brain injury? add? | ADHD Information

Being back in school and having a wicked hard time studying
because I cannot focus, forget the assignments, etc., well, it is a
relief to be reading about ADHD/ADD and thinking this might be the
key to everything. I get very easily frustrated and emotional, can be
in a good mood, then in traffic on the way to school some idiot
drives too slow, and me running late as usual get really mad. I lose
track of what I am doing, and if I do sit down and manage to open
the textbook and try to start studying, god forbid I should have to
get up to do anything else, because making it back to that textbook
and able to concentrate again might very well not happen. I can
make lists or schedules, but can't keep track of them, and get very
frustrated trying to find them.

Lately my coping mechanism has been to not try, then I don't have
all the stress. Not the best for my future.

Like Engineer posted in a different thread, I am not certain I was
always this way. To some degree, yes, always late, and having
temper outbursts, and procrastinating. But the EXTREME
distractibility lately and the forgetfulness, seems different.

I am wondering if a mild brain injury could have caused what I am
currently experiencing. I have read that there is no such thing as
adult onset ADD/ADHD, but if a brain injury caused it, that would be
different, right? And could it be treated the same way?

Seika - My daughter has an acquired brain injury to her frontal and left temporal lobes.

The differences that she displayed after the injury compared to before, made me realise that my son had very similar tendancies, this was the first time I realised there was something not the normal about my sons brain.  Because his brain injured sister started to have similar probs and behaviours.

So NO brain injury does not cause ADHD.  But brain injury has similar and sometimes the same symptoms.  My daughter damaged the processing part of her brain, and her inhibitions.  When thier is damage to the brain, it does not heal.  The patient has to learn new ways to get things done.  My daughter is very smart and writes on her arms and legs to remember things, has an expander file with each subject on it and keeps everything catalogued.  She is only 12 and been dealing with this for 2 years and I am so proud of how she has adjusted.  However, ADHD I believe has a better chance because meds help everything work better - even tho I have not tried meds on my daughter, I believe that meds cannot stimulate dead tissue, therefore they will not help her

This means that she has very little inhibitions and blurts things out and acts the fool at times, and also she has terrible memory problems.  She has trouble processing new information - has to go over and over it till it sinks in.  She needs longer for exams and assignments than other children - basically she has slowed down in her thought processing.

I also wonder, if she has ADHD also, as even before the accident, she was still pretty impulsive - just now she is a bit worse.

 

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