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Book Review: Is It You, Me, or Adult ADD? by Gina Pera (Alarm Press, 2008)
I know someone with childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) whom I describe as Jack in my book in order to describe all of the possible side effects you can get with drugs like Adderall. However I didn’t know much about Adult Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) before I started reading Gina Pera’s well written and highly informative book.
For starters, of course, Mrs. Bremner had to take that survey of Adult ADD partners to see if I qualify. Here is how it went (maybe you can take it too):
- Scatter-brained or absent minded: check
- Immature: check
- Dysfunctional family background: check
- Selfish: check
- Passive, lazy or introverted: (last one, check)
- “Free spirit” or eccentric: check
- Passive-aggressive: not really
- “That’s how men are”: (confused look, not in Italy)
- Deceptive/sneaky: No
- “Hyper” high strung or extroverted: No
- History of bad luck: check
- Thrill seeker: No (writing a blog can be thrilling, I say)
- “That’s how creative people are”: I guess
- Workaholic: No (at least not compared to Mrs. Bremner)
- Rebel: check
- Past/current substance abuse: No (didn’t inhale)
I had to take my Dad off of my email list because of #3 (sigh).
Anyhoo two thumbs up for this book!
Gina also writes an entertaining blog related to Adult ADD called ADHD Roller Coaster.
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These questions cause me to ask another question:
Who is not any of the contents of these questions?
We are a million different people from one day to the next. A personality, in my opinion, and I’m not alone here, is simply a mask one places on themselves for one reason or another.
Pretty funny, Dr. B.
I should clarify for those who haven’t read the book: This isn’t a diagnostic list, my version or the official one. Rather, these are the common explanations that the partners of adults with ADHD used to explain their partners’ behaviors BEFORE learning about Adult ADHD.
The book also contains the current official diagnostic criteria (DSM-IV), which is problematic because it’s not geared for adults but children. And it contains the proposed criteria for adult ADHD for the new DSM.
Thanks for the two thumbs up!
Gina
DNA Shadow Team will be looking at these new criteria very carefully!
Oh, I didn’t know Drug and Health Safety News had a subsidiary!
The proposed criteria in the book come from Russell Barkley’s team, and they are based on research detailed in the recent book “ADHD in Adults: What the Science Says,” by Barkley, Mariellen Fischer, and Kevin Murphy.
The criteria include issues related to driving safety — a problem long commented on in the support group (for the partners of adults with ADHD) but seldom acknowledged by clinicians, despite a significant body of research showing higher rates of traffic citations, DUIs, accidents, and greater severity of accidents.
Gina
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