Posted by Eljakeo25 on November 2, 2004, at 14:06:13
In reply to How does it feel like to have adult ADHD?, posted by Ted Brosnan on November 2, 2004, at 13:57:06
Have been in your same exact situation, read my post about my medication update right below your post for further insight of what may work the best. I was Dx with ADD at 22 in a psychiatric hospital, and ya they may be over diagnosing ADD, but when you get diagnosed with it in the adult unit of the psych ward, then you have ADD. Plus all the school report cards actually listed most of the symptoms of ADD on them going back all the way to kindergarten!! Medications however don't cure the condition, just relieve the symptoms and not always at 100%, so yes I still stuggle with the ADD symptoms at times, but it is a h*ll of a lot better in my life than it was before I was treated. Exspecially when things became so frustrating and bad that I committed myself to a fine psychiatric hospital for treatment because I could not take stuff like the amotivation and depression resulting from ADD for example any longer. Hope I will give you some insight.
Jake
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