Any suggestions?

So, SA has been a pretty big part of my life and so has my battle with depression, but I've got another thing I would love to talk about with other people who live with it:

ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

I understand that ADHD does not have the same connection with SA as depression or HH and I'm not asking for a new sub-forum or anything, but I would love to talk with other people who live with ADHD, either here in this thread or on another forum devoted to it if absolutely necessary, so if any of you belong to that kind of community as well, please share that information.

Anyway...that's all I have to say for now. I await your responses SPW!

I have ADD (inattentive) in addition to SA.

But I'm really a tangled mess, because I have autistic traits as well.

Nonetheless, the ADD is very aggravating and I cannot find a medication for it that I can tolerate yet.

Hey! Sorry for the late reply!

I found medication that works for me, but it's still a pretty big factor in my life. Sometimes I feel like I don't know how to be an adult and dealing with ADHD exacerbates this I'm sure. Regardless of how much of a "tangled mess" you may be, it's nice to not be alone, ya know?

yytythyhty

I'm trying to figure out how to live with this too. It sucks. I was on Adderall for 10 years and that certainly helped more than anything else ever did. Well after an unintentional OD they won't prescribe it to me any more. It's annoying because I've never abused Adderall before, but I get why I can't get it anymore. I've been prescribed a non stimulant medication now but it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. I'm so unmotivated and cannot concentrate and anything, and have horrible insomnia now. I don't know how you treat ADD without medication, I imagine it is something you just have to learn to live with. I don't like having to deal with this on top of everything else.

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Psychedelicious said:

I don't like having to deal with this on top of everything else.

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I think that really says it all, right there...

For some reason I'm not subscribed to my own thread or something. Oh man do I relate to this. I mean, I'm supposed to be an adult. It's hard to adult, when half of the time I can't remember to adult. Coupled with SA? It's a match made in stupid.

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Psychedelicious said:

I'm trying to figure out how to live with this too. It sucks. I was on Adderall for 10 years and that certainly helped more than anything else ever did. Well after an unintentional OD they won't prescribe it to me any more. It's annoying because I've never abused Adderall before, but I get why I can't get it anymore. I've been prescribed a non stimulant medication now but it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. I'm so unmotivated and cannot concentrate and anything, and have horrible insomnia now. I don't know how you treat ADD without medication, I imagine it is something you just have to learn to live with. I don't like having to deal with this on top of everything else.

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Also, I have a friend who seems to have learned how to do exactly what you described, as in treating ADD without medication. I could ask him if he has any insights... :idontknow:

Is it really that much of a concern if you can weather the high expectations and responsibility of being a fulltime teacher, living on your own? (As you said elsewhere.)

AD/HD is a disorder of executive functions, you need to have problems with "basic living responsibilities" to some degree, otherwise IMHO it may be a sub-threshold case. In other words you still have it, but not in an overtly impairing way.

I'm not a full-time teacher. I don't live on my own. I never said that anywhere on this forum. I have tutoring students, but as of now, I'm still trying to complete my credential. Also, I still live with my parents and am far from independent.

I'm well aware of what ADHD is. Also, if I recall correctly, we've never met. You haven't given me counseling, you haven't observed what I do on a daily basis, and you have no idea what my case is like. Any opinion you have of me, or whether my my ADHD is valid is based on absolutely no empirical data.

In other words, don't tell me what my medical history or conditions are if you are unaware of the full picture.

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Psychedelicious said:

I don't like having to deal with this on top of everything else.

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I second this quote as being a sum up of problems that I have as well. I feel like I have a combination of many of these forums and wished that there was other sub forums that were related to the problems I have. I have hyperhidrosis, Social Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and severe tinnitus. ADHD and tinnitus have got to be the hardest thing to talk about for me. Mainly because they are only small communities that talk about this. I am new to Social Phobia world and I actually love it. I wish I would have known about it sooner. With ADHD, I just always make sure that I'm busy. Otherwise, it takes me forever to do anything. And when I need to get something done, I don't allow myself to get so off track, which is so easy when you have ADHD. Luckily, I finally found a product called Lipo-Flavonoid to help with the Tinnitus. Which is the worse out of all of them that i have. Put that together with Hyperhidrosis on my hands and anxiety, I could barely communicate with my co-workers. My advice with ADHD, which is not medical but only from experience, is to find something that you like that has lots of short term goals. Break things up in small goals so that you don't get bored. Good luck.