CSA and ADD?
CSA and ADD?
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reality2k4
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I dont know whether a link has been established, I do know that I have attentive disorder also.
Its my guess that it is linked, to early childhood experiences, but there may also be other causes.
ste
Its my guess that it is linked, to early childhood experiences, but there may also be other causes.
ste
I, too, have struggled with attention, sticking with projects after the initial burst of newness excitement and creativity. It is hard to focus in, keep my thoughts focused on a single problem when there is so much background interference. ADD strikes me as a very general term that makes an attempt at describing certain symptoms, particularly in the hope of prescribing medication. I know for myself that a good deal of the background interference I have experienced, particularly the stuff I've analyzed with T, stems from my abuse experiences. My perp was my English teacher, and so my attention difficulties arise most acutely with certain related activities, e.g. creative writing, research, etc. But then again there can be triggers everywhere, the littlest, most seemingly innocent detail can tear my mind away from the task at hand and send me down a completely different freeway.
Hauser
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I know ALL ABOUT learning difficulties. I'll soon recieve a comprehensive report showing the results of a battery of learning/memory/apptitude tests that I took some weeks ago.
My theory, which the psychologists that administred my tests seem to agree, is that the constant suppression of anger and memories and feelings cloud my ability to focus and concentrate. I dropped out of college 3 times and I'm not going back unless I somehow correct this problem.
I'm boggled by all of the members here that finished college and earned credentials, I have no idea how they could have done it. Finishing a single college course is but a dream to me.
My theory, which the psychologists that administred my tests seem to agree, is that the constant suppression of anger and memories and feelings cloud my ability to focus and concentrate. I dropped out of college 3 times and I'm not going back unless I somehow correct this problem.
I'm boggled by all of the members here that finished college and earned credentials, I have no idea how they could have done it. Finishing a single college course is but a dream to me.
reality2k4
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Me too, it boggles me, I dropped out, I lost an apprenticeship which would have set me up for life.
I guess it was caused by lack of intervention by professionals.
It is massive to go through this when you are also trying to learn life as a child, and learning how to grow up, nobody to understand.
I found that when at work I could be OK for a few days, then totally get lost in keeping up with the workload, I just felt like running out, which I eventually did.
I tend to start things, and forget to finish them also, cannot focus on TV, nor read books, because I just lose interest.
ste
I guess it was caused by lack of intervention by professionals.
It is massive to go through this when you are also trying to learn life as a child, and learning how to grow up, nobody to understand.
I found that when at work I could be OK for a few days, then totally get lost in keeping up with the workload, I just felt like running out, which I eventually did.
I tend to start things, and forget to finish them also, cannot focus on TV, nor read books, because I just lose interest.
ste
This all stikes a chord with me as well. I think it's similar to what I was talking about earlier with dissociation - it's all interrelated. High affect I think scares the hell out of me, so when I start to get excited about something, something within me sort of flips a switch and I go the other way.
At those times I really have no actual interests in anything except zoning out... I know intellectually that I like certain things, but don't actually feel anything from them.
-John
At those times I really have no actual interests in anything except zoning out... I know intellectually that I like certain things, but don't actually feel anything from them.
-John
I have attention defiicit problems and dislexia with reading, but I am not sure if it have relation with the abuse? But maybe, if you have attention problems, you look for it more places? But I am not sure I can think of that, because it would make it seem more it is our fault, and is not. I am not sure.
Hi guys,
I got curious regarding this question and did a Google search using the key words
"attention deficit disorder""sexual abuse"
I got a lot of hits, but one stood out near the top of the very first page.
Lots of love,
John
I got curious regarding this question and did a Google search using the key words
"attention deficit disorder""sexual abuse"
I got a lot of hits, but one stood out near the top of the very first page.
For those of you that have an interest in this subject it might be an interesting study for you to do a similar search. You could vary the search criteria to suit youself but the one I did might be a good place to start.
Lots of love,
John
I think that it's one of those things that are hard to prove on way or the other, it's difficult to assess if someones problems are a result of a set of circumstances or just chance, genetics, or a host of other things. Also setting scientific control groups is just about impossible.
But the anecdotal evidence is, to me anyway, very strong.
I have a very good friend who is now considered an expert in her field of adults with learning difficulties and dyslexia, and she is convinced that all traumas and abuses CAN ( but not in all cases ) lead to learning and concentration problems.
she has done several tests with me, and I have often been her guinea pig in tests, and because she also knows about my abuse and I'm open with her about all the therapy etc, she is confident that my abuse at worst led to my problems and at best made existing problems worse.
When I started at boarding school at 11yo I was a bright kid who did well in most subjects, never quite top of the class but close. By the time I was 12yo I was disruptive, and usually bottom of the class. I failed just about every exam I ever took and my apprenticeship. I lied my way into jobs and got by on my wits.
The only worthwhile qualification I have is in Counselling, which I got over the last few years. But that was with great efforts as I still don't have the ability to concentrate, and more importantly remember information in such a way that I can reproduce it for an exam. The Counselling course was assessed as we went along and we did a taped session at the end of it, so I didn't need to remember details of theories, but I could write about them in an informed way for my course work because I could read the books and do it 'fresh'. Surprisingly a lot of information sunk in that way, but not the sort an exam would ask for such as "Briefly outline a Humanist theory and say who are the most important humanists" - I couldn't do that, but get me talking about Maslow, and I know about his ( humanist ) theories. And I've just picked up a Counselling text book to write that example, that's how my lousy memory, poor attentivenes, and learning difficulties have affected me and still do.
Throw in dyscalculia - dyslexia with numbers - and it's no wonder my teachers gave up and branded me as being stupid. But now, as an adult who's got off my butt and done something for myself, I know that I'm not stupid. I just learn things in a different way, that's all......
Dave
But the anecdotal evidence is, to me anyway, very strong.
I have a very good friend who is now considered an expert in her field of adults with learning difficulties and dyslexia, and she is convinced that all traumas and abuses CAN ( but not in all cases ) lead to learning and concentration problems.
she has done several tests with me, and I have often been her guinea pig in tests, and because she also knows about my abuse and I'm open with her about all the therapy etc, she is confident that my abuse at worst led to my problems and at best made existing problems worse.
When I started at boarding school at 11yo I was a bright kid who did well in most subjects, never quite top of the class but close. By the time I was 12yo I was disruptive, and usually bottom of the class. I failed just about every exam I ever took and my apprenticeship. I lied my way into jobs and got by on my wits.
The only worthwhile qualification I have is in Counselling, which I got over the last few years. But that was with great efforts as I still don't have the ability to concentrate, and more importantly remember information in such a way that I can reproduce it for an exam. The Counselling course was assessed as we went along and we did a taped session at the end of it, so I didn't need to remember details of theories, but I could write about them in an informed way for my course work because I could read the books and do it 'fresh'. Surprisingly a lot of information sunk in that way, but not the sort an exam would ask for such as "Briefly outline a Humanist theory and say who are the most important humanists" - I couldn't do that, but get me talking about Maslow, and I know about his ( humanist ) theories. And I've just picked up a Counselling text book to write that example, that's how my lousy memory, poor attentivenes, and learning difficulties have affected me and still do.
Throw in dyscalculia - dyslexia with numbers - and it's no wonder my teachers gave up and branded me as being stupid. But now, as an adult who's got off my butt and done something for myself, I know that I'm not stupid. I just learn things in a different way, that's all......
Dave