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Old 11-30-2006, 03:08 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Well, a psychologist would just be able to refer you back to your physician with a diagnosis. A psychiatrist would be able to write you a prescription based on the diagnosis.
I have been diagnosed with ADD, but only by my general practitioner. Basically my report cards from grades 7-12 with 95% of the comments for each class saying, "Bright individual but talks too much and/or doesn't pay attention" sorta swayed him. That and my economics teacher throwing erasers are me every class when he knew i was daydreaming (in a funny sort of way, not abusive).

There are a bunch of different possible medications that can be tried. Straterra is used only for adult ADD but it did crap for me and now I'm on Adderall.

I also (just for fun) took an online ADD test awhile ago and scored through the roof on having it. Search google and you can probably find some to give you a rough estimate of what a psychiatrist might do.
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