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I think I may have discovered a new symptom of ADHD today.  I named it a severe ADHD attack.  I've had anxiety attacks, but nothing like this before.  I couldn't slow down or concentrate in any way shape or form.  I thought I was going insane.  I have been off my meds for over a year due to affordability and have been doing fine for the most part, but just when I thought I had a good permanent job, I received an email saying that there was a test that I needed to take and the results of the test would determine whether I stayed hired or get fired.  Last night I was very upset over this, having an anxiety attack and very angry.  Also, resorted to scratching my arm with a philips screwdriver.  No blood was drawn, but still this is behavior that I had not done since I was in the psych ward as a teen almost 20 yrs ago for deep depression prior to getting diagnosed with ADHD.  When I went to work this morning I had to fight to keep the speed under 80.  When I got to work and sat down something didn't feel right.  I thought I was having anxiety or panic attacks, but this was different.  It felt more like I had finally snapped something and having a nervous breakdown.  I tried emailing my bosses to see if I should just go home or stick it out.  This is how it turned out  

This test thing has me on extreme edger and I can’t concentrate.  This is the first time in a long time that I have felt this incapacitated by these stupid things.  I doubt I will be very productive  today today[cncmoherent, or social.  I don’t know if you want me to take the day to get my self collected or just try to stick it out and do the best that I can. I till have the machine TO GET READY FOR with the arcghis sopfteware and such to rteiumage thsa library lab over there.  I shoul;d be ab le to at lpeast get that donbe.  Sorry about the tytpos I’ve tried correcting them but I cnba;’t seem  to get my hands to ci-opoperate.

It only got worse from there with severe stuttering.  I emailed this to my wife after talking to a co-worker.

Still hhere , I mjust got off the phomne wityh ***** and hes going  to pick u8p[ asom,e breakfast and brinbg  it over for a visit.  I sounded  like porky pi9g on the phon be .  my brain is going a  million miles per hpouir.  I don’t know which one is doing thii9s or if it’s a combinaitopn  of tyhem.

My wife found my Ritalin and brought it to work because it was the only thing that we could think of that might help.  About 20 minutes after taking the pill the stuttering was almost non existent and I was pretty much back to normal or abnormal.   I can't take the once a day type because it wears off after about 4 hrs.  So, after 3 and a half hrs my pill box went off to take another one as I'm heading to my doctor's office for a new script, but didn't take one for fear that they wouldn't write one being a new doctor.  After about a half hour of sitting in the doctor's office the stuttering started coming back and by the time I got home it was almost full bown again.  I took another pill and shortly afterward I was fine again.  Has this ever happened to anyone else??

 

Hi Brakin,

First off! Love your online name! Putting on the brakes is somtin we are not always noted for. LOL..

Anxiety seems to be part of life for lots of ADHDers that i have come across. It is either a result of an extreme failure phobia or a longterm side effect of some meds. I am also an Anxiety Lifer but i am aware of it's causes and mostly i feel it and get on with life. It has stopped me doing things on impulse so it is a negitive solution to impulsivity. HHHMMM.! OMG did i just say that... Anxiety is a solution for nothing. It is bad for our health, happiness and wealth...