Re: 51 and just diagnosed———now on meds

[Anonymous]

My first time here. I have been on meds for depression for years. I have felt this way since childhood. Couldn’t make friends, couldn’t concentrate, bad grades, always wondered why I couldn’t learn anything, bored very easily. I found out years ago I had ADD. My doctor did nothing about it. I finally switched to a therapist, she also diagnosed me with ADD, but didn’t do anything for me. I switched therapists again and she began to ask me questions like why aren’t you on something for this? She told me she did’t think it was depression, but ADD. I didn’t know it was all linked together. I really didn’t know what it was until just recently. I saw a psychiatrist, but because of my age, he didn’t want to start me on stimulants. My husband left me, now I can understand why, I had breast cancer. I will be 56 years old in March and I feel like I have been cheated out life.

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