When I got the results of my brain scan, besides Mood Disorder (which is were the depression fits in) I also got Anxiety disorder and ADD. Given my issues with Anxiety (first not thinking I had it when it is common for my enneagram type, finding it, refusing to let it live inside of me, removing it, having stuff crop up all over, blaming it on not treating my anxiety correctly, seeing it all over now) I figured my lack of progress of getting better is because we have been working on the depression instead of anxiety. My idea was I was using my well trained depression actions to avoid my new anxiety issues.

Well, now that I have done more research on the ADD side of the question, it looks like all my depression stuff is really Lymbic ADD (there are six kinds according to Dr Amen, I don’t know if the rest of the Brain people say so too or not). It shares a lot of symptoms of mild depression. It really does look like my current problem is ADD and not depression which would explain why what used to work for my depression isn’t working.

It feels like I am doing the diagnosis of the month thing but hey, it works for House, why not me? I just don’t have to get to the point of dying to get to the right answer.