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hey adderall_it_up........have you just started taking medication?  One of the biggest problems I had about medication was that I just didn't feel like myself.  I didn't really notice at first.  The most imediate thing I noticed was that I could concentrate on everything for what seemed like the same amount of time as everyone else.  It's hard to explain.... I could sit still and read (oh, should mention I was in college), organize my time, finish assisgnments on time and remember to hand them in, sit through even the boring lectures without having the overwhelming urge to run from the room screaming "I'm soooo bored" (really wanted to do that many times but I didn't thank god), making stupid impulsive decisions, ect.  But, medication also made me slow down during conversations with friends, teachers and my parents.  I began to read social cues more effectively and really listening to what others were saying.  The only problem is that I also became much quieter...I thought about what I was going to say before I said it.  I didn't seem to have the same "quick"sense of humour.  Some of the people around me noticed a differnce, others just thought I was "growing up".  The advantages of medication really outweighed  the disadvantages for me, but I struggled to re-invent the attentive, non-impulsive personality that I discovered with medication.  Over the years since college I've taken breaks from medication and changed medication but I don't think I'm ready to come off it altogether.

So, I guess the moral to my story is that if you think medication is an option for you, try it you may be startled by the difference.

Dear adderall me up:

   Hi. I am a Life Coach Expert specializing in helping people with ADD. I think some counseling or personal coaching would really help you adjust to your ADD.

   Please remember that most people with ADD are brilliant thinkers and highly creative.

Sincerely,

Michele Glance Rooney

Lifecoachexpert@aol.com

After reading the others posts within this topic.

WOW!!!!

I LOVE this forum because I don't feel alone in what I am calling "My quest for clear thoughts."

Sooo many emotions, sooo many memories, sooo many habits to change... How is it possible for a "pill" to help one accomplish all this? I am still in awe in regards to meds and support from others like yourself. If I can help anyone along the way I will because, I owe it to myself and those that have helped me as well.

 

At first I felt great about having ADHD. Finally, yes, finally someone diagnosed me.  Prior to the diagnosis I thought that everyone else had the problem, but now I see that many of choices and decisions were based around hiding behind my fear of exposing my inattentive ADHD traits.  Weekly sometimes daily I change my mind about being okay with having ADHD.  After being put on medication I learned I could be annoying.  One of the benefits, however, that I have gotten since being on Concerta is that no longer get as nauseous while reading material that takes effort.  I still have dizzy spells from reading but that is mostly due to my reading.  Immediately when taking the medication I recognized that eyes were no longer shaking all over the page.  Three cheers for medication.  Yet, today I am not excited at the prospects of changing all of the other stuff, like the lateness, strange sleeping patterns, hating too much sound or noise, inability to remember from moment to moment, inability to change gears, inability to multitask without derailing, all or nothing thinking (ugh) and worst of all the not thinking at all.  All my life until six months ago I thought that that not thinking stuff had to do with serenity and being at peace.  Just for today, I don't like having another thing wrong with me.  Tomorrow, I may feel, it's a blessing because I now know the truth and I have the choice to change.

I have ADD and i feel totally lost,is there anyone that could help me with this or answear some questions i have about it?

What do you mean you feel lost? Were you just recently diagnosed and are having trouble dealing with it? Its ok. ADHD isn't some horrid disease. Its a different set of thought processes and behaviors. You can learn to live with it and manage it with behavior modification and supplements and/or meds.

You are not lost! You have found your way home to us, your ADHD family!

Welcome!     Barb

 

I don't have any answers and I am struggling to keep up with life.  I am just happy happy happy to know that I am not ...alone.  That I am a good person with a disorder...I mean we are all cookie cutter shapes.  Procrastinors, scatter brained, forgetful, unmotivated....the list goes on.  But that in itself tells me that its a brain misfire.  We all have the same thing!!!

I think we all feel a little lost at times, especially when you live with ADHD.

ive been struggling since i was born! i feel like a mess always late , not paying attention but i am so good at even tricking myself that i am, i cant sit during lecture unless it was absolutely amazing material.so i had to quit school, couldnt sit for homework i felt like i knew how to do it already, now i am working a full time job making nothing an hour and i'm struggling to stay there. there i get people mad because i start a tast and not finisish it eventhough i dont mean to. or i cant just stand still and do the same repetitive things day to day. or the same sunday through monday for the rest of my life. it feels like i need to do something new that ive never done everyday of my life and if i dont then it depresses me that we must stay within these same repetitions. it saddens me that this is the culture i live in when i just want to fly and be free and do as i please and be happy with new things and new ideas, new findings every single day of my life. adderall helps only so much. i am extremely innattentive but as i get older i am way more hyper than ever. when i take my medicine i just want to think of amazing things and i can work quietly and well. i just sometimes get too quiet and my boss can tell i took my medicine. but in the end it is positive but i dont feel like myself at all. so i dont take my medicine everyday like i should or on busy days.

 

God, I relate so much too  so many of the posts here it is overwhelming a little. I  have felt so alone in the way I live, think and react.  I love the idea of  being able to converse w/o interrupting,  shirfting  topics every 30 seconds  or actually reading some social ques...I am so attracted to the idea of slowing down a little in my social interactions.  I start on medication tommorow  and get more excited  the more I read. I know I frustrate some people enough in conversation tehy dont talk to me at work if they can. I am not bad or mean its  the interrupting, finishing  others sentences,  answering half asked questions  that kill them..the post that referenced slowing down enough to  not do some of that   stuff, I cant put into words  how grateful I would be  to be like that all those negative  conversational traits end up leaving ashamed for being rude   post conversation.Hi looking for a group to join that I Physically leave
the house or talk on the phone. tring to get back into
the work force and its not working the way I need it to
work