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Welcome disgruntled! You are amongst friends.

Don't expect much help from a health food store usually.  Many are keyed to selling homeopathic rememdies - and many of the sellers of that stuff are set to sell on the premise that ADHD is not genetic but a lack of nutrients.  We all know that's not the way it is.

My father is ADHD in a big way - he self-medicates with alcohol and only now on my parent's 39th anniversary is my mother keying in that my dad is using it as a way to keep it from bothering him.  He denies but now my mother can see it.

The most important thing is that you know now.  You can read, become as aware of what you can do for you, and do what you need to to make life better.

Glad you are here!!

Welcome Disgruntled.  Feels good to find a place where you are understood and your thoughts are welcomed.  Out in the "normal" world -seems  nobody wants to hear it.  This place is a blessing, sometimes in disguise, but a blessing ner the less.

I wrote this same post (same general thoughts) just the other day... there's nothing so wonderful as finding a group of people just like me. I don't work with them, I don't hang with them, and I don't think they exist in my everyday life. But here... here they are real and have started to become an important part of my existence.

Welcome!

It was such a relief when I first found this site, to actually know that other adults were like me and I wasn't different or weird. I was one of many who don't think the same way as the ones who like to call themselves normal. Here, I am so normal it is scary sometimes! 

Good luck.   As I told my husband today - if I were to tell him everything I think or feel with this he would wrap me up and get me hauled away.  But to come here and read that "OMG, I do the same thing" makes me feel less crazy and that what i am doing (or not doing) is valid.  It's not just laziness or low self esteem but there is something a little off in my head that is going to explode if I don't do something about it.

Share your stories.  It will make you feel normal.

 Wow , its quite a shock to read so many descriptions of myself from so many strangers . To read some of them hit so close to home , I became emotional and had to leave . I had to come back and read more though .           ;           ;    I am 40 and again looking for a job . I have done many types of work have started several businesses of my own . When originaly diagnosed , the depression was so bad thats all the docs treated me for . Soon I was being medicated for depression ,anxiety and intermittent explosive disorder (I have never harmed anyone ) . Then came the ritilen . I weaned myself from them all for a while before going to my local health departmant for help . I was told there was no such thing as adult ADD . I have been away from the drugs for 3 or 4 years and am ready to try again . I dont have what I consider close friends and I became so sick of bad relationships that I took 3 years from even dating . My new interest in the meds is because of a new relationship and wanting to do better . No one around me understands ADD and many claim they have it because they are forgetful . If they only knew . My father used to tell me ADD wasnt real and I was making excuses for myself . He said I was a throw back (genetic I guess ) and just lazy . Sorry if I rambled ,I am glad I found this forum .                                               welcome disgruntled 

you will find that most of us here are rather friendly.. and most share similar experiences with you...

no prejudice