Posted by Janice on April 19, 2000, at 22:38:17
In reply to Re: Provigil, Adrafinal, and Amisulpride, posted by AndrewB on April 19, 2000, at 13:22:44
Hi Andrew,
From what I understand, there are a group of people with ADD who have never been hyper (mostly women) but still have ADD. Instead of being hyper, they have always been hypo. It looks very much like depression and often is accompanied with a low grade chronic depression.
One good way to tell it apart from depression is that the symptoms go back into childhood--maybe not the depression symptoms.
I don't know why there is so little decent information about it. I would never have known it existed by reading any ADD sites. I think it is a new diagnosis within the past 5 years. These are probably the people who think they are depressed, and have been depressed for SO long, they finally in desperation try a stimulant…which WORKS. The medical profession, up until recently, thought some people's 'depression' could only be treated with stimulants.
Take care Andrew, Janice
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