Reply To: A Doctor with ADHD

[darktendril]

I agree with what everyone else here has posted….  I was hesitant for a long time to try medication, simply because I don’t really like the idea of being on medication, especially if it will not “cure” me.  After my therapist suggested numerous times that I just try it, I finally did, and I do not regret it at all.  It gives me the choice of whether I want to focus on something or not. (Before I had no choice, no matter how badly I wanted and tried to focus, resulting in many many tears..)  I also feel less anxious, as I feel that I have more control over my choices and my life.  It even helps me to do little happy things that I struggled with patience with before, like playing a board game with my son.

The biggest and most pleasant surprise with medication though, is that it seems to have given me the ability to find creative solutions for my own issues, that work for me!  As sdwa says, we all do things our own unique way.   I have read (little parts of) a zillion ADHD books, and I think I have only taken and used one tip from any of them.   Even tips from my therapist who specializes in ADHD are often not so useful for me (Use a calendar that makes me schedule in blocks of time?? Time is flexible, not square! And it does not like to be tied down in blocks either. Now, to convince the rest of the non-ADHD world of that….;))   Anyway, as I said, now I feel like I can solve more of my own problems, in my own ADHD-friendly way 🙂 And if I ever stop taking medication, for any reason, I will still have those tricks and systems.

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