So I always believed that I was just lazy and always denied that I had ADD, but now that I grow older, I feel as though I actually may have ADD. I always considered myself as an intelligent person, but I just don't as such anymore. So I looked up online of all the symptoms, but I have some and I dont have as much too.

I marked all the ones I think I have or do have.


The marked ones are the ones I believe I have. I used to have some more symptoms, but as I grew older, I don't really have them anymore (i.e. fidgeting, have trouble behaving in social places and short temper)

Obviously, I dont have to have all these symptoms in order to be diagnosed with ADD, but some are just the complete opposite. Such as, I am very organized, I take deadlines very seriously, I manage time very well, I don't EVER lose things and I dont have mood swings.

Even with these, I feel as though adderall could possibly help me. I am not looking for an excuse to take adderalls, bc I don't enjoy taking them too much. I don't necessary enjoy the feeling, plus I feel like a helpless person taking one. Only thing I want is to be more productive everyday and not get lazy and I feel as though I am mentally strong enough to control myself. When I took it in the past, adderall just simply kept me awake to do more things. I still ate, I didn't get too wired. I just felt more productive.


Please let me know if you have any experience with ADD or can suggest the next step for me.

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hm i guess i score like 90% on that list

what to do next?

Just accept: Being human means you have many aspects of many "psychological disorders", and if you want to try fixing them with medication that is up to you. I was taking mood stabilizers for supposed bipolar/OCD/anxiety disorder/depression a month ago and I stopped taking it because it wasn't doing much for me. Then I realized the environment I was in was making me mentally unstable and now that I'm out of that environment I'm doing much better.

This is true. Everyone is weird in their own way.
I'm the only normal person I know.

Keep improving until you get 100%.
Then try a more challenging disorder.
Eventually, when you feel you are ready, you can try for Munchausen's.

Symptoms of mental illness are always vague, ambiguous, and almost always present if you go looking for them. They are manifestations of natural human emotions that get extenuated, heightened, or lessened for periods of time by a variety of reasons. I don't think anybody could take an ADD test and not score some %. It's all a spectrum... Personally, I think ADD is the most over-diagnosed mental illness in the world.

Don't look for an excuse to take amphetamines long term - what you've written above is how every drug addiction starts: you say "want to be more productive everyday", but you could also insert "want to feel happier" or "want to feel more confident" or "want to escape from a ****ty life" or <insert every other excuse here>.

I'm pretty sure had I been born 15-20 years later; with the ADHD symptoms listed above and my bad behaviour when I was at school, I would have been diagnosed with ADHD... Fast forward another 15-20 years and they'll probably be another theory and they'll look back at the current age and tut-tut about how bad it was to give people amphetamines long term (you just have to look back over the last 50 years of medical history and you'll see this phenomenon repeat again and again...).

Juk

I just watched a documentary on netflix about ADD/ADHD. It's pretty scary to see a panel of "ADD doctors" all unable to produce a response on what constitutes an ADD patient.

ADD is bs, there is no such thing. It's a means for pharm companies to make money off a previously untapped market (kids). Incidentally ADD meds end up giving a lot of symptoms that would be considered ADD.

Generation Rx I think it was called, excellent movie.

hey, i have this and take ritalin to run good at poker

not true. i am a physic academic, and myself have the disease. ive read many books, and actually talked to many professors, that could explain clearly that ADD people do not think.. standard.

of course there are some advantages of being ADD, like being more creative(think outside the box) or having better artistic skills.

and i go to the shrink periodically. hes the best in my town and i can tell you that the treatment is going well until now

Of the books you've read is there any you would recommend for helping someone with ADD deal with it?

You and me both. Like seriously almost everything.

periphial vision

I have add but im able to focus for 12 to 16 hour stretches playing cards though.