Is ADHD a real disorder?

It's been good for my wife as well. Some side effects, none TOO bad, except her drymouth is so bad she probably drinks 4-5 liters of water a day.

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lol, so now you're telling me that what doctors have told me about it is "ignorant?"

and again, it isn't even applicable for anything i'd need, what i've learned from doctors (and patients too!) was asking out of curiosity. if it worked for you, then good for you. again, not all drugs work for everyone, even people with the same symptoms and diseases.

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Like I've said over and over you have to use many different resources and then YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT. Did you ask psychiatrists? In my experience, GPs don't know as much as specialists.

Yeah also do you ever watch drug commercials? They are required to list every side effect ever reported but chances are you'll only experience a fraction of them if that.

The only thing lithium does to me is the dry mouth Hardy mentioned. I always have water or gum with me. So what? Drinking water's good for you. I also have an extreme intolerance to heat and weight gain. However that could be attributed to the thyroid disease I've just been diagnosed with.

When I was on Depakote my hands shook so bad I couldn't write and my students would ask what was wrong with me. It looked like I had DTs. Oh I also tried to commit suicide on that one.

Topamax, face paralyzed.

Trileptal, extreme dizziness and passing out conking my head on the floor.

I've been the happiest and most stable on Lithium than I ever have in my life.

Thanks for the rundown above, Will. I've got a psych appointment two weeks from now to see if I can get on ADD meds after thirty years of consistently losing the plot. I'm all ears for any helpful info I can get on the subject.

I've been the happiest and most stable on Lithium than I ever have in my life.

this phrasing is exactly what terrifies everyone about it

Someone mentioned Provigil on another thread recently. It's not an ADD drug necessarily but it is a stimulant that's supposed to greatly help with concentration.

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Why Tom? What's wrong with actually being able to live life the way most other people do?

people are only comfortable with miracles that come from their own concept of god

that was an xpost but it answers your question anyway.

funny, that.

not really that funny at all

It's hard to have a conversation about the value of a drug with people who have never experienced the disease it treats.

As many threads about mental disorders often devolve into, none of these are magic pills. You don't take them and instantly become a member of the polyphonic spree. The merely free you from being a prisoner to your moods and give you the mental clarity to actually live life: hold a job, maintain a relationship, not drug and drink in an attempt to self-medicate, not constantly plan suicide, not risk jail b/c of your insane antics.

This stable feeling that most people take for granted opens up so much more of life. It's simply called being healthy.

This thread has inspired me to pick up the phone and call a doctor. I've been needing to for... shit... YEARS. I need ADD meds, and for a while anyway I need sleep meds. I've been using Lunesta at night, but it doesn't work anymore for some reason. I wake up after 4 hours, consistently, and sometimes I can go back to sleep, and sometimes I can't. Not sleeping really fucks with your life.

Anyway. xpost to Deric: "losing the plot" is a perfect way to put it.

Yay! I got an appointment tomorrow! That was easy.

The magic R helped with my sleep, too, because when it wears off I'm often quite tired (possibly due ot expending more energy over the course of the day).

I should mention another side effect... I lost 15-20lb when I started it. Good for some people, I guess, but I was already only 170lb, and 6'3".

Trazadone is also good for sleep and pretty mild overall.

totally anecdotal so yes i'm taking it with a grain of salt as should you but one of the most fucked up times i've ever seen someone on a prescription drug was when a former boss was on provigil. he also had/has a bit of a drinking/drug problem so obviously it wasn't due to the provigil solely, but man, he was totally nuts when he was on it.

I think drinking and drugs combined with a stimulant would be a serious, possibly heart-attack inducing, problem

Trazodone is also used to reduce the symptoms of agoraphobia, drug induced insomnia, essential tremor, repetitive screaming, and some pain syndromes.

heh. I'm really glad I do not suffer from repetitive screaming.

New thread: Is repetitive screaming a real disorder?

haha, I've never seen that! That's what Homer needed when kept having the hypnosis-induced nightmare.

I think drinking and drugs combined with a stimulant would be a serious, possibly heart-attack inducing, problem

-- Ms Misery, Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:23 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yep, he's kind of a mess even without the provigil.

New thread: Is repetitive screaming a real disorder?

It's going to be in about five more posts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

"drug-induced insomnia" = "just stopped doing so much coke?"

so yeah, nevermind me, ask a bunch of non-expert non-professionals!

So you're basically assuming that EVERYONE on this board is a non-expert/non-professional. Next you'll tell me all people surfing the net are sexually deprived socially inept nerds or something. Way to go, Hstencil. Secondly you don't need to be a professional to have a well-based opinion on this matter (or any other matter).

So, HStencil, whenever you need an opinion, do you call the 0900-EXPERT-R-US line disregarding what anyone else says?

I think he was only responding to the idea that you shouldn't ask doctors at all.

What a great thread. I love ILX.

It seems par for the course for ILx

I know, Sam, I was overreacting a bit. Hurting was asking some experiences and that's what he gets as a snappy reply (from Hstencil). I really think people should have a bit more tact sometimes. Here and everywhere else.

hey look! the human fucking race!

retards!

I think he was only responding to the idea that you shouldn't ask doctors at all.

OK, now I think that the lithium is making *you* hallucinate, because that was never said on this thread. I don't know how "ask other people with first hand experience because doctors don't know everything" got twisted into that, but hey, you've been using me as your straw man for nigh on a decade, so why stop now?

Did I mention your name Kate?

Pretend you don't know who I am. I'm sure you'd agree life would be more pleasant for both of us if we were strangers.

WOW SO UHH... ADD. I HAVE IT IT'S REALLY FUN KIND OF LIKE AN XBOX

see you guys later, i'm gonna go tab some acid.

*regrets not letting this thread die* :-(

I want to know if Will is giving the XBox a thumbs up or thumbs down.

depends on what he just injected. (lame joke, i know)

Are you calling Will an IV drug user?? Now that's low. ;)

I was being ADD, all making useless associations based on the things in my head hey guys look a dog!

people are touchy about stuff sometimes.

Q: how many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: WANNA RIDE BIKES??

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My ADD keeps me constantly clicking to the "now playing on Sirius" tab, choosing a new song, refreshing ILx, turning back to my CSS and adding something. . .repeat every 60 seconds.

argh. . . .

lol @ laurel

My ADD keeps me from living life above the poverty line. It's lots of fun.

I just would ike to point out that when I met Kate St. Clair in person, in real life, in a london pub, she came off exactly the fucking insane homeless bonkers bag lady archetype I thought she would. I vote hard to the left but I don't suffer a fool for very long. I suspect the rest of the FAP crowd felt sorry for me while I endured your lecture on the Masonic conference rooms of London, but I've learned my lesson not to speak for others. To cover my own sentiments, how about a big FUCK YOU YOU'RE PRETTY STUPID. Congrats on getting to open for an overrated pack of 40something talentless bithces that one time, that is something the rest of us will never get to do.

also I hate you and think you're an imbecile.

Oy this thread

i don't get the injected joke, can someone spell it out for me?

I think Nath was talking about drug taking. Maybe. So that XBox, yay? nay?

I am going to buy one before Xmas so they better be pretty good!

people are real touchy about stuff sometimes