Posted by Questionmark on June 7, 2003, at 1:56:48
In reply to PDoc still wants me on an ADD drug, posted by bookgurl99 on June 4, 2003, at 16:54:06
> My only big symptoms are procrastination, thinking a lot (tangents, which I LIKE.), and being messy. Oh, and I'm somewhat "stranded" career-wise, definitely underachieving. But isn't all this just part of the human condition?
Yeah, i have those symptoms too. Let me tell you something though. i thought for years that i had bad ADD (i still think i do; i dunno), and i figured that stims, especially the blessed caffeine, were the best way to go. Now they certainly help with motivation and speed of action, etc. BUT, after years of over-using this stuff i finally realized (and i don't know why it took me so long to realize) that they also made certain problems of mine worse: procrastination (certain aspects), thinking a lot and too much (including tangent after mental tangent), and basically all sorts of things that i discovered are part of a spectrum of obsessive-compulsiveness. i now seriously think that many people who are diagnosed as ADHD may actually have OC problems as their primary problems. But i digress...
So, find out if you think these kinds of drugs would be more help for you than harm or vice versa (i know, that is what you're trying to do). Determine what your main problems are. If you think they are more ADDish, then maybe a stim-like drug would help. If think they are more OCish, then they wouldn't help-- but maybe a serotonergic med would. And if you think that your problems are not interfering with your life to too great an extent, then it may very well not be worth using any drug. Good luck.
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