I may have ADD. I am just in the process of exploring the diagnosis. A few weeks ago, I was talking to my psychiatrist about my childhood difficulties with school, organization and procrastinatation and he asked me, the first time anyone has asked me, if ADD had ever been considered. I have been diagnosed bipolar, but never has ADD been suggested,

I found myself googling the diagnostic criteria and taking a quiz at psychcentral and really indentified with the symptoms and scoring highly probable for a diagnosis. Since my stepmother has ADD, I decided to talk to her about it. She 'got' everything I talked about, identified with the difficulties and the hurt of words such as 'lazy.'

I have been reading books about ADD, identifying with a lot, though not everything. I just talked to my pdoc recenty about assessment and though he doesn't specialize in Adult ADD he is going to talk to his collegues that do and hopefully we can set up and assessment soon. He doesn't want to perscribe stimulants without an assessment due to my bipolar disorder, which I understand.

I worry about the cost of assessment though. If I were currently a student I might be able to get the government to pay for it, but I am not willing to go back to school until I understand why I have such difficulties in it. Whether I am or am not ADD, knowing would be wonderful. And if I am, treatment would be even more wonderful.