Posted by Noa on March 10, 2000, at 16:14:41
In reply to Re: Television and depression, posted by Sarah on March 10, 2000, at 15:39:32
Sarah, I laughed at your description of the cocktail parties. What a way to spend an evening!
Interestingly, I don't have ADD, although my pdoc recently raised the idea that maybe I do. I don't think I had these problems as a kid (don't remember) but have them now, perhaps as a result of depression, or maybe as a result of some of my meds? I know my sister, who definitely does not have ADD, is highly sensitive to sounds and noise, and always has been. She has coped by avoiding loud noises as much as she can. On the other hand, with four sons, she eventually learned how to just block out the typcial boy noise, and you can see her reading a book in the midst of the wrestling, shouting and laughing, as though she is in her own little bubble. But that was an acquired skill--a survival skill, I'd say.
Me, I have become more sensitive to noise, and to things like the tag on the inside of the shirt, which someone here referred to as the acid test for ADD. But I wasn't like that as a kid, I don't think.
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