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[Only one]

Who has ADD but is still undiagnosed? Or I guess no meds yet?

[demuregeek]

Still technically undiagnosed, though I've had my first visit with the pdoc who'll be determining whether or not I'm certifiable.

[Crackpotdad]

Originally Posted by demuregeek

Still technically undiagnosed, though I've had my first visit with the pdoc who'll be determining whether or not I'm certifiable.

I was told the other day by my psychiatrist, "You're a little crazy, but smart enough to catch yourself."

It was very reassuring.....

[mrzyphl]

I was diagnosed 6 weeks ago but haven't done anything about it yet. I think about making an appointment with my gp everyday but never get around to it. I've also been thinking about getting a dozen other things done for the past ten years so that may just join the line up.

My ADD is getting in the way of my need to do something about my ADD getting in the way.

[SquarePeg]

Originally Posted by mrzyphl

I've also been thinking about getting a dozen other things done for the past ten years so that may just join the line up.

My ADD is getting in the way of my need to do something about my ADD getting in the way.

Took me 12 years to make an appointment with the doc to have a simple op. The time between the consultation and op was about 3 weeks and it was simple and quick. Why did I suffer for 12 years!

Now I am finally on meds I was supposed to make an appointment in 15 days, I still haven´t done it.

I can always remember a phrase in junior school "procrastination is the thief of time"! Didn´t know that it meant than but I sure do now.

[stef]

i'm actually not diagnosed at all...

[holmracing]

Undiagnosed and unmedicated... Until i get some insurance or manage to pull alot of cash out of the some random place... This is how i will remain.

It probably doesn't help that i spend about half my time trying to deny that i have AD/HD!! And the other half trying to figure out how to cope with having it.

[Only one]

No meds no cash no insurance, that sucks so bad.

[holmracing]

That pretty much describes it.

[Beekeeper]

Originally Posted by holmracing

It probably doesn't help that i spend about half my time trying to deny that i have AD/HD!! And the other half trying to figure out how to cope with having it.

Don't worry about if you have it or not, if that is an issue...just accept that your brain works differently and develop some coping strategies!

[Lunacie]

I discovered by accident that Omega 3 fish oil supplements work very well for me.

Out of curiousity, I asked my granddaughter's therapist to run a Connor's

report for me although he wasn't qualified to make a proper diagnosis.

The report shows that I have ADHD, Anxiety disorder, Depression, and PTSD.


A few years later I began seeing a therpist of my own, and a psychiatrist

in the same practice.

The therapist, from talking to me twice, decided I had Bipolar and not ADHD,

even though my family history includes ADHD and Autism but no Bipolar.



The psychiatrist read the therapists's notes and based his treatment plan

on those, prescribing an antidepressant for the anxiety and depression.

Since the fish oil works well for me and I really only wanted to treat the

anxiety and depression, I just let it go.

So I'm not formally diagnosed or treated for ADHD.

[Jeremiah3]

I am undiagnosed but hope to make an appointment in the next two or three weeks. It's hard because I'll be paying for it myself and can't really afford it so I'm worried about wasting my money. That and I feel I have no time for the appointment. Only having a small amount of things to do (compared to most people) makes me feel completely overwhelmed, of course.

[fracturedstory]

Originally Posted by Crackpotdad

I was told the other day by my psychiatrist, "You're a little crazy, but smart enough to catch yourself."

It was very reassuring.....

Sounds like something my psychiatrist would say.

I'm often told "you're not a dunderhead."

I suppose he assumes my lack of dunderheadness means I'm better able to cope with my symptoms.

[Subtract81]

That would be me, i have gone my life undiagnosed. Nobody has really known me my whole life and i think i had assumptions and i guess prejudices about it which i have seen in other but now i know to be incorrect but i still have a stigma about it.

I have seen my gp and a psychiatrist who has referred me on to a supposed add specialist who i am seeing in 2 days time. My GP initially referred me for CBT but they were not funded for ADD so i went down this route instead. I am not sure what will happen but all i know is that i am not in a good place and have not been for quite some time (i started off at school far ahead of other kids as soon as i got to school things started to go down hill exponentially, don't know if this is familiar to anyone else?).

My GP and others were pushing me down the depression route ever since university which i am still unsure why i went to or why i even got to the end with only seldom sporadic interest. Even though i do not see myself as clinically depressed, i am obviously somewhat depressed due to the state my life is in, but i see this as a symptom and not a route cause hence why i have fought this line of treatment ever since i was at university. I seem to have just neglected dealing with my issues so long as i did not know what to do and ofcourse there were constant distractions i could use when i should have been dealing with my own issues. Considering my ability to analyse others my apparent self analysis abilities have been severely lacking.

I just hope that this meeting finally comes to something which can give me some hope for the future. I am not sure i can get a diagnosis, or if it would even do me any good, even though having read enough literature i have not found anything that fits my mentality as tightly as ADD, a disorder is merely something that has proved to be adversely dysfunctional and had my life been different i like many people here could have been very happy and successful with ADD i am sure but i think one needs certain environmental factors in order to thrive with this 'condition' and the majority of us will not have had those.

[Crackpotdad]

Originally Posted by fracturedstory

Sounds like something my psychiatrist would say.

I'm often told "you're not a dunderhead."

I suppose he assumes my lack of dunderheadness means I'm better able to cope with my symptoms.

I would agree, I think both statements have the same meaning.

Mind you, I think my psychiatrist is a great fit for myself.