Posted by jparsell82 on June 7, 2006, at 14:39:53
Hey everyone,
I've been through multiple meds and combos with little help if any for this. I've had different diagnoses of Social anxiety, GAD, OCD, Depression, Bipolar, ADD. It's so frustrating because I grew up an all A student and then around 6-9th grade things started progressively getting worse. I now have trouble reading and even writing because I can't sit still and stay focused.
Anyways.... here's the problem area I'm trying to explain. I'm restless, very impatient, easily distracted. I have very restless legs. For instance, when I sit at the computer and try to read something.... my leg or both legs are bouncing, I click around the screen and highlight things with the mouse while I'm trying to read, I skip about the paragraphs while reading, and when reading a sentence I speed across it and have to keep re-reading it to intake it. Even then, I don't intake the information very well. It seems I'm always in a hurry though I don't know why. It doesn't matter if I'm interested in what I'm doing or not. I can't enjoy anything because I'm so impatient and in such a hurry to get it done even though I have nothing else to do. I can't read books anymore and it's so frustrating. I had to drop out of college even... part of this is social-anxiety related but a lot of it is these cognitive problems I'm having too. I often wonder what it is like to be able to calmly read something or calming have a conversation.
All this happens constantly regardless of my mood or whether I'm tired or not. Ssris make me very spacey and uncomfortable. Anti-psychotics do not help... I've tried them all. Adderall can help somewhat in "focusing" me, but it does nothing for the restlessness, impatience, etc. Plus, though Adderall can help my social anxiety with certain things it can also make it worse and give me a weird feeling.
Does anyone know for sure that this is ADHD or high-anxiety or RLS or what? Any ideas on meds that could maybe help me to calmly read and sit still? I haven't explained things the greatest... it's hard to... I'm sure you guys understand. Thanks!
Josh
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