Posted by violette on June 16, 2010, at 12:00:12
In reply to Re: My doctor doesn't believe i have ADHD » violette, posted by chujoe on June 16, 2010, at 5:47:52
Hey there,
The thought that sparked that description came from a picture of an OCD thought pattern model I saw in a psychodynamic manual or somewhere, in addition to giving this a lot of thought from observing my child, reading, etc..I wish I could find that picture to pass along to you, but I can't find it. Here's a model I just found:
http://beyondpsychology.org/disorderlinks/Obsessive_Compulsive_Disorder.shtml
I didn't read the article, just was looking for a visual model of OCD. Anyway, I think there should be a model like that for ADD/ADHD. Maybe there is one and I don't know of it?
You know how people with ADD get tics in addition to the OCD symptoms? That led me to think through this more and I think ADD/OCD is more related to autism. Like people who have an autistic gene(s) combined with environmental/psychiological factors end up getting ADD. Does anyone in your family have autism? I have similar thoughts about schizophrenia being more in the autism family rather than the "axis I" disorder it is classified in.
I also have wondered if right brain dominated people might end up with different manifestations of mental disorders than left-brained, either as contributing to the cause of the disorder or as a result of the way the brain has adapted. I know I have problems with left brained thinking and have become aware that I had compartmentalized my thoughts--seperating emotions from thought, rather than integrating them. Its a dysfunction; it might be schitzoid related, I have to think about that more. I didn't notice this until I started psychodynamic therapy, then realized I had been doing that for years.
I was diagnosed with ADD in middle age; I developed the symtpoms but I know I don't have ADD...it's just that I have had every type of anxiety that exists and for some unknown reason, my anxiety changes-its ranged from GAD, to panic disorder to PTSD, OCD, to ADD..those are just descriptions of symptoms that reflect how my brain deals with fear and other emotional crap. I think the diagnostic criteria used by mainstream psychiatrists is detrimental to treatment in many ways.
I never thought anyone would be interested in any of my goofy theories, but there you go. I have to quit thinking about this stuff and get back to living my life. This is a bad habit for me!
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