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Originally Posted by Werewoman
I have the same diagnoses for the same reason you do. I am always hypervigilant but not always hyperactive. If there's a connection, I've never noticed it, though now that I think about it, when I am hyperactive, I don't think I am quite as hypervigilant as usual. Does that make sense? 
I am supersensitive to others feelings and do not always respond appropriately either. I think that's more symptomatic of ADHD than PTSD.
I'm assuming you've been formally diagnosed by at least one psychiatrist with this, if not, you need to be tested. For what it's worth, I wasn't diagnosed until I was over 40 so you seem to be way ahead in the game compared to me.  |
I am so confused right now. One pdoc diagnosed ADHD without doing any tests. I gave her my history. One psychologist diagnosed BPD AND said I did NOT have ADD because she did do some testing. I gave her hardly any history.
I may not have ADHD and I may not have BPD. I was abused as a child and I am very hypervigilant. I use soothing behavior like rocking myself to sleep and rock all day in a rocking chair (habit) and maybe I am just traumatized from childhood. Then I went into medicine where there was chaos, trauma and lots of death. I had a nervous breakdown after 15 years of it. I was an RT who covered the ICU and ER. I was part of the code team. (airway management) and I saw a lot of trauma. That didn't help me to calm down from my abusive childhood at all. Now I am hyperaroused and startle easily and am restless most of the time. I don't know what all this fits into, really.