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Jul 20, 2008 10:47

The non-DSM-IV list includes:
* high mental and physical energy (coupled with extreme lassitude at times)
* a fast-moving, easily distracted mind (coupled with an amazingly super focused mind at times)
* trouble with remembering, planning and anticipating
* unpredictability and impulsivity
* creativity
* lack of inhibition as compared to others
* disorganization (coupled with remarkable organizational skills in certain domains)
* a tendency toward procrastination (coupled with an I-must-do-it-or-have-it-now attitude at time)
* a high-intensity attitude alternating with a foggy one
* forgetfulness (coupled with an extraordinary recall of certain often irrelevant remote information)
* passionate interests (coupled with an inability to arouse interest at other times)
* an original, often zany way of looking at the world
* irritability (coupled with tenderheartedness)
* a tendency to drink too much alcohol, smoke cigarettes, use other drugs, or get involved with addictive activities such as gambling, shopping, spending, sex, food and the Internet (coupled with a tendency to abstain altogether at times)
* a tendency to worry unnecessarily (coupled with a tendency not to worry enough when worry is warranted)
* a tendency to be a nonconformist or a maverick
* a tendency to reject help from other (coupled with a tendency to want to give help to others)
* generosity that can go too far
* a tendency to repeat the same mistake many times without learning from it
* a tendency to underestimate the time it takes to complete a task or get to a destination
* various other ingredients, none of which dominates all the time, and any one of which may be absent in a single individual

So what happens if you find a list of 21 items and 18 fit? What happens if the diagnosis attached to this list is ADD? What happens if one or more parents also display some of these traits?

So there's a certain amount of familial ego protection going on, and there's this sense I have of belonging, but there's also this business of looking at some of the other assumed symptoms outside of this list and thinking, that's not really me.

Yeah, I intend to check this all out with some professionals. I'm not going to model my behavior on all this. I have an unsuspecting counselor and a psychiatrist all lined up, never fear.

For those naysayers who look at this list and say, "This isn't a diagnosis. It's just a list, and some of those traits are positive," I say unto you, "yea, but popular Astrology works on the same principles, and yet there are still people who don't know anything about astrology who still take those interpretations to heart."

anger, fears, bitching, experiment, psych, health, family, anxiety

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