Newly diagnosed with questions | ADHD Information

Well the first thing I will say is you are not alone. We all experience your symptoms to one extent or another and can relate. I know I do. It's frustrating and ironic because right now it is about noon on the east coast and beautiful outside. I could think of about a dozen things I could and should be doing outside of the house but I am here, inside, and bored.

The first piece of advice and probably the best is to be as patient as possible with your ADD. It's a very difficult disorder to understand, from reading this board, as you will see the effects vary from person to person. You need to find your path through trial and error. Patience, one of our least available skills, is unfortunately a requirement of successfully overcoming your ADD.

Next piece of advice. Read, read, and read some more. And when your done with that. Read some more. I found understanding ADD really helped. This board has been a life saver for me. Even if the advice or commnents may not always be relevant it is still such a comfort to know you are not alone in the confusion.

Lastly regarding medications. Again this will be a trial and error process. My doctor currently has me try a med for 30 days, evaluate, change, and repeat. It is a difficult and sometimes tiresome process. Again you can see your patience will play a role. Also regarding medication. It is not your or I don't think anyone else's silver bullet. It takes many changes to help mitigate your ADD. This is again where your knowledge and patience will come into play. I keep a journal to help and speed the process up of finding what is right for me so I know that I am understanding how I feel on the med.

I want to again say you aren't alone. We are all here to help and listen. Anything and everything. We'll listen. It may not always be what you want to hear but none the less, we're here.

Take care of yourself and hope my post helped. Thank you for your quick reply. It's gorgeous here! Sunny, breezy and maybe 75. Yet...I can't do anything. I feel paralyzed and it's so angering. And people don't understand at all. It's always "oh come on. Just get dressed and let's go!"

So frustrated. I've read all I can find online about ADHD and am waiting on some books that I ordered.

Thanks again.
This is by no means a "diagnosis," but it sounds to me like you have
depression. ADHD meds alone may not address this. As they say, "talk
to your doctor."I just have to write, because Iīm in the same situation! Iīm about to do the neurological tests. I have been once to an adhd-doctor, and she told me this is adhd for sure.
And like you.....Iīm feeling restless, restless, restless all the time, and so BORED! I want to do a lot of things, having a lot of ideas....and somehow, I canīt get out of the SOFA, I just CANīT start doing anything, it just feels so difficult. It feels like thereīs a lot of things in the way stopping me from start doing things. Like: "I canīt start doing this, because I have to do this and this before, and before that I have to do this..." Confusing!
Itīs paradoxal, because I guess I could have done a lot of more things in my life if I wasnīt so restless and energetic

If you want to you can write me a PM, it would be nice to speak with someone with similar problems.
Hello,
 
I am newly diagnosed ADHD (26 years old). Each day goes this way: Bored and restless. Can't figure out what to do with boredom (can't concentrate on doing anything and restless).  Grumpy and anxious because of restlessness. Sad and frustrated because can't solve the boredom. Don't go anywhere or do anything because I feel like a nut outside of apartment (antisocial)....and the day finally ends and I've been miserable all day.

What can I do about this? Anyone successfully overcome this? I will be starting medication soon and hopefully that will help but I'm sure it won't make this disappear completely.

--Beautiful breezy day and stuck inside with the wheels in overdrive

I also get the symptoms you mention where I get antsy, wanting to do SOMETHING but no idea what to do.  Kinda like being hungry for something that you can't figure out what and nothing tastes good...

What I've found that helps me is to read as much as I can on ADD and ADHD.  It's really helped my patience with my symptoms and helped me to come to grips with understanding what's going on with me.

If you can't afford to buy books, look on the internet.  One thing I love is to go to book websites, like Borders, etc and checking out descriptions on books.  I love the "Search Inside" options of books.  When you find books that you want to read - check with your local library see if they have them.

Alot of the books on ADD are being written by people with ADD and are easier to read do to that reason. 

 

           One way I've found to get myself going, is to say. 'well, I'll just start "this", and only do it only for ten minutes.  Many times I can 'trick' myself into starting something and then I don't want to stop. 

           It's like we need to 'prime the pump' as the saying goes.

           Remember: you can always > Pro-cras-ti-nate L A T E R

Ooo!  Good trick.  I've heard that tip to do something for just 10 or 15 minutes but I thought it was a stupid idea.  I didn't think of it like that.  I'll have to try that. 

 

          Autumnstar >

                                 Are you going to try it now or later. {jaj}        just a joke, are you laughing yet ?

hee hee  You know what they say, it's either Now or Not Now for us ADDers.  LOL

 

 

               Speaking of now >

         I've got to go NOW and get ready for work . . .

 

         "Workin' in a coal mine,

           goin' down, down. down

           Whoops, about to slip dowwnnn . . .