plz plz help me! | ADHD Information

yea, i take ritalin but i am desperate to get off it because i hate it! i am going to university in september and therefore i want to be able to control myself. Do you understand what i mean?

i just feel so negative and the doctors have put me on anti-depresants too which just make me feel so trapped now. they put me on them because i was getting so depressed over the teacher and just basically having ADHD and dyslexia depresses me. but they seem to trap my hyperness inside my making my body all tired.

even though i take my ritalin, its not calming me down as much as it used to even though it gets put up (mg) every-so-often.

please reply,

love vicki xxxxx

awwwwwwwww *hugs*

vicki that it really sad that teacher don't see what the problem is but there is way u can deal with it 1. talk to ya teacher on a 1-2-1 bases and say that the fact u can not help being like you are and take some ADHD info with u from lik the internet or a book and show her what really happens. 2. compane under the disablety (sorry about spelling) and say that you where picked apon for that reason alone and no-one was helping u out like u should. i unno if ya left collage yet but try not to give up on it there is aloads of support from learning support when u are there (even tho my collage is still scraching there head to what ADD is and don't know how about to go about my exams lol ) and i'm sorry but try and get off the anti depressent and bring ur self up to be not depressed it sounds hard i know but if u bring ur self to be happy everything will be lol ok that bit sound kinda corny i know lol

and o ye before i forget me internet is cut off so i will be only be able to get in touct with ya by e-mail

I need help. I am 17, I have ADHD and dyslexia, and I go to college. I gained the confidence last term to tell some of my teachers that I actually have ADHD but haven't told them about my dyslexia.

The teachers I told all took it much better than what I have thought and tend to be ok with me about it.

However, the teacher that encouraged me to talk about it and helped me so much to decide that I wanted to be able to control my ADHD, left at Christmas and I felt so alone. (I do still keep in contact though).

Here's my problem... the teacher that took over knows about my ADHD too, and I have been using so many different resources to help me get better ie behaviour programmes etc. but even though I think I'm getting better; she keeps yelling at me and 'picking on me'. At first I thought it was just me thinking she was but I have been getting really depressed because of it.

Today, I was walking out of the classroom with two other girls, and she said "great! I can have peace now!" which was obviously aimed at me. So i turned around to say sorry but she said "appoligising isn't good enough" and then went on forever talking about how naughty I am in class.

Why is it that I'm trying so so hard to get better and not only can no-one seem to see, but I am feeling so much worse because I am being told off more etc even though I am TRYING to behave better.

Please help me!

Love vicki xxxxx

Hey Vicki,

I know how you feel, I'm 15 and I have ADHD/bipolar.  I used to be pretty violent.  Once last year I punched my mom in the face and left a huge bruise.   My family pratically disowned me... I wasn't sorry at first.  Then when I realized what I had done and that I need to change, I went back to appologize.  My younger sister and dad are the only ones who forgave me and believed I was trying to get better.  My 17 year old sister wouldn't let it go, we got into many physical fights over it.  I finally wrote them all very heartfelt letters (and got bipolar pills lol) so now everything is better between us.  My teachers, like your's, give me a hard time sometimes about my AHDH when I forget my pills, but I always stop after class and talk to them.  Are you on any medication?

-Andrea