Part 1 - Educational Psychologist - first meeting
Ok well, I've been to the psycologist and have completed the first part of the assesment. She was really good and I pretty sure she suspects I have ADD.
Doing all those test were quite draining for me and I actually got a headache at the end of it all. I clearly saw my weakness as did she. Especially when she was telling me a question, which was a bit long winded and I just switched off. I said to her I have no clue what your asking of me and she repeated the question and I just went blank. It was at that point that she said, have you ever being treated for ADD? To that I was like no but I think might have it. She thinks I have a problem processing long thoughts, and so I just switch off when it gets too hard. It was quite facinating to see how I dealt with a lot of questions and puzzles. I'm not sure of the final results yet, but I tell you I struggled with so many questions or games. A lot of them were to do with memory type games. Like I'm going to tell you some numbers out loud and you need to repeat them back to me - a lot of them I forgot after the first few seconds. Or she would say a mixture of numbers and objects and I would have to repeat them back, but objects would have to go first and numbers would have to go last. For example she would say "Orange, one, tree, eight" out a loud I would have to say Orange, tree, one and eight (most of the time I forgot after the first object).
Anyway, at least I know I was not imagining things. She's also going to test for ADD next week as well academic abilities. Todays session was all cognitive.
Anyway, I feel a sense of relief and that I am at least on the right track. The psycologist was very good and she also pointed a lot of these things could be to do with how I was brought up, my environment and how my anxiety growing up could of played a part in gaining these learning difficulties.
Doing all those test were quite draining for me and I actually got a headache at the end of it all. I clearly saw my weakness as did she. Especially when she was telling me a question, which was a bit long winded and I just switched off. I said to her I have no clue what your asking of me and she repeated the question and I just went blank. It was at that point that she said, have you ever being treated for ADD? To that I was like no but I think might have it. She thinks I have a problem processing long thoughts, and so I just switch off when it gets too hard. It was quite facinating to see how I dealt with a lot of questions and puzzles. I'm not sure of the final results yet, but I tell you I struggled with so many questions or games. A lot of them were to do with memory type games. Like I'm going to tell you some numbers out loud and you need to repeat them back to me - a lot of them I forgot after the first few seconds. Or she would say a mixture of numbers and objects and I would have to repeat them back, but objects would have to go first and numbers would have to go last. For example she would say "Orange, one, tree, eight" out a loud I would have to say Orange, tree, one and eight (most of the time I forgot after the first object).
Anyway, at least I know I was not imagining things. She's also going to test for ADD next week as well academic abilities. Todays session was all cognitive.
Anyway, I feel a sense of relief and that I am at least on the right track. The psycologist was very good and she also pointed a lot of these things could be to do with how I was brought up, my environment and how my anxiety growing up could of played a part in gaining these learning difficulties.
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