Hi,

I am glad I found these forums, to help me explore my own tourbled mind. Let me begin by telling you a bit of my childhood...

When I was a kid, my mother often complaint at the lack of interest i had in my studies, i used to wet my bead and was used to be careless with things handed down to me. My mom finally took me to a pschiatrist who diagnosed my IQ first. The psych. told me my analytical IQ was superior and my verbal IQ was globally superior. I was confused as I never did any good at lanuguages. He also told me i was distracted but since I was little he told didn't tell me what exactly the problem I had. I just remember taking the drug Olanzapine and I felt better. I used to remember things and my mom itself used to praise the improvement in my life. I stopped taking the drug...and didn't bother thinking I had a problem...

8 years down the line, and now I am a adult of the age 20. I goto school and something is really troubling me. I feel really lithargic in getting up going to school and often offset things like lectures or tests...thinking "I might do better in the next test". I have purposely missed finals and tests just because I didn't bother. I keep things to the last moment. I also lost my job because I didn't bother to care about them. I have been scanning through ADD diagnosis sites and have a small intuition that i may be riddled with ADD. I am not that resteless and I can sit at events or lectures , but often get into a state of daydreaming...it normally is around things which are really minute such as the internals of a iPod or a license plate. I have to flick and spin my deodrant bottle all day long and also have to flip my pen during class.

Do you think I need help or I should talk to my counsellor, or I am just flat out lazy. My obvious slipping grades are alarming and I need a solution. :(

Thank you all....

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This post is confusing me.

Olanzapine (ZYPREXA) is not used to treat ADD. In fact, it would likely make ADD worse, due to being an ANTI-Dopamine drug. ADDers already have a Dopamine deficiency...

Your attentional and memory problems could be secondary to whatever OTHER illness you are taking Zyprexa for. (e.g. psychotic disorder; bipolar; severe anxiety disorder, etc. It can be used for a number of things.)

Many illnesses can cause "executive function" problems, as does ADD (including deficits in working memory).

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The problems with to learn a second language while having Superior Verbal Scores makes sense.

My own Testing was similar.

It is likely due to the 'poor working memory' of ADD and/or impaired executive function. Your verbal scores can be super high (mine are too so i've read a lot about this), yet the working memory deficits can impair acquisition of new knowledge.

--> Things have to go thru short term or working memory before they are laid down to long term memory. :S

Many of us with working memory deficits have problems with "auditory working memory" or "auditory processing", which would make hearing words and learning them VERY difficult! (Strategy: We have to 'over learn' things.)

You can also use visual prompts (eg cue cards), to help you learn words and definitions and verbs, while you are hearing the words, if Auditory WM has deficits...

First off, you're not lazy! How can I tell? Your post on here suggests that you're trying to find out the cause to what's going on. That sounds like work to me, not at all characeristic of a so called 'lazy' person :)

Your experiences are very similar to mine. I'd have finals, tests etc. and what would I do be doing the night before? Watching TV! *lol* I just couldn't study. Nothing, and I mean nothing, was going into my brain. Lord, even if it did only a teeny weeny part of what I was supposed to study would make it to my brain....

Oh yeah, I got fired from my job too. This was years before I got diagnosed, but looking back I could probably say without a doubt that it was ADD's fault. Or rather.. the fact I wasn't diagnosed properly!

Anyway, that's where you should start. You need a diganosis. And don't just go to anyone; go to someone who is an expert at ADD.

Best of luck to you!!

Thank you QueensU_girl and Michiko74 for your help.

Michiko74, I guess you are right. Unless, something really interests me I DO NOT DO IT. For example, instead of doing my task at hand...I think about how tedious it is going to be. It starts like I'll start tomorrow...then tomorrow comes its 5..7...8...9 and then finally I pickup my book and start studying at 10...and then its a race against time and I get so frusturated that it just doesn't happen. My mind is so distracted that my brain starts playing songs, and I uncontrolabally cry for minutes just for the brain to stop playing those in my mind. I cannot sit at a table without flicking my pen to get me concentrating. I even picked up smoking and I now I use nicotine tablets to just get me concentrated before i begin any task. Unless a task is really interesting for me I don't do it.

I think I will goto the counsellor to seek some help.....

Thanks a lot again!

--> Things have to go thru short term or working memory before they are laid down to long term memory. :S


I have no doubt that this is accurately stated because you are much the same way I am in that you will be sure of the facts before posting information so your accuracy I do not doubt.

This idea that memories have to go through short term before being committed to long term doesn't make any sense to me. Apparently because I have ADD I have a poor "working memory" and I can forget what I did with thing I had in my hand five minutes ago like my car keys, cell phone ect......... however I have an excellent long term memory. . .if my short term sucks how can my long term be excellent. I figured you may have some incite into this theory.


I think I will goto the counsellor to seek some help.....



Sounds like a good plan to me . . .

Ok guys I did goto the counsellor for help. I told him about my problems. However; he said he couldn't diagnosis it because at my college Health Center recommends you to have a whopping 495$ 3-hr ADD/ADHD diagnosis from a psychologist first!! Damn!! I never knew ADD was counted as a disability. However; he told me that to talk to a psychiatrist first because he said the symptoms i described pointed more towards OCD, which I do have and my anxiety could be arising from that. I was also prescribed short term sleep aids aka Ambien.

I will keep you guys updated through my progress. Thank you again.

Wow $495.00 ,

Lack of sleep can mimic ADD, and for those of us who have ADD already sleep deprivation can make it worse. Getting plenty of sleep will be beneficial either way.