Posted by Sonya on August 15, 2005, at 13:49:17
My 25 yr old son recently told me he's having difficulty at work understanding what coworkers are saying to him because he gets too distracted. He said he now realizes this happened frequently when he was in school and the teacher was talking, he'd zone out and end up studying on his own to learn what he could've learned in class if he'd paid attention. Fortunately, he's pretty intelligent so he managed to succeed in school and also does well at his current job as a systems analyst.
But he now thinks he's had attention deficit disorder all his life and thinks he may benefit from a drug for ADD. I'm worried about him taking amphetamine-like drugs because I have addiction issues and he may have inherited that from me. He's also like me in that he's fairly anxious, always biting his nails.
I recommended he see my pdoc for a diagnosis and medicine, but now I wish I hadn't. Maybe I should've discouraged him from considering taking anything?
I'm just so worried he'll become addicted.
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