I really think I have undiagnosed ADHD. Tried getting diagnosed and spent 8 months going from a therapist, to a psychiatrist, and finally an ADHD specialist.
He met with me once, gave me a reaction time test, and asked me what I do for a living. Apparently engineers who have good reaction times are not likely to have ADHD. So… yay, I’m cured.
That’s actually not true at all. If you got the TOVA test, it specifically states in their instructions that it will not diagnose someone who does that type of job for a living because you’re immune to the tests criteria. So you could score a perfect normal score and still be very very ADHD.
It was the Conners Continuous Performance Tests Third Edition. I pressed spacebar when something popped up except for the letter “X”. I play video games in my freetime so reacting like that is fairly normal for me, even if its for 10 minutes.
I really doubted the validity of the diagnosis. But going through that 8 month process again seems draining.
I really think I have undiagnosed ADHD. Tried getting diagnosed and spent 8 months going from a therapist, to a psychiatrist, and finally an ADHD specialist.
He met with me once, gave me a reaction time test, and asked me what I do for a living. Apparently engineers who have good reaction times are not likely to have ADHD. So… yay, I’m cured.
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That’s actually not true at all. If you got the TOVA test, it specifically states in their instructions that it will not diagnose someone who does that type of job for a living because you’re immune to the tests criteria. So you could score a perfect normal score and still be very very ADHD.
It was the Conners Continuous Performance Tests Third Edition. I pressed spacebar when something popped up except for the letter “X”. I play video games in my freetime so reacting like that is fairly normal for me, even if its for 10 minutes.
I really doubted the validity of the diagnosis. But going through that 8 month process again seems draining.
Yeah that sounds exhausting :(