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Old Mar 10, 2016, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by elevatedsoul View Post
glad you are getting the test
hopefully it will explain whats really going on - the psychologist i talked to seemed really confident in the results for me... feel much better accepting his diagnosis than the last few 15 min evaluations i had with pdoc (especially that bipolar dx)

when i was in school i was in advanced classes... was usually a straight a student but would get the random D or C because of ... well who knows - guess i just wasnt paying attention or something...

but because of the other things i have going on i ended up screwing up - grades went from As to Ds and i dropped out because i was overwhelmed... tried homeschooling for some years but lost motivation on that too

kind of wished that i could of gotten help as a kid so that maybe i wouldn't of made so many... mistakes i guess...

guess the main thing to keep in mind is that it can be difficult to diagnos ADHD...
i was reading about it the other day, i think they called it an "diagnosis of exclusion" meaning that they go through the list and try to see if it is anything else before diagnosing adhd - and if they cant pin it on something else directly then you get the diagnosis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_of_exclusion

so hopefully this complete evaluation will narrow it down and pinpoint exactly whats going on...

he diagnosed me with somatization disorder and i had never even heard of that before :/ so maybe even if its not adhd - maybe can help you find some relief

Thanks for the reply [emoji3]. I know I get directed by anxiety a lot. But I know that random things distract me too. I know I have no motivation to do work. I can't concentrate. I have bad time management and organization. And I hope my assessment does well. I hope I don't have to wait a month for the results... I'm so worried about it.

Social anxiety disorder, GAD, OCD, and panic attacks

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