Posted by Xevious on June 25, 2002, at 13:54:29
In reply to Re: ADD Question For Others With It » IsoM, posted by mist on June 25, 2002, at 13:07:17
You brought up one of my biggest ADD-related problems; I completely understand your frustration.
Meds have greatly improved my focus, but they don't even touch my motivational difficulties. I suspect that these are largely a behavioral trait, learned from coping with too many years of undiagnosed ADD.
I've been highly successful in school and work, owned successful businesses and accomplished much, but a few years back, faced with my many failures and the realization that I *still* hadn't figured out how to "fit into" conventional, boxed society, I hit a motivational wall and spent a little over a year doing close to nothing at all.
I've started to pull myself out of this funk - I'm getting a Master's degree and will be applying for doctoral programs this fall, but I still feel like I'm just going through the motions - I have no idea what my goal is or how I'll survive once I'm past this round of schooling. Same goes for all the little things in my life, from gardening to getting up the energy to go out with friends.
These symptoms share much in common with depression, yet antidepressants have yet to help. Therapy and coaching have had a measurable positive effect, but I'm still floundering, waiting for my Muse to come back to me.
I think that it's hard enough to simply live in this world of ours without having to deal with a mental disorder... I have nothing but respect for everyone here who, like myself, has to struggle that much harder for each moment of bliss.
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