It is an illuminating artical. I wasn't sure why some therapists were reluctant to diagnosis people who had the obvious symptoms that are common with ADD , Im getting a bit clearer. I Don't know how interupting people can be a symptom of trama .
not for me .

I interupt because I can't hold onto ideas that ccome to me when another person is talking . If i don't say them I loose them .

has nothig to do with trauma. or the dissociation of trauma.
Thats looking at just one inconveince of gettimg distracted , not to mention linking from one idea to the next getting side tracked from the original question or idea being adressed . not to mention visual distractions .. i mean seeing a red chair while taliking to someone and suddenly reminded of thats the same color of my sweater oh geepers I forgot its in the dryer .. kind of distraction . that too is not a result of trauma.

and yes others do these kinds of things in thier minds , but not ten to twenty times a day.

why am i typing this .

is a good question because it just doesn't seem to matter when it comes to ME ..
I went into therapy today with the thought I wanted to just focus on ADHD and would accept nothing else /
gave her the name of the document to look up/

had a discussion aboout seeing a phychiatrist. her concern about me going through a long interveiw .
she then said that the theory behid PSTD and adhd symptoms is that if there has been trauma it alters the brain chemistry over time and that is what causes the symptoms .
and mindfulness work can repair the brain chemistry.

she said She thinks I shoud work on the pstd . She knows PSTD . this is fine but I don't by that this wil help me with my symptoms.

Because Ive been working on all of this
FOREVER!

its not getting better . ( just a reminder ,. I live in my body and my head and guess what .. I know my self .. better than any one }

I just need to find someone who agrees with me )

she then said she thought she had adhd too.

this is great . if she does . but I doubt her husband and children could live in her home if it were like mine.

my symptoms are distressig and cumulative.

and as i left . i smashed the front of my truck on some quide poles . didn;t take much . just a slow bend . Lost in thought . of got to get to work who knows the usual .

so im at my bottom with this .
i am

Al I want is to be given the chance to try the adhd meds . because those ARE my symptoms and they are all day every day .

Im tiired .

i just to try somethig that may help me as its helping others .
why can;t I get it

why does everone else get meds?

why some many years practicing drug addicts get the meds and not me ?

someone whos been clean of all addictions except accumulating projects .

im beyond agngry

im just real DAM sad. and im gonna cry as much as I want.about it

If I didn't share I had a trauma back ground

maybe Id have a better chance at being heard.

Maybe if I had money or insurance I could go to a therapist who specilizes in adhd .

Ive never had either since 1986.

Im gonna keep standing for what I know to be true I won't take anything else

and if I don;t get help then i just will have to continue to suffer..

Patricia