symtoms of adult ADD - ADD / ADHD Message Board

ennababenna · 06-30-2003, 05:40 PM

Can someone tell me the symtoms of adult ADD? Thanks!!!!

kimosabi · 06-30-2003, 08:59 PM

I don't know all of them, but some I have are absent-mindedness, forgetfulness, scattered thinking, impulsivity, always feeling like I need to be doing something, starting projects and not finishing them, disorganization, etc... (There is a book I am reading called "Scattered" by Gabor Mate which is very helpful. There is also a website where you can take a quiz. I think it is called brainworks.)

help · 06-30-2003, 10:16 PM

It's "brainplace".

mlgable · 06-30-2003, 11:39 PM

Whether you are a child or an adult with ADD the best way to describe how it affects you would be if you were reading a book or doing a math problem and a car goes by your house causing you to look up for a minute distracting you when you looked back at the book or the math problem you would have no idea where you were and quite literally have to start all over again. All of the symptoms already mentioned can be signs of ADD but anyone can have absentmindedness etc and not have ADD. A normal person can go back to the math problem or the page in the book and pretty much pick up where they left off whereas an ADD person cannot.

elfinart · 07-05-2003, 03:47 AM

I always describe it to people this way: It is like have 6 or 7 television sets on at once all around you when you are trying to pay attention to just one. There is this constant mental distraction preventing me from concentrating on my task at hand. Another way to describe it, which is more accurate at times, is it seems that there is a precocious, unruly three year old in my head. When I sit down to do something, my brain says, "I want to go over there,""Remember so-and-so?,""Let's do this," and so on. It's a constant struggle to not just go with the flow and wander off either mentally or physically.