by Ritesh
(India)
I am writing to you because I have tried treatment (spending LOT of time, money and effort) with my local psychiatrist and clinical psychotherapist for a long time only to get treatment for depression. But I thought that I had ADD. The people treating me told me that my inability to concentrate was due to my depression. I did have some symptoms of an episode of depression at that time; since then the symptoms have gone. But the symptoms of ADD had started much before the episode of depression and are continuing after the episode of depression (it has been 6 months now) and the earliest symptoms ADD that I can remember started 3 years ago. While Depression started just an year ago and ended in four months with medical help. I attempted medical help for ADD only after I got cured of depression but it was probably because I had just had and episode of depression that the doctors thought that my inability to concentrate was also because of that. Please help.
I seem to have many symptoms of ADD. But when I go to a new place to live for some days I can concentrate much better and the symptoms of ADD seem to have lessened for some days. Does this mean that I do not have ADD? The reason I am asking this is because I have been told by my friends that if I had ADD it would not get suppressed even slightly when I change my place.
I am a student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), for which the ratio of the number of students who applied to those who were
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