Posted by mtdewcmu on July 4, 2011, at 20:28:00
In reply to Re: The ADHD community » mtdewcmu, posted by Phillipa on July 4, 2011, at 19:12:47
> I've read that only people who were add or adhd as a child can have this disorder as adults and usually gone in late teens. So how does one become add or adhd as an adult? Phillipa
You don't become add/adhd as an adult. Did I say somewhere that I developed it as an adult? I've been this way my whole life.
There are at least two different kinds of ADD. I'm not much of an expert on the hyperactive kind, but I've read that the hyperactivity tends to get better as you grow up, but the inattentiveness less so.
The Sluggish Cognitive Tempo kind, that I have, doesn't get any better IME. Not much is officially known about it, but I have come across people saying that it actually gets worse. My hunch is that they don't mean that it is terminal like Alzheimer's Disease or Huntington's Disease, it's just that as you lose your youthful energy and curiosity, you lose some ability to fight the inattentiveness. So it probably gets a bit worse as you grow up, but then it plateaus and stays pretty much the same until late adulthood.
I have a complex inferiority.
Rx: 40mg citalopram, 30mg d-amphetamine, 15mg mirtazapine, 300mg bupropion
Dx: ADHD (inattentive subtype), depression
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