Anyone here have adult ADD?

[Nicky]

I think I have ADD,

I've been struggling at work for so long, yet I am smart, I try hard. I just can't seem to start things, or I can't finish them. I procrastinate. I struggle to focus on my work, often doing a very shallow job. I am often late, I am always losing stuff. I am always missing little details, or forgetting tasks I have assigned to me. I don't follow instructions very well. I struggle to follow work place rules. I tend to blurt inappropriate things out. I change topics mid conversation. I feel freaking stupid. I never know what is going on. I daydream all the time. Often it takes a lot to get me excited or motivated. I struggle to prioritize work, can never estimate how long tasks take, missing deadlines.

I have a history of this kind of thing too. In primary school I dreamed it away. In college and uni I could never study or work as much as all my friends. I just could not stick with it. I'm lucky I did not need to study much to pass.

I've being doing badly at work for some time and they are starting to catch on. no matter how hard I try it does not seem to be enough, I constantly f-up. I worry I am going to lose my job.

On top of this I am dyslexic, I was assessed and found to have minor dyslexia. Actually things like dyslexia and depression are pretty common for people with ADD.

Trans lesbian with dyslexia, depression and ADD. Gets better and better! lol. Not that I consider any of them a problem.

anyone else with adult ADD?

[Michelle.]

Congrats on being 15 days from SRS. Now just what was this topic about? Well whatever, did I ever mention that I also suffer from Social Anzixty Disorder? I also can't spell worth a darn!!

On a serious note. Has anyone had any experience with vitamins and supplements in combating ADD?
I'm trying to avoid additional pharmetcuticals.

Organizers and date planners are life savers for me. As are sticky notes.

[Nicky]

I start using planners, and then I forget to check them....

lol

->-bleeped-<-

[Joelene9]

Nicky,
  Have you talked with your therapist, preferrably a psychiatrist (an MD)? There are some treatments for adult ADD. Your symptoms are very similar with mine, except that I was functional at work.  I was one of the regional top guns in my line.
  I have dyslexia as well, also my train of thought was 3 agendas at once.  Depression was a problem as well, the 4 antidepressants prescribed to me did not do anything for all this. In my case it is the GID. The HRT seems to work on me, my mind calmed-down, a single train of thought emerges, and I do not swear at myself for the slightest boo-boos after 1 month HRT.  I do not feel depressed anymore. I feel a lot better, cleaner, and closer to God.  The dyslexia will never disappear, as I had to go back and do some corrections to this post before sending.
  Evidently your HRT regimen did not work for this, other treatments should be tried. God loves you, hugs!
Joelene.

[Nicky]

Well, I think my antidepressants have helped. I read somewhere that antidepressants can help add. I mean I actually get work done now. Fortunately my depression is well controlled with meds.

I'll figure it out when I get back from surgery.

[Rock_chick]

Have you been spying on me Nicky? That's pretty much me to a T.

I just put it down to boredem, depression and a non-conformist streak a mile wide. It's like we have sodding performance reviews at work and people take them so seriously, mine end up being sarcastic master pieces. I loathe statistics and absoluetely refuse to micro manage my time and record what I'm doing, despite the fact that if i did, it would make me look better as a worker. I do worry that they'll cotton on, but at the same time I do work...it's just sometimes I could work harder.

[spacial]

On the subject of dyslexia, I suggest that dyslexic people are probably more evolved than the rest of humanity, because we know that words only need to be written to be understood.

The normies seem to go into some sort of panic when they see an e before an i.

But I really think we should give them all a big hug. After all, it's not their fault.

[Nicky]

But I really think we should give them all a big hug. After all, it's not their fault.

Lol!

I work in publising and sit next to editors. It's there job to worry about such things but really the lot of them seem starved for hugs. 

I used to put it down to the same things Helena. But I discovered that even when trying to work hard with my boss on my back, often I still can't seem to make headway. It is like trying to hold onto the tail of a slippery eel, my mind keeps going off somewhere else (like Susans  )

[Rock_chick]

Well i've always thought i had the attention span of a kitten, i'm so easily distracted it's rediculous I swear. If I'm honest I really thought it was the T, getting me wired in a really bad way so I couldn't sit still at all.

like your new avatar by the way nicky

[lisaR]

Off topic but I agree great avatar Nicky I am a huge fan of photoshop parody.+1

Now on ADD topic I was told i had it as a child, as an adult I don't know but since your avatar distracted me so lets assume yes.

[Nicky]

I'm in disguise 

[Rock_chick]

Nicky Muad'dib

actually that reminds me, must get my copy of dune back off my friend

[skakid]

I have Major Depressive Disorder (pretty much just a fancy name for clincal depression) and ADD.  At first I went the vitamin route, which didn't work out much, if at all and then I tried the drugs.  For my depression I've tried Celexa (which didn't work at all, though I was only up to about 25 mg) and Zoloft (which I'm on 100 mg of right now and it works somewhat well).  For my ADD I've tried Ritalin (worked good, but I had to take it too often), Ritalin LA (worked just as well as the regular Ritalin, but got a huge crash at the end of the day), and Concerta (which I'm on 36 mg of right now and I hate it because it prevents me from being able to eat on most days).  I don't like taking the drugs much, but if it helps, it helps.

[Nicky]

you can either take uppers or kind of downers. Stimulants like caffine can help your attentiveness. Calming things like Chamomile tea can help the restlessness.

[Eva Marie]

Nicky - get out of my head!! I'm exactly the same way!!

I'm lucky enough that I can fly through my work (once i manage to get started), and thus can seem highly productive when in fact i sit around for most of the day unfocused. I was this way in school as well - never studied, never did classwork, daydreamed - and yet i passed.

I've noticed that the older i get the worse it is becoming. Like you i have become more concerned about it, so i had a chat with my neurologist on a recent visit. He prescribed some adderall which just amped me up but really didn't seem to do anything else. My daughter has ADHD and she's taking a drug called focalin that totally changed her from an unfocused, forgetful kid to a straight A student - so there ARE meds out there for ADD/ADHD that work.