[WeAreNeverUnited]

I saw a previous thread that made a bulleted list on some things they did to make it seem like they might have this ADHD.

Personally, I think I might have had symptoms since I was a younger child and always labeled myself as an introvert with poor social skills.

1. I tend to have racing thoughts, read textbooks in random chunks, start drifting during conversation and tests, speak in mass paragraphs, and somehow make it seem logical. It took me a while, but I honed the skill to utilize the thinking ability as a different approach to communication, interpretation, and analysis.

2. I can stay focused even when drinking a quart of heavy dark coffee. This might be my built in tolerance, but I feel as if coffee calms me down and I feel more relaxed when I drink substances like tea. Other caffienieated drinks and sometimes alcohol doesn't really get me in a sort of high, but rather lets me sleep easier.

3. I tend to move a lot, especially when I am bored. I'm used to moving my muscles in constant contraction. When I was a child, I tried to play a game to see how fast I could move myself, because I felt as if I had to just move to tire myself. However, nowadays, if I'm not the one talking, I'm usually vibrating my feet or hands, or watching my imaginary plane take off of the wallpaper.

4. I tend to see, hear, and think a lot of things, all at once, and none of them related. I used to think that I had a different learning style, so I would be able to read a sentence from my book, look up, admire the pretty light bulb, and go back to read another sentence. Going fast to finish the book, I sped up this process, that I do this a lot now. I can focus on more than one thing at a time, because I'm switching tasks so fast.

5. I am always rushing, no stop, must always be on the go, even if the guy in front of me is ordering his favorite Subway sandwich. I like to go fast. Usually it's because I need something to be finished, or else I can get pretty antsy. Also, in lines (I hate lines), people are super slow and really get me annoyed when they take their time, especially when they are explaining what they want to the cashier, who I just turn to and tell them what the guy wants.

6. I sometimes speak over excessively and like to ponder our existence. Well I am a teenager, so that accounts for most of my talking, but once I get thinking, there's no stopping me. And if you can't reach the point fast enough, I'll tell you the point and hope that you can catch up to the next topic.

7. This list is quite big. Just like the piles of stuff everywhere, but of course I know where everything is. Just ask me.

So according to all the provisional experts, does anyone think I might have an inkling of some anxiety disorder?

[-jimi-]

I have ADD only, but, when I read text books I don't read them straight through, I read a little here and there and then my mind will piece it together. In a way I do that with a lot of things. When I did school work like essays I never started from the start and finished and it was done. I wrote a little here and there and it came together. I have no idea how to even do things like that in a different manner.

[elevatedsoul]

thats a nice list if you do have ADHD

its hard for me to stay on point

the tricky thing about adhd seems to be that it symptoms overlap with other disorders, so the doc probably will try to see if you have anything else before the ADHD?

anxiety and depression can cause attention and memory problems too ... i think ADHD is called a diagnosis of exclusion; which basically means they go through the checklist for other things and if adhd is the last one standing then viola, obviously every doc can do it differently though..

for me i have a lot of memory problems... my working memory isn't working very well...
ill stand up to go do or get something and not know what i was gonna do, so i sit back down and few minutes later i remember and go do it and blabla
reading is horrendous for me... even with things i enjoy, i just start daydreaming in the middle of a paragraph and think about random stuff while im still scanning the page so i have to back track and find where i was ... annoying stuff like that...

but it could be any mental disorder really, adhd is finicky .. if thats the right word im thinking of (pernickety??)