bearboy

Once again msmars your information is wrong and I also feel the need to reiterate the fact that you are obsessed with add and probably suffering from ocd and hypochondria.

Children of people who have disease do NOT automatically inherit those diseases. In fact, most genetic defects or diseases “skip a generation”. My mother had vonRecklinghausen syndrome, RSD and bone cancer, diseases which carry a 50%-75% inheritance rate, and died at age 40. I or my sister did not develop any of these syndromes. I have developed totally unrelated ailments myself, and my sister has remained extremely healthy and fit. 90% of the time your own body produces disease or problems with the body in response to its own chemistry, what you put in it, your environmental surroundings and yes, some if it is genetic. Just because one or both of your parents have ADD does NOT automatically mean they will pass it to the child. There are some situations that this are true, and some diseases require both parents to carry the disease dormant and pass it to a child. This is where your thinking is obviously confused. You seem to strongly believe you have ADD automatically because a parent does.

Here is a warning: You do NOT want to have ADD. You really need to get over it. A life full of psychiatric illness and pill-popping should not be what you want. By your posts I see that this is what you want. You want to experiment with drugs. I have said before you have an obvious drug-seeking pattern about you. When you start taking a pill to wake up your mind, you will soon also start taking a pill to put your mind at rest in the night time. Children and young adults abusing (in your case strongly seeking) stimulants will usually lead a life of substance and alcohol abuse. Listen to your mother. At your age, having ADD should not even be considered. According to the dsm-iv, if you do not show signs of attention deficiency and hyperactivity by the age of 7 then a diagnosis of ADD is not possible except under very extreme circumstances, one of them not being hypochondria.

You parents are trying to protect you. And they have every right to be concerned. As a psychiatric nurse, your mother knows first hand what kind of behavior is associated with ADD and what years of taking psychoactive drugs and stimulants do to your body. She has seen first hand medicines like amphetamines; Ritalin and Concerta turn ordinary people with some type of childhood attention deficiency turn to drug dealing, prostitution, robbery and other forms of violent crimes to support a crank, crack, or ice addiction which started when a parent decided to give the kid Crank instead of taking it to the movies. No parent wants to see this happen to their child as a direct result of putting them on medicine. These are the cold, hard facts sister.

Take some Wellbutrin and get over yourself.