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Originally Posted by 27alli
I'm a 17 year old girl, and I think it is pretty likely that I have ADD. I've always been very disorganized, and I can't pay attention to lectures at school, and I always find my self noticing that someone is talking to me like half way through the sentence. At school, I feel like it always turns out I've missed something, even when I thought I was paying attention, like when the test is.
The thing is though, I've never been taken for any kind of testing, because I was a well behaved kid, and my grades aren't that bad. Ok thats not true; In elementary school, the school's reading specialist said I had an auditory processing disorder, and my mom took me to some kind of therapist a few times. But then she decided that the reading specialist diagnosed every kid with something, so it didn't count.
I think I've pretty much been able to fly under the radar, because I have a 3.4. (I think what saves most of my grades is that I'm good a memorizing) I got a 2100-ish on the sat's, and I think that I could have much better grades if I could pay attention to lectures.
So the question in all this is: Would getting evaluated do any good? The whole point would be that I could get medication which would potentially help. What usual happens? Would they prescribe me anything? And does medication even work?
Thanks for reading all that, and answering if you do.  |
You should set up an appointment with your school counselor and see what they have to say. Sometimes they have knowledge in this area and can steer you in the right direction. Females often times are the inattention type of add, where as males are often times the more hyper form of add. Getting medication can help but it is not a cure all. There are other changes that need to be made if you do in fact have it. But the only way to know is to talk to your school counselor see what they say. If not maybe bring it up to your parents about seeing a Psychiatrist/psychologist.
Couple of books you can check out to are driven to distraction and delivered from distraction by Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Ratey.