Does it sound like i have ADD (no hyperactivity)?!


Question: Does it sound like i have ADD (no hyperactivity)?
im a 14 year old female

im very spacey, always zoning out, i cant pay attention ever,even my friends say im spacey

im disorganized, always forgeting asignments

i cant retain information

im very forgetful,alot of times i cant remember what im saying, like at this very moment, i cant think of most of my symptoms

i get confused easily

i have NO motivation to do anything,

i read things, and i dont understand them. its like it doesnt make sense

i often forget directions or do them wrong

and probably a lot more but i cant think of them

also ive never really done well in school, always known i learned differently, felt i didnt learn as well, and i still feel that..

please answer.. thanks

Answers:

Do you forget what your saying in the middle of saying it too? In high school i could read whole chapters over and over again and get to the end and not even been able to recall one part of what i had just read. I have to set reminders on my phone, or leave post it notes everywhere so i remember stuff.

I know exactly how you feel. No one else quite understands what i mean by "spacey". I am now 30, but this had been happening to me for a while. I have been on ADD meds for almost 10 years. They always worked at first and then once i got used to them i'd be spacey again, so i'd stop for a few months, and go back on them when i couldn't tolerate the extreme spaceyness and they'd work for a little while and then plateau again. Every time i went to the doctors i couldn't remember what my symptoms were, so i never brought them up and kept taking the ADD meds. Then in like October i was at my gyno's and i had asked her some questions thinking it could be my pill or thyroid, and she put me on anti-depressants (there is no way i ever would have thought i was depressed really, i just thought i became less fun because i was an adult now) and they have been working really good so far. i'm not nearly as spacey as i was, and i have a lot more "get off the couch and do something" in me then i have possibly ever. and i have actually become a lot more social (for me that was huge, i used to hate talking to people because i'd forget my sentence in the middle of saying it, and if what they had to say didn't interest me, then i couldn't pay attention).

I just went through a bunch of psychological tests to see if it was something else, i haven't gotten the results back yet, but if there is some info i get that i think could help you i'll post an update.

I hope this helped a little, I'd talk to your doctor and they may be able to help point you in the right direction too.

-Jill



Someone with ADD couldn't ask this question. I'm serious, they can't sit down and right something this long. They would have gotten distracted or just left about a third into this.




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