Posted by mattdds on December 16, 2002, at 9:38:47
In reply to Re: How do I bring this up to my doc?, posted by viridis on December 16, 2002, at 3:04:49
Hi Viridis,
You mentioned "neuropsychiatric" testing for ADD. This was interesting to me - I had never heard of anything like that. What do these tests consist of? Is it just a battery of questions? I would like to take one of these tests.
I wondered for a long time if I have some of the symptoms of ADD. I have taken the questionairre-type tests, and I test negative. For example, my attention span is excellent (unless I'm very anxious or depressed), and I am the polar opposite of impulsive. But I do lose or misplace things quite often (usually I'm thinking about something else that's "much more important" when setting something down), and feel like the entropy of living sets in easily for me. For example, I am really streaky about keeping things tidy. I also got a lot of "not living up to potential" feedback on childhood report cards. My second grade teacher even had me take an IQ test, which turned out quite high. But I did not achieve that much in school. However, as an adult now, I am in dental school and am in the top 20%.
So I'm wondering if one of these "neuropsych" tests might be more sensitive / accurate? Maybe a lot of my anxiety is from undiagnosed ADD? Or maybe I get ADD-like symptoms from anxiety.
I sure do like the feeling of pstims. I never had a prescription, but I bummed a few off a friend with ADD while in undergrad. It made me feel like I could tune out all the peripheral noise and really study. I also felt like I could sit very still. But don't they do this to even non-ADD'ers?
Well, this post itself is starting to sound ADD!
Thanks,
Matt
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