Reply To: Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

[Patte Rosebank]

@Ashockley55, I’ve often wondered about the same issues in myself.

It’s as if I have 2 separate personalities.

In the right situation, I’m dazzlingly extroverted, basking in all the attention, and always with a quick quip at the ready.

But otherwise, I’m very introverted, preferring to stay at home, or to sit in a quiet corner with a friendly cat or dog who happens to be there.  Especially at parties…which I generally avoid completely.

I took a Myers Briggs Type Indicator test, and I was the rarest type of all:  INFJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging).

My brother was the second-rarest type:  INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging), but he’s more of a social animal than I am, probably because he doesn’t have ADHD.

The combination of boredom and anxiety you describe is pretty common with ADHD.  We’re so wound-up, struggling to stay focussed on the humdrum conversation & events in front of us, while fighting our brain’s natural inclination to go madly off in all directions at once.

There’s so much overlap between symptoms of various disorders, that it’s impossible to definitively say whether you have one or the other, or both.  All your doctor can do is say, “Based on the preponderance of the evidence, it’s most likely that you have ________. ”

And remember, ADHD and SCT are both cognitive dysfunctions, so there’s bound to be overlapping symptoms there!

For me, which disorder is causing my symptoms isn’t nearly as important as whether or not what I’m taking or doing is reducing them.

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