Re: 41, Male and pretty sure I'm ADD but little medical help in UK Please HELP

[Anonymous]

Hi Roker,

Thanks ever so much for getting in touch, I really have appreciated ever single comment and yours as many are very perceptive and helpful. I may well have the ‘hyper’ bit but i may manage to subdue it with alcohol or painkillers, I can sometimes get a kind of ‘second wind’ and run about and start tidying the house at odd hours. So the racing mind can cause me to blurt stuff out, the test I’ve done show character traits that I’ve learnt to identify and subdue, so maybe it is hypre the more I think. I know that with the correct treatment I will be fine and that may in turn stop the panic attacks that come on from a thought or inside question of ‘what if??’ or’what do I do here?’ but getting there is unbelievably difficult. Indeed I believe with proper diagnosis and treatment for thousands of children and adults we could save many a life from being wasted or sadly lost and even a fortune nationally at the same time as asnwer a lot of societies problems as thro my own experiences in the Police the ‘naughty child’ sticker that poor wee souls are often labeled with, and that causes many folk to just accept they are worthless and trouble as they’ve been written off by teachers, Policemen, courts and the government, may well all just be undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorders. Prisons must be full with folk who don’t need to be there or would never have followed their lifestyles if the prehistoric medical profession had looked at this properly 20-30 years ago. My own brother in law, (I hate saying this) is a bit of a hopeless case and has spend a year out of the last 2 in jail for alcohol related trouble. Nothing major just he can’t handle it. He drinks to mask his problems and won’t admit it hence the ‘hopeless’ part, I wish he would listen to help but he can’t or won’t open his mind to the question ‘why??’ I shouldn’t judge too much as it was only a year ago after my dear dear wife threatened to leave me for drinking that I thought long and hard about that very point – why? and the more I though, the further back I went i realised I’m running from myself and always have been. I got to thinking that no matter what I did or where I’d always been, I would be my harshest and most brutal critic and until I addressed the root cause nothing else matters/ed. Anyway, I live in Scotland although was a cop in the Met years ago and still have a few friends so maybe one day we’ll meet,. Out of interest what medication do you get/take and is it from your GP or a clincian? and how much of a difference do you feel it makes? Thanks once again, it is nice for you to take the time to reply and for me to know I’m not alone and there is support from all parts of this wonderful world of ours

Kind Regards

AM

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