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Old Jul 12, 2011, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Jennshark View Post
However, there have also been stretches of my life that have been good and relatively free of anxiety/depression/non-focus/procrastination, etc. I'm quite a controlled person (people tell me I always seem very calm and collected); is it possible to overcompensate and cope in ways that sometimes beat the problems back for a while?
There are definitely ways to compensate for certain things that go along with ADD/ADHD. I'm also a very controlled person and a lot of people do not know that I struggle with anxiety or depression, because they really don't know what goes on in my head.

I'm 19 and last year I went to see the counselor at my college about my anxiety and she told me that she thought I had ADD, but up until then I hadn't really thought about it seriously. She told be that I compensated up until then by being intelligent (I'm in the honors program, Dean's List, etc.) Looking back I see how it did make a lot of things in school harder than they should have been for me.

So, I think it is really easy to keep certain symptoms at bay, but just because they are not always apparent or obvious does not mean they are not there.
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