[charm1904]

Well, besides ADD I also have been diagnosed with anxiety, dyslexia,insomnia and, PTSD . Anxiety, depression,insomia, dyslexia, OCD,  bipolar and ADD run heavily in my family. Add to that the PTSD and I have ( had) really high anxiety. My anxiety , PTSD, and depression isn’t nearly as bad as it was. Or my ADD , for the most part. I was actually off all my meds for about 3 years ( mostly due to not being able to afford them).However, this summer I dont know what happened. I thought everything was fine, doing well at work and with family. Then I stopped sleeping. I didn’t want to get back on meds, I did everything I could think of to try to sleep. Nothing worked. I couldn’t  stop my thoughts from cycling. After 3 weeks of not sleeping, I was barely functioning. Lost my job. I couldn’t think. My deslyxia was going haywire ( tends to creep up with lack of skeep or stress). After I got fired, I knew that my coping skills I had aquired weren’t doing the trick were not enough.Decided to get back on my meds. And here I am.

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LMAO! I will try not to take it too far lol I have tried wellbutrin in the past and that didn’t seem to work well, either. I have that hyperfocusing thing you mentioned. I have literally spent 12-18 hours at time researching random things. Want to know about tsunamis? I am your gal! Or how about the environmental change of Indonesia? I know that,too! All great things for conversations but doesn’t help me be a productive adult lol except…i don’t remember what I just researched very well. Just tidbits. And forget video games. I used to play 24 hours at a time. Hyperfocusing is one of the main things I am trying to control. And um ..rambling…such as I am doing now lol I actually just got done phoning my Doctor and asking what she would like to do. She has agreed that trying 15mg might be helpful and I will go see her in 4 weeks. Meds are so tricky to find your sweet spot and then continuing to hit that sweet spot. You are right about that! I was just skeptical that it was making me sleepy, i thought amphetamines were supposed to do the opposite. And I am sure, we all know that feeling of frustration. Of knowing that how we are can cause hiccups for daily life. Knowing that if we could just control some of these issues, whether through coping skills and/or meds , life would be a little bit easier. Not necessarily better, but easier, in it’s own way. I wish there was a magic wand like in fairy tales to, not “fix” me ( some of my attributes come from my ADD, i think), but to help me control it. Too bad this isn’t a fairy tale 🙁 Thank you very much Shutterbug for reaching out and making me smile. One of the things about who I am is i don’t make friends easily so i am alone a lot…it was very nice of you to reach out. 🙂

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