Is ADHD part of your life?

Question

1. How old are you?
2. Male or female?
3. Were you given tests to determine that you are ADHD?
4. Are you taking Medication? If not Why? Give all information.
5. Are you working? How Long?
6. Do you think you are different from your peers?
7. Do others seem to learn faster, better, easier then you?
8. Do you think that having ADHD has been harmful in any aspects of your life?

Answer 1

1. 13
2. Female
3. I can't really remember I was 8 when I was Diagnosed, but I was looking back on some papers the other day and I was being eveluwated and I was given a Connors behavrile cheack lest and a I.Q. test and some other things that I can not remember.
4. No because my dad doed not belive in the meds. although me mom is taking Ritlen. Given the chance I dont thing I would take the meds. but I would try all of the other treatments that are aviable. My faimly ignors the fact that a have a proublem, even though my grades a horrible.
5. No...well Im in jr. high
6. Yes sometimes I feel like a out cast and I feel unloved, but I have maney great friends that help me.
7. I think I learn fast but I have trouble organizing it into my brain and writhing stuff out on paper. I also get confussed eaisly and the my brain is just like a t.v. that is always flipping through the channles...all the time.
8. Not really...sometimes I do play rough and stuff but I have never caused and serios acedents or any thing.

Im sorry for any spelling/grammer mastacks that I tryped...

Answer 2

Is ADHD part of your life? yes (ADD, not ADHD)
1. How old are you? 33
2. Male or female? female
3. Were you given tests to determine that you are ADHD? Yes, i was tested by a ADD?ADHD specialist.
4. Are you taking Medication? If not Why? Yes, i am currently taking aderral. It is the best one I have found so far. I was diagnosed at 19, and started with Ritalin, it did nothing, then took Dexedrine for years until adderal was available.
5. Are you working? How Long? I have my BA in Psychology and and MBA. I am a working wife and mother, and have always worked even through my pregnancy when i was not taking medication.
6. Do you think you are different from your peers? I may perceive the world differently, and filter information differently, but is a diabetic different from their peers?
7. Do others seem to learn faster, better, easier then you? No, I actually experience people being slower, and less up front, probably due to the fact that people with ADD fail to notice social cues therefore they tend to be more abrasive to others.
8. Do you think that having ADHD has been harmful in any aspects of your life? It was not harmful, but rather being undiagnosed was harmful. Finally at 19 being told that I wasn't lazy, or stupid gave me the self confidence to reach my goals.

Answer 3

I'm wondering if this is part of a survey. Ah, who cares? :-)

1) 36.44 Earth solar years
2) Biologically male (I let you think about the rest)
3) Nope. The very first time I saw a psychiatrist, she had me diagnosed within a few minutes. Funny that no one else picked up on that.
4) Give ALL information? That might take too long. Suffice to say that I'm taking Strattera 60 mg twice a day, supplemented with Wellbutrin XL 300 mg once daily.
5) Right now, I'm answering this question. :-) However, I am employed full-time, having been at my current position for 6.20 Earth solar years.
6) Most definitely.
7) Unlikely. I routinely score in the 140s on IQ tests and am a member of Mensa, having scored in at least the 98th percentile on their admissions test. I do have some intellectual weaknesses, but I generally am perceived as being on the brighter end of the intelligence scale.
8) I would say yes. I think that before my diagnosis, I've encountered roadblocks that have hindered certain desired goals. I believe that having ADHD made dealing with graduate school very difficult. Three years after diagnosis, I'm still working out a large number of issues from the past.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

1 36
2 f
3 it was an all day test and I pass the test with flying colors.
4 I am taking medication, but i refused ritalion and the others where I get bad migranes as well as i'm on celexa already and that's working
5 No, i am not working I am also phycially handicapped do to a car accident which injuried my back severly
6. I don't think i'm different.. I'm just trying to get by everyday of my life just like that can
7. Yes, others seem to learn better then I do, Sometimes it takes me longer where as I have dyslexia and I don't let my inablities stop me from learning.
8. No, because I am having it treated. I will never let and illness or mental fraction rule my life. my life is my own and what I make of it.

Answer 5

1. Mid-twenties.
2. Female
3. Yes, many from a psychiatrist
4. Yes, Concerta. Started at 18mg. went up to 54 mg. over a few months
5. I've been working for at least ten years, 40 hours a week full time job.
6. Yeah, whereas some of my peers can study for a test in ten minutes and ace it I have to agonize over it for hours, so it inhibits my social life cause I have to stay in more.
7. Yes, but my medication helps a great deal, I learn things faster, absorb them more and retain them. I dont know what Id do without it.
8. Before treatment, it was harmful in ALL aspects. Relationships, school, work. Treatment is the key.

Answer 6

no