Straight To The Top Of The Class!

This post is on a lighter note, I promise lol Not that long ago, I found out that the psychiatrist that I was seeing, would no longer be available in my area, so I had to find a new one, and I was fine with this. When I met with my new psychiatrist, he went over my notes and looked at all the medications I had tried. He spoke to me at length about my school years, which at the time I thought was odd. He also asked me briefly about past employment, and why I had chosen to leave after a particular period of time.

Three quarters through the session, the psychiatrist asked me, while looking at my right leg, if I had always been a fidgety person? At the time he asked, I was not aware of what I was doing, but then I realised that my right leg had indeed been kind of fidgety. I told the psychiatrist, that I hadn't really noticed.... But that it was possible. After the session, I mentioned this to my wife, and she stated that I do it all the time! I had never noticed! You think you know yourself and your habits! lol

The psychiatrist asked me if I had ever been tested for ADHD? (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) I stated that I hadn't. Now I don't consider myself an ignorant person, I do try to stay in touch with current events, and if I hear or read about something I don't understand, good old Google comes to the rescue! But I honestly thought that ADHD was a childhood disorder. I had never given it any more thought, I guess I had just assumed that it was something that was treated and then the child grew out of it. The psychiatrist stated that in our next session, he would test me for ADHD.   

When I attended the next session, the psychiatrist had the test ready for me. Once I had completed the test, he reviewed my answers and tallied the score, he did this twice. He then began to explain, that when it was suspected that an adult patient/client had ADHD, they generally scored just above or just below 60/100. They were then referred to a clinic in Sydney which specialised, in more in depth testing, to discover if the patient really had ADHD or some other underlying issue. The psychiatrist went on to say, that I would not need to attend the clinic in Sydney, as I had scored 87/100!   

I thought about what he had said for a moment, and then I started laughing! The psychiatrist looked at me questioningly. I reiterated what I had said to him in the first session we had, when he had asked me about my school years. And that was, that art and sport were my two favourite subjects, and that I was hopeless at everything else. This had been part of the reason I had left school early. I went on to say that every school report card had labelled me as easily distracted, a daydreamer, and that I needed to apply myself.... I told him that 87/100 was the best score I had ever received in a test! When I put it that way, he did think it was pretty funny too. lol

So I received a script for medication to treat the ADHD, and within a week I could not believe the difference in how I felt! It was amazing! I finally feel that I am getting close to the point where, my medications wont need too much more tweaking.