Posted by JohnX2 on March 11, 2002, at 14:08:36
In reply to ADD experience w/bipolar w/o, posted by JohnX2 on March 10, 2002, at 3:16:49
Thanks again for all the positive and insightful
feedback.I've decided to break up my "labels" i.e. dx's
into buckets of confidence. I don't like labels.
I prefer to label myself. I don't think
the ADD is high level of confidence.I think I could turn this into a fuzzy logic type
quantification if I thought about it hard enough.
But I'll just stick with my thoughts about my medicine
responses, life experiences, vantage points of others'
experiences, all my pdocs' diagnosis, and draw up a hierarchy:confidence
level
------
tier 1: BipolarII (high)
tier 2: ADD (moderate?)
tier 3: PTSD/GAD/MajorDepression (low/moderate)
tier 4: Panic (remote)
tier 5: Anti Social Personality Disorder (go back to psych school you loser)In the end I just do what makes me function well
and enjoy life as I be.-John
>
> I'm trying to understand differences between
> ADD diagnosis (non hyperactive type) that may
> or may not accompany bipolar disorder.
>
> Are there people with ADD who don't take medicine
> who do markedly well in schooling?
>
> Do people with ADD tend to do better in certain
> disciplines than others?
>
> Can someone who is bipolar and "stabilized"
> be ADD, take a stimulant, get the ADD cured, but
> be driven (hypo)manic and in the process trigger hyperactive
> behaviour thus utterly confusing the whole diagonsis?
>
> comments?
>
> -John
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