ADD/ADHD meds causing anxiety

[shenic626]

I had all this wrote out and it got deleted UGH! I don't want to rewrite it but i gotta, i need answers.

nyway. Iv been having problems over the years and it's just become so bad lately that I'm trying to figure out what the hell is my problem. I can't focus, especially if it bores me. I find something, ANYTHING else to do to keep me from having to do what i gotta do. Now if its a book, tv, or the computer sometimes you can't pull me away, like i get engrossed in something the world might as well not exist, which isn't good cause i have two kids.

I forget things horribly not just walking into a room and forgetting why, but on my cell phone and freaking out cause i can't find my phone. I forget doc apps, things i promise to help people with, etc.

I have such moments of getting slam ****** off, sometimes i don't even understand why. Its the smallest things that frustrate me. I get into an argument with someone and like i have a legit point in the argument but i cant get it out. Like i get confused and off on other topics that were not what i was trying to say. Iv been on anxiety and depression meds, none of which have done ANYTHING for me.

My sex life with the husband is crap cause im not thinking of gettin my groove on. Im thinking of the kids, the house work, what we got to do tomorrow etc..it is frustrating him so bad. We have fought over it like hardcore. My thoughts are so jumbled there are so many just racing in my head.

I also had a problem with prescription pain killers and it was developing into harder drugs, but i messed up our bank account which was like my wake up call that i had an addiction problem.

I got dropped from my college classes because i hated it i couldn't focus on the material it was like watchin paint dry! So i wouldn't go alot...

I ended up leaving my hubby and getting a divorce, we are back together but im seeing the same fights and its me i just no.

I have crapy self esteem and i know im smart my grades prove it, im a good looking girl people say, im funny and all this bull crap but i can't make myself see that. I just don't know what to do. Everythings piled up and im on the verge of wigging out and if im not add/adhd i think im just a nut job. I really need some help...please.

Any advice, are any of these like someone you know with add/adhd.

I need advice SO bad please!!

[MGSfan]

Sounds like ADD. I also know I have ADD, i've been prescribed anxiety/depression meds for years and they do nothing to help. I don't know why doctors keep prescribing them, they don't help. You should see your doctor about your concerns.

[shenic626]

I've been to doctor after doctor and paid out the butt!!! And all i get is, your stressed, your depressed, you have anxiety...but i've been on all kind of depression meds and i was on 800 mgs of mood suppressors and now anxiety meds and it just aint working. I don't know who else to ******* bug about it. I had one guy tell me i was just lazy, a sorry mom, and a waste of space.....could have knocked his head off lol.

Are you over sensitive? Like something that you know shouldn't bother you but it either sets you in a rage or makes just boo hoo? Do you have hyperfocus? I hyperfocus, i guess thats what it is. I get like zoned in on something like my attention is 100% on whatever it is. Like right now searching an forums about add/adhd have my full attention and i just realized iv been sitting here for hours. It’s so hard to like pull myself away, and I’ll get irritable when people try to.

As far as school i always found a way to be doing something, class clown, getting up, lying i had to go to the bathroom lol but i knew i had to keep my grades up, and i did i was smart all my test results showed it, i was even in gifted programs, my problem was high school. I HATED IT. I always skipped once i got a vehicle and had a way. I avoid it, like the plague.

I avoid just simple stuff like calling the doctor, i could have done that friday but i never did it i occupied myself with a ton of other stuff. Its is like fear or something like i don’t know. I just know this is the first thing i have ran across that has explain ME. It makes me feel like ok now i understand. Its already a weight lifted for me and my hubby, well ex hubby. Like if its not this, im just a crazy person whose usless hahahaha

[sarahsweets]

It could be adhd. You might consider therapy. Tell whoever told you you were lazy to f**k off. Try and find a doctor who will listen.

[Lunacie]

It could be "all of the above." Anxiety and Depression are the two most common

cormorbid disorders that happen alongside ADHD.

I have always had all three of them myself.

Some find that the right ADHD med takes away the anxiety and depression,

others have to treat both/all those problems.