do i have ADHD?

i recently went to answers to ask what i mostlikly associate with and some i got bipolar and someone asked if i screened for ADD/ADHD, i said no and got curious so i went to the little screening test on the site, and answered everything, then i started noticing how i can't red any thing unless its interesting, how i'm always sad but then up and smiling and that i cant remember anything. and when i was done i thought i would get maybe a 12 at least but i got a 93 with "You appear to be suffering from severe attention and concentration difficulties often associated with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder" and i started thinking about what i do when i read, or what happened earlier that day, how i could follow on in class when they were reading and doing examples on active and passive sentences i had to keep asking my friend what was going on and got almost all of it wrong, or when my mom tells me how important she thinks i am.
i even asked her about ADD and she said yeah i had it because of how distracted i am, but then she said she had it, so i'm confused and think she was joking,just like with the bipolar thing, but do you think i have it enough to contact my doctor?

Yeah you sure do have adhd cause Iam just like you when I read boring books I start moving and wanna stop reading the book for school and I cannot focus like when people are speaking to me its like I dont hear them and then mind snap and I say hello and like you said when you are school you dont know what the lesson about thats how it is for me but it is best for you to see a doctor and get a proper dx good luck

aww...cool, thanks for the help and good luck to you too.

Remember, ADHD is not all bad, it just means you think differently. There are so many people with ADHD... They think Da Vinci had it, and they know Kurt Kobain had it. People with ADHD think more creatively than people without ADHD. It isn't bad always being hyper or being full of energy. If you are easily distracted that means you can more easily stop listening to somebody.

I know some of this probably sounds dumb, but I've lived to find all the positive things about having ADHD. If you think of it like that you can realize living with ADHD isn't really all that bad.

lol never looked at it like that
thanks

you welcome did you went to the doctor yet?

no its this monday that i'm going to see her

Ok let me know it goes

okay i'll post it

coolYeah I know you will be glad to get the dx so that way you can get it under control.Lol sometimes I be glad that I have adhd when the boring people come over with the longest words and you cant focus that you want be able to here what they are saying lol

lol thats the ultimate way to use it. but i'm not sure whether my therapist would even dx me, but just talk which is good too, but maybe she will he specialty is kids and she dx my mom with severe depression.
but we will wait and see over time.
thanks for the comfort

Oh thats better than nothing yeah you welcome Iam glad that I help you .Yeah because talk is better than a bunch of meds going down your throat

its official but then not officail, i have to go back and see her next week but she tinks that i may have ADD and medium depression
but she wants to futher get to know me better before making a dx or for me to be worried or get tested

Yeah that makes perfect sense .Iam glad that your doctor is getting to know you better so she can dx you good luck I enjoy sending messages to you

thank you
me too

I took the test and it said 69 and so that means moderately adhd/add so how do i get medications or anything like that what should i say to my doctor?

have you just started seeing a doctor?
you should tell him about the test and tell him/her your score and your worries about your score and what was on the test and why you think you have it. and hope that your doctor cares enough about your opinion to look further into it.

Yow welcome any tme.Do you also suffer from ocd ?I do and it makes me mad doing things that you dont even want to do.Huggs>

i dont think so. ocd is when you have to do things a certain way and cant stand certain things, that are abnormal and cause extreme stress? or is that something else? and when you obsess over something right?

you made me curious i looked it up i tried to read what they were saying about the compulsions and the ritual obsessions, and denied the possiblity.........now i'm just starting to think these tests are rigged i got 22. thats ten pionts high than the actual range to severe. i guess thats something new i should bring up this wednesday in therapy.
i always get these impulses to hurt someone., and to randomly jurk around like a robot.
i can so see how that can make you mad.

Yeap you are right about ocd it also run your life

Yeah that sucks I have the impulses and compulsivesnes and it make you having to do all of this so you want give your self a anxiety attackhuggs

i went to the therapist yesterday and she said nothing was wrong with me i dont feel that way, i feel worried, and unworthy all the time.she said i just had self esteem issues, i see that but.... i think i'm thinking to much i've been quite all day my mom and grandma are wondering whats wrong and everything.

i hope the anxiety passes for you

Though I'm already quite sure I have ADD/ADHD, I took the test and scored an 81 .

Problem is, I've brought it up to my doctor MANY times over the last two years, and she still just seems to be ignoring me. It's actually kinda really pissing me off, cause it's been affecting my school work a LOT and could have affected which colleges I could have gotten into (I'm surprised I got into one at all!).

Any ideas on how to get it through her thick, stubborn skull to listen to me???? All I'm asking for is a freakin' screening test, and it's not like I'm just wanting drugs! It's one thing to go to a new doctor, exaggerate your condition, and come out with a prescription drug to abuse or sell; it's a totally different thing to honestly complain about your symptoms for TWO F***ING YEARS and not even get a damn screening test! Sorry, I'm not happy with my pdoc right now.

i agree with you,your pdoc should take what you say into consideration, and she/he should screen you instead of ignoring you.
try going to another pdoc, a free one that knows more on ADD maybe that person would screen you and pass that information to your doc.
my doc didn't say much she just said i may have ADD but has said anything since, now she's asking me my feelings and what i do thats similar to bipolar that pisses me off, but its mostly my fault for not saying my true feelings.
another thing is that you doc may think your being desperate. try to tell her/him what you think you should do even though they dont think so. wish you luck