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May. 9th, 2007 06:12 amThe visual tracking study was boring but okay. After picking things out on a computer screen for a little over an hour (btw, the guy leading that part told me I picked it up "much faster by far" than anyone else he'd done it with, ha ha ha) I spent two and a half hours talking to a clinical psychology student. The first (and looongest) part of it was question-and-answer, and it didn't take me long to figure out he was making sure I just had ADD and not any other DSM-IV disorder (the DSM is a huge book with every currently-known psychological problem defined, including a list of symptoms). About halfway through he picked up the next bunch of questions and asked if I thought people were talking about me. I said, "In the sense of just, y'know, normal gossip, or in the psychosis sense?" and we both laughed and he said, "You have read some of the DSM!"
I did a whole bunch of cognitive stuff too, and it reminded me of when I was tested for the gifted program for school, something I had done several times due to moving so much. Define these words. Spell this. What do these two words have in common? (The last pair he gave me was "law" and "freedom," and I pointed out that they're both very loaded words, among other things.) There was a section where there were colored blocks I had to make pictures with, and another where I was looking at a series of symbols/images/patterns and I had to pick which came next. I had to do some math problems--I remember more algebra than I thought, but I seem to be forgetting my multiplication tables! I think I'm going to write them out soon just to remind myself. I didn't struggle through them in third and fourth grade only to forget them now.
So basically I got a full work-up for free. But I don't get any of the results of my own stuff. :^( Nope. I asked. Sucky. My information is just aggregated with everyone else's. So if I ever get a neuro-psych workup on my own, I have to do it all over again, and pay for it, too.
I can, however, see the study's conclusions when it's over. The whole point of the study is to see if the visual tracking stuff I did is useful in discriminating between ADD vs. non-ADD people, if I understand correctly, along with other disorders with visual-tracking problems.
Both of the guys I was with for the study were about my age. The one interviewing me seemed nervous, to boot, although apparently he hadn't done a lot of those surveys, so maybe that was it.
They paid me in cash. The first thing I bought was clove cigarettes. The irony of using money from a hospital to buy smokes is not lost on me.
I had totally intended to call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
5minutelimit and ask if she wanted to eat lunch together while I was up on the hill, but by the time I was done, it was 1:15 and I'd told my supervisor I'd be at work by 1:30! I was only a few minutes late, the bus showed up right as I walked out the door, but aaah!
I'd never been to the OHSU campus, really. It's HUGE. It's also very very pretty, with some fantastic views of Portland. And now I wanna take a ride on the tram.
I did a whole bunch of cognitive stuff too, and it reminded me of when I was tested for the gifted program for school, something I had done several times due to moving so much. Define these words. Spell this. What do these two words have in common? (The last pair he gave me was "law" and "freedom," and I pointed out that they're both very loaded words, among other things.) There was a section where there were colored blocks I had to make pictures with, and another where I was looking at a series of symbols/images/patterns and I had to pick which came next. I had to do some math problems--I remember more algebra than I thought, but I seem to be forgetting my multiplication tables! I think I'm going to write them out soon just to remind myself. I didn't struggle through them in third and fourth grade only to forget them now.
So basically I got a full work-up for free. But I don't get any of the results of my own stuff. :^( Nope. I asked. Sucky. My information is just aggregated with everyone else's. So if I ever get a neuro-psych workup on my own, I have to do it all over again, and pay for it, too.
I can, however, see the study's conclusions when it's over. The whole point of the study is to see if the visual tracking stuff I did is useful in discriminating between ADD vs. non-ADD people, if I understand correctly, along with other disorders with visual-tracking problems.
Both of the guys I was with for the study were about my age. The one interviewing me seemed nervous, to boot, although apparently he hadn't done a lot of those surveys, so maybe that was it.
They paid me in cash. The first thing I bought was clove cigarettes. The irony of using money from a hospital to buy smokes is not lost on me.
I had totally intended to call
5minutelimit and ask if she wanted to eat lunch together while I was up on the hill, but by the time I was done, it was 1:15 and I'd told my supervisor I'd be at work by 1:30! I was only a few minutes late, the bus showed up right as I walked out the door, but aaah! I'd never been to the OHSU campus, really. It's HUGE. It's also very very pretty, with some fantastic views of Portland. And now I wanna take a ride on the tram.
