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this story is true i am tellling it so epopele may learn from it. In elementry school i got straigth As but because of adderall that i was put on i was hated. If someone got me mad i would snap. But that wasn't the worsest of my troubles. There were a group of kids who eveyday would hunt me down intot he sand box and would start up a fight. I wouldn't lose but i would get hurt too. But what hurt me most is the fact that my friends didn't stand up for me even after i stood up for them. This was all because the way i would snap at everyone. the problem was noboy believed me until mid 7th grade that was4 years of torment. i was lucky to be live after i attepmteed suicide by hanging andoverdosing niether one did i go to the hospital and niether one worked. so during 6ht grae there was less torment because most people didn't knowme but i waslosing weigth like crazy. by the winter of 7th grade i weighed a whopping 64 pounds at 4' 9". Now during all of this i didn'tjust get mood swings mine were so bad at one time we thought i had bi polar except for the fact that instead of sometimes this was 24 7i dont think i was happy or for more than 1 day from 2nd to 7th grade. Now to make matters worth thesummer from 6th to 7th my friend commited suicide in 3rd grade mygrandma died and in 4th or 5th my other friend died from, cancer. Then i was put on concerta on which in three weeks i gainaround 45 bls so i wa way over weight. i still am now its harder to lose than gain. alos i ha mod swings. so then i was put on Efexor which during the first month i was hyper but after that i was fine. Effexor isnt a Adhd med its a combo anti depressANT and anti nervous togetehr i was able to concentrate. The this past quarter of 8th grade my grades slippedand my mom blamed the med when really it was her. She treats me poorly not phycasically she doen't hit me she does something worse. She emotionally abuses me she screams she doesn't follow logicshe doesn't care when i am in pain. now most people would say oh how would you know. I KNOW BECUASE I HAVE BEEN THROUGH ENOUHG TO ALLOW ME TO SEE THE FULL VEIW OF THE WORLD BOTH GOOD AND BAD. now she is putting me on straterra and says the mood swings i have been getting aren't the med but she also say the fact that i am focusing more is the med. yet sh says 5 days hasn't been enought time to see it work but she says it already helping.

This is my life to date that i remember i ont remember anything before i was 7 i cant stand it and noonebeeives me about the meds sideeffects not my mom not my doc well noone but my dad bnut he lies in CT and i live in MD. Hes a doc to not the same type but he does engouhg reaserch to know. i should be living with him not my mom

P.S. if you want to see smethign my dad jsut came out with go to www.publishamerica.com then in the search box type Steven Lobel

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heres my story

this story is true i am tellling it so epopele may learn from it. In elementry school i got straigth As but because of adderall that i was put on i was hated. If someone got me mad i would snap. But that wasn't the worsest of my troubles. There were a group of kids who eveyday would hunt me down intot he sand box and would start up a fight. I wouldn't lose but i would get hurt too. But what hurt me most is the fact that my friends didn't stand up for me even after i stood up for them. This was all because the way i would snap at everyone. the problem was noboy believed me until mid 7th grade that was4 years of torment. i was lucky to be live after i attepmteed suicide by hanging andoverdosing niether one did i go to the hospital and niether one worked. so during 6ht grae there was less torment because most people didn't knowme but i waslosing weigth like crazy. by the winter of 7th grade i weighed a whopping 64 pounds at 4' 9". Now during all of this i didn'tjust get mood swings mine were so bad at one time we thought i had bi polar except for the fact that instead of sometimes this was 24 7i dont think i was happy or for more than 1 day from 2nd to 7th grade. Now to make matters worth thesummer from 6th to 7th my friend commited suicide in 3rd grade mygrandma died and in 4th or 5th my other friend died from, cancer.then from 5th to 6th grade my parents divorced and from 7th to 8th my dad moved to CT ( hes te one i want to lie with) Then i was put on concerta on which in three weeks i gainaround 45 bls so i wa way over weight. i still am now its harder to lose than gain. alos i ha mod swings. so then i was put on Efexor which during the first month i was hyper but after that i was fine. Effexor isnt a Adhd med its a combo anti depressANT and anti nervous togetehr i was able to concentrate. The this past quarter of 8th grade my grades slippedand my mom blamed the med when really it was her. She treats me poorly not phycasically she doen't hit me she does something worse. She emotionally abuses me she screams she doesn't follow logicshe doesn't care when i am in pain. now most people would say oh how would you know. I KNOW BECUASE I HAVE BEEN THROUGH ENOUHG TO ALLOW ME TO SEE THE FULL VEIW OF THE WORLD BOTH GOOD AND BAD. now she is putting me on straterra and says the mood swings i have been getting aren't the med but she also say the fact that i am focusing more is the med. yet sh says 5 days hasn't been enought time to see it work but she says it already helping.

P.S. if you want to see smethign my dad jsut came out with go to www.publishamerica.com then in the search box type Steven Lobel

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I'm so sorry you're troubled. I worry about my 9 year old, because he snaps alot when he's on his meds, but it's by far worse without them. (I've just done without them since December to see if maybe he could go without). Were you put on Adderall b/c you couldn't focus in school?

I have to say that alot of your comments sound alot like the typical ADHD profile. I'm sure you have some depression possible. I don't know, I'm not a nurse or anything.

As far as your mother, don't you realize how hard it is to understand you and what you go through every day? Not just with adolescence but with ADHD. 7th and 8th grade is hard for everyone, not just you.

Maybe living with your Dad would be good but please don't think your Mom doesn't care because if she's fussing at you all the time, she cares more than you know.

It's good that you want to talk to this board, but when you talk to your mother, do you scream at her as well and tell her "You don't care about me . . " It is sooooooooooooo hard to be a parent to an ADHD child, at times I lose it with my son and he says "I hate you" but I know it's just a response, not his actual feelings, but it's just really hard when a child abuses you day after day.

Try to see things from her point of view a time or two and think about whether she's actually the problem or whether it's interaction between the two of you that's the problem. I think you both need some counseling. You are old enough to understand that it isn't always just her fault or your fault and you have to at times, change your perspective, too.

I do hope you realize I'm not picking on you, I am sympathetic, b/c I worry everyday about what I could possibly be doing to my 9 year old. I don't know your situation not really, but you sound so much like my 9 year old.

I know

but its jsut so hard listen my mom isn't the most informitive when it comes to med and ADHD and also yes i do look at it from ehr shoes i just look at it from a different veiw

heres what i have been told and i hate it you think so high up nobody understands because your thnking to complex

also for your son in addition to adderal ask about Effexor its an anti depressant / anti nervousness pill it should stop the snapping but it might interfere with the adderal i am not sure so jsut ask

Don't you think more than one med, might contribute to more problems? I feel like if I could just get him by with the right med and maybe changing the tone when I speak (which is very, very hard to do) that he'd be OK.

Why are you not in school, is it a holiday?

I heard something one time and this might be good for you to hear - you are old enough to do this and be successful at it.

I CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY!!! Don't let what anyone does to you affect you, don't get down on yourself, don't feel sorry for yourself. You, nor I, have it as bad as some. So CHOOSE to be happy - and I promise it will change you, from the inside out. Yes, it's hard but you know what, people will see it.

I am live in MD its a snow both today and yesterday yipppi. wow. sometiems thats true sometimes it isnt ill do some reasearch on it do you want me to post the results or email the if email then emailme your email address mine is phycovampiricangel@yahoo.com it all depends on the meds and person but ill check it out