Posted by yesac on June 7, 2005, at 15:49:28
In reply to ADD versus mood disorders, posted by yesac on June 7, 2005, at 12:30:15
It's unfortunate because a lot of the drugs for bipolar make attn symptoms worse, and attn drugs can make bipolar symptoms worse. So what do you do if you truly have both? Ideally, a mood stablizer would calm someone down, stop racing thoughts and distractability. But if you have ADD or even if you don't, mood stabilizers could make attention problems worse.
I'm afraid that there's no hope for my attention problems, because I haven't had much success with stimulants, they make my mood worse. Plus they don't seem to work. Well I've tried adderall and ritalin.
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