Thoughrout elementary and high school, I got in trouble for disrupting class. My teachers would call my parents and say I had to get checked for ADD. However, my grades were good and my parents and I ignored them.
However, in college, I cannot ignore it. I've been getting extremely nervous on exams for no reason and I've been failing courses that would otherwise be easy to pass. My time management is sh!tty and my ability to focus is out of control. My ability to concentrate is all but gone and I cannot pay attention to much more than 5 minutes out of a 1hour lecture.
Now, for the past two years, I have been trying to get help for ADD or at least tested for it. However, the psychiatrist I saw seemed to think I was depressed and said I should take Wellbutrin for concentration. (My roomate used to take the same thing for depression.) Well, I've been on Wellbutrin for a year and my dosage has been raised twice and it has done nothing.
I also saw a counselor provided by my school for ADD problems. The counselor just told me to keep seeing my psychiatrist and that he would handle it. Well, the psychiatrist has not done anything. I have not one single letter written by the psychiatrist to my school to even let them know.
I now have the single crappiest transcript that's full of garbage in engineering. I really do not want to change my major - but I may be forced to. I basically spent another year trying to get this problem fixed.
If you've had problems with ADD or getting diagnosed with ADD in college, how did you handle them? Why is there all sorts of help offered in elementary and high school and none in college? Why the hell does it take so damn long to get any sort of help?
It takes 3 months to even make an appointment with a psychiatrist. ARGH.
Are there any jobs that require a person to do something completely different every day?
However, in college, I cannot ignore it. I've been getting extremely nervous on exams for no reason and I've been failing courses that would otherwise be easy to pass. My time management is sh!tty and my ability to focus is out of control. My ability to concentrate is all but gone and I cannot pay attention to much more than 5 minutes out of a 1hour lecture.
Now, for the past two years, I have been trying to get help for ADD or at least tested for it. However, the psychiatrist I saw seemed to think I was depressed and said I should take Wellbutrin for concentration. (My roomate used to take the same thing for depression.) Well, I've been on Wellbutrin for a year and my dosage has been raised twice and it has done nothing.
I also saw a counselor provided by my school for ADD problems. The counselor just told me to keep seeing my psychiatrist and that he would handle it. Well, the psychiatrist has not done anything. I have not one single letter written by the psychiatrist to my school to even let them know.
I now have the single crappiest transcript that's full of garbage in engineering. I really do not want to change my major - but I may be forced to. I basically spent another year trying to get this problem fixed.
If you've had problems with ADD or getting diagnosed with ADD in college, how did you handle them? Why is there all sorts of help offered in elementary and high school and none in college? Why the hell does it take so damn long to get any sort of help?
It takes 3 months to even make an appointment with a psychiatrist. ARGH.
Are there any jobs that require a person to do something completely different every day?