CCWebHead
Joined: 03 Nov 2005
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Location: South Texas
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 Posted: Nov 03 Thu, 2005 3:02 am Post subject: ADD? So THAT's what it is... |
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I was diagnosed ADD several months ago. And at 54 I had done a remarkable job of covering and excusing the symptoms. The diagnosis explained so many things that I have tried to overcome all my life. I just didn't know there was a name for it. The messiness, forgetting, tardiness, daydreaming, incompleteness, and on and on. I am in therapy, making good strides, getting better organized. It takes a bunch of adderall to have an effect, but at least it's working, when I remember to take it.
The discovery of the ADD is a living, breathing two-fold blessing. First, I am in control and know what's going on and have some tools to work with to overcome and finally gain some semblence of control. Second, and maybe the best thing that has happened since discovering sex, is the excruciatng, nauseating, "shoot-me-now" migraines I have suffered for 40 years are almost non-existent!! Where I was getting 2-5 migraines per month requiring 4-8 vicodin to be able to see straight or get a horse-downing shot at the ER, I have had one medium migraine in the last 8 months. I thought I would never experience the pleasure of "non-pain" for such a long straight spell. Now, if I could just learn to go to sleep. I have been running on about 3 hours sleep a night for several months, now. That part is getting a little old. But I wouldn't go back for anything. Okay, almost anything. I do have my limits.
As I see it, knowledge is my greatest weapon in combatting this condition. Now, I just have to learn to use it.
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