Posted by KarenB on March 29, 2000, at 17:57:29
In reply to Re: ADD - to KarenB (kind of long reply), posted by CarolAnn on March 29, 2000, at 17:18:40
Carol Ann,
If I am ADD, it would certainly make sense of so much of my life. Like when my mother was asked to remove me from the Brownies troop in second grade for not being able to sit still for the activities and being "disruptive." And the way my husband always says, "Don't forget why you're in there," as I walk into the grocery store and that he always says I "have no concept of real time." He's a great guy and he's not being insulting, it's just the truth. I can get overwhelmed in my own home, darting from one half finished task to another, getting distracted and going to something else.
What is up with the depression? Is this part of the disorder or a separate problem altogether? What do they call your diagnoses - ADD with dysthymia or major depression or just ADD?
Without your meds, do you feel as if you could just sleep forever?
I see my pdoc tomorrow and will discuss this with him. This will be the telling appointment, as to whether I will keep him or not. He has never really asked anything about me personally and seems emotionally unresponsive. He may not be a bad doctor, I just feel no connection with him whatsoever and connection is just not one of my problems. Hey, people who don't know me that well would say I'd pass for normal:) Hee Hee...
Thanks so much for your response. It helped a lot.
This board is great isn't it? I just discovered it a couple of weeks ago as I was researching meds.
Karen
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