Well, I would say you should seek professional help, like most already did. I remember my 10 years of the Folkeskole (public school in Denmark. My tenth year was from August 2011 to June 2012), as the worst ever. So, I'm also suggesting, that you take a look at some other schools, near you, if possible. If the teachers, on your current school, just ignores everything, I believe, it's not a good place to be.
When I first joined that school 3 years ago, I wanted to move straight away. I kept telling my parents I hated it, it was crap, and that I wanted to move. For a few weeks it made me quite depressed. I was just told that every other high school was like that, (gah, I feel like I'm making my parents sound like buttcracks, but they're really awesome, honest!) and it was just the sudden change from junior school to high school that made me feel like I did. Eventually, I managed to make friends, and it didn't depress me as much. But recently, with it being in the news and such, my parents have finally realised it is a terrible school, but it's too late for me to move now because I've started my GCSEs. If I move to another school, that school won't know my ability in class, and therefore I'd be losing out on good grades. It happened to my dad. He moved schools around my age, and it was the worst thing he'd ever done. But back when he left school, there wasn't such a tight system for qualifications and grades, so he just got a job as soon as he left and went on from there. Unfortunately, I can't do that now.
Here's just a few news articles about my school -
Click here and
here.
You have a simple choice.
Don't go and see someone and carrying on thinking what you do at the moment, not knowing if you do have ADD and if you do how you can deal with it.
Or go and see someone and get some answers. No matter how crap your school is there will be someone you can speak too, if you think you don't know how you feel about school then this is where I have been the past 5 years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...d-in-eye-with-scissors-by-school-bullies.html Or go and see your GP, they have to keep confidentiality by law if you are 16 or over.
Its your own health and future, all of the answers on here can't give you a definitive answer you have posted on here and are aware of it, so you need to take it into your own hands and do something.
I know, and I've been telling myself this. But everything seems to be a dilemma for me.
Should I just leave it, and dismiss it as being a teen like my parents are saying? Or should I seek help, and possibly end up taking a load of medication I don't want to? If I don't, I could end up with bad GCSE grades. But I seem to be getting Cs and Ds already, and I've only just started my GCSE course, should I really bother trying so much if I just want to be a mechanic? I constantly think things like this whenever I need to make a decision, is this something else as well, or me just being indecisive?
Oh, and reading that article... uhh, yeah, your school is a tad worse than mine!
Its pretty difficult to tell to be honest, I'm a twin and my sister was exactly like this at your age, it turned she was just unbelievably hyper, she's more focused now, as in my case i used to be really focused i could read massive books in a day and a bit etc but as i got to about 16 my attention span completely went playing games like call of duty for 10 hours a day probably didn't help but anyway, I'm still pretty easily distracted but i think I'm getting better.
This might sound stupid but force yourself to write a fairly long poem about something your passionate about, when your easily distracted finding words that rhyme can be really difficult, i used to write some about my girlfriend (yes I'm soppy lol), i got pretty good at it to. Nowadays when i listen to music i come up with lyrics and either sing or rap them in my head (i don't do it outwardly because scottish people generally don't rap
) but it seems to have helped me focus more on other stuff, oddly the lyrics rarely form in the same rhythm as the music I'm listening to but thats possibly because my iPod is 90% dub step.
Anywho these are just my experiences, i wouldn't not seek an official medical opinion because of what anyone online has said, hope this has helped in some way
I do write frequently, and I did write a poem a while back about my brother-in-law in Afghanistan (you can read it
here if you wish to), although it didn't rhyme. I often start writing short stories, and I keep wanting to write my own GT5 fanfic, but it's this constant distraction that stops me from completing it
. Although lately I've started listening to music whilst writing, which has helped me stay focused for longer. However, whenever I write about something, it's usually whilst go through a 'phase' of that subject, so once I lose interest in the subject, I lose interest in the story!
