Adult Diagnosed ADD
One of the myths of ADD / ADHD is that only children have it, that it is something only children have. This is of course wrong and many adults have ADD / ADHD but we don’t notice because they either develop coping strategies or hit bottom and drop out. This article, Inside My Brain is the first had account of a man diagnose with ADD at age 43.
“Which is as good a time as any to talk about the drugs. You’ve heard of Ritalin. Maybe you’ve even heard of its generic name, methylphenidate. By either name it’s the great pharmacokinetic cliché of our times, a stimulant that’s as defining of the late 1990s and early 2000s as Prozac was to the ‘80s, cocaine to the ‘70s, Halcion to the ‘60s, and martinis to the ‘50s.
The thing is, if you have ADD, experts say you may have tried all of the above to focus or relax your pinball brain. In a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 28 percent of the men in chemical-dependency centers met the criteria for ADD. ‘You’ll find some way to stimulate your brain,’ says Williamson. ‘Do you get hooked on pornography? Video games? Bungee jumping? Crank? Alcohol?’“
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December 29th, 2005
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Comments on: Adult Diagnosed ADD
This all sounds very familiar! It is like the brain needs excitemement to maintain calm. My (adhd the lot of them) family have a habit of having extremely vigorous ‘debates’ when things are dull just to keep our brains busy.
Posted by: prumont January 6th, 2006 at 7:47 am
The more I learn about ADHD the more I see adults who have it but have learned coping stratergies. I’m begining to think very few ADHDers get over it, they just learn to cope.
Posted by: Chris Tregenza January 6th, 2006 at 8:33 am
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