Balancing on the edge | ADHD Information

I've been on ritalin for a year now and it has changed my life but i still have to work on things.  Needed to learn all over again on how to deal with day to day life.  I'm 32 and diagnosed last year.  Read some self help book or look up something on line that will help.  I'll look up some of the sites I went to and post them to you.  Good luck . If you ever need to chat or just let out some frustration PM me cause I'll completely understand where you're coming from having been there myself.  Good Luck!

coiled spring (quote)..I still feel a little mixed up in my head and wonder will i ever feel normal?

I'm with you on this...I was DX Jan 05 ....I feel lost and unsure of who I am, but I have always felt lost an unsure.  I'm on stratterra and It helps some, but not much. When DR gets back from vacation I want to try Adderall.

I find it hard to change the ways I have thought, and done things (Or should I say... not thought and done things)   You mean I have to be accountable!

I know my post doesn't provide help, but you are not alone.

definately not alone. i'm still in the same boat

 

 

Iam a 33, recently diagnosed adhd'er with one 6 year old also with adhd

 past week i have been prescribed concerta XL...

My wife is extremely patient and now is a very testing time for our family  to try to stop the constant arguments and frustration that comes mainly from me.. Life has always been a struggle for me and having been going 200 mph most my life someone has just stuck on the brakes on and although this is just the beginning of hopefully a different approach to things..I still feel a little mixed up in my head and wonder will i ever feel normal?

Its kinda weird.. Ive always felt different to others, all my life Ive known something was wrong with me.. Always hoped something would come round the corner and change my life.. Things i thought would make me change my habits don't and i fall back into the world of unsettled feelings and thoughts that make me the person i so dont want to be..  like my present job which i have been with for 3 months(always leave a job every couple years totally stressed out about things which i shouldn't have done) and only now do i notice the odd looks as i know people are starting to notice that the lights are on but sometimes I'm not at home. I dont wanna think to deeply about it because ill eat myself up thinking stupid paranoid thoughts of how i think other people perceive me.

Changing quickly as we do

 i see caffeine drinkers could have poss reactions with concerta.. i have many repetitive addiction's and drinking red-bull is one, should i consider trying to give it up.