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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2009 19:52:09 GMT
I seem to be having a very bad day here. I wondered if other people can have varying levels of difficulty? I havn't been diagnosed with ADHD yet but it seems likely but if I do have it it seems to be alongside other issues which fluctuate and make things much worse. For example... I have here written down answers to 20 questions. It was a 100 question test I believe, from this forum but I abandoned it and now I can't find it again coz my brain is so scatty. I've been trying to find it for the past 15 mins and I have no idea where it was. (anyone know off the top of their head...it was a test where you rate your answers 1-4 and add them up at the end) Also my phone keeps ringing but I can't find it, god I seem to have been reduced to a pathetic mess today I havn't actually achieved anything other than cook dinner. I am suffering from a depressive spell again
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Post by andy12345 on Dec 12, 2009 20:14:19 GMT
It could be worse....... chant that 500 x I think the biggest indicator of ADHD is that one can't even look after oneself properly. I doubt that any "normal" person would be in such a disorganised tiswas. So, there you go, you're diagnosed and thats £200 internet pounds pleaase
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2009 20:29:19 GMT
oh my, you're cheap! (and quick) ;D but i still havn't found the damn questionnaire yet and my stubborness is kicking in now
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2009 12:43:51 GMT
Cheap & quick lol!!!
Don't get too annoyed with yourself Tricky, i'm very up & down too, more down than up atm.. You've got to ignore the 'small' stuff in life or you'll crack up! accept this spell for what it is, a passing black mood, being an adder you'll bounce back on the next 'up'?? Simone x
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2009 16:29:21 GMT
I am now diagnosed and the 'just' knowing that I am not actually off my head is what sustains me through those awful mood swings. Before. I really struggled and when it was really bad, I thought I would prob kill myself like my brother had done in 1999..I am sure he had undiagnosed adhd, dysbraxia, dyslexia or all of them..... It was because of how i reacted to his death that it became very obvious I had something more than the suggested depression, anxiety etc that follow a bereavement. I literally nearly cracked up. Everything was exacerbated to the point where I thought I'd end up in an institution.. I hated myself and I could not imagine ever being happy again. The main feelings I had were fear and just wishing i could shut my brain down... His death though really was the beginning of my life...I could not have kept on living with things the way they were. Everything was a million times worse before the 'curse' and being able to read about ADHD and starting to understand who I was and why I felt the way i did has been amazing. I just accept those bad times now and they are still as debilitating as before and I know I am 'in it' until the black cloud lifts off me and leaves of it's own accord. NOTHING i say or do will make it go before it wants to but now I don't find it so frightening. I am still cross sometimes that I have this, I still think I am disadvantaged and find life more difficult than some other people. Mostly though I just get on with it, knowing i will never do what my brother did, and that I am in a safe relationship and have the love of my family. ( even after everything i have put them through!!) I hope the diagnoses makes things easier for you like it has for me.
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Post by Mouse on Dec 14, 2009 0:55:12 GMT
Definitely varies according to the hormones!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 10:12:31 GMT
Hi there, look I just wanted to say that now you have been diagnosed an understand your condition - dont rely on the normal pills and potions commonly prescribed you have to do a high degree of self assessment to sort your self out and get on top of it. I have just come back from living in Australia for over ten years where there is a much higher level of support and understanding for Adult ADD. And a much higher level of understanding of healthy living. Sugar - number one arch enemy of ADD - try not to have it AT ALL especiially in the evening as you will wake up with a 'sugar hangover' that basically writes the next day off becuase you feel like you have a head filled full of cotton wool and you can't see or think. Caffiene - There seems to be a suprisingly high support for caffiene as a 'medication' for ADD. I think it is and it isnt. But to find out what works for you. you must strip it back out of your diet and then introduce (not at the same time as sugar and coffee!) Excercise - this was the number one thing that sorted me out. By not exercising my head gets full of the nasties and I get circular thoughts, am an asshole and am generally intense in thought an actions. By doing a good excercise every day if you can - and I am not talkign about fake excercise like Wii fit or walking somewhere. I mean make yourself sweat - burn off that bad energy. I especially like swimming as with the water over your ears (if you can do front crawl- if you cant learn!) the water over your ears means that you only hear your own thoughts and can spend an hour 'fixing up all the loose ends' in complete underwater tranquility. I coudl go on and on and on but essentially you have to 'reboot' yourself. Live a natural, healthy life - no sugar, no caffiene and regualr excercise and you will not believe what kind of person you can become. You can turn into a mental powerhouse and have an intensity of zest for life that may far surpass that of normal people. I was on the road to taking my own life in 2000, I went to the doctor with depression, he (luckily) new adult ADD and told me I had it. I went on the Dex for about 6 months and became a confident and happy person. I started to wean myself off the dex and with the help of self study and a naturopath I did the above steps and noticed that I could perform well without drugs. Since then I still have my bad days and the toughest times can be when my partner has to suffer them. But in general I am happy that I know how to control my fuzzy head. I have setup and run to innovative and succesful large companies and will keep doign so beacuse of my big powerful scatty brain! HTH
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 19:34:09 GMT
Girshagirl..Sorry about your brother, thats tragic..I would have reacted the same, unbearable way to lose a loved one..I'm glad you've got a DX, its a new start..?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 1:06:18 GMT
Thanks guys, sorry for the late reply, I forgot I had made this thread lol Simone, yeah i'm trying to not sweat the small stuff...too much going on really to be worrying but i know i do give myself a hard time an awful lot, bad habit So ADDers do get 'ups'? I can get very high but the psychiatrist seems to attriute that to possible bipolar. I'm well confused, they seem like identical conditions, well except for severe bipolar would look different lol Girshagirl, sorry to hear about your brother, how awful It's great you have family/partner support and comfort at least understanding your condition. x Mouse, yes blinkin hormones, i'm trying a different pill atm hoping that it might even things out a bit better. It's meant to be good for PMT (it's Yasmin) but not been on it long enough to tell how it's helping. Neverenough, yes I agree looking after yourself as naturally as possible is the best way...it's great you are doing well off meds I cut out on caffeine a few years back (not sure if that was a wise move or not but I hate the stuff now!) and I avoid sugar where I can (don't eat any sweets, cakes etc). Exercise is a bit problematic as I tend to do loads when I am feeling great (almost to the point of burn out) but very little when I slump into a depression. The last time this happened, it took all the will in the world to get to the gym or go for a walk, and eventually I stopped alltogether a couple of weeks after the depression kicked in. I have been for a swim today and did a walk yesterday and it does help, if not temporarily. I think I need to try and keep a check on when I get full of energy and well, high as that is when I just run myself back down again.
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