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Okay I was diagnosed when I was little as having ADHD along with another disease that effects your memory (basically you forget alot). Now I completely agree that I have this other thing cause I am about one of the most forgetful people around! But ADHD I just don't think I have it. I personally think I am just a very hyper person and attention deficate?? I fall asleep in math and u.s. history!!! Can't it just be that the teacher is boring? My mom is putting me on Stratara (doubt i spelled that right) after I've been off my meds for 3 years (I was on aderal before... again i doubt i spelled that right). I'm saying okay cause my grades really are worse then before and it's supposed to help my memory and my attention span but it won't change my personality. I'm all sorts of okay with a med that will help my forgetfullness and my attention span... but I still don't think I have ADHD.
Am I the only person who doesn't really believe in this disease? Anyone else here who "supposedly" has it? (anyone else who has had meds shoved down their throat all their freakin life???? -.-)
If you are a hyper person, what is making you hyper? Can you sit still to do something like homework? Can you sit still to do something you totally enjoy doing?
My niece was diagnosed ADHD but I believe most of her problem is because of how she was parented, not because something is "wrong" with her.
It's real easy to give pills to kids to make them behave without checking up on parenting, outside influences, vitamins and minerals, a good sleep pattern, definite routines, and all sorts of other things.
Have your parents explored all those other things before starting the meds?
Not that I remember... but I do sleep irregularly and yes it is hard for me to sit still. But I also have a very high metabolism. I do remember though that I have almost always been on meds. I know that only cause there was one med (can't remember the name) that caused me to hallucinate at night. If my room was dark and I woke up I'd see snakes or spiders and they would stay till the lights came on and then they'd disappear. My mom took me off them after a week. That was when I was... I believe 6 or 7. I never really had definate routines though. I know that!! My mother and father have never been married so I'd have random visits to my dad and each parent was always trying to make the other look like the bad guy.
What can you do about this? Are you old enough to have some say in how you are medicated? -- and not just having a tantrum or a fit and making everyone want to get you medicated as soon as possible.
I'm 17 of course I didn't have a choice then but I've had a choice in the stratara. My mom was talking about putting me back on meds but I told her I would not go on anything that would change my personality like the others did. My mom researched and found stratara to best fit the kind of meds I'd go on. I told her at first that I didn't even want to go on them but decided that I'd give it a try if it may help my forgetfullness cause it's really bugging me.
Normally a couple of days to a week. I don't know if I'd notice if it would effect my personality though. I haven't been that hyper lately, I've been just really down and unactive in alot of things. I think it's probably to do with my bird dying that I've had a year and a half. We are still waiting for my meds though cause my therapest is taking forever to send out a perscription.
No I suppose no one thinks she was that important... I don't know if my sudden change is cause of her death or not... but it started around when she died...
Bird dying may be depression/grieving. A normal thing as long as it occurs for short periods.
Let's look at this memory thing again: My short-term memory sucks. I just had it tested.
Memory is learned in basically 3 different ways: visual, verbal and kinestetic. Visual -> Go in a room for 10 minutes, leave and then try to place the objects. Much easier for girls.
Verbal - Ask for directions. Don't write anything down. What were the directions?
Kinestetic: Try riding a bike. Visually doesn't explain it. Verbally doesn't explain it. Kinestecically does. It's essentially repitition.
I have very little visual and very little verbal and I didn't realize that I had to homework with the book open and with the book CLOSED multiple times in order to pass the exams.
I figured out a way to compensate, although difficult. I would create a 3 x 5 flash card of what I expected to be on the exam as I was reading and every waking hour I would go through that flas card. I upped my college grades to a 4.0 GPA. Without it, a 1.6 GPA.
What your boss wants is easily replaced with what your teacher wants. Solve that problem. It's not the same as learning. Trust me.
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