Re: It's Official! One Less Thing to be Quizzical About

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@librarianchef – Thanks! I’m not currently diagnosed with comorbidities, but in high school I had a major depressive episode for a good portion of the school year, and I wonder to this day if it was the antidepressant meds, or just graduating and moving on to college, that got me out of that one.

Since then I’ve had my ups and downs, though none as severe as the high school one. My current view is that a lot of it is probably tied quite directly to the ADD; I recall Patricia Quinn mentioning in her Women and ADD video on this site that a lot of ADD women are dysthymic – that chronic, low-grade sort of depression – because of the constant feeling of not living up to one’s potential. I would say that definitely describes me over the years. Lots of long funks revolving around What-Do-I-Want-To-Do-With-My-Life.

Since I hit my forties, PMS-type mood swings have become a huge issue for me. I’ll just be sitting there, minding my own business, when….DESPAIR. Or a hair-trigger anger shouting explosion at the kids. I don’t know if mood issues related to PMS count as a comorbidity or not, but that’s definitely making things a challenge for me. And, yes, my ADD symptoms are decidedly worse the week before my period. Right before I got my ADD diagnosis I went on meds for the PMS, and they seemed to help. The nice thing is I only have to take the PMS med when the symptoms are bothering me, rather than all day, every day.

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