Re: ADHD behaviour
I will post from my own personal experience. I have been diagnosed with ADHD. There are two sides to it. One side is hyperactivity and the other is hypOactivity. One is short attention span, can't keep on one track, mind always moving the other is lack of attention, kind of like everything is in slow motion. Hyperactivity is the most common I think. I can say from my personal experience that anger outbursts are common with mine, hyperactivity, but not like you are describing. It is very very frusterating at times, you want things to be just as you think they should be. It is more obvious in small things. Like when my wife and I read a paper. She has the ability to scan the headlines, I have to read every word sometimes twice. I can't just look at a short sentence and know what it says, I have the need to read every single word. Sometimes if I read a book I get to the end of a page and absolutely can not determine what was said. I know I read every word, but they are just words with no meaning, so I have to start again. If I am typing and I see a small error, I need to delete the whole sentence and start over, or else it just eats at me. I have overcome this with disciplin within myself. When I was in grade school I was constantly in trouble because I didn't try hard enough, or did not work up to my ability so the teachers said. It wasn't until late in my high school that ADHD was invented. Now it is an overdiagnosed condition. Parents want to calm their kids so they don't have to take responsibility, so they get a diagnosis and put them on meds. Only in recent years has someone stepped in and slowed this process of diagnosis. The laws on these things for schools have tightened up. In the past few years if a child, male children in particular, got into trouble more than 3 times in a year they would be diagnosed. <br />I can say from my own life that I did do stupid things that got me into trouble, more than the average child, but nothing more serious than writing on the bathroom walls. Until I got older, but those times were my own fault. If a person needs meds for ADHD, you as an outside observer should not notice a marked difference in every day activity like anger control, energy level etc. If the meds are used correctly then there won't be a huge difference. Now I know also that if someone does not need the meds and takes them, there will be an obvious difference. Thaat is why riddelin can be, and is often in this area, sold on the street for $25 a pill. <br />ADHD has also become a crutch for everything from addiction to criminal activity to anger management. It is frusterating living with this condition, but knowing it just takes a little longer to figure somethings out helps. Until the person finds something that interests them. For me it was automotive technology, and later in my life law enforcement. I accelled in both of these areas. <br />It was not until recent years that I have opened up and will tell anyone of my struggles with it. I decided one young teenage boy was in trouble and blaming the condition. I talked with him about my life, and it helped. Now I talk to young people often just to show them that it won't slow them down, and they can overcome the problems with a little disciplin and time.<br />The problem you are describing does not sound at all related to ADHD. It sounds more like a bi-polar or some kind of easy anger problem. I think it would be a better road to get to a psycologist. If she will, go as a team with you sponsering. If you can talk to the doctor yourself and describe what you see in her. <br />Another thing to think of, and I don 't know this person. But it sounds like possibly a chemical addiction problem. Does she use any other drugs other than those she buys from others? An addiction to certain prescriptions could cause these outbursts. Just a thought. <br />If she is taking certain meds prescribed for ADHD, they are depressants and will diminish certain symptons of a lot of problems. <br />It does however sound a lot like a phychological problem, or possibly just a learned behavior. Definately convince her to get some help. <br />To make an answer short, no it does not sound totally linked to ADHD. Maybe something that can be attributed to it, and use it as a crutch, but not totally.
<br />Help please.
