Posted by katekite on June 8, 2002, at 10:12:25
In reply to Re: Scared, but hopeful- I was just diagnosed with ADD » katekite, posted by Xevious on June 5, 2002, at 2:45:00
Took a while to reply here...
I read your book. Sounds much like me although I found the structure of school helpful. It was once I quit my job to work on a book that I lost all organizational ability and motivation and fell into a morass of mental inactivity.
Ritalin doesn't do everything, as someone else put it it more allows me to have a choice about what I do. Much of the time I still end up flailing around, say, on the computer.... but at least I feel that I was the one who decided to do that for 3 hrs at a stretch.
I'm still looking for more drugs, of course. Prozac was the best of the ssris for my mood but wasn't an all in one drug. All the other drugs worked for pieces of things, anxiety for example, but had more downsides than upsides.
Now that I've found out I have high cortisol the search is on to find out why -- maybe if that is treated my attentional problems will improve -- of course not likely past the level of childhood ADD I know I had, but perhaps at least back to that. And if sleep improved that would surely help my ADD symptoms.
It seems my ADD symptoms wax and wane over weeks and I'm confused about why. Seems like it ought to be a more constant problem.
kate
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