Posted by JoshM on December 22, 2003, at 3:44:49
In reply to Re: SSRI's without Chem Imbalancesfloridamatt, posted by gianpiero on October 23, 2003, at 11:14:04
Hi Gianpiero,
It is very possible you have ADD. Just because you are able to spend hours focusing on something you like to do doesn't mean you are not ADD. ADD is when you are unable to focus on things you find boring.
My depression stems from ADD and I always thought I was just depressed and doctors didn't know why the SSRI's wouldn't work. I thought because I could spend hours on the computer that I couldn't be ADD even though I had all the ADD symptoms. Come to find out I indeed was ADD. So you should probably talk to your Dr. and get that checked out.
> I've been kind of wondering if might have ADD. I've had some very limited success with SSRI's in the past. I still have trouble concentrating and focusing. Alot of my depression and anxiety is due to the fact that I can't concentrate or focus on specific tasks. However, there are times when I am doing something that I really truly love to do, like composing on the PC, and I'm able to spend hours upon hours glued to the computer.
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