Anyone here suffer from this? Take any medicine for it? Does it work? I've been curious about this . . . . . Rocket River
I'm afraid i show all the symptoms and more. Don't know where to go to get help though. So many things have similar symptoms so it's hard to trust some person to diagnose me with something when it could be something else..
lol I was diagnosed in college. Ritalin was the only reason I graduated. Haven't taken anything since then (1999). Just have managed to work through it. I get lots done in short periods of time. Then, cook it at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
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Lots of people figure out they have ADD as adults. When I was a kid, only the hyperactive kids got diagnosed. Those of us that weren't bouncing off walls were just thought of as lazy. Figuring out if you have ADD as an adult is easy. Talk to your regular doctor, you'll get referred to a psychologist and you'll take some tests. If you're diagnosed, you'll go back to your doctor for meds, you'll continue see your psychologist for a while until things improve, then the psych will release you and everything will be handled by your normal doc. Go take a self-test online. If the symptoms describe you and you've hit a point where the lack of FOCUS is holding you back from something you really want or need, go get help. You'll kick yourself for not figuring this out sooner.
I have it but I haven't taken any meds since in my late 20's. You just learn to deal with it. The meds worked really well for the first few months and then you kinda get used to it so its not as effective. Eventually it wasn't worth the side effects. Adderall made me irritable and anxious.
I've tested positive in all of those online tests. But i have for other things such as depression, and low testosterone even. I don't know if it's bc of an untreated thing like ADHD that sprouted the depression, etc as i became an adult. I have no docotor. No medical insurance. How much will it be to do all of this? How much will it be to keep buying meds? I feel if i don't take care of whatever is imbalanced in my brain, i won't make it very long in life. I'm nearing 30 and trying to go to college for the first time, but i'm so afraid my brain just wont allow me to learn. Of course my old school family will just tell me to work harder and study harder like they did when i was a kid and in high school. "You studied 2 hours? Well next time study harder for 4 hours!" Etc..while i would cry myself to sleep b/c i felt i was just stupid b/c i'm the only one who knew how hard i was trying and still failing at everything. I guess it was Blue eyed, blonde haired Jesus and God punishing me for being atheist according to them. I barely made it through high school, and i'm already scaring myself away from college like i did back then., but the good thing is school will be free thanks to the military. I really was close to starting a new thread about seeking help, but i felt Clutchfans will just make jokes as usual and that Swoly guy would **** on it.
It was easy for the doctor to diagnose me. I was one of the kids jumping off the walls and causing all kinds of trouble in school. The only reason I didn't ride the short bus was because I always tested 99 percentile on all my standardized test and IQ tests. I got away with a lot of crap because teachers thought I was smart. I always thought of myself as energetic and talkative, but didn't realize I had a "disorder" until one of my friends who had ADD told me I had the same the problems he had. This was after graduating college. I wish I was diagnosed earlier. Maybe I would have gone to class more than 10 percent of the time in college.
Sometimes people get ADD symptoms from anxiety, and sometimes people get anxiety from ADD. ADD like symptoms often show up in people with PTSD. That is what the psych doctor determines. If you give ADD meds to an anxious person, it just makes them worse. It was easy to determine in my case because I'm very emotionally stable and only get freaked out when there is too much stimulus around me.
I was diagnosed as a kid, but my parents didn't want me to take anything... which I am very thankful. I did just fine in school without it. When I got to college, everyone was on adderall, even people without ADHD. I did have a hard time studying after a couple hours, where as my classmates would study all night. So, I had to level the playing field. If you can, don't take anything. Im not saying I wish I didn't in school... it helped me do as well as I did. But, I'll still take it from time to time now, it is addicting. Stick to red bull.
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I think girls in my life would say im very unstable. I'm not hyper, i would always get inattentive part in those tests, but none of the hyper stuff. Sometimes i can talk all day, but majority of the time i'm the guy in the back just smiling or pitching in a few thoughts in conversation. A lot of times i just zone out and stare at something while millions of thoughts race through my head and people always have to come up to me and ask if im okay and why im sitting by myself.
Every time I see this title I read Adult DVD..... As for ADD......I'm pretty sure I still suffer from it....just don't take anything for it anymore.
I have it and had dealt with it my whole life without medication. I always thought that it was a bunch of BS. I really didn't want to take medication for it because I didn't want to feel jittery or different somehow. My wife finally got me to try medication and it has actually worked out pretty well for me. It didn't make me feel different at all, but I just felt more motivated to get stuff done and be productive. When I was first trying to find the right dose, every now and then I would get some weird thoughts like that everything that I do is all for nothing and how insignificant my life was in the whole scheme of things. Kind of strange, but it was for only a short moment and I was able to easily break out of those thoughts. I haven't had that experience in a long time though. I do think that I'm used to the medication and could probably use an increase in dosage, but it's not worth asking the Dr. for a higher dose. One bad thing is that Adderall XR (even generic) is about $150 for a 30-day supply, so it's expensive. One good thing is that it is an appetite suppressant and it helped me lose some weight.
