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In some way it helped but do you get the official diagnosis ADD or is it only something you say?

I have to ask in a Swedish board if ppl really get ADD or mainly say so. Want to know what the papper say.

I know, I'm hopeless. When I start thinking of something I have to go to the bottom with it :-)

/Kaks

Kaks,

This is how it's listed in the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statestical Manual of Mental Disorders):

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

314.01 Combined Type 314.01 Predominantly Hyperactive-Impulsive Type 314.00 Predominantly Inattentive Type

So the general term is ADHD, just different types.  Some people just say ADD because the (H) component isn't there.  It does get confusing.  Hope this helps.

I've heard in a swedish board that in US you don't diagnosis with ADHD only ADD. But you ppl talk about both. Do you get the diagnosis ADHD in the US and are there diferent types?

In Sweden it's a bit confused. In some places the diagnosis with ADD and somewhere else the same person get ADHD with H as hypo and not hyper. What I know is that we have three types of ADHD:
1) hyperactive, 2) hypoactive as in inattentive and 3) a combined typ of those two.
So technical we don't diagnosis with ADD but some acctualy get that diagnosis, confusing.

Could someone clear out for me how you do?

/Kaks