Should I be on ADD medication?!
Question: Should I be on ADD medication.?
Today... I poured the chocolate syrup in the wrong container.
Then... they told me it was the wrong one, and thit I had done it the other time.
So.... I tried to pick it up....
And it was still plugged in and fell down everywhere.
Then.... I picked it up again, and someone in the head with it.
I think I just don't care enough to pay attention. I mean the tasks are mind numbingly dull. Thankfully I only have 5 days left.
Do I just hate my job, or could this have happened to anyone.?Health Question & Answer
Then... they told me it was the wrong one, and thit I had done it the other time.
So.... I tried to pick it up....
And it was still plugged in and fell down everywhere.
Then.... I picked it up again, and someone in the head with it.
I think I just don't care enough to pay attention. I mean the tasks are mind numbingly dull. Thankfully I only have 5 days left.
Do I just hate my job, or could this have happened to anyone.?Health Question & Answer
Answers:
From your initial description I wouldn't think that you have ADD, but rather that you were having a bit of a klutzy streak. I have them all the time. Paradoxically, I find it much harder to concentrate on mind-numbingly simplistic tasks than on more challenging ones because I'm so bored my mind wanders. From everything that I've read of yours so far, you sound like an adventuresome, inquisitive person, and so being in an environment that utterly lacks any mental stimulation probably isn't healthy for your overall well-being. If you have to keep the job, then just do your best to stay focused while you are there.
After reading the additional details I'm not as sure about your ADD; it's impossible for anyone to definitely tell you rather you do from questions on Yahoo Answers. You are right that it is a label often slapped on kids who don't actually have it, though. My preschool thought I had ADHD because I was constantly roaming around the classroom and not paying attention, but my pediatrician told my parents he thought it was simply caused by boredom and that they should have my IQ tested. The results prompted them to have me skip over the last year of preschool and start kindergarten at a school for gifted kids where my signs of ADHD promptly disappeared. If you think you may have ADD and could benefit from medication, talk to your doctor. But I would first try exercising more, doing mind-stimulating tasks like crosswords puzzles, eating healthily and finding another job and see if you aren't happier and feeling more focused.
Best of luck!
~ Pax / PeaceHealth Question & Answer
After reading the additional details I'm not as sure about your ADD; it's impossible for anyone to definitely tell you rather you do from questions on Yahoo Answers. You are right that it is a label often slapped on kids who don't actually have it, though. My preschool thought I had ADHD because I was constantly roaming around the classroom and not paying attention, but my pediatrician told my parents he thought it was simply caused by boredom and that they should have my IQ tested. The results prompted them to have me skip over the last year of preschool and start kindergarten at a school for gifted kids where my signs of ADHD promptly disappeared. If you think you may have ADD and could benefit from medication, talk to your doctor. But I would first try exercising more, doing mind-stimulating tasks like crosswords puzzles, eating healthily and finding another job and see if you aren't happier and feeling more focused.
Best of luck!
~ Pax / PeaceHealth Question & Answer
It's easy to go into "auto pilot" mode when we are doing arduous tasks. & that's quite normal. Don't try to make yourself feel 100% attentive to whatever your doing just know that life has many tasks that feel pointless and dull like you say, but these all must be done mindfully or we will suffer consequences. Practice being calmly mindfully aware of the present moment and it will sooner or later become like an exercise, and your tolerance for the current moment will only grow stronger. No meds !!!!!!! :)Health Question & Answer
Probably could have happened to anyone.
If you really don't care, then ADD meds won't help you. They might even make you feel sick.
You could try over the counter, non-prescription ADD meds. Most are stimulants, and help anyone concentrate, if that's what you need to do. You can get caffeine in pill form. You can get it in liquid form from a machine, hot or cold, with sugar, or without. You can even get it in donuts. There are side effects. It's addictive. It can cause insomnia, nervous twitters, calcium loss and arthritis. You can get it without a prescription because it's generally considered as safe. No randomized long term trials. It's just that people have been consuming it for ages.Health Question & Answer
If you really don't care, then ADD meds won't help you. They might even make you feel sick.
You could try over the counter, non-prescription ADD meds. Most are stimulants, and help anyone concentrate, if that's what you need to do. You can get caffeine in pill form. You can get it in liquid form from a machine, hot or cold, with sugar, or without. You can even get it in donuts. There are side effects. It's addictive. It can cause insomnia, nervous twitters, calcium loss and arthritis. You can get it without a prescription because it's generally considered as safe. No randomized long term trials. It's just that people have been consuming it for ages.Health Question & Answer
umm ADD is attention ..... so it means u have a hard time listening and paying attention to what ur doing and kinda like u have a short attenion span so it would depend on how u act during the rest of the dayHealth Question & Answer
yes it can happen to anyone. most people are way to young to be poisoning their body with drugs to alter it. i think you must hate your job and just dont care to pay attention.Health Question & Answer
That doesn't sound like A.D.D. You might just be nervous or thinking about something else, possibly trying to hurry.?Health Question & Answer
well doesn't sound like ADD..
Do these symptoms persist in other aspects of your life as well.? If it is just happening at work then you probably just don't care about your job. But who does.. :)Health Question & Answer
Do these symptoms persist in other aspects of your life as well.? If it is just happening at work then you probably just don't care about your job. But who does.. :)Health Question & Answer
that's not ADD! that's just being clumsy.Health Question & Answer
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pull yourself together
pills dont solve anything
and add dosnt make you drop thingsHealth Question & Answer
pills dont solve anything
and add dosnt make you drop thingsHealth Question & Answer
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Ask Doctor Phil,or ..some other wierd pervertHealth Question & Answer
that hasnothing to do with add... u just dont care enough about ur work to pay attention enoughHealth Question & Answer