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Stick with it (Re: I give up on ADHD

Posted by alohashirt on July 19, 2006, at 23:25:00

In reply to I give up on ADHD, posted by canadagirl on July 19, 2006, at 18:33:55

This sounds similar to the pain I cause my wife with my ADHD. When you say "rtitalin" do you mean vanilla ritalin (as opposed to different extended release meds?) When I tried ritalin it made my argumentative and mean. Focalin had the same effect.

Yet Concerta - which is the sam e active ingredient released over time was fine, because it avoids the crash as it wears off. Focalin XR was like Concerta without sleep interruptions and better symptom relief.I haven't had ups and downs in years. Buspar helped remove the overthinking that Focalin XR sometimes caused. Fish Oil seems to settle me down, and I was very skeptical. Exercise also helps.

Good luck, be assertive with your physician, skeptical of everything you hear (including this) and know that ADHD *does* have a positive side. Without my ADHD I would probably be easier to work with and be married to, I would have finished my PhD, my house would be in better shape but I suspect I'd be less insanely curious, which has helped me succeed at work and I imagine I would be earning about 1/3 what I am earning. I have a good friend who works at a small hedge fund, very smart, still very disorganized and unreliable, and he mentioned that if a genetic cure foir ADHD were discovered he wouldn't go near it.
"Why?" I asked
"Look, we have succeed despite or because of our ADHD by building work habits that complement it. Without ADHD we'd be "normal without the work habits of a normal person" and would probably be much less succesful. Career isn't everything, and I really wish I chose some less "interesting" choices but i think I agree with him, even though I curse my ADHD most days.

Good luck!

Feel free to babble me if you want any input from a molstly functional adult ADHD person with two beautiful children, at leats one of whom appear sto also have ADHD.

> Yep, I give up. I need a vacation from parenting my 9 year old ADHD son. Today at his baseball game he threw a massive ritalin tantrum right in front of me and all the parents and his whole team.
>
> I am so sick of the ritalin meds. The constant ups and downs. There is a very short window of time during the day when he is normal, and OK. The rest of the time - IT'S HELL. Either too much excitability or tantrums. I am so sick of the natural remedies, too, trying them and them not working. I am so sick of him being on the meds or not being on the meds. Sick of it all. I've also tried dexedrine and it made him a complete zombie. I've tried everything and I just give up. I think I will put myself on meds just to cope. Anything I can get my hands on.


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