Do you have, or know any adults with ADD or ADHD?!
Question: Do you have, or know any adults with ADD or ADHD?
Answers:
It depends. If I side with traditional 1990s psychiatry and look at the symptoms, I have them all. However, based on the Jungian personality typology which measures 8 variables (introversion (I), extroversion (E), intuition (N), sensing (S), thinking (T), feeling (F), perceiving (P), and judging (J)), I'm a textbook INTP. Here's a good description: http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html
It's sort of like multi-tasking but you can only think of half your tasks at any given point in time, all the while stupid things that bother no one else bother the living daylights out of you. For example, a person walking around a room while I take an exam, more than 1 person talking at once, the tiniest noise that everyone else is able to ignore.
Regardless of the "cause", I manage my inability to concentrate and my tangent-like thinking by :
1. Accepting it for what it is. I've always thought this way, and it does have benefits, especially when it comes to insights or new solutions to problems. This really shows because I'm an Ecologist. I don't work in a structured environment.
2. Explaining to others the way I think/operate to some degree.
3. Resorting to medication as needed (concerta, depakote) when stress levels become too high and I absolutely cannot concentrate (and start to do stupid things out of frustration). There is a definite correlation with stress.
I worked with a new nurse, who didn't want to accept the degree it was impacting his ability to do his job.
He was bored easily at his first job, but broke a contract to leave that job after only 1 of 2 years, costing him $20,000.
Then he jumped into an ICU job, and was way over his head. He couldn't manage the demands of the job, and was shuffled to IMC after 6 month orientation. He then left there, after another 6 months or so.
His next position lasted 3 months.
He now does contract nursing.
Just met a lady last week and when she told me she has ADHD i could not believe! she was totally normal! I personally think yes there are SOME people that has it. But it's definaly Not the amount the Doctors says there are there... they get commisssions...