I am curious about what types of ADD do you all have.

Those who have a dual diagnosis I am interested in the type of ADD.

If you were simply diagnosed with ADD by a professional but never given a specific type then feel free to indicate which kind of Add you feel most closely describes your type of ADD,choose the choices indicating you were professionaly diagnosed.



The DSM-IV TR specifies three major subtypes of AD/HD:

1.Primarily Inattentive Subtype. The individual mainly has difficulties with attention, organization, and follow-through.

2.Primarily Hyperactive/Impulsive. The individual mainly has difficulties with impulse control, restlessness, and self-control.

3.Combined Subtype. The individual has symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and restlessness


The literature says combined is the most predominate kind I was wondering if this is also true of ADD forum members.

Several discussions have gone side ways because some are referring to inattentive, others to hyper still others are referring to combined. I tried to make logical categories that are well defined.

Please feel free to add what ever you like relating to your type of ADD in the thread.

I have tried to make provisions for those who have and have not been professionally diagnosis. I also included an option for those who are not ADD but gravitate towards those who are.


Just in case I missed some one I have an “others” options.

Here are the symptom list and the hyperlink to the source should you have questions about ADD types.

http://www.help4adhd.org/en/treatment/dsm/adultdiagnosis


Symptoms of Inattention

1. Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities
2. Often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities
3. Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
4. Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)
5. Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities
6. Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort
7. Often loses things necessary for tasks or activities
8. Is often easily distracted by extraneous stimuli
9. Is often forgetful in daily activities


Symptoms of Hyperactivity

10. Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat
11. Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected
12. Often runs about or climbs excessively in situations in which it is inappropriate (in adolescents or adults, may be limited to subjective feelings of restlessness)
13. Often has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly
14. Is often "on the go" or often acts as if "driven by a motor"
15. Often talks excessively


Symptoms of Impulsivity

16. Often blurts out answers before questions have been completed
17. Often has difficulty awaiting turn
18. Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g. butts into conversations or games)

It's funny, I'm combined but lean toward inattentive now, but I was clearly hyperactive as a young child. Guess it's one of those developmental things. I still talk too much, interrupt too much, am a tad impulsive (but only on really big important decisions!:eek: ), and prefer to be physically moving.

Scattered

Wow that was fast...me too by the way I was very hyper as a child but now fall into the combined category but still lean more toward the impulsive hyper type. I think the hyper activity has been beneficial in me remaining in good physical health.

I find I can run, jump, and fall off/out of stuff with out injury even though I am over 40!!!!

Yeah, I love to be moving. When I was diagnosed with a narrowed disc in my spine in college, I just sobbed. I couldn't imagine not running! I was still running to classes and everywhere else. Both my daughter and I pace all over the house when we're on the phone. I think it helps keep the heart and muscles in shape.

BTW - cool poll topic. I'll be interested in seeing the results.

Scattered

I put "professionally diagnosed inattentive."

I'm just inattentive now, for the most part. Apparently (my memory stinks) when I was a child I was highly impulsive (but not hyperactive), but that's bascially faded. My mother says that I was EXTREMELY talkative - to the point where she figured it would be easier to feed me by IV than by trying to put food in my MOUTH. :D She also says I blurted things out all the time, was impatient, interrupted people frequently, and didn't stay in my seat - all things that earned me regular calls home from the school, apparently. I didn't bounce off the walls, though, or have trouble staying quiet, so I wouldn't have qualified for a Combined diagnosis. My mother rated me in childhood as just-subthreshold. (6-8 inattentive symptoms, 5 hyper-impulsive.)

I'm really not verbally impulsive at all now. There's some other things (ack! spending too much money without thinking! babbling constantly to myself, and so on) that I suppose my verbal impulsivity might have "morphed into," but other people actually make the mistake these days of thinking I'm a quiet person who doesn't like to talk! :eek:

I've heard of "outgrowing" hyperactivity, but not of outgrowing impulsivity, so who knows. But I've decided to treat myself sometimes as if I were an adult who outgrew their H/I, and incorporating good hard runs during the day helps a lot. In class, if I can't concentrate, I throw on my jacket, bolt out the door and circle the campus.

I don't really understand your post as it was too long for me to read as I am too inattentive right now, I am also too impulsive and must get this post done NOW and just too impatient to bother reading the rest of your decription. I think I may have just demonstrated what you wanted to know.

I am self diagnosed with the book "Driven to Distraction" and then Professionally diagnosed indicating I have severe AD/HD with severe inattentive and severe impulsive behaviour.

I hope this helps,

Vic

I voted professionally diagnosed impulsive- hyper, because I was.

I was diagnosed 13 years ago and one either had ADHD with hyperactivity or ADD without hyperactivity. There was no combined category.

I obtained the medical records from my ADD doctor about four/five years ago.

In his initial assessment the last paragraph I read the comment "most hyperactive adult I have seen this year. Looking at the top of the page it was dated the last part of December 1993. :cool:

My symptoms seem be less hyper mostly at the end of the day because I am tired. My mind is still in fast mode but me ole body does seem to actually get tired more often these days.

By the way I before medications I showed all the symptoms except #9....When meds wear off, I can even have #9!!!!!! :o


The inattentives have the majority maybe the impulsives were to impulsive to vote!!!!!!! :D

hyper ,impulsive ,the meds help loads ,it's actually unbelievable how much ,my mind would be in overdrive all the time ,I was constantly looking for something ,anything to make it stop ,and ,in a way I feel lke an idiot for getting help before ,I've known since childhood ,but I could not see the behavior :confused:

Not that I regret it ,it was an adventure and I see humor in my misdirection

I was diagnosed as inattentive, but I think I am more combined now, although still mostly inattentive.

I've never been hyperactive, but I fit:
10. Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat

11. Often leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected

16. Often blurts out answers before questions have been completed
17. Often has difficulty awaiting turn
18. Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g. butts into conversations or games)

Hello there:

I checked off "other" because my actuall diagnosis written down by my doctor is "Adult Attention Deficit Disorder compounded by anxiety and self medicating." None of the other choices fit my diagnosis.

meadd823 I appreciate the work and careful thought you put into this thread.

Professional diagnosed with AD/HD-combined I lean more toward the inattentive
Also diagnosed with Dyslexia.

Great thread!

Wow that was fast...me too by the way I was very hyper as a child but now fall into the combined category but still lean more toward the impulsive hyper type. I think the hyper activity has been beneficial in me remaining in good physical health.


Professionally diagnosed: I'm combined, inattentive, only occassionally hyper, but very impulsive in thought and deed. ;)


When I was in elementry school, my parents took me around to several doctors to figure out what was wrong with me. I was very, very hyper, chatty, impulsive and (I suspect) a pain in the butt. Problems at school, with friends, at home.

The docs all said there was nothing physically wrong with me! Poor Ma and Da - - they didn't much trust psychologists or pdocs, so I was never taken to one, might have been a different story.

My brother was not 1/5th as hyper as I was as a kid, but his hyperactivity remains stable to this day. He is more hyperactive than me now. He'll just rattle on endlessly, whether or not anyone's listening. No problem! He's an MD! :faint:

I love battling it out in conversation with him.

inattentive. what the shrink called "mild" add.... whatever that means.

inattentive. what the shrink called "mild" add.... whatever that means.
Same here, although the doctor didn't tell me a subtype, Inattentive fits best. I had issues with the 'mild' part at first. But since reading here, I see that others do indeed have it worse than me.

Chocolate.

Chocolate.
:) chocolate and vanilla for me
but seriously: Professionally diagnosed with AD/HD- combine I am straight down the middle-show both inattentive and impulsive equally