Re: ADD and chronic anxiety

[Anonymous]

I wish your advice were that simple Megatron… Yes, if you have ADD and GAD (like I do), stimulants usually serve to increase your anxiety. However, no other drugs work!

I’ve tried pretty much everything else over the past 3 years since I was diagnosed, and now I’ve come to the safe conclusion that the only solution is stimulants and that I’ll have to find a way to cope with the side effects until they diminish after a while. I’m in the trial and error process right now, and it really sucks, but there’s no other way.

The key is to find the least of the evils among stimulants (for me it seems to be one of the ritalin drugs), and just SLOWLY increase the dose till you get it to the “ideal” level. The body does adjust to the side effects and the anxiety will eventually diminish, perhaps even disappear.

Afterall, ADD is likely the root cause of an adult’s GAD, because they’ve gone their whole life untreated and are at a point where they are anxious about the slightest challenges because their brain can’t adequately cope and has never been able to, so as one get’s older they see no hope in this changing ever and therefore the anxiety only gets worse as they age if the ADD is untreated, because being alive is increasingly miserable.

Studies have almost unanimously proven that anxiety is an effect rather than a cause…

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