[Jiys]

Is having constant conversations in your head part of ADD/ADHD? as long as I can remember I've always had conversations in my mind with people, etc. I'm a very shy person but I talk to myself all the time in my head. I can't even read a book for 5. Minutes if I don't want to. Key words will trigger me talking to people. An example would be me reading maybe an article in the newspaper about idk maybe a new medicine that just came out. If it would ask me a question I would automatically start to talk to myself. Even if there is no question, most of the time it is completely unrelated. The first time that this became apparent to me was about a year ago. My mom was going to take me to my doctor about being medicated for ADD and depression. I began to talk to myself, ask myself questions about how I felt and why I felt like I needed them. One part of me was the doctor talking to me about why I needed them and the other part was me answering the questions. idk why it just hit me all of a sudden, but I then realized that I've been doing that my entire life. Sometimes I would become completely lost in thought and be separated from reality, in my own little world, jumping between conversation to conversation. The only things that keep me from doing this is when I play games, play the drums or some other musical instrument, exercising, my medication, or some other mind- destracting activity. This is really becoming a problem because I can't concentrate in school and I have no control over it. I can't always be on my medication because I loose my appetite and I feel weird because I'm not used to my mind being so quiet. Any help? anyone else have this problem? Any answers will be more than appreciated

[slowinmi]

Originally Posted by Jiys

Is having constant conversations in your head part of ADD/ADHD? as long as I can remember I've always had conversations in my mind with people, etc. I'm a very shy person but I talk to myself all the time in my head. I can't even read a book for 5. Minutes if I don't want to. Key words will trigger me talking to people. An example would be me reading maybe an article in the newspaper about idk maybe a new medicine that just came out. If it would ask me a question I would automatically start to talk to myself. Even if there is no question, most of the time it is completely unrelated. The first time that this became apparent to me was about a year ago. My mom was going to take me to my doctor about being medicated for ADD and depression. I began to talk to myself, ask myself questions about how I felt and why I felt like I needed them. One part of me was the doctor talking to me about why I needed them and the other part was me answering the questions. idk why it just hit me all of a sudden, but I then realized that I've been doing that my entire life. Sometimes I would become completely lost in thought and be separated from reality, in my own little world, jumping between conversation to conversation. The only things that keep me from doing this is when I play games, play the drums or some other musical instrument, exercising, my medication, or some other mind- destracting activity. This is really becoming a problem because I can't concentrate in school and I have no control over it. I can't always be on my medication because I loose my appetite and I feel weird because I'm not used to my mind being so quiet. Any help? anyone else have this problem? Any answers will be more than appreciated

Hi Jiys and welcome to PC! I can't speak for everyone and I'm certainly not an expert, but my mind is usually spinning rapidly and sometimes I have conversations. This has been going on since I was a child and I'm now a middle-aged adult. When I was younger, I would have conversations with myself as you are doing but now that I'm older I usually try to practice something that may be stressful for me in my mind - like speaking in front of others (even brief times make me nervous). You're kind of already doing this when you think about going to the doctor. You're probably thinking of questions he/she may ask and how you're going to respond. It sounds like the hard part for you may be that these happen during school, etc. and distraction of various sorts is typical for ADD/ADHD people.

You don't say if you've tried other things, but there are others types of medication for ADD that don't make you lose your appetite. If possible, you may want to ask your mom if you could try a different med. I hope you find an answer that works for you. Take care, slow

[Jiys]

Thank you this helps a lot