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YUP. TITLE TELLS IT ALL. Ahahaha. Of course, for me at least, I can't be completely sure if it was myself or my ADHD T^T everyone keeps telling me I need to control myself and my symptoms though. They're pretty bad and I HATE MEDS SYDUFJVKVTHJKVE okay anyway--

This time when I was fourteen, my teacher kept hounding me after lessons because he believed I had some problems. When I asked him what he thought ...

The cells in your brain change depending on what you do. You might have heard people saying if you don't learn a second language as a child the area of your brain responsible for that gets smaller. It's that idea in essence.

There are people who've experienced stroke and lose movement in certain sides of their body. Some have gone through physical therapy that has them doing repetitive tasks hours a day for weeks/months. The ...

I'm getting desperate. Time won't stop and there's just so much to study. College exams start and follow through January, and I have basically a whole semester to study until then. But it's just so hard, seems like half of my effort is spent only on trying to organize everything and keep myself focused. I get mentally tired quickly after a hour or so, and reading, which is already a difficult task, seems to become ...

this is more of a rant, that i wanted you guys to be able to post your opinons about..

i found some people over on the BPD forum saying ADHD isn't real.
do you guys ever stumble upon people like that?
i myself am not diagnosed with adhd
but i know plenty of people who are and really struggle with their mental illness.
it must be so invalidating to hear that its not real! ...

Time magazine ran an article about a study linking ADHD to pesticide levels in children

The article is here: http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 64,00.html

Short term memory problems, poor impulse controll and depression are vauge symptoms of many underlying health concerns including exposure to toxens. The influence of environment on our behaviour should not be dismissed.

Just bear with me for a few minutes. I just finished my first semester in college and now I am almost sure that I have ADD. Let me tell you why and tell me if my self diagnosis is correct.
- I cannot focus in lectures. I keep trying but in 5-10 minutes, I just zone out.
- I am terrible with directions. Even if I have been somewhere 10 times. I never remember how ...

I'm a 22 year old college kid studying engineering. Over the past couple years, I've gotten a really strong feeling that something's just not right. After a bunch of research, I think I've narrowed it down to ADD or just depression (even though I'm not necessarily sad all the time). Here are a bunch of the symptoms:

- unstable eating patterns
- lack of motivation
- poor self confidence
- brain fog
- feels like ...

Hi everyone,

My long suffering land lady has just complained again about my untidiness and lack of cleaning. I was already feeling bad about it, but still can't move my ass off this computer.

Now I feel like buying a bottle of vodka and just having a few glasses to stop the guilt about how my landlady is feeling, how my parents are feeling, how my colleagues are feeling, how my friends are feeling. Because ...

First i want to apologize for my english, i´m from Brazil.


Hi, my child (5 years) was called attention by her teacher that told me she might have ADHD and I should take to a neurologist to check it out. I didn´t pay much attention when she fist said that, but someday while i was doing a work for college (I´m 30 and still in college) i normaly search homepages sometimes because some questions just ...

First i want to apologize for my english, i´m from Brazil.


Hi, my child (5 years) was called attention by her teacher that told me she might have ADHD and I should take to a neurologist to check it out. I didn´t pay much attention when she fist said that, but someday while i was doing a work for college (I´m 30 and still in college) i normaly search homepages sometimes because some questions just ...