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Date Posted: 08:36:19 01/17/02 Thu
Author: Sandy
Author Host/IP: 216.104.140.59
Subject: Hey Eric...another ADD'er
In reply to: Eric R 's message, "The flipside of depression" on 12:42:52 01/15/02 Tue

All those years I thought that depression was my problem and I wondered why none of the depression meds seemed to help. Then I finally found a really good doctor. In fact he's the head of the psychiatric department at Wake Forest University. Turns out that my main problem is ADD and the depression I felt came from frustration and being overloaded emotionally from the ADD...not being able to process things like other people. I'm being treated for ADD and it's made a world of difference for me. I've felt better than I have in years. Of course I still have times when I have too many things coming at me and the feeling of being overwhelmed causes me to feel down and like everyone else sometimes situations cause me to be depressed, but overall I feel a lot better.

I think you are right that ADD is closely linked to depression. For one thing, there are probably others like us who have been diagnosed with chronic depression and treatment doesn't seem to work...when they may really have something like ADD that is causing the majority of their problems. I always thought that having ADD meant you would be hyper. So when the doctor first told me that he thought my problem was ADD, I resisted and asked how that could be when I was the opposite of hyper. I was a slug. He said that usually females do not have the hyperactivity that goes with it or ADHD.

Anyway, I hope you continue to feel better. I'd like to talk to you more sometime about this and compare notes. You're the first person I've come across who, like me, had been treated for depression and then was diagnosed with ADD.

Take care,
Sandy

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