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Originally Posted by Lyenae  you people are fucking retards for taking brain pills.
honestly you prob just need to change your diet, your life(style), or get slapped around if you think you have mental issues. |
WALL OF TEXT IF YOU HAVE ADHD YOU MAY NOT GET THROUGH IT ALL LOL
I hope you mean people that are drug abusing the pills, because ADD and ADHD are deficiencies with their neuro emitters. It's not something you can fix by eating certain foods or doing exercise. You MIGHT be thinking of Hyperactivity, which can be effected by food. AD/HD is not the same as Hyperactivity.
When I was a kid, probably 5-6 or so, my parents took me in to get tested for ADD and the doctor said I wasn't and said I wasn't even hyperactive, it was just "boys will be boys". Except this was like in 1988 and they used a computerized test MASKED AS A GAME to test me. So of course I aced it. My mom found his diagnoses and gave it to me a few years back and if that cockfag were still alive i'd have sued him for his incompetance.
So fast forward to when I'm 16 and flunking out of highschool. Constantly being told I should get my act together and compared to all the other kids that are doing well (bear in mind this is a lifetime of beratement). Mixed in with High School drama caused my self-esteem to plummit. Got into a huge mind fight with my Dean, who kept accusing me of doing shit on purpose. I had taken an online test to check for Bipolar disorder and I scored pretty high, so I was like "fuck you dean, I'm going to get a disability waver and you can shove it up your ass".
So I went and got retested and they were like "NOPE, You're not bipolar!" and I was like "what the fuck?" and then they say "Hey you know you have a lot of classic signs for ADHD" but my parents were all "yeah but we already tested him as a kid". So I got retested and turns out, yeah, I have a bad case of ADHD (and something else that came out to mild chronic depression). I think they did perscribe me ritalin but I only took it for a few weeks before I had some side effects.
I didn't see a head doctor until my early 20s to get checked for a learning disability too (where I came out retarded in math but great at english, so individually my math score i'm learning challenged but my english balances it out, so the state says i'm fine). They gave me something else that was newishly being tested, i'm not sure what it was but i'm pretty sure it wasn't aderell. Took that again for a few weeks but didn't like how I was turning out, made me more depressed so I stopped taking them.
So yeah, living for 16 years with ADHD and being told "why don't you act normal" and constantly thinking to myself "wtf is wrong with me" really fucked me up. I've only started getting my shit together the last few years but I'm pushing 25 now and getting shit together after so long is an uphill battle.