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Do I have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
I am a 15 year old female, who very much so has the symptoms of a teen w/adhd.
I recently took a self quiz online If you scored…70 & up: Adult ADHD. 50 – 69: Moderate ADHD. 35 – 49: Mild ADHD. 25 – 34: Borderline ADHD. 0 – 24: No ADHD likely. I scored at 107 way beyond 70. I have the symptoms: distractibility, irritability poor concentration, hyperactivity,impulsiveness ,insomnia. I Also Fail to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork. Have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks. Don’t seem to listen when spoken to directly. Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace. Difficulty organizing tasks and activities. To make this quicker, I went to this website ( http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/adhd-symptoms ) and I have nearly all of these symptoms. I have been having a lot more sleeping problems, I have been Isolating my self from others due to depression from poor grades and pressure at school, and my grades have gone down significantly since the 6th grade. Yet my mother fails to believe I do. And doesn’t want to take me to a doctor to get evaluated. Help!
Why are some parents so against weed? Why do many of them think it is sooo bad?
Seriously? I am 18, i am a senior in high school, i have a 3.98 GPA and i will be attending william and mary next year. The first time i smoked weed was in the beginning of 10th grade. After that one time, i basically only did it once every 3 or 4 months until my senior year, where I first did it every weekend night and then once i got accepted to college i started doing it almost every day. My GPA this year as a senior is about a 4.1 and im taking very hard classes. My parents always commend me for my academic accomplishments. I have done so well in school while drinking and smoking a lot of weed and just recently my parents found out that I probably smoke.My parents recently smelled weed coming from my room. I tried to smoke out of my window at night and i was careful to blow all the smoke out, literally only took 4 hits, and my parents said they smelled it. They didnt find anything so they couldnt prove it but they know what i was doing. My question is, why is pot so frowned upon? It doesnt seem to have bad effects on me at all. Besides the bad effects on the lungs, which i try to counter with regular cardiovascular exercise and eating healthily, weed really helps me in so many ways. It quells my anxiety when sometimes i cannot handle it. It helps me sleep as i sometimes have sleeping problems because of anxiety. THese problems all started way before i started smoking, so they are not caused by the weed. I just dont get it. It makes me feel good, helps reduce my stress, and helps me sleep. It is simply the only thing that does it, and i definietly have way more control over my body when i am high then when i am drunk. I am just so pissed off how all the adults in my family and in society in general always drink alcohol which causes so many problems and deaths, and then they frown upon weed, which has been scientifically proven to not be as intoxicating and as dangerous as alcohol. I just dont get it. Can someone tell me why SOME adults have this skewed image of pot as a terrible, life-destroying drug when clearly in my situation it has not been?
I understand that many adults think marijuana makes you not accomplish anything. This could not be further from the truth! What I do is I simply get all my shit done, school work and extracurriculars, and then I like to kick back and smoke. Just tell me, what is wrong with this drug when clearly it does not have bad effects on so many people who are careful with its use.
ok. first of all to all of u who are bashing me about smoking, how can you be certain that marijuana is the cause of the negative health effects in older people? Perhaps drinking, or cigarette smoking, which statistically causes way more deaths than pot, are the causes of these health problems. Why are alcohol and cigs legal? if weed is illegal, alc and cigs should also be illegal. And for those who say that weed kills brain cells, that is not true AT ALL. It simply impairs short-term memory while the user is under the influence of the drug and shortly thereafter(like 4 hrs after). People just think that it kills brain cells because when you are high you can’t remember as much. I know successful adult pot smokers who are very intelligent, so do not tell me I am ignorant when perhaps you all are the ones that are ignorant for thinking that in ALL recreational users, marijuana has bad effects. THis is true for some, but certainly not all.