Been on forum few times in the past year.

I still think i have ADD / apergers syndrone. Concentrating is hard, never feel as if im using my full prcessing potential. My logic is very different to normal people.


Last thursday i was sitng on my laptop as usual when the room started spinning, scary as hell, lasted like 7 seconds. So i got up and went out, i just needed to get out.
Since then i feel twice as disconected from the world around me and my brain is even more foggy than is was. more tired than ever, i have only been up 3 hours and i need sleep, and all the doctors do until now is keep giving me stupid anti depressants. I aint took them for months now, they didnt do a think, both were serotonin inhibitors. Im scared this is going to get progressively worse.

Anyone experience something similar. What should i request them to do? There must be tests to see if my brain activity is normal surely:(

Okay, I have noticed me included this is a generation of diagnosing ourselves which can be dangerous. Why do we want something to wrong with us. I know if there is something going on in your head, that is better to know what it is so that we know how to handle it.

Wonder if ADHD and all the other diagnoses weren never brought to the forscreen, and you were just given a label of learning disability. Would you handle the problem any different ? Why does ther habe to be medication for everything ? Whey do we have to know if it is a learning disabiltiy or a ADHD, Dyslexia, Asperger or what ever?

Why have we become a generation of seeking out a problem or a diagnoses instead of figuring out hoow to deal with the problem. Does this make sense to anyone.

Well it stops me getting on in life, its so restricting i can not work. I would like my own house, job, wife etc. But i can not do any of this.

I personally think the brain is too complex to put things in boxes, "you have this" or "you have that". I just want to know how and why my brain is funtioning differently from the average person, and how can i combat it.

Ihave Epilepsy which mimics alot ot ADHD characteristics as I am learning. Yes the brain is complex. the only way you are going to find that out is if you see a neurologist.


Some times you have to put thing into boxes to my life more simple. For instance, I dont know if you will ever find out why and how you brain works differently.

The best thing you can do is seek therapy, and learn new skills to learn the way you learn and how to work on time management, interpersonal skills, so you can have the things you want. If you think you can you cant. If you think you can , you can.

Thank you for your responses :)

What ever i have cannot be worked around.

Time management is easy buy a mobile with calender function (But i dont have problems with this anyway)

Interpersonal skills. Never ever improves, ive been on 13 weeks courses with 15 people all in one room. Nothing.

Ofcourse even with my problem i was coping with life and was quite happy last week.

Id give anything to go back to the way i was last wednesday. Head has just shut down, i have found a few other people with same thing on medhelp.org on thier forum.



I know exactly what this guy is going through. What the hell has happend to us. :( I cant believe my doctor.

Went to the doctors again today:mad: more antidepresants! yet im not really depressed, and if i am its because of whatever problem i have. I dont need the depression treated.

I think i do need to see a neurologist, i think ill just demand to see one.?

Hi Daniel

I notice that you are in the UK. This will probably make it more difficult to find a GP or shrink to take Adult ADD seriously. It's pretty tough sometimes but I would advise that you don't expect to get anywhere fast in either diagnosis or access to meds.

There is a danger of self-diagnosing, I'm a not really in a position to say anything having self-diagnosed however I have a partner who independantly researched Adult ADD and is as sure as I am that I show classic symptoms. In the UK this is a route I would recommend as you may have a long struggle until diagnosis. Finding the right friend to help is crucial.

Re your symptoms, I have had the room blur out and have short periods of "disconnection" normally when stressed in some ghastly office environment but these are minor compared to the way other ADD behaviour patterns screw up attempts to lead a conventional life. I wouldn't call them classic indicators of ADD.

There was an excellent article on the BBC website which led on to an article with 20 questions. Reading that was my eureka moment. If you had 12 there was a possibility, note the possibility, of having Adult ADD......according to my partner I had 19, and once I'd talked to my Dad i had the full 20...but I still have the likelihood of ADD but no certainty.

There is no simple test for ADD, its a sum of factors, and in the UK its little understood.

Its something you're going to have to manage day by day.

Other medical problems can cause a room to feel like, or look like, it is spinning.

e.g. vestibular/balance problems in the ear; labrynthitis, Meniere's, etc.

Okay, I have noticed me included this is a generation of diagnosing ourselves which can be dangerous. Why do we want something to wrong with us. I know if there is something going on in your head, that is better to know what it is so that we know how to handle it.

Wonder if ADHD and all the other diagnoses weren never brought to the forscreen, and you were just given a label of learning disability. Would you handle the problem any different ? Why does ther habe to be medication for everything ? Whey do we have to know if it is a learning disabiltiy or a ADHD, Dyslexia, Asperger or what ever?

Why have we become a generation of seeking out a problem or a diagnoses instead of figuring out hoow to deal with the problem. Does this make sense to anyone.No in fact it doesn't.
There is a name for undiagnosed adders.
It's called ****tard, screwup, imbecile, jackass.
I'm far from pro medication, but I'm not pro ignorance.
Theres is nothing wrong with the knowledge that the way you view the world and process information is different from others in fact it is quite valuable. ADD as it stands is not so debilitating what is debilitating is not knowing what it is you're dealing with.

Knowledge is power, discarding knowledge is a fools game.

Re your symptoms, I have had the room blur out and have short periods of "disconnection" normally when stressed in some ghastly office environment but these are minor compared to the way other ADD behaviour patterns screw up attempts to lead a conventional life. I wouldn't call them classic indicators of ADD.
Yes i got disconnection in short periods too, the more i concentrated or got bored. Its so diabilitating, now its just constant :mad:

labrynthitis
Yes i have looking into this.


ADD is not accepted at all here, my doctor picked up a book from his shelf and pointed to the sentence which read something like "ADD is not recognised as an adult disorder" :mad: They arent helping, im not saying its ADD, im saying i show many symtoms of it, but they offer only depression as a diagnosis:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Im sick of this.

I have found loads of people with it now. (what ive got since thursday that is, i just accepted my ADD symtoms, but this is unbarable now)

ya, many always say, sir, ADHD is not an adult disorder. After Puberty, those meds don' work exactly same, but whatever!!! myabe not, but meds still help out, just a little. . whatever. .

meds are not an end all- be all. so, keep that in mind, no matter what . . .

put all effort into making each moment count . . something that wants to stick, not something to turn away from and throw up. . geeze, gettting dizzy right now! uhhh . . .

doing something really helps, like walking, or writing, kinda' calms outside down.

~keep on breathing

Whey do we have to know if it is a learning disabiltiy or a ADHD, Dyslexia, Asperger or what ever?
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Having ADD inattentive type my cause "brain fog" and even problems with concentration however it does not cause dizziness nor it is a progressive condition like Alzheimer’s. The new on-set of symptoms is not indicative of ADD..

Can we please keep this discussion supportive and respectful?