Doctors don’t think I have ADHD! | ADHD Information

hey cascade-

your story could be mine. the mood swings, the crying, the suicidal thoughts......

keep at it till you get help. it makes me feel crazy that noone seems to get it when we try to discuss these things. doctors are the worst at understanding. i don't know how to explain it to people that know me. the worst part of it is that i know there's something wrong, but can't explain it or fix it.

i see lots of posts about how ADD isn't a bad thing. well, it kind of is when you can't get ahead in life due to emotional torrents and thought disruptions. i like being spacey, forgetful, impulsive, creative, spontaneous, and lots of other ADD symptoms, but not when it keeps me from good relationships, job advancement, and some of the security those non-ADDers get to experience by being able to see things out and meeting their goals.

Hey everyone, I have a very extensive history of seeing
pshycatrists for problems since age 6 (I am currently 20).

I definentaly suffer from excema and asthma and low-muscle
tone but I beleive that I have been misdiagnoded for
depression and OCD (I believe it's ADD).

I am very strong in things I enjoy (none of these matter in life
though) but with things that require learning things I am not
interested in I find it difficult to concentrate and I get frustrated
and start playing basketball and keep going until I excercise so
hard I feel sick and shakey.
Then I will play video games, get sick of that, and play Bball
again then I will go nuts and read for hours on a motor racing
and try and teach myself all about Telemetry and advanced
sh*t.

To cut to the point, I am interested in so many things but I never
really put all my effort to fully acomplish any of them, I get bored
and depressed and start crying and fantasise death when I try
to do my study that has been assigned for me to do.

It's when trying to study I will get thoughts going through my
head at 100 miles an hour about death, war, weapons, then
bastetball, then etc, etc, etc
BOTTOMLINE, I can't think about the work!

I have mood swings galore, can't sit still (have to stand up every
few minutes in class because I always feel uncomfortable) , I
talk excessively about stuff people don't want to hear.
I also am very bad at organising things and forget important
appointments etc.

I crack under the pressure of tests too.

The other day i was resheduling my lung apointment because I
forgot to go and halfway through I dropped the phone and
brokedown crying and then started smashing things in the
house, then I sat for a bit in the corner feeling hopeless.

When I am spoken to I don't hear what people are saying I just
see theier mouth move.

Thanks for reading this far,
I am so frustrated because when I was a kid I was trialled on
Dexamphetamine and my grades went up but for some reason
they took me off it!

I have taken these medications:Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Anafranil,
Celexa, Aropax, Lithium, Stelazine (anti-pshycotic), Cypramill
Mirtazon and Luvox.

The stalazine gave me 6 hours of hell with Extreme Tardive
Dyskinesia
It is when the neck muscles involantry go bezerk and my head
will try and go as far as it can in all directions like it want's to
snap itself.
This was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life and I
now find it could have been permanant!

Anyway, how do I try and tell a doctor (I have seen many) that I
may have ADD?

I havent been on antidepressants for a long time because I
tried drinking to calm me down, then tried smoking pot (it
caused anxiety attacks after 6 months) although for the time I
used it my memory was really bad but I could do some
homework better as it slowed my racing thoughts and made me
more passive.

Now I take nothing and my new doc wants me on another
antidepressant!
This is never ending.

Please note that I smoked pot to try and fix this problem and I
started at age 19 and it only lasted 6 months, it did not cause
these problems, it was an attempt at self medication.cascade38495.3678819444Oh yhea, Please know that none of the medications helped but
make me more depressed (except dexamphetamine), actually
luvox and aropax made me
suicidal.

And with Dexamphetamine there is a report from school that I
was really attentive in class and everything.
But the doc's don't care.

Mabye bacuse of the fact that it (ADD meds) gets a bad
reputation here in Aus.cascade38495.3749074074