Okay, maybe not change.

Let me explain. Due to a very traumatic experience a few years ago, I had intense chronic depression for a while. About 7 years actually. I was already depressed (you know issues with undiagnosed ADHD, troubles with studying, feeling like a failure, the usual) and then bam the experience was the straw that broke this camel's back. Became suicidal which changed into intense apathy and deadening of emotions. I was on fluoxetine and sertraline, that didn't work. then moved onto the combined norepinephrine and serotonin, Effexor, I was not just apathetic at this time. I was feeling intense rage as well. Apathy and fuming rage, ugh! The Effexor actually worked but it turned me into a zombie and did the brain screwing up. If you have ever been on Effexor, you know what I'm talking about. I'm not totally dissing it cause it did help me.

Anyway, so I was emotionally blank for a long time. I got my diagnosis of predominantly inattentive ADHD, I wasn't very hyperactive, occasionally impulsive with my shopping but me and my therapist firmly believed I was inattentive.
I was put on Reboxetine which is similar to Strattera but not quite. I changed my life, moved countries, and overall was feeling hopeful for the first time in years. I was starting to feel happy which was a very strange sensation for me.
Then I started becoming more hyperactive and impulsive! Really impulsive for me anyway, I was making instant decisions when I'm a ditherer and put things off. It was very scary for me.

My theory is that my depression, I guess it was a bit of post traumatic disorder, made me shut down my emotions and when I was happier, the latent hyperactivity started to come out and I couldn't control it by tuning out.
Is this POSSIBLE?

What you said made alot of sense to me. Perhaps you are a combined type, hence a very typical ADHD type. Generally though, i notice many combined types with innattentive becoming more innattentive seeming if having experienced social distress and so forth. I notice USUALLY the combined types slightly outgrow and mature from their hyperactivity phase . . . their mind may continue fluctuating, but their behaviour atleast not as much, if any. The hyperactive types however often remain so forever, but do learn to compensate with maturity. Its difficult in your case because the issue isn't just ADHD, and the difficult thing with specifying an ADHD branch is they are often comorbid with other issues. For example i believe i am technically like you . . . an average allrounder type ADHD perhaps, but because of a combined language disorder and high anxiety levels, i became more inwards with age and now appear very stereotypically the innattentive type. Perhaps with relieved anxieties many more ADHDers will notice they are more similiar to one another when other issues are ruled out . . . Can't be sure.

Couldn´t it be Reboxetine causing this?
When I started Strattera and had a good effect, one thing I really noticed was that it was much easier to make a decision, be firm about it and just do it then and there. It was also much easier to move. I never had any hyperactive tendencies like tapping pencils and moving your leg. Quite the opposite, I am sometimes so sluggish that even if I am thinking about it, that I want to move in some way, my body does not move. This feels awful, and it was great that Strattera took that away. Strattera also gave me a rush of energy so that I would keep going on from one activity to the next and want to do stuff, not just sit down and think.

Compared to how I was before I am definitely more hyperactive, but compared to other people I am just becoming more normal.

mars, I believe olavia hit the nail on the head. Have the decisions youve made been bad ones for you? Since youve been feeling better perhaps it has just become easier for you to make decisions!!

sure beats what I call add paralysis cant make any decisions!! Cant get started.

However, be aware of whether or not you feel your decisions are sound for you....
if you feel they are not sound or are too impusive for you talk to your doctor or therapist. Hopefully they will lead you the right way katts

The reboxetine might be part of it, but I don't think it's totally. I haven't been taking it for a while due to many reasons, and I still notice this. Long time ago, I was more hyperactive. I noticed the hyperactivity when I went away to college, I was less depressed when I went to college and happier and I had more hyperactivity then. It was after the trauma that I got really really depressed and apathetic.

Couldn´t it be Reboxetine causing this?
When I started Strattera and had a good effect, one thing I really noticed was that it was much easier to make a decision, be firm about it and just do it then and there. It was also much easier to move. I never had any hyperactive tendencies like tapping pencils and moving your leg. Quite the opposite, I am sometimes so sluggish that even if I am thinking about it, that I want to move in some way, my body does not move. This feels awful, and it was great that Strattera took that away. Strattera also gave me a rush of energy so that I would keep going on from one activity to the next and want to do stuff, not just sit down and think.

Compared to how I was before I am definitely more hyperactive, but compared to other people I am just becoming more normal.

mars spider when my son now 24 was younger he was definitely more hyperactive
Now that he is grown up it seems more like the inattenive add for him...much more low key with mild to moderate depression and some anxiety issues..

he is finally scheduling a reevaluation as he has had some problems dealing with adult issues... primarily procrastination being bored with his job etc.. My son also experienced a trauma as a teenager he was in an automobile accident in which his best friends mother was killed...
I do think that had something to do with him becoming more introverted too!!

I completely understand the symptoms of Effexor. I am a walking zombie...and going through a process of trying to understand what might be able to help me better, while getting a proper diagnosis of what type add etc. Effexor helped me work, get out of bed when I started (6 yrs ago) but has been feeling detrimental to my physical and mental health for well over a year now.... I am happy other people experience this as well. I am not on any other medication right now.

Wow! 6 years on Effexor! Wow!
I got myself off it. Stopped it cold turkey. It's not as bad as it sounds. As I always forget to take meds, I often forgot to take Effexor and my body was already used to the withdrawal symptoms so when I actually stopped it wasn't that big a deal.
The one effect I blame on my Effexor is my now sustained high blood pressure of 160!