A fellow psychiatry professor came in for treatment after overhearing me talk about an attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) case study at a party. “I think you described me,” he said, and launched into a highly intellectual rendition of his own history.
Charles, I’ll call him, was the classic absentminded professor, wearing glasses and unkempt tweed, and he knew a lot more about psychiatry than I did.The twist to Charles’s story is that he had been a marathon runner who had blown out his knee.
He became depressed when he was forced to set aside his passion. That’s also when he noticed the symptoms of ADHD. He explained that he would have a tantrum if his girlfriend interrupted his writing, or yank the phone out of the wall if it rang.
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