The Many Faces of ADHD: Stardust, a Middle Aged Woman

An excellent first profile of an ADD adult Eileen!

 

Stardust, I am so inspired by you. It means so much to me to know that there is another member reading books and talking about it. Knowledge is empowering as are friendships. Your life exemplifies that so well.

 

Grandma Lise  

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Thank you so much for sharing.  This helps me in the seemingly neverending quest for the right medication regimen for my son.  He has been diagnosed as autistic.  However, he also has ADHD.  We have often debated whether he has bipolar disorder as well.  Is it really possible to have all three?  Your sharing of having been diagnosed with depression, bipolar, and later ADHD made me wonder about that?  Does the last diagnosis cancel out the others?  Is there one diagnosis that accurately captures all the symptoms?  So that leads to the medication issue.  How do you medicate most effectively in a situation like this?  Stimulants drive my son's autism overboard.  We are at a complete loss.  I will keep searching.  Just wanted you to know that sharing your experiences is helping others.  Keep sharing.
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Your story  sounds soooo much like my life. i was amazed and astonished when i read this article at healthcentral.com we both were diagnosed with bipolar about the same age. i spent all my life feeling the same way you explained you did, not until yesterday may 8, 2008, was i diagnosed with adhd by my phycologist who's been treating me for bipolar for 2 to 3 years. i've been thru therapy many drugs but i told her yesterday that there was something else wrong, that the bipolar and depression was being dealt with but something else was eating away at me and i didn't know why. i took the written test and scored very high for adhd and she just put me on vyvanse. i dont know if it will be the med. to help me but since reading for the first time about adult adhd SOOO much is making sence to me now. i feel as tho i'm onto something right for once in my life. i'm 52 also and feel as tho i've wasted 80% of my life because i didn't know i had these mental illness's. but your story made me feel as tho you might have some great things to share with me, since all this is new to me and i'm just one day into researching this thing. if there is any way we could corrospond i would be so thankful for any advise you may have to pass onto me, because im looking for so many explinations about the life ive lived and why and what can make it better now. i'm not some crazy woman or stalker, i promise, ha, i just feel a connection to your lifes story because it seems so similar to mine. hopefully we could e-mail. my name is cathy and my e-mail address is januarymama51@live.com. thank you so much  your story has been an inspiration to me, and i really do hope i'll hear from you soon. thank you and God bless!

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Your story  sounds soooo much like my life. i was amazed and astonished when i read this article at healthcentral.com we both were diagnosed with bipolar about the same age. i spent all my life feeling the same way you explained you did, not until yesterday may 8, 2008, was i diagnosed with adhd by my phycologist who's been treating me for bipolar for 2 to 3 years. i've been thru therapy many drugs but i told her yesterday that there was something else wrong, that the bipolar and depression was being dealt with but something else was eating away at me and i didn't know why. i took the written test and scored very high for adhd and she just put me on vyvanse. i dont know if it will be the med. to help me but since reading for the first time about adult adhd SOOO much is making sence to me now. i feel as tho i'm onto something right for once in my life. i'm 52 also and feel as tho i've wasted 80% of my life because i didn't know i had these mental illness's. but your story made me feel as tho you might have some great things to share with me, since all this is new to me and i'm just one day into researching this thing. if there is any way we could corrospond i would be so thankful for any advise you may have to pass onto me, because im looking for so many explinations about the life ive lived and why and what can make it better now. i'm not some crazy woman or stalker, i promise, ha, i just feel a connection to your lifes story because it seems so similar to mine. hopefully we could e-mail. my name is cathy and my e-mail address is januarymama51@live.com. thank you so much  your story has been an inspiration to me, and i really do hope i'll hear from you soon. thank you and God bless!

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