Posted by garnet71 on May 2, 2009, at 17:37:48
In reply to Re: drug for motivation!, posted by SLS on May 2, 2009, at 17:17:56
I see what you mean....so I've been looking for information...and read your list there....but it sounds like I have ADD more than BP or those depression symptoms; read the 2nd column (ADD-inattentive type) of page 4 of this pdf:
http://www.devcogneuro.com/Publications/ADD.pdf
It sounds so much more like me....But Scott read this because maybe you have inattentive ADD despite having an initial BP episode, and are being treated for BP instead of ADD. ? ? ?
d/r has said something like the symptoms may fluctuate in intensity?, but I'm not sure how...
It could be that ADD and BP type II have commonalities--maybe they are related. Maybe the ADD-I is w/in the BP spectrum or vice versa. Maybe the mental health system got it all wrong...maybe its part of the autism spectrum...I don't think they have a clue. Nothing is cut and dry, yet everything blends together.
I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now, the mental health field people say "it's been this all along; we had it all wrong". No doctor has ever really known what's going on with me, I mean my treatments have been self directed, and I really don't know sh*t about psychotropics. But that makes me wonder how much THEY don't know....
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