I'll tell you right now what two questions will be on your diagnostic interview:
1. Are you a university graduate or currently enrolled in university?
2. How are your grades?
Admittedly, the second question is pretty gratuitous. The point being is that if you are or were a uni grad, most psychs will have a hard time believing you could have ever made it to that level in the first place had you been suffering untreated ADD.
In a certain sense, it's a bit of a trick question; a trick because psychs are well aware that ADD is a disorder with popular currency and they see alot of people who believe themselves to have ADD to explain away what they believe to be their unproductive lifestyles - "I just can't think straight"; "I can't focus long enough to do this"; "I must be X and therefore I need Y". In which case the psych will recommend a host of other treatments, but he will refuse you the ADD diagnosis.
1. Are you a university graduate or currently enrolled in university?
2. How are your grades?
Admittedly, the second question is pretty gratuitous. The point being is that if you are or were a uni grad, most psychs will have a hard time believing you could have ever made it to that level in the first place had you been suffering untreated ADD.
In a certain sense, it's a bit of a trick question; a trick because psychs are well aware that ADD is a disorder with popular currency and they see alot of people who believe themselves to have ADD to explain away what they believe to be their unproductive lifestyles - "I just can't think straight"; "I can't focus long enough to do this"; "I must be X and therefore I need Y". In which case the psych will recommend a host of other treatments, but he will refuse you the ADD diagnosis.
