Post by carolyn on Jul 28, 2005 21:38:49 GMT -5
Hi,
My name is Carolyn
Im a bit tired so I will hopefully make this short.
Im 34yrs old. My recent boyfriend has ADHD. He strongly believes I have ADD which is the stem of my problems with an eating disorder, ocd, and deppression. Sometimes I thought he was right. Other times I wondered if he just put his own issues on me.
well, ive been looking at going back to school to finish the degree I never completed 11yrs ago (EEEKS!). WhenI made the decision to do this I started freaking out....how am I going to SIT through classes? I CANT write papers! Will I get bored and quit?etc I found a place who offered to give me testing for ADD at a great discount (I have no insurance). The idea behind it is to help me figure out how to get through school and allow me to get whatever extra help I need.
I started the testing today and itwas sooooo hard. I felt so stupid most of the time. I knew what I needed to do during some of the tests but I would forget what needed to be done in the middle of it or unable to transfer the information. It was soooooo frustrating. I know this was "child like" but during one of the last computer tests I got so frustrated that I didnt even try to find the answers ("this is to that" as "that is tothis"), I just did the 'ol eenie meanie miney mo trick (I told them what I did).
Im just wondering if there are others out there who have taken the diagnostic tests and if its normal to feel so emotionally terrible (stupid) and mentally drained?
I have another testing next week plus I have some more paperwork to finish upwith.
Iget my results on Sept 3.
Thanks for listening
My name is Carolyn
Im a bit tired so I will hopefully make this short.
Im 34yrs old. My recent boyfriend has ADHD. He strongly believes I have ADD which is the stem of my problems with an eating disorder, ocd, and deppression. Sometimes I thought he was right. Other times I wondered if he just put his own issues on me.
well, ive been looking at going back to school to finish the degree I never completed 11yrs ago (EEEKS!). WhenI made the decision to do this I started freaking out....how am I going to SIT through classes? I CANT write papers! Will I get bored and quit?etc I found a place who offered to give me testing for ADD at a great discount (I have no insurance). The idea behind it is to help me figure out how to get through school and allow me to get whatever extra help I need.
I started the testing today and itwas sooooo hard. I felt so stupid most of the time. I knew what I needed to do during some of the tests but I would forget what needed to be done in the middle of it or unable to transfer the information. It was soooooo frustrating. I know this was "child like" but during one of the last computer tests I got so frustrated that I didnt even try to find the answers ("this is to that" as "that is tothis"), I just did the 'ol eenie meanie miney mo trick (I told them what I did).
Im just wondering if there are others out there who have taken the diagnostic tests and if its normal to feel so emotionally terrible (stupid) and mentally drained?
I have another testing next week plus I have some more paperwork to finish upwith.
Iget my results on Sept 3.
Thanks for listening
) Anyway he wrote another book called Driven to Distraction. Very good books.