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    Hi muddy, welcome to the board! We have a few brits on the board and the more the merrier! Glad you found us( we were kinda' lost without you),were still here and still lost.  Hope to see you on the board a lot in the future, and hope you enjoy the humor too! We always have room for the nutters around here! Dan

Hi there everyone.

Never posted here before. I have been taking medication for ADD for 3 years now. I was not diagnosed until my mid 40s and even then it was a struggle to find a shrink to treat me. Eventually I did, but I do not think he knows much about the subject, but he is all I can find. I live in the country (Somerset) so there are very few people who are willling to entertain the subject , let alone understand it. My doc prescribed Concerta XL 18mg once a day, and this has been tremendously helpful in controlling my many outbursts. I also take medacationf or panic attacks, which I now realise I have had since puberty but did not realise what was going on in my head. If I do not take my meds I find it difficult to cope with ordenary stresses and strains of life, never mind any sort of emergency or crisis.

But motavation is still a tremendious ptoblem for me, as I find it difficult to get my head round doing anything, no matter how much I want to get on with the task in hand.

Issues surrounding personal relationships are still a big issue for me. I find it very difficult to make or keep friends. My family are very understanding, and that is saying something,e specially as I acted like some sort of nutter when they were growing up, behaving strangly, impulsivly, and with a really bad temper!

I find that being artistic is a great outlet for me - sewqing, crafts, jewllery maing, all such things come easy to me. I am also a bit of a lateral thinker as well, and seemt to be able to solve problems (when I can actually concntrate on a problem that is) in a very sideways manner. I see having ADD as a great gift in many ways, but as a great handicap in other ways. I do wish I could strike a happy medium, and get some balance into my life, but I find this such a difficult thing to do, its exhausting just thinking about it, never mind acheving it.

welcome