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DevsBro
07/09/18 2:11:40 PM
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It's just classified as ADD now, IIRC, but... why?
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Doctor Foxx
07/09/18 2:27:01 PM
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You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...
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Touch
07/09/18 2:27:54 PM
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How can you tell if you have it
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Awesome
07/09/18 2:32:54 PM
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i have it according to a doctor, biggest giveaway is not being able to be interested in an activity for long periods of time, like picking a hobby and doing it for one week then getting bored and then move onto something else. then the cycle repeats, it has to do with dopamine sensitivity and sometimes people are just born with dopamine deficiency so they are just chronically bored. thats why people end up gambling, doing drugs and dangerous sex.
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eggcorn
07/09/18 2:36:48 PM
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Awesome posted...
i have it according to a doctor, biggest giveaway is not being able to be interested in an activity for long periods of time, like picking a hobby and doing it for one week then getting bored and then move onto something else. then the cycle repeats, it has to do with dopamine sensitivity and sometimes people are just born with dopamine deficiency so they are just chronically bored. thats why people end up gambling, doing drugs and dangerous sex.

I wonder if I have it. I've always been jealous of people that are passionate about specific things their whole lives.
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TES_Nut
07/09/18 2:39:57 PM
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Touch posted...
How can you tell if you have it


Do you find yourself making excuses to put off basic shit like laundry and showers?
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HeyPuff
07/09/18 2:41:38 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...


This. Its all classified as ADHD.

I recently found out I had it. I have a ton of weird quirks. I always knew I had some weird mannerisms (mouthing hypothetical arguments in my head, for example) but I attributed it with my personality. One day I was wondering why I had so many weird quirks and looked up symptoms for ADHD and realized I had it. I always thought it was normal to be inside your head 24/7.
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Doctor Foxx
07/09/18 2:42:31 PM
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HeyPuff posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...


This. Its all classified as ADHD.

I recently found out I had it. I have a ton of weird quirks. I always knew I had some weird mannerisms (mouthing hypothetical arguments in my head, for example) but I attributed it with my personality. One day, I was wondering why I had so many weird quirks and I looked up symptoms to ADHD and realized I had it. I always thought it was normal to be inside your head 24/7.

Yes diagnosis and treatment have been a real game changer for me. Made a lot of pieces fit
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HeyPuff
07/09/18 2:48:59 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
HeyPuff posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...


This. Its all classified as ADHD.

I recently found out I had it. I have a ton of weird quirks. I always knew I had some weird mannerisms (mouthing hypothetical arguments in my head, for example) but I attributed it with my personality. One day, I was wondering why I had so many weird quirks and I looked up symptoms to ADHD and realized I had it. I always thought it was normal to be inside your head 24/7.

Yes diagnosis and treatment have been a real game changer for me. Made a lot of pieces fit

How has it affected your personality, and what do you take?
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DevsBro
07/09/18 2:49:14 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...

Hm. I was definitely diagnosed with ADD in 2003. I wonder if they still use it as shorthand or something.

Anyway, do you know why they decided to classify them together like that?
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Doctor Foxx
07/09/18 2:54:54 PM
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HeyPuff posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
HeyPuff posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
You have it backwards. It's ADHD now, not ADD. And it's still around. I got diagnosed at age 30

If you want to know why they have differentiated between inattentive and hyperactive in the type of ADHD. So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive, which would have just been ADD before. It's ADHD-PI now. Also they changed that in the early 90s...


This. Its all classified as ADHD.

I recently found out I had it. I have a ton of weird quirks. I always knew I had some weird mannerisms (mouthing hypothetical arguments in my head, for example) but I attributed it with my personality. One day, I was wondering why I had so many weird quirks and I looked up symptoms to ADHD and realized I had it. I always thought it was normal to be inside your head 24/7.

Yes diagnosis and treatment have been a real game changer for me. Made a lot of pieces fit

How has it affected your personality, and what do you take?

I take concerta 18 or 27mg depending on the day. Is help me to prioritize tasks, accomplish different tasks and move on to the next logical tasks. Huge difference. I'd say most importantly it is helped improve my recall to allow me to remember to do the things that I still need to do. Personally I noticed an extreme (positive) change in my productivity at work simply because i could continue focusing on the same task for an extended period of time and get right back to it after an interruption.

I'd say it's allowing me to queue mental tasks and return to normal. instead of having one thing I'm doing that could randomly switch to something else without me remembering what I should have been doing to begin with

The downsides are that it really doesn't help sleep, it's costly, and there are of course health risks.

Personality wise it has helped with my confidence and sociability to be able to remember things more and pay attention to conversations with people without going off on don't mental journey. The downside has been somewhat increased irritability, particularly with people interrupting me.
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EpicMickeyDrew
07/09/18 3:00:50 PM
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Sometimes i worry I have 80hd but sometimes I worry that I am a hypercondriac, i don't think I have it, but I am a bit odd, but is that just my personality? I have friends. people tend to really like me once they get used to me but they often don't like me when they first meet me, is this 80hd?
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EpicMickeyDrew
07/09/18 3:07:52 PM
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I think people get misdiagnosed cus a lotta stuff is personality qwirks, like if I don't do work on time am I just lazy or do i have 80hd? If i'm not that social is that 80hd? or just being shy? and then you start to get in your own head like " i sometimes am lazy, maybe i do have 80hd" and then it spirals out of control. that's why I don't look up symptoms for things
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EpicMickeyDrew
07/09/18 3:09:07 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive,

So what are your symptoms?
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InstaReturns
07/09/18 3:10:01 PM
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Awesome posted...
i have it according to a doctor, biggest giveaway is not being able to be interested in an activity for long periods of time, like picking a hobby and doing it for one week then getting bored and then move onto something else. then the cycle repeats, it has to do with dopamine sensitivity and sometimes people are just born with dopamine deficiency so they are just chronically bored. thats why people end up gambling, doing drugs and dangerous sex.

Thats literally me, it's super annoyin especially with gaming, i pick up something i love then enjoy it but randomly feel the need to leave and go for a drive doing nothing. Led to me getting into me getting into a lot of bad shit years ago, i basically just live with it and or smoke a lot to help it however I can.
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TES_Nut
07/09/18 3:10:50 PM
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...
Sometimes i worry I have 80hd but sometimes I worry that I am a hypercondriac, i don't think I have it, but I am a bit odd, but is that just my personality? I have friends. people tend to really like me once they get used to me but they often don't like me when they first meet me, is this 80hd?


Sounds more like social anxiety or maybe asd. ADHD is a failure in the part of the brain that controls things like impulses, task prioritzation, and learning from consequences. If your really concerned talk to your doctor about seeing a diagnostic psychiatrist.
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InstaReturns
07/09/18 3:11:47 PM
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Too bad I have no health care, and will not allow myself to take most of the medications for it due to being an ex addict
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TES_Nut
07/09/18 3:18:47 PM
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M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.
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eggcorn
07/09/18 3:20:15 PM
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TES_Nut posted...
M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.

what is T?
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EpicMickeyDrew
07/09/18 3:20:28 PM
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TES_Nut posted...
EpicMickeyDrew posted...
Sometimes i worry I have 80hd but sometimes I worry that I am a hypercondriac, i don't think I have it, but I am a bit odd, but is that just my personality? I have friends. people tend to really like me once they get used to me but they often don't like me when they first meet me, is this 80hd?


Sounds more like social anxiety or maybe asd. ADHD is a failure in the part of the brain that controls things like impulses, task prioritzation, and learning from consequences. If your really concerned talk to your doctor about seeing a diagnostic psychiatrist.

I used to have super bad anxiety but I'm much better now. Like my face would uncontrollably twitch it the teacher asked me to stand at the front of the class, plus I would start sweating like crazy, one time i could feel me heart start to beat out of my chest. Now i'm usually ok.
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Zikten
07/09/18 3:23:53 PM
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back in the 80's and 90's too, it was very over diagnosed. I think many people didn't actually have it. also, some had something else instead. I was actually autistic but originally they just said I had ADHD. But probably lots of people just are hyper. just cause you are hyper doesn't make you have ADHD. alot of kids are hyper. it was just easy and popular to use as an excuse back then. and to sell Ritalin
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TES_Nut
07/09/18 3:28:49 PM
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eggcorn posted...
TES_Nut posted...
M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.

what is T?


Meth
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Doctor Foxx
07/09/18 3:30:15 PM
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
So I'm ADHD predominantly inattentive,

So what are your symptoms?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/adhd-is-different-for-women/381158/

This article explains my experiences well
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EpicMickeyDrew
07/09/18 3:32:00 PM
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TES_Nut posted...
eggcorn posted...
TES_Nut posted...
M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.

what is T?


Meth

No T is testosterone.
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TES_Nut
07/09/18 3:34:23 PM
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EpicMickeyDrew posted...
TES_Nut posted...
eggcorn posted...
TES_Nut posted...
M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.

what is T?


Meth

No T is testosterone.


Nah this was definitely crystal meth.
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RoboLaserGandhi
07/09/18 3:41:28 PM
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ADD is now ADHD inattentive type, and what was formerly just ADHD is now ADHD hyperactive type.

They're identical disorders. It's just whether you're an introvert or extravert.
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eggcorn
07/10/18 2:10:12 PM
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bump
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Doctor Foxx
07/10/18 7:35:00 PM
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TES_Nut posted...
EpicMickeyDrew posted...
TES_Nut posted...
eggcorn posted...
TES_Nut posted...
M_Live posted...
My son's diagnosed with ADHD, I think the diagnoses are just a bit less common now, because it used to be the go-to.


The last 20 years has seen a lot of improvement. I think a lot of the pushback is the medication aspect. Without behavioural therapy to back it up it's just speed. The range of symptoms for asd has expanded to catch a lot of the things that used to be ADHD. leading to an incorrect diagnosis and inefective treatment.

I never took my meds regularly and I left treatment when I turned 18 because no one wanted to own up to what Adderall and drugs like it are and how they work. I just knew it made me feel weird and I didn't like it. Now that I understand what is actually happening when I take stimulents I can contextualize it and function normally.

I experimented with T one time for like a month and felt like fucking limitless. That got me back into treatment as I have access to reasonable stimulents without being high out of my fucking mind.

what is T?


Meth

No T is testosterone.


Nah this was definitely crystal meth.

That is not usually what people mean when they say T
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