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Post by andy12345 on Mar 7, 2011 15:19:46 GMT
I'm wondering how dysthymia or other depressive disorders can clamp a person with adhd symptoms down to a level where they don't quite fit the specs. I was just reading ravanthingies post....
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Post by Ravendarque on Mar 7, 2011 15:32:07 GMT
ADHD has known co-morbidity with depression, bi-polar, Asperger's/ASDs, dyslexia, dyspraxia and probably others as well. It seems to be normal practice for a specialist to differentiate these disorders during diagnosis and to treat as appropriate. Many have overlapping symptoms (especially ADHD and bi-polar) so when I go in for diagnosis, I'll just try to give as much information as possible and trust to her knowledge to figure it out.
- Raventhingy
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Post by andy12345 on Mar 7, 2011 15:38:35 GMT
When I went to doc's after getting clued up I said "I seem to have symptoms of adhd-inattentive, social avoidance/indifference, apathy, dysthymia, lowish testosterone, borderline personaltity disorder and procrastination supreme"
Thanks raventhingy lol
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2011 11:52:21 GMT
ADHD and depression go hand in hand, the level of depression just differs from person to person. Let me be clearer, if you have ADHD you can certainly have depression but having depression does not warrant having ADHD.
It is very easy for an untrained (in ADHD) mental specialist to jump to conclusions upon seeing someone complaining of depressed mood plus ADHD type symptoms, and I will bet anything that many ADHD sufferers are being put on nasty SSRIs/SNRIs which are only blunting the depression obtained from years of failure due to an inherent ADHD disorder.
Depression is reinforced by ADHD and has the sufferer entering a vicious cycle for which professional help is needed to come out of. People can literally spend their lifetime in such a continuum thus affecting their quality of life immensely. ADHD should certainly not be taken lightly.
Regards.
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Post by andy12345 on Mar 8, 2011 12:22:39 GMT
It's not just adhd that shouldn't be taken lightly though.
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