Posted by desolationrower on April 27, 2009, at 13:03:01
In reply to Re: Am I bipolar? Someone please....advice, posted by Garnet71 on April 27, 2009, at 1:30:53
> "there is too much up and down in enjoyment level (ie, DA swrings, too little tonic DA).."
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> I never knew that about ADD-could you articulate?ha, apparently i'm not. what are you asking about?
>From many of your posts, ADD makes soooo much more sense to me. I just read from another comment you wrote--ADDers need the reward center activated....it all makes so much sense to me now; it explains so much about my life, my choices, my decisions, my struggles....I also never knew how related procrastination is to ADD until you had talked about it recently.
did i? i think you're just reading my thoughts, i've been thinking about this recently, its not well described in scientific literature. i did a search for procrastination+desolationrower, only found something YOU wrote :)
i'm not sure if its direct or secondary. i'd guess the ADHDi subtype is hypoactive though and this would correlate to procrastination. and if you have access to books or games or hwatever distraction, thats going to cause procrastination. probably general prioritizing and goal-orientation problems are involved too. delay-gradient thing probably mattesr, only things that are more complex are capable of being procrastinated, because just finishing something is the reward for most things.
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> But I took dextro again today--the same dose--and it felt like almost nothing..how can you build a tolerance so soon? Its only my third day. The only diff. was today I tried Zinc, 50 mg. (which made my brain feel fuzzy) a couple hours prior.
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> I'm afraid nothing is going to work, and I'll never get through school. or maybe I'll never get through life. Does ADD get worse when you get older? It seems progressive. Like more has to capture my interest now. Or maybe that is just ADD on stress...i'd guess it gets better, little old ladies are always really well organized. i do'nt nkow that it increases monotonically though. getting stuck being unproductive and not being busy and excited can make it worse. it'll get better. sounds like you're functioning, just it feels overwhelming.
tolerance: might be difference between mood effects and focus effects, or you might just not be to an effective dose yet. didn't you say you only took half of what you were supposed to take?
-d/r
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