u6c00
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Post by u6c00 on Jun 14, 2013 20:50:39 GMT
Perhaps this question might be more suited to the symptoms/diagnosis board but this is part question, part venting...
Do people find that their symptoms are variable in severity at times? I ask because every now and again, for a period of a couple of weeks at a time often, I feel like things are particularly difficult. I feel unable to deal with even simple tasks and like I'm letting things slip (perfect example - buy a father's day card. 4 trips to the shops, still not remembered to get a card). I forget to do household jobs which pisses off my housemate, I forget to/procrastinate on responding to correspondence with friends and business issues etc. These periods seem to hit me without any discernible cause or reason. Normally I make lists of things to do and this helps, but in these bad weeks it's often the case that I can't even remember to make a list.
People tell me to pull myself together and to stop making excuses etc. I feel like this advice is akin to telling a man with no arms to slap his face every time he forgets something important - something is missing in me that means the plan is never going to work! (Please forgive the surreal analogy!)
I find that other weeks aren't as bad, maybe it's because after a couple of weeks of screwing everything up I do pull things together for a little while but it's like swimming upstream all the while and it never lasts.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Post by jan on Jun 14, 2013 21:14:29 GMT
yep - exactly - round in circles constantlty - for various amounts of time in each stage - infuriating !!!!
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Post by Lesley on Jun 14, 2013 21:19:32 GMT
People tell me to pull myself together and to stop making excuses etc. I feel like this advice is akin to telling a man with no arms to slap his face every time he forgets something important - something is missing in me that means the plan is never going to work! (Please forgive the surreal analogy!) Absolutely! If they had any idea they'd know how useless that "advice" is. And yes, my symptoms do vary - though I think I'd put it the other way round. Most of the time I drift along feeling stuck and not doing anything very much (I'm retired, so can get away with that, though it's frustrating, because there are things I want to do), then out of the blue I get a rush of energy and purposefulness, and start getting things done - then equally suddenly it's gone and and I'm back to square one. It's always been like that, and the meds (Strattera) haven't really made much difference to that, though they have "unfogged" my brain, which is great - but it would be even greater if the newly unfogged brain could devise some strategies for helping me get unstuck more often.
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