Self-Diagnosis

Last Sunday, I wrote about myself having ADHD but I was only semi-serious. Well, class got out early and I decided to check my email in the library. As I did this, I looked for more information on ADHD and this is what I found.

Symptoms include:

• Inattention: where a person often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes, often has difficulty sustaining attention in tasks, often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly, or often does not follow through on instructions.
• Tasks: Where a person often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities, often avoids, dislikes or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort, often loses things necessary for tasks or activities, often easily gets distracted by extraneous stimuli, or is often forgetful in daily activities.
• Hyperactivity: Where a person often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat, often feels restless, often has difficulty engaging in leisure activities quietly, or often talks excessively.
• Impulsivity: Where a person often blurts out answers before questions have been completed, or often interrupts or intrudes on others.
• Emotions: Affective lability is characterized by brief, intense affective outbursts ranging from euphoria to despair to anger, and is experienced by the ADHD adult as being out of control. Under conditions of increased emotional arousal from external demands, the patient becomes more disorganized and distractible.

I can think of repeated instances for all the sentences in bold. I'm think I'm going to go see someone about it.