Does everyone have A.D.D??
 

Or is it just an excuse to not listen anymore?
Seems like everybody I talk to says they have a "serious case of a.d.d."

Who here on GFY has been diagnosed with and/or takes medication to treat a.d.d?

I'm starting not to buy this a.d.d. thing anymore :disgust

Yes, now I have to take my medication.

Equilibrium foreshadow.

My old roomate always said he had it, but he didn't even take meds for it. Dude can't even watch a movie without getting up and walking around and shit. It's obnoxious.

Sorry i wasn't listening can you say that again ?

Everyone who has an IPOD has ADD. You ever try to talk to these people lately? Like talking to a brick...

Is it ADD or is it just a case of some people being so self-involved they can no longer focus on what others are saying anymore?

I know a few like that.

serious business

I have A.d.h.d just b/c you have ADD doesn't mean you can't pay attention. I can actually pay attention to many things at once but when the original thing I'm supposed to be paying attention to bores me, I tune out. I don't take meds for it. Just learned how to copewith it by finding things that stimulate/calm me in different ways.

reading books about existentialism calms me..bartending allows me to do many things at once without being rude altho I fidget a lot. Can't sit still for extended periods of time.

Many ppl claim they have it but it needs to be defined as to the extremity and many dr's are too quick to prescribe meds..it doesn't do anything but make ppl stoned or in a zombie state imo

some ppl just dont' know how to cope with it so they are al over the place.

this is my thought exactly! Coupled with the fact that we live in a time where we wait for nothing, and if we do have to wait, we flip out. No patience anymore, so in the same respect, people also lack the patience to listen or comprehend.
I blame technology and selfishness.

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What she said...

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I have been diagnosed as having ADHD. I'm not on the meds yet, but only because I actively refuse them. I've had a few days lately that have had me considering the alternatives. Usually I just relax and take a bong hit...but self medicating ain't cuttin' it these days.

Selfishness moreso than anything, I suspect. Me, I was raised to listen politely when someone is talking, and once they are done or have completed their thought or made their point THEN it's my turn.

By that token I despise those who interrupt you. And there are so many of those types out there these days as well. They can't find it within themselves to let someone finish what they were saying.

Good explanation, thanks for sharing that :)
And I agree with you 100% on the Dr's prescribing stuff too quickly without really evaluating.

ADHD here
do not take meds for it anymore
Discovered that weed does just as good a job as the Risperidal the doc had me to taking.

THAT is more accurate than anything. You're right people just don't give a fuck. It's not ADD, it's just a case of not caring enough to comprehend and digest what someone says.

I was going to read this thread, but I was distracted by a piece of string on my desk.

ADD comes from letting the TV babysit your young ones. Too much over stimulus. I don't believe it is something one is born with like autism, I believe it is something that is trained into the brain through too much mental stimulating. And people are to busy nowadays worrying about their own petty self involved lives to pay much attention to important things. This is the way the "system" was designed and it is working great! :mad:

A.D.D. is a very real illness, that for most of time has gone undiagnosed in most people who had A.D.D., because it has only been in recent years that it has been researched. What's unfortunate is that a lot of people see the t.v. ads by the pharmacy companies who list symptons that are pretty common in most people, and then automatically diagnose themselves with A.D.D without being diagnosed by a psychatrist.

I think the term ADD is thrown around so loosely nowadays that it's become somewhat synonymous with someone who's just not completely focused all the time and serious about everything. It seems almost trendy to say you have it and laugh about it. I was diagnosed with it in my young teen years. I never took meds and instead my parents put me into a private school where the class sizes were a little smaller and where I'd be able to get more attention from the profs. Throughout the years, and with a lot of hard work I went from being a pretty poor and scatterbrained student to getting a 4.0 gpa in university and then a masters degree. I gradually grew out of it / learned to cope with it.

Anyways, at the very least, the whole phenomenon of the recently very popular real or 'imagined' ADD, is quite interesting.

Great approach by your parents!
I had a friend who said he was also diagnosed as a kid, and his mother never put him on meds, she refused. I have to say, he does not seem ADHD AT ALL from anything I can see.
I think he was just kind of a hyper kid.
This goes back to what Odie had said about Dr's prescribing things so quickly.
Just like Docs who prescribe antibiotics for a cold ... it makes no sense. I had this discussion with my Nurse friends the other day as well.

I guarantee you that no one who questions ADD has to live with it.
It's easy to judge what you will never understand... and you can't really understand it until you have to live with it.

I don't think any of my threads have ever gotten a "Mikey says" ... this is an exciting first for me:thumbsup

A friend of the family has a kid who was diagnosed with ADD by all his teachers and counsellors in grade 1. The doc didn't put him on meds, but recommended he have less sugar in his diet. He calmed right down! Turns out he has a very severe hyperactivity reaction to sugar. So don't feed him Frosted Flakes and he's a normal kid again.

And a few in here have done a pretty good job explaining what it is really like. I certainly am not meaning to judge. I guess my point is that EVERYONE seems to claim it & use it in passing these days.
If I truly had been diagnosed & suffered from any illness, it would irritate me if others used that same illness as an excuse all the time when they certainly didn't have reason to.

But it also brings me back to me back to the other half of my question which is, are you born with this sort of thing, or is it learned or brought on by things such as TV etc?
Anyone who has been diagnosed here have their Doctor speculate on that part of it? Please share.

yup totally agree with you there Sarah! they tried to put me on the meds but my parents' never allowed me to stay home from school let alone take meds. There were other kids I grew up with who were on the meds and they were just stoned all the time. They never learned to function as a "normal" human being. Kinda sad.

I was the same as Ben, smaller private schools with "special" tutors for each subject and different tests for me to write as I was "dyslexic" when it came to writing tests. Turned out in high school that I was actually smarter than my "peers" and ended up fast tracking my way graduating at 16 instead of 18.

It's too bad tho that it has been mis-diagnosed or not done at all in some kids. Many have been labelled as the "bad kid" or "stupid kid" only b/c he couldn't focus, got lost in the mix and don't amount to much in life.:(

An excuse.... and a reason for the drug companies to sell more drugs... seriously... they have drugs for anything and everything these days...

either that, depression. social anxiety disorder, seasonal depression disorder .. anything to sell a product for the pharma's .. socialized healthcare = soma for everyone