Nancy asks…
ADD ADHD disorder what are the bad side effects?
I was wondering about ADD ADHD disorder bad side effects. My mother always thought I suffered from ADD or ADHD. Someone who is very close to me admitted that he had ADD, and so I did a little bit of research on the subject. I fit every single description on that list. The only one that i didn’t completely fit was my disorganization. because i can be organized if i really want to. but most of the times i’m a slob. I guess my parents never really took me to get tested for ADD/ADHD because i’m a smart kid. But as diagnosis’s said online, a child suffering can still be very intelligent. I even took an online quiz, that gave levels of ADHD, and all scores of 70 or above are highly likely to be suffering from ADHD, and i scored a 97.. and another fact was that it said with girls, ADD tends to be diagnosed as a mild case of depression, and I was diagnosed as an extreme case of depression a year ago.
now when you read the description, it says that it’s dangerous to go with ADD being undiagnosed for all of these years, but it never states why it is bad. I mean i’ve been living all these years and i’m just fine, true i tend to have random mood swings (which is another symptom) but i’ve been able to survive. i struggle with day-to-day life, but i see no reason in going on a medicine for something like this. I never believed in medicines, unless you’re dying. They’ve never worked for me.. and i don’t take any medicine for anything except sometimes allergies.
can somone please help explain ADD ADHD disorder bad side effects?
Wayne answers:
There are many reasons why ADD ADHD disorder bad side effects being diagnosed later can have a damaging affect on your life. For starters it means it has been damaging your eduction for years. If diagnosed early it will have had less impact on your learning. Yes, many people with ADHD are very smart and can often still get through, but they will be underachieving for their true potential. Perhaps they have the potential to be academically outstanding but their concentration wont allow it. If you are living up to your full potential at school then you don’t have ADHD. However, you may not realize what your full potential really is.
Late diagnosis can also affect your self esteem. The problems of ADHD affecting you throughout your life, being in trouble all the time, underachieving struggling to make and keep friends and to do the things you enjoy.
It will also be much harder to unlearn many of the negative behaviors that you have learned from having ADHD at a later age.
As an adult undiagnosed ADHD is even more disasterous. ADHD will stop you from fulfilling your potential in so many area;s. You ability to get a college degree, to get and keep a job, to look after yourself, to enjoy leisure activities, to have and keep relationships and friendships.
There are plenty of good reasons to go on medication for conditions that are not life threatening. Because the quality of your life is as important as the quantity of your life. ADHD may not be life threatening but it severely reduces quality of life. Most with ADHD will struggle needlessly with jobs, family, relationships and many more area’s. Medication will give them a better life, which is usually a greater gift than a longer life.
You can’t diagnose yourself with ADHD, and tests on the internet are very, very inaccurate. Most normal people will take these tests and qualify for ADHD. This is a medical condition which can only be diagnosed by a medical professional.
In fact one of the criteria for having the disorder is that it has made impairments in your life severe enough to cause significant dysfunction. If your disorder is not severe enough to have impaired your life then you don’t have ADHD, as everyone does fit the criteria to some degree, this is what separates fitting the criteria to having the real disorder.
Resource: Yahoo! Answers
ADD/Concentration (1-12 yrs)
