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Date Posted: 15:32:31 01/17/02 Thu
Author: Eric
Author Host/IP: 66.147.22.185
Subject: Re: Hey Eric...another ADD'er
In reply to: Sandy 's message, "Hey Eric...another ADD'er" on 08:36:19 01/17/02 Thu

Sandy,

It sounds like we have very similar paths. ADD first came up in one of my counseling seasons. My counselor asked me to try to describe what was going on in my head during a typical day. Her first clue was my complete inability to sit in a meeting. Then other things clued her in and she told me, without calling it by name, to take a look at my childhood and see if I could find some patterns... They were all there.. classic ADD stuff. I also have a slight reading disability as well that goes beyond the ADD.

Until the end of high school, I was using those "coping" skills to get by. Then came college and the bottom fell out. College is where I became most depressed, mainly because the impending sense of failure over not being able to keep up with others on the simpliest assignments. I'd read page after page in a textbook and retain absolutely nothing....

In a large sense, much of my depression has been rooted in my desire not to fail and the pressure (real or imagined) that I had to be perfect because if I didn't someone would find out how much of a problem I was having and I would be fired or labeled as a failure....

Eric

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