Am I ADHD?

--- title: 'Am I ADHD?' author: 'Hun Im' date: 2024-09-03T14:52:35+09:00 category: ['LIFE'] --- ADHD is a term that Iโ€™ve been hearing a lot these days. `ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)` Itโ€™s characterized by decreased attention, leading to distractibility and impulsiveness. It is not considered a mental illness, but rather a developmental disorder. **My Childhood** Looking back on my childhood, I remember reading 10 or 20 books in one sitting. My mom probably thought she had given birth to a genius. However, after entering elementary school, I stopped reading altogether and spent that time playing games. I still donโ€™t know if I have ADHD, but even now, if itโ€™s not something I like, I find it difficult to sit and read. I was able to see my elementary school report cards, and they noted that I was distracted in first and second grade. I thought the teacher wrote that because she didnโ€™t like me. One characteristic of ADHD is a lack of time awareness. Even now, I often arrive late. In high school, I was punished for being late, and on one occasion, I was late three times in a row, receiving 10 lashes on the first day, 20 on the second, and 30 on the third. Did I want to be late and get beaten? It was a long time ago, so I want to laugh about it now. I only needed to leave 30 minutes earlier than usual, but I could never manage that. I never feel the urge to leave quickly, and when I finally force myself to leave on time, I end up checking if Iโ€™ve forgotten something, miss my ride, and despite feeling busier than anyone else, I always end up late. Now that I think about it, even though I lived just a 3-minute walk from school in middle school, I was often late. It was slightly better, but the distance seemed irrelevant. **My Current Self** I constantly feel pressure to wake up early and to meet my work hours. I liked this company because the flexible working hours allowed me to focus solely on my tasks. However, I feel like Iโ€™m drifting away from that atmosphere, and itโ€™s mentally exhausting. I want to change jobs. The ideal company for me would be one where everyone knows how to do their jobs well, but I feel like weโ€™re moving further away from that ideal. **Visiting a Psychiatrist** My depression has worsened, and Iโ€™ve been suffering from insomnia. Recently, I visited a psychiatrist for the first time. The trigger was that despite sleeping only one or two hours for two nights, I still couldnโ€™t fall asleep. Talking to someone who listened to my troubles made me feel a lot better. The doctor suggested that I might have ADHD and recommended that I take an ADHD test next time. The medication worked well. I was able to sleep soundly. After taking the medication, I could sleep deeply for eight hours. I still feel a bit dazed during the day, possibly due to the lingering effects of the medication. It seems that Iโ€™ve also been less irritable. However, Iโ€™m worried that if I feel spaced out at night, I might start relying too much on that medication (Xanax), so I need to learn to manage it responsibly.
--- title: '๋‚˜๋Š” ADHD ์ผ๊นŒ?' author: '์ž„ํ›ˆ' date: 2024-09-03T14:52:35+09:00 category: ['LIFE'] --- ADHD๋Š” ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋งŽ์ด ์–ด๋””์„ ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋‹ค. `์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ ๊ฒฐํ• ๊ณผ๋‹คํ–‰๋™ ์žฅ์• ` ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ์ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋ฏ€๋กœ ์‚ฐ๋งŒํ•˜๊ณ , ์ถฉ๋™์ ์ด๋‹ค. ์ •์‹ ์งˆํ™˜์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. **์–ด๋ฆฐ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ๋‚˜** ๋‚ด ์ •๋ง ์–ด๋ฆด์ ์„ ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋Œ์ด์ผœ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฑ…์„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉด 10๊ถŒ 20๊ถŒ๋„ ์•‰์€์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ฝ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„๋งˆ๋Š” ์ฒœ์žฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ณ์•˜๋‹ค๋ฉฐ, ๋‚ด์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต์— ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ์ฑ…์„ ์•„์˜ˆ ์•ˆ์ฝ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฒŒ์ž„๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ADHD์ธ์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด, ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ์•‰์•„์„œ ์ฑ…์ฝ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ดˆ1,์ดˆ2๋•Œ ์‚ฐ๋งŒํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์จ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ์ƒ์ด ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์‹ซ์–ดํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ง์„ ์ ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ADHD ํŠน์ง•์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ด€๋…์ด ์—†๋‹ค๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ณ , ์ง€๊ฐ์„ ์ž์ฃผํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ๋•Œ๋Š” ์ง€๊ฐ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋งž์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‚˜๋งŒ 3์—ฐ์† ์ง€๊ฐ์„ ํ•ด์„œ, ์ฒซ๋‚  10๋Œ€, ๋‘˜์งธ๋‚  20๋Œ€, ์…‹์งธ๋‚  30๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋งž์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. 30๋Œ€์”ฉ ํ”ผ๋ฉ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋งž์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ง€๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์„œ ํ–ˆ๊ฒ ๋Š”๊ฐ€.. ์˜›๋‚ ์ผ์ด๋‹ˆ๊น.. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ์–˜๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ํ‰์†Œ๋ณด๋‹ค 30๋ถ„ ๋” ์ผ์ฐ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋˜๋Š”๊ฑด๋ฐ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ๋œ๋‹ค. ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ ค๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ผ๋‹จ ์•ˆ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ์–ต์ง€๋กœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋งž์ถฐ ๊ฒจ์šฐ๊ฒจ์šฐ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋œจ๋ฆฐ๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜๊ณ , ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฐ”์œ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋Šฆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ์ค‘ํ•™๊ต ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ 3๋ถ„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ž„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€๊ฐ์„ ์ž์ฃผ ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข€ ๋œํ•˜๊ธด ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. **์š”์ฆ˜์˜ ๋‚˜** ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ผ์ฐ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•๊ฐ์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ถœ๊ทผ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งž์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์— ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•˜๋˜๊ฒŒ, ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ž์œจ์ด๋ผ ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ์—…๋ฌด์—๋งŒ ์ง‘์ค‘ ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋…”๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ ์  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋ฉ€์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ, ์‹ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ด์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์•Œ์•„์„œ ์ž๊ธฐ ํ•  ์ผ ์ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ ์  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ด์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋ชจ์Šต๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ€์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. **์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ •์‹ ๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ** ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ์ด ์‹ฌํ•ด์ ธ์„œ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ถˆ๋ฉด์ด ์‹ฌํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ์ •์‹ ๊ณผ์— ๋‚œ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ดํ‹€๋ฐค์„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•œ๋‘์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งŒ ์žค์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ž ์ด ์•ˆ์™€์„œ์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ง์„ ์ž˜ ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์„ ์† ์‹œ์›ํžˆ ํ„ธ์–ด๋†“๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ํ•œ๊ฒฐ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ข‹์•„์กŒ๋‹ค. ์˜์‚ฌ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ADHD์ธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค๊ณ , ADHD ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์Œ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ํ•ด๋ณด์ž๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ๋“ค์€ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. ์ž ์ด ์ž˜ ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์•ฝ์„ ๋จน๊ณ ๋Š” 8์‹œ๊ฐ„์”ฉ ์ •๋ง ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ๊ธฐ์šด์ด ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚ ๊นŒ์ง€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋‚ฎ์—๋„ ๋ชฝ๋กฑํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ํ™”๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์ข€ ๊ฑฑ์ • ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑด, ๋ฐค์— ์ •์‹ ์ด ๋ฉ€๋šฑ๋ฉ€๋šฑํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ณ„์† ๊ทธ ์•ฝ(`์ž๋‚™์Šค`)์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„, ์ ๋‹นํžˆ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•ด์•ผ๊ฒ ๋‹ค.