Well I'm 25 years old. Untill my recent divorce sent me to the Mental Health ward at my local hospital I didn't really think much of mental problems. Well after a few months and a few diffrent hits and misses my psych. and I settled on ADHD. I was orginally given Adderall Xr, Zoloft(for depression), and trazadone (to counter act the adderall so i could sleep) after being on this for a few months I lost my job an thus my insurance. I slowly weined myself off the medications untill i ran out. it was almost a year befre I finally settled at a new job long enough to get insurance.
This time though my psych and I decided to forgo the Zoloft. But I defentally noticed a diffrence from not taking the Adderall Xr and by this time had lost almost all my friends and begun to alienate my current girlfriend (whom also suffers from depression, bipolar, adhd). Since I've been back on it I feel gret I'm more able to deal with things. I'm not clingy to my girlfriend, and am able to complete tasks.
I also asked my psych about possible Borderline (my little sister was just diagnosed) because i felt that I showed a lot of the sympotoms and always thought ADHD was just a hyper buncy kid thing. Thanks to this website I've learned a lot about ADHD and feel we have everything right this time. I've also been educating people around me of what ADHD really is and it's helped them deal with me a lot better.
I feel like a part of this group and look forward to many many posts.