Posted by S.D. on July 15, 2000, at 19:39:35
regarding the descriptions in the recent thread ("Re:augment?ADD? ... http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20000708/msgs/39944.html ) I hate to be left out of the club ;-) so just had to say that's the story of my life, too. (Along with the social anxiety and depression stories, it's a regular triad of woes I guess). However, the www.addclinic.org site doesn't seem to exist?? Anyway, I have been mostly considering them separately and attacking them in the order of depression=>social anxiety=>ADD w/o H so I haven't said much here about the ADD stuff but I totally identify with descriptions in the above-mentioned thread as well as the "jack-of-all-trades" thread a while ago.
Since the physical mechanisms aren't understood, these disorders are mainly convenient labels for symptoms and reality just ain't quite that convenient. So whatever you call it, here's another list (the "BAAD Scale") that might give some people that amazing 'lightning bolt' feeling (you know what I'm talking about) where you read a description of a disorder or a person's self-description, and it's like seeing your reflection in a mirror for the first time.
(I had written a bit of a personal story about how that happened to me a few years ago with a number of dysthymic/ADD people I 'met' through crossposts on the usenet depression and add support groups, but my computer has ADD too apparently - maybe it's good, it forces me to keep things short with some definitive unit of accomplishment before moving on. On that note I will end this message and post a reply, which will be the above-mentioned "BAAD Scale"
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