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Re: depressed 58 year old woman

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Date Posted: 14:18:10 01/08/10 Fri
In reply to: Ruth 's message, "depressed 58 year old woman" on 22:24:13 12/30/09 Wed

Hi Ruth.

So sad to hear on your grief. I am 57 years old and have struggled with ADHD; I have signs of dyslexia and an inner ear cerebella dysfunction. I discovered the ADHD disorder when I was an adult, about 15 years ago. What I want to tell you is I am a creative person like you and have been a graphic design for over 30 years. I am also happily married for 20 yrs. As far as my personality I am fun loving and caring. Since my childhood and through the years I�ve always had a very short fuse with a bad temper. Ruth, going back to my creative side I�ve had a great career. I�ve had many distinguished awards and accomplished many things in my career. My self-esteem is very strong and I feel very good about myself. I know I am very smart then again I always feel dumb. I consider myself as a normal person but I do have some mood swings. I am a very quite person and I don�t express much emotion. Since being diagnosed I�ve been on Prozac along with Dexedrine. The Prozac helps control my moods as it keeps me on an even plane. The Dexedrine is used to help me focus, but the Dexedrine drug is also an anti-depressant medication. Through the years during my marriage I have gone through counseling. This has really helped as I�ve gone through many bouts of depression. It�s really frustrating for me not being diagnosed early when I was a child. Now I think it�s more than ADHD. For the past 5 years I�ve noticed that I have a memory lapse that also impairs my speech, my writing, and my concentration. For the past half year I�m getting counseling and being evaluated and that I might have an inner-ear/cerebella dysfunction. Now because I�m an adult I�ve learned through the years to compensate and I get by. What I really think is that, I have a form of dyslexia and that my dyslexic symptoms might be inner-ear related. I�m going to see my internist and will quite possibly see a neurologist. Here is what I�ve found out with this syndrome. There are hundreds of diverse symptoms characterizing the dyslexic syndrome resulting when normal thinking brain and related nervous system processors experience secondary difficulties upon receiving scrambled signals from a dysfunctioning �inner-ear�. The quality and intensity of the symptoms are determined by (1) the specific inner-ear signal scrambled and degree of scrambling into the brain; (2) the normal brain centers receiving these scrambled signals, and (3) the brain�s capacity for descrambling or compensation happens. So these mixed neurological disorders � the brain + nervous system processors are impaired with even a greater difficulty receiving scrambled �dyslexic� signals for interpretation and/or action. For me, possibly with conditioning therapies and new medications can possibly help decreasing signal-scrambling and increasing processing capacity. Here are some of my symptoms and variation characterizing dyslexic tendencies: For me speech becomes dsyrhythmic resulting in starting and stopping. This subtle disturbance, I often become shy and avoid unnecessary speaking. My motor speech response has drifted. Impairing my word memory and concentration mechanics which I lag between intention to say something and the actual motor speech response. For me there are many disturbances for word and thought recall concentrating then a spontaneous speech flow � thus I speak a �loose� rambling and disjointed speaking styles (viewed as scatterbrained). As far as my concentration and distractibility I feel I�m forced to expend large amounts of concentration and effort over relatively short periods of time. I cannot relax or rest my concentration mechanisms thus dyslexic sensor motor and related cognitive and speech errors occur (I have read this). This forces me to struggle constantly to keep my concentration mechanisms going � I forever complain of feeling sleepy, tired, foggy, in a trance, or blocked. I nap as often as I can -- just for five minutes then I feel relaxed with no anxiety. As far as my reading, words are forgotten as rapidly as they are learned. I feel I have severe word-finding and my articulation is impaired. I know I have a memory retrieval problem and have compensated and gotten by. This memory disturbances for word and thought recall complicates the spontaneous speech flow and for me I usually say nothing at all. Ruth in ending I hope my story helps you.

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Author: ruth [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 22:10:40 01/08/10 Fri thank you all for your responses. Al, I can relate to you. I also struggle with speech and articulation. Stuttering and speaking with grammatical errors frequently occurs.