Thy may well be it. Psychiatrists often over-diagnose and lots of people especially teenagers love thinking they're different or special because they're so messed up in their minds
So I kid you not, more than half the kids in my grade claim to have either ADD ADHD or dyslexia. Now while I do believe some of them genuinely have it, others I call BS on. Now I'm not saying everyone does, but most of the people in my grade who 'have' ADD or ADHD eapecially use it as a crutch. Bad grade on a test? Well they forgot to take their pill that morning, so they can retake it; when in all actuality they were exactly the same the day they took their test. And then there are some parents that have their kids so much drugs it's like they're high all day. As I said, I do believe that some people genuinely have it, but as much as I hate to say it, I think that others are diagnosed because ether parents or teachers don't want to deal with a high energy child.
I actually have ADD, a mild case so it's not bad enough for med but bad enough to affect me a lot and it makes me mad when people at school did that. They would always complain they couldn't pay attention due to ADD/ADHD when they were actually just chatting with their friends instead. And that would be the only ' symptom ' they had.
Talking and chatting to your friends is not even the real symptom of ADD, or for me anyways, i just daze out, i end up staring at something thinking nothing, and im stuck most of the day in school trying to snap myself out of it to pay attention
I totally agree and whenever I daze do to my case of ADD I practically have no thought so I'm doing anything but day dreaming. But what really bugs me is people say they think they have ADD/ADHD because they daze off but they forget that just because you have one symptom doesn't mean you have the disorder. I also hate it when people think that ADD isn't real, which I'm pretty sure half my teachers think it isn't, and they just think I use it for a crutch but really I feel weird having special treatment because of it and I do have real symptoms for example: I'm highly impulsive and if I don't take my medicine I can't stay concentrated on something that doesn't REALLY interest me and if I have a test I don't do bad on it it just takes me a shit ton of time longer to take.
Most people fail to notice that ADHD is not that simple. I was diagnosed when I was nine and I've been taking medication since. It seriously effected my performance in school and it was not just the issue of not being able to focus. I find it quite annoying when people claim that they have ADHD when they are just not paying attention. Those are three mental disorders and they are not something to be joked about.
Not only do I feel that the stimulants put me in a box but sometime they just don't work straight out and because of that all year my grades have been suffering but on another note with this over diagnosis people start to think that ADD/ADHD isn't real.
If you have any of these illnesses don't let people tell you it's your fault or its imaginary you take your medication and practice whatever every day and have your bad days but have your good days too and get better and then when your clean walk up to people who said you were making it up or that it is just an excuse and fucking BITCH SLAP THE FUCK OUT IF THEM.
Since we are on the topic i am literally bipolar. And i suffer from bipolar depression. At first i wouldnt accept it. I thought i was just a teenager.I didnt wanna tell my parents because my brother,sister, father, and grandparents suffer from mental imbalance such as anger issues,nerve defects, and severe depression.I always promised myself i wouldnt grow up and be like them or take meds for mental problems. I thought i could handle it on my own and i would be fine. I didnt want people to think of me as a basket case. So i dealt with it from about 2011 to june 2014. It continued to get worse. I hated everyone. in real life and on the internet. I was mean and abusive to people. I never ate or slept or talked. I just sat in the dark in my room most of the time. I gave up on life and in june of 2013 i tried ending it. My note i left explained all of the problems i had been having. I woke up the next day and my parents new everything and got me help.Im here to tell you that you shouldnt
I feel for you puddlepeople because around 2007 my mom was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder (luckily she never got to a very dangerous level) and now we have her steady and her doctor is trying to get her on as little meds as possible but I'm afraid that he might take her off the wrong one and not be able to put her back on time that she would get so depressed that see might do something to harm herself.
Exactly. I used to self harm but i didnt realize it was wrong. And when i would, people thought i was seeking attention and i didnt understand why. Thats why i get mad at people who say that we are just attention whores. I didnt even think it was a bad thing to do. Kind of like people who smoke- they do it for stress relief.
I didnt want to take meds either because i lost 3 of my best friends because they thought i was crzy. It really sucks :/
I'm not sure the op sees the flawed logic in this assertion. "Something used to be this and is now that" is not an argument, it's an observation. It's like posting 2 pictures of someone having a seizure with one saying "1500's, Demonic Possession" and the other saying "2014, Epilepsy" then summing it up by saying "SATAN IS NOT A DISEASE"
ADD has effected my life severely, in ways I'll never be able to explain to people who don't have it. I was never given the help I needed and becuase people think it's not real. Even after being diagnosed by a professional many people, even teachers, assumed I was faking it or just wanted attention. IT'S REAL PEOPLE.
I think each person commenting this post is aware of true mental illness. And all pointing out that the one that is annoying is the fact that some kids played with these, self-diagnosing themselves for things their mess. Well, I don't like it too, but faking these IS also a mental problem. Being too much of an asshole or bitch is also bad, meaning they don't really know how to act accordingly, and as I observe, it is due to parents tell them they used to be better than kids.
I didnt want to take meds either because i lost 3 of my best friends because they thought i was crzy. It really sucks :/