[jivangilad]

I am 38 men.
Since primary school, I remember I have not been attentive.
It is dangerous since I forget myself while driving etc. I forget my little children,
and they can each dangerous situations.
It also upsets and stresses my wife much. Others make fun of it.
Also people tell me I look disconnected.
Besides the danger, also forgetting myself, causes me to drop things etc.
I do think that I have improved much, with a lot of effort, though since my twenties, and I also became much more organised.
I also dealt with and improved emotional and social issues during this time.
Otherwise, I am a programmer, and I don't find it difficult, to work.
So it seems to me that the problem is that I forget where I am, and what I am doing, and I don't pay attention to the important aspects of what is happening, and I think a lot.

My main concern is how not to risk myself and others in dangerous situations.

Also I wonder if I became inattentive, due to emotional difficulties, and loneliness, because, I don't think I was like this before the age of six, although I am not completely sure. or was I born like this.
Once I met a psychologist and he told me that emotional intensity causes me to be inattentive.
I wonder if attention can be improved or cured.
Also I am upset with myself when this things happen.
Actually only lately I realized that the problem I was suffering so much is ADD, and I would like to hear advice.

[avlady]

I think you could be having symptoms of ADD, but I'm not a doctor or T, it could possibly be, i think i have it myself, i have almost everything in the book. I also have hypothroidism, maybe you should be checked for that too?

[jivangilad]

I don't know what could be the benefit, of asking a doctor about it.
All my life people told me I am inattentive, and I feel it myself.
Can they offer anything to help?

[montanan4ever]

The kind of help doctors can offer varies depending upon the country in which you live and how your culture/s define such things as ADD. I can only speak from experience in the USA and Germany that there, you could get medical and neuropsychological evaluations that could provide differential diagnoses for what ails you.

If you do indeed have ADD, the best treatment strategies in both countries are typically believed to involve both medications and cognitive behavioral therapy.