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[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=bella_b]ok i'm an idiot - what do you mean tripolar? [/QUOTE]No, you are not!
You are a Newbie.
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same thing??
nooo bella!!
i have been here for a while and still don't understand david's posts..
it just means that you are indeed sane
Hi, new to the group.
I think people should put all the opinions on here they want, but when it comes to diagnosing based on messages? Those should really be taken with a grain of salt. I will take the advice of my Pshychiatrist any day. Take the ADD TOVA test, that is also a very good diagnosing tool.
Thanks
Bill
Like my ADHD,
I'm on my 7th pshrynque.
At least this one listens to me.
I just have to justify my positions with data.
So, I carry labels, tabulate vitals, document episodes.
He has a thick file
with my name on it.
[QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] Davido does not like boxes.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
ProFoundly
Perceptive..
Davido don't
like others in
boxes neither
� [/QUOTE]
Slanted roofs:
Not just for rain to slide off anymore.
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Snow slides
off Slanted roofs;
so little butts,
can slide...
ooof!
 [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle]
<Friz is only Pil.gri.m.s Bra.in ... chi.ld> [/QUOTE]
Uuuhhhh, can I plead perseption? [/QUOTE]
Statue, Pil? [/QUOTE]Stat's not tue in the literal sense of reproduction. Pil has not made me. But Pil has created a Sister for me in the form of the Other Friz- the Newbie Friz who sounds BP like me. In my Newbie post I said I wanted to try stim. Newbie Friz already tried stim, with Disastrous results. Which leads me to believe Pilgrim brought the future me to this board, to show me against stims?? So Icould see a possible future and decide what not to do based on it?
I say Pil.grim because he was the first to respond to Newbie Friz. And he was the one who wanted to senf me to Scotland Yard. [/QUOTE]
Gotcha.
I've been back to the future, too.
I was my own mommie and daddie.
That's why I'm such a bADD ADHDie.
 [QUOTE=willc73]Hi, new to the group.
I think people should put all the opinions on here they want, but when it comes to diagnosing based on messages? Those should really be taken with a grain of salt. I will take the advice of my Pshychiatrist any day. Take the ADD TOVA test, that is also a very good diagnosing tool.
Thanks
Bill
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Hi, new to the group! How are you? I'm old to the group. Nice to meet you.
My dalk doesn't believe me, so I have to diagnose my elf meself. He's almost killed me twice. Once b/c I couldn't drive on the pshyt, and another when i withdrew. So, I read the label, and tell him what the meds do. This helps here, as an experimental lab helps a scientificist. Plenty of data, just needs be churned.
 Hm,
Personally I like to change docs when they don't even know what the
meds do. I consulted my therapist and tried several psychiatrists. You
need a new Psychiatrist.
I could doubt my adhd, but why?
then I would not exist?
what a quandary I would be in then.
ok i'm an idiot - what do you mean tripolar? Somedays I'm so messed up, I begin to seriously doubt I have ADHD, specially when I read some of the things people do as ADHDers, and that's not happening to me.
It's more like I'm Tri-polar, or Depressed.
But then, a key diagnostic is presented by my behavior, and those doubts are relegated to the basement. Specially when that behavior reminds me all the way back to childhood of the social consequences it produced.
Anyone else on this tripolar trip?
Doc's noticed it, too, and has me on Anti-ADHD Ritalin and Provigil, and Anti-D's Cymbalta, Wellbuttrin, and Ambien.
Anyone else on this medicinal cocktail?
[QUOTE=annidagostini]Ooops, here is the web address of the book I was talking about and the exercises that I mentioned. (I guess I'm not totally non-add yet!!!! lol)
http://www.stoppingadhd.com/[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Anni! Does it have any skiing exercises that'll help my ADDerness? hehe
just more proof that ahders can blend in with the best
[/QUOTE]And you do so well keeping up with me!
 [QUOTE=bella_b] [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=bella_b]ok i'm an idiot - what do you mean tripolar? [/QUOTE] No, you are not!
You are a Newbie. [/QUOTE] same thing?? [/QUOTE]
Naw, we don't want anyone being an 'diot...
Oh! I know, you can be bella_b!
that'll work too! i'm an idiot, too. and retarded - - - jk... i just feel like that sometimes. i hope we all can get this med thing under control so we can feel a little better. i don't know whether i'm coming or going... i was better before i started taking the adderall. maybe ritalin will be better. we'll see tomorrow - - Good luck, clus.
Know how you feel.
I have every single symptom on the list and doubt it all the time. There's always this sneaky voice in the back of my head telling me I'm really a lazy, worthless f&ck.
thats large drink mixture.
But I'm not sure what you mean by the tri-polar thing, but i do see what you mean. I get that doubt occasionally. Not too much. There is way more on my yes list than the no though.
[QUOTE=HeidiMarie]I have every single symptom on the list and doubt it all the time. There's always this sneaky voice in the back of my head telling me I'm really a lazy, worthless f&ck. [/QUOTE]ohhh well if that's what you mean, then yes, i feel that way often.
for me, i think part of it is i also have sad (winter depression) and i was JUST dx'ed add, so it's taking me a while to adjust to a "name" for my "laziness/forgetfulness/spazzy self/ditziness"...
no i don't doubt my ADD or heidi's or glen's or parrithead's or seeker's etc.
but i doubt yours. and mizz frizzle's. and countrygirl's. you three seem similar to me and not quite exactly ADD either... but i wouldn't know what to say you are and as long as the drugs help then...... does it really matter. but yeah, as it goes D'o i don't think you are simply ADD i think you something else.
i never thought brig was ADD either. she was depressed and anxious and phobic but not ADDled at all - in my not so humble opinion.
I don't know how anyone can tell if someone has ADD or ADHD just from reading all their posts here. I am a very good writer and I can write well. If I talk verbally, words get all mixed up. The kids in my class correct me all the time because I say the wrong word when I am teaching something. It is funny, but not.
So, my point is, that even though it may seem that someone is not add or adhd, they still may have symptoms that you don't see in a post here.
Also, David, I think you should try the exercises I've been doing. They have helped me soooo much. I almost feel like I don't belong here anymore. I still have the verbal language problems like I mentioned above, but I don't feel like I have ADD as much as I used to at all.
I have reasearched these primitive reflexes and the more I read about them, the more I feel that there is so much we have to learn about our bodies.
I find that my brain works differently now that I have been doing these exercises. I actually can connect back to what I was thinking a miniute ago. I can do that in conversations. I have never been able to do that before. And my mother said the other night that she noticed that I don't hyperfocus on things in a conversation anymore. (I guess I'm not as annoying!???) She said that she noticed that I don't go on and on and on about one subject in a conversation like I used to.
So, maybe if you tried these exercises, they might help you more than the drugs. I have found that it does in my case.
Anyway, I don't want to sound pushy or anything. They have just helped me so much.
Ooops, here is the web address of the book I was talking about and the exercises that I mentioned. (I guess I'm not totally non-add yet!!!! lol)
just curious cj but would you say that i was an adhder??
and please be honest, i won't bark, i promise
i don't know brooke --- let me think.
the thing is someone like brig or MissF, D'O, CG leap out at ME! it's not that i tend to evaluate everyone on the board it's more like when you are glancing at a sheet of paper/or page of a book and a misspelling just catches your eye... (half-way down the page, before you have read that far - and it only stands out because it is wrong - does that make any sense at all). IT catches your eye, rather than you were looking out for misspellings in the first place (and there may be more or another one in the page but that one leapt out at you).
it's more like that. so with you - i would have to make an actual effort to come to some conclusion and as i will be having to use my intellect with that rather than my intuition it's more than likely to be a wrong conclusion. things that leap out at me like brig, d'o, cg and mizz frizz are pure intuition - nothing intellectual there at all!
if you want my intellectual opinion - it's that i don't know, i would verge more toward the not but i really don't have a strong feeling about it either way.
that was kinda hopeless.... but it's the way my mind works.
[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=chjones]no i don't doubt my ADD or heidi's or glen's or parrithead's or seeker's etc.
but i doubt yours. and mizz frizzle's. and countrygirl's. you three seem similar to me and not quite exactly ADD either... but i wouldn't know what to say you are and as long as the drugs help then...... does it really matter. but yeah, as it goes D'o i don't think you are simply ADD i think you something else.
i never thought brig was ADD either. she was depressed and anxious and phobic but not ADDled at all - in my not so humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
Maybe we're space aliens. We escaped from Areas 51 and 349.
Shoot, chjo, why'dya say that! Now I gotta go figure out what I is.
Here's how I'll do it: Take the sum of the whole, and subtract what I'm not.
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hey dj
i didn't say it to make you feel bad - sorry for that. it's just what I think. what strikes me and i am no expert... i don't think it matters either way.
as long as the drugs help. in the end all of these things in the past had no name, you were either lazy, stupid, crazy, irresponsible, hysterical or had bad vapours!
i think you have something not ADD but something different --- but that's ok because these drugs help you. i think you have an unhappy soul at the moment d'o that's all. and you need to work on making that happier... (yeah, shoot me - i am probably sounding crazier than anyone else on this board right now) and then you can look into changing some behaviours if they are destructive to you after that. re-learning from a place of peace rather than an emotionally defensive state.
but i didn't mean to upset you (or CG or Miss Frizzle - who hopefully hasn't seen this as she stays on the adultADHD and doesn't get over the wall much).
but yeah, the three of you - you seem slightly different to me. that's all. s'only my opinion tho which ain't worth so much as totally un-psychtrained.
perhaps together you could come up with your own special syndrome - the mifridocogl...
no it was great
.. just what i wanted to hear!!the reality is that i do have adhd and do not display it.. it does not affect my moods nor do i ever feel compelled to act up on it..
it affects my organisation, my working processing memory and has made me chronically linguistically challenged..
but i have never let anyone know.. those close to me are not surprised - simply because many of them knew me when i was a teen
Brooke, I always thought you were the non-ADD'er in your family!
just more proof that ahders can blend in with the best
[QUOTE=chjones]no i don't doubt my ADD or heidi's or glen's or parrithead's or seeker's etc.
but i doubt yours. and mizz frizzle's. and countrygirl's. you three seem similar to me and not quite exactly ADD either... but i wouldn't know what to say you are and as long as the drugs help then...... does it really matter. but yeah, as it goes D'o i don't think you are simply ADD i think you something else.
Jones - could be the comormid thing going on here, or the H in the ADHD, or perhaps Davie & I are just extremely moody personas. Frizz is pregnant, so you have the hormone thing going on there. - Guess what I see that we have in common or these horrendous mood swings. But then again - we may be tri-polar?
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=HeidiMarie]I have every single symptom on the list and doubt it all the time. There's always this sneaky voice in the back of my head telling me I'm really a lazy, worthless f&ck. [/QUOTE]
Hei Hei,
Is that your past talking? You are not worthless. I'm proud of what you have done with your life! You love your family, and your siblings not only love you, they look up to you. You are their Heroine. You served in a man's Navy. You married a man YOU loved, not the one your family loved. You mothered and are nurturing the future of our nation. You chose to take a stand, and do what is right by your husband, in spite of what others were pressuring you to do. You are not lazy. You run a household. You go to school. You mother your child, and provide for your family. You wifey your husband. You counsel others, find the lost, lead the strays, encourage the downtrodden...
Silence that voice, and speak a new language. I pronounce you Wonderful, Counselor, Princess of Maine! Warrior Goddess! Heidith, the Beautiful.
Believe yourself precious, for you indeed you are, but as you do, your son will learn, too.
I have been, and always will be, your friend.
David
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Truly, I couldn't ask for a better friend D'o -- this made me feel so much better. You are wonderful! The same goes for you, my friend.
Anyone else on this tripolar trip?
Doc's noticed it, too, and has me on Anti-ADHD Ritalin and Provigil, and Anti-D's Cymbalta, Wellbuttrin, and Ambien.
Anyone else on this medicinal cocktail?
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I'll go pack for the trip. Think our coctail is similar Davie -
Adderall XL, Wellbutrin XL, Ambien, and coffee
Doc's noticed in me too. Keeps checking for the mania that just doesn't come.
DX ADHD/Anxiety disorder/LD
Perhaps we are moody because we dance to the beat of a faster drum
What time do we leave for the trip on The Tripolar Express ?
Tri-polar: I've been accused of being bipolar sooo much, but the depression is rare. The up seasons run for weeks. If a bad thing happens, then I do get depressed. But only for a day or two. However, Anti-D's work great in me. But so does the Anti-ADHD's. So, if somebody's right, and I'm bipolar, and have depression, and have ADHD, then I'm tri-polar. North Pole, South Pole, and Barber Pole. [QUOTE=chjones]no i don't doubt my ADD or heidi's or glen's or parrithead's or seeker's etc.
but i doubt yours. and mizz frizzle's. and countrygirl's. you three seem similar to me and not quite exactly ADD either... but i wouldn't know what to say you are and as long as the drugs help then...... does it really matter. but yeah, as it goes D'o i don't think you are simply ADD i think you something else.
i never thought brig was ADD either. she was depressed and anxious and phobic but not ADDled at all - in my not so humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
Maybe we're space aliens. We escaped from Areas 51 and 349.
Shoot, chjo, why'dya say that! Now I gotta go figure out what I is.
Here's how I'll do it: Take the sum of the whole, and subtract what I'm not.
[QUOTE=HeidiMarie]I have every single symptom on the list and doubt it all the time. There's always this sneaky voice in the back of my head telling me I'm really a lazy, worthless f&ck. [/QUOTE]
Hei Hei,
Is that your past talking? You are not worthless. I'm proud of what you have done with your life! You love your family, and your siblings not only love you, they look up to you. You are their Heroine. You served in a man's Navy. You married a man YOU loved, not the one your family loved. You mothered and are nurturing the future of our nation. You chose to take a stand, and do what is right by your husband, in spite of what others were pressuring you to do. You are not lazy. You run a household. You go to school. You mother your child, and provide for your family. You wifey your husband. You counsel others, find the lost, lead the strays, encourage the downtrodden...
Silence that voice, and speak a new language. I pronounce you Wonderful, Counselor, Princess of Maine! Warrior Goddess! Heidith, the Beautiful.
Believe yourself precious, for you indeed you are, but as you do, your son will learn, too.
I have been, and always will be, your friend.
David
[QUOTE=bella_b]ok i'm an idiot - what do you mean tripolar? [/QUOTE]
No, you are not!
You are a Newbie.
CJ is meant to be:
A Gentle Woman From London in 1800's! Contemplating Near a Windowsill! Insight Belies Experience. The Fever Isolates from Society. With little to do, you develop your introllect and extrollect and scribble it down by candle light! You claim the world Confounds you, but you understand it better than anyone else. The way We can generalize Ant Culture because we are not Ants.
CJ! Am I right??
what a kind post. i would wish so but...... how lovely you are mizz frizz.
how lucky i am. how lucky we all are ----
i'm glad you popped over the wall.
cj
Well, come! Karem.
To the world of the diagnosed.
We oughta hang them pshrynques by their
twins and big brother, then feed them Exlax...
[QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] Davido does not like boxes.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
ProFoundly
Perceptive..
Davido don't
like others in
boxes neither
Davidornado38665.9246296296 [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle]
<Friz is only Pil.gri.m.s Bra.in ... chi.ld> [/QUOTE]
Uuuhhhh, can I plead perception? [/QUOTE]
Statue, Pil? Davidornado38665.9275578704 [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle] Davido does not like boxes.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
ProFoundly
Perseptive..
Davido don't
like others in
boxes neither
 [/QUOTE]
Slanted roofs:
Not just for rain to slide off anymore.
(So we don't live in boxes)
[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle]
<Friz is only Pil.gri.m.s Bra.in ... chi.ld> [/QUOTE]
Uuuhhhh, can I plead perseption? [/QUOTE]
Statue, Pil? [/QUOTE]
Stat's not tue in the literal sense of reproduction. Pil has not made me. But Pil has created a Sister for me in the form of the Other Friz- the Newbie Friz who sounds BP like me. In my Newbie post I said I wanted to try stim. Newbie Friz already tried stim, with Disastrous results. Which leads me to believe Pilgrim brought the future me to this board, to show me against stims?? So Icould see a possible future and decide what not to do based on it?
I say Pil.grim because he was the first to respond to Newbie Friz. And he was the one who wanted to senf me to Scotland Yard.
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I'll go pack for the trip. Think our coctail is similar Davie -
Adderall XL, Wellbutrin XL, Ambien, and coffee
Doc's noticed in me too. Keeps checking for the mania that just doesn't come.
DX ADHD/Anxiety disorder/LD
Say countrygirl....curious as to how long you've been on Adderall & Wellbutrin? dd has ADHD & is on Adderall xr & we just realized she also has really bad anxiety w/attacks and the doc is putting her on Wellbutrin & said to discontinue the Adderall xr..I don't like how she comes off of Adderall xr (very mean & angry)...would the wellbutrin help with that too? Any info on your experience would be great!!!! Thank you.
don't doubt my ADHD; in fact BEGGED my doctors for over 10 years to diagnose me with ADHD; that way I could KNOW what was wrong with me... Darn, then I could finally feel as though I was sane 
if u know what i mean.
It took only Last Year to finally feel complete.. so that makes it 19 years of trying to prove NO, not depression, NO, not bi polar, NO not Panic Disorder, no NOT personality disorder (that was a whammy for sure when my MMPI came back inconlcusive 2 x's ), ... 
Finally, it took a medical research on Straterra at the University Hospital to get the Final diagnosis.. Took the 3 Hr test, and then 1 hr every week for 1 year after that; Can't get a better diagnosis for sure... No doubt NOW!
Yeah!!! I DO have ADHD - DUH!!!! YA think??? I want to tell all those not so cracked up Psychs who misdiagnosed me, who put me on pills that caused depression, and panic attacks, wanted me to kill myself - not to mention I spawned 2 kids with it as well - First clue?!!
All I know today is that finally I feel saner, happier, and and finding a way to accept myself more. I am still suffer from being a lazy, disorganized, confused, easily stressed, sometimes self centered, chaotic emotional basket case.. . but I am a work in progress as I learn to hone in on my loving, caring, sentimental, astute, highly intelligent, border line genius (most of us are), dedicated, compassionate, loyal, resourceful, spirited, analytical, insightful, aggressive, assertive attributes that make me me.... Wow what fantastic people we are!
I guess most people think that if you have ADD one has to be hyper.. Such a misnomer - had a hard time to convince my own daughter to be checked. She is the calm to my hyper.. ADD she is though.. for sure. Having a hard time with it, cause she doesn't want to be "like" me, (gee it aint that bad) but she is at that age. Any resemblence to MOM is the worst. She will come around.
Sorry for chatting so much, finally found a home, a place I can feel safe talking my sane insanity
Thanks for being here, thanks for being YOU, thanks for being...
Thanks for letting me be me, thanks for letting me be, thanks for letting me!
I never doubted anyones problems. I guess I got lucky finding a therapist
and a psychiatrist that specializes in add. I think self diagnosing can be
dangerous. I think it is great that you got help. [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle]
CJ suggests a Triangle!
&nbs p; CG
Do &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p; Friz
Is this triangle Bermuda? Love? Equilateral?
CG protests the triangle! <But Miss Friz Iz Preggers!>
Miss Friz Protests the triangle! <CG and DO are Meant To Be!>
<Friz is only Pil.gri.m.s Bra.in ... chi.ld>
cg do
Bedfellows! | |
CJ! Am I right?? [/QUOTE]
Uuuhhhh, can I plead the fifth?
 [QUOTE=Miss Frizzle]Yahoo!
Hey there all of ya!
[/QUOTE]
Hey there all of ya!, your 'elf!
 Yahoo!
i _
-
,
. _i splat!
Jumped over the wall!
In peace.
Hey there all of ya!
[QUOTE=chjones]no i don't doubt my ADD or heidi's or glen's or parrithead's or seeker's etc.
but i doubt yours. and mizz frizzle's. and countrygirl's. you three seem similar to me and not quite exactly ADD either... but i wouldn't know what to say you are and as long as the drugs help then...... does it really matter. but yeah, as it goes D'o i don't think you are simply ADD i think you something else.
i never thought brig was ADD either. she was depressed and anxious and phobic but not ADDled at all - in my not so humble opinion.
[/QUOTE]
Davido does not like boxes.
CJ suggests a Triangle!
CG
Do Friz
Is this triangle Bermuda? Love? Equilateral?
CG protests the triangle! <But Miss Friz Iz Preggers!>
Miss Friz Protests the triangle! <CG and DO are Meant To Be!>
<Friz is only Pil.gri.m.s Bra.in ... chi.ld>
cg do
Bedfellows! | |
CJ is meant to be:
A Gentle Woman From London in 1800's! Contemplating Near a Windowsill! Insight Belies Experience. The Fever Isolates from Society. With little to do, you develop your introllect and extrollect and scribble it down by candle light! You claim the world Confounds you, but you understand it better than anyone else. The way We can generalize Ant Culture because we are not Ants.
CJ! Am I right??
Joining late, sorry...
I go back and forth all the time about the ADD diagnosis. I mean, I'm not really THAT hyper... so what if my leg shakes, my toe taps and people tell me I am just WAY to cheerful in the morning! It only bugs people that are not happy or awake yet
I've been told that my morning demeaner is hyperactivity, but then I read that ADDers have a hard time getting up in the morning.. hmmm never been a problem.. I pop right up at 5:30AM on the dot every day including weekends! So, am I really ADD?
I make a lot of really stupid mistakes, even on meds... cant stay organized completely.. ( but normals cant stay organized completely either). What if I'm just lazy? What if it is just a learned behavior from growing up in a house that was always waiting to be condemned from the health dept.? What if my daydreaming isnt from ADD but a defence mechanism due to certain childhood traumas? What if my anattention is more a result of an anxiety disorder?
Why do I get angry once or twice a month to the point where my family stays away from me for a while, and then happy go lucky the rest of the time? ADD? or anxiety? or hormonal?
Is all of this truly ADD? Or have my Dr.s missed something?
then I go a day or two without meds, and people notice a difference -
Perfect example, I have been on the same class schedule for over 2 years, YET, I lined up my second graders to leave 10 minutes EARLY because 2 1/2 years ago that was the time they lined up... oh man! not a good idea to stand 8 year olds in line that long!!
That day, the custodian commented that the room was a mess... when I went back on meds, she asked me if I had them back -- she could tell by the room that I had started them again.
Ok , so maybe I am ADD
give me some then!!wwellllllll it seeejms tjo bwoking - tonighlnightg Hey, Just noticed a warning label on my Ambien -
Says "Warning may cause drowsiness"
God, I hope so!
Is there room on this ship for a veinte polar?
thats spanish for twenty.
bugzappers38661.8230787037
but yeah, the three of you - you seem slightly different to me. that's all. s'only my opinion tho which ain't worth so much as totally un-psychtrained.
perhaps together you could come up with your own special syndrome - the mifridocogl...
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Hey, The doc is going to screen me next week for mifridocogl tho - I'll keep u posted.
sounds good countrygirl!!!