ADD anyone?
ADD anyone?
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Danny, there have been some posts about the connection between ADD and SA. I even had a doctor put me on some kid ADD meds, but they worked only part of the time. The rest of the time, I might as well have been drinking 15 cups of coffee. It threw me the other way. So I quit taking those meds and changed doctors. For me, ADD or whatever you want to call it, is often just a compulsive drive to distract myself from what my brain is really trying to think about.
I'm not much help on this subject. That's why I didn't reply sooner. I just hate to post and hear that sound of crickets like nobody cares. I do care. I just don't know what I'm talking about.
Take care, Danny.
I'm not much help on this subject. That's why I didn't reply sooner. I just hate to post and hear that sound of crickets like nobody cares. I do care. I just don't know what I'm talking about.
Take care, Danny.
Danny,
I was diagnosed with ADD back in Kindergarten/1st Grade, this was before my abuse. However, I also had the trauma of my father having Parkinsons disease and the chaos/fighting it caused in my family. Like you haven't been able to figure out if this is related to the traumas in my life or whether I do have a disorder.
Wish I could help you but I'm as confused as you are.
I was diagnosed with ADD back in Kindergarten/1st Grade, this was before my abuse. However, I also had the trauma of my father having Parkinsons disease and the chaos/fighting it caused in my family. Like you haven't been able to figure out if this is related to the traumas in my life or whether I do have a disorder.
Wish I could help you but I'm as confused as you are.
I was diagnosed with ADD at age 30, and Ritalin was added to my Prosac. When I went to a psychiatrist at age 41, I was "diagnosed" as having cyclothymic disorder, adjustment disorder, dysthymic disorder and a couple of other things (maybe an anxiety disorder, I can't remember everything he listed).
I think we need our own disorder, because many of us have symptoms of mood disorders, actual mood disorders, or ADHD (to name a few). Maybe someone will identify a cluster of symptoms common to us & come up with a drug that works.
I think we need our own disorder, because many of us have symptoms of mood disorders, actual mood disorders, or ADHD (to name a few). Maybe someone will identify a cluster of symptoms common to us & come up with a drug that works.
Our 13yo paper-boy has ADD, and boy, can he talk!
He's a great young man though, and I firmly believe that's down to his parents.
He's very open and honest about his condition and has no shame attached to it at all, and his parents don't allow his ADD to be an excuse for his behaviour, if it's bad. ( which it rarely is )
To 'Joe' it's just something he has and he deals with it, and if he does so do other people.
Our last paper-boy did the round in about an hour, Joe can take three hours at the weekends. But that's because he stops to talk with everone, if I'm in my workshop he takes root! I have to throw him out so people can get their evening papers on the right day
I have a great deal of admiration for the way Joe and his family deal with his problem, it's not really a 'problem' to them, so it isn't one for Joe either.
He just likes to talk to everyone.
Dave
He's a great young man though, and I firmly believe that's down to his parents.
He's very open and honest about his condition and has no shame attached to it at all, and his parents don't allow his ADD to be an excuse for his behaviour, if it's bad. ( which it rarely is )
To 'Joe' it's just something he has and he deals with it, and if he does so do other people.
Our last paper-boy did the round in about an hour, Joe can take three hours at the weekends. But that's because he stops to talk with everone, if I'm in my workshop he takes root! I have to throw him out so people can get their evening papers on the right day
I have a great deal of admiration for the way Joe and his family deal with his problem, it's not really a 'problem' to them, so it isn't one for Joe either.
He just likes to talk to everyone.
Dave
I was placed on Dextra by my first psych. I have since learned that I have severe sleep apnea and hypothyroidism. Both resemble ADD.
Sleep disturbances are very common for SA.
My doc could not believe that I had apnea. Not only apnea, but deadly apnea. 44 episodes per hour until REM when I would have 88. My doc said I must be the first marathoner in histroy to have such apnea.
I said all of this for a reason. There are various medical conditions that resemble ADD. Also, improper rest will definitly result in ADD Symptoms. Please make sure your psych. recognizes the organ that exist between the head and the body...it is called the neck. It connects everything and everything must be treated.
Hang in there.
Sleep disturbances are very common for SA.
My doc could not believe that I had apnea. Not only apnea, but deadly apnea. 44 episodes per hour until REM when I would have 88. My doc said I must be the first marathoner in histroy to have such apnea.
I said all of this for a reason. There are various medical conditions that resemble ADD. Also, improper rest will definitly result in ADD Symptoms. Please make sure your psych. recognizes the organ that exist between the head and the body...it is called the neck. It connects everything and everything must be treated.
Hang in there.
I have attention disorder, but am not with medicine for it. They try to make me take medicine for it when I was much younger, that I will do better with school, but it give me such headache, I cried to my parents and say please do not make me take it. So they don't.
I can not eat to much sugars, it make my head go even faster then it do. I find diferent things I can do in school to make me keep my head on the class. It still is hard sometime, and I do not read good because the letters move some. But it is something now I am use to.
Andrei
I can not eat to much sugars, it make my head go even faster then it do. I find diferent things I can do in school to make me keep my head on the class. It still is hard sometime, and I do not read good because the letters move some. But it is something now I am use to.
Andrei