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Go onto the autism forum and click on the Health Page icon on the top right hand corner of the page. I have posted the DSM IV diagnositic criteria for autism and parents have posted examples of their childs behaviour that fits the criteria. Have a look and see if any of that sounds relevant to her behaviour and post back. It maybe that you have two things going on.
Two other ideas.
One is that with her intelligence she gets bored fairly quickly and the words in her head is simply the way she is dealing with the boredom. And she may get so involved in daydreaming or finds the work so boring that she just isn't finishing it. If she is reading on the 5th grade level, there is no way that, "words bother her and call her stupid." But she may be missing out on the instructions?
The other is, of course, the possibility of ADD.
Have you ever had your thyroid checked? Hypothyroidism (too slow) can cause low energy as well and is directly linked to clinical depression. It can cause many female issues as well that could look like the premenapause that your doctor's are checking you for.
You are clearly depressed and i don't know about ADD. Usually to be diagnosed with ADD as an adult you would tell tales of all kinds of difficulty as a child.
It is Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, but psychologists and such refuse to consider it a seperate problem from ADD and will not put it in a class of its own in the DSM. At one time it was going to be studied with a certain class of medications, but pharmacuetical companies pulled out on the researcher because they felt the condition was so rare that they could not make a profit and that is why it is consdered a side neffect of ADD.
Axis I includes acute issues like biploar disorder, major depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, ADHD, schizophrenia. (These are just a few diagnosis listed in the DSM) The DSM gives a listing of symptoms for each of these disorders and the time the symptom must be present and distressing for the person to be labeled with the diagnosis. A person's symptoms are used to match up a person's diagnosis.
At the top of the forum index page there are two buttons - Warning signs of Depression and Symptoms of depression. The symptoms page follows the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) which is what pdocs used to diagnose mental illness. The other one, warning signs, covers DSM symptoms and a few more related signs which may or may not be present, like anxiety, irritability and alcohol use.
I have a son who just turned 8. A couple years ago he was diagnosed with add. Recently Aspergers was mentioned to me, A close family relative said that my son shows the same symptoms that her friends son has. I did some more research and found that add, adhd, aspergers ocd and some others are very similar and are hard to determine which is the correct diagnoses. My biggest problem is that some require medicines that can be very detrimental to the body.
A late onset of traumatic brain injury (mild-moderate) has also been diagnosed. I am now retracing some of my early symptoms, that may have been a clue to beginning adrenal problems. My adrenal levels weren't taken, at time of injury, until debilitating fatigue stopped me from working. My cortisol level tested at half of a 90 yr. old woman's level.
I understand that PTSD (DSM IV) can ensue from an accident like mine.
Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for a period of at least 6 months, which must include at least 1 month of symptoms (or less if successfully treated); prodromal symptoms often precede the active phase, and residual symptoms may follow it, characterized by mild or subthreshold forms of hallucinations or delusions.
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I have suffered from ADD symptoms as a result of my drug and alcohol use a decade ago. I have been on many ADD and anti depressant meds but all to no avail except with Wellbutrin XR and somewhat with Concerta. The Wellbutrin worked amazingly well a long time ago but stopped shortly after I took a small sip of hard liquor. My doctors are perplexed by this but that is the only explanation I can come up with.
Is there any way to add MS symptoms that aren't on your list? For example, one of my worst ones is itching, so I'd like to add it.
Thanks!
In the DSM IV, one of the criteria between BP I and BP II is a hospital stay of more than ? days. I was in the hospital for 16 days. Does that mean they change my diagnosis from BP II to BP I ?
Because the DSM IV does not even list a condition called ADD. The latter is merely a popular abbreviation and sometimes people will use it to indicate that their child is not hyperactive. Psychiatrists speak of thre kinds of ADHD: predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive, and mixed type. "ADHD predominantly inattentive" is most common among females. Because it is a quiet quiet, it is often overlooked in school.
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