symptoms of ADD/ADHD? [Re: Left Nut City]
#5839511 - 07/09/06 04:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Left Nut City said: One turned out to have full blown bi-polar disease.
Talk about a mis-diagnosis!!
That's actually a very understandable mis-diagnosis... ADD/ADHD and bipolar disorder are very commonly mixed up, because frequently the symptoms of one can manifest themselves in ways that look like the other.
To the original poster... if you're worried about it, see a doctor. Not just a physician or a psychologist though, demand to be referred to a neurologist. They are usually the best-qualified specialists for ADD/ADHD diagnosis.
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