repeat words

I have just recently been diagnosed with ADHD, I'm 27 years old. I had the suspsion that I had adhd in my early 20's but just never got off my butt to get it checked out.  like many other's in the same boat as me I wonder where I would be now if I had just been diagonsed when I was younger, I just managed to scrape by learning the way "they" wanted me to learn, what if I could do it again the way I want to learn. BUT you know what, in the end its up to YOU to take control, if your upset you didn't get into college, apply now, and hit the books like you have never hit them before, people with Adhd can still learn. Thats just an example, Think of youself as being uniquly gifted and use your gift if not for yourself than to help others, maybe so another kid does not get skipped over by  teachers because he is quite in the class and looks out the window. It's up to you in the end

Another problem I have is I repeat words forwards and backwards in my head all the time I've done this for well over 15 years. I can't control it, I repeat things I see on road signs, I do this when I'm thinging of other things and sometimes I do it just because there is a commerical on T.V. or I'm sitting in a waiting room, you get the idea. The doc says its not OCD, because I don't twitch and other reasons. He says it could be a habbit. This could be true but I thought about this years ago and tried to change the habbit the only think I can do is change the words I say when there is no words that I can visualy see on a sign or something. Like for example I will say "speed stick gel", "gel stick speed", "speed stick gel" this is because I see the deodorant stick on my shelve, Now if there was nothing around Iv'e kinda progamed myself to say VHS, SHV, VHS as this is what I say alot when I watch t.v. or movies, as it is a VCR machine. If I wanted to change this I could but not all the time when I want to only sometime times. I was able to quite somking with almost no problem but I can't stop saying words in my own head no matter how hard I try. It is also always done in 3's first I say the phrase forward, than backwards, than forwards again. I also move my jaw when I say it, so the first foward phrase I move the left side of my jaw the backward phrase I move my right jaw and my finally end up o my left jaw saying the word forwards, I always have to end up on the left side never the right, its like a wierd competion in my head and the left always had to win.

I thought I should add this, in grade 5 and 6 I use to move my nose up and to the left kinda streching my face, and than to the right and the left again. My stupid french teacher thought I was teaseing her and never even thought it could be a serious problem, I wasn't even a loud bad ass kid, I was a popular kid, in class I was day dreaming out of class I was an active kid. anyways,  I think I realized that I can't be making those faces all the time and it real bugged me that I couldn't stop it, so what i think i did, I am no expert but I think I took that face making thing and pushed it inside me and now I say phrase/words and now I'm cursed with it all the time everyday every hour.

After reading this you may think I'm crazy but really, I'm a normal 27 year old male with Adhd. I now work for myself, after about 10 different jobs. I can't take direction very well, I just learn myself its easier that way. Hopefully the medication will help me from not thinking about 3 or 4 things at one time, but will it help me from saying things forwards and backwards,

Why have I never been able to remember when "am is and when "pm" is? yes I'm talking about time, day and night, I can never remember.

what is this thing i do when I repeat phrases/words does anybody know?

Is it anxiety?

If nobody can answer this question could you please point me in the right direction to FREE advise on what this might be, so I may start to cure it.

I think you should go to another dr. It sure sounds like OCD to me. Many ADHD people have OCD also. There is a chat room for OCD at www.braintalk.org where you could talk to people who have it and maybe they could help. There is an ADD room there also that you could visit. You need to click on the classic chatroom section to find them. You don't even need to register to get in.

Something else I have found helpful is to just type OCD into your pc's search engine. You'd be surprised at the number of sites you will find and some of them probably have check lists of symptoms.

Happy hunting!         Barb