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jenn-e
  • By jenn-e · New reply May 10, 2012
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • Well here I am talking to my computer again since it seems to be the only friend I have that I do not bore. It is so difficult having children of Special Needs when none of your friends do. Half of my ...

Losing my mind......

jenn-e
  • By jenn-e · New reply May 3, 2012
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Sometimes i feel like my plates is so overflowed that I lose stuff no matter what I do. My balancing act is suffering greatly right now and man do I wonder how I can handle it all sometimes without him ...

ADD/ADHD Girlfriend

Worried123
  • By Worried123 · New reply May 2, 2012
  • Discussion in How ADD/ADHD affects my life · 4 replies
  • I would like to start off by saying that I love my girlfriend very much. We have lived together for 9 months and have been dating for two years. We are both 23 years old,and she has recently graduated ...

Depression/anxiety

Alan_Robinson
  • By Alan_Robinson · New reply May 1, 2012
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Since my hospitalizatoin at the end of last month, I have been a bit of an emotional wreck. A combination of intestinal distress and working with people who are quite sociall have caused me to withdraw ...

Add and defiance

Nankin
  • By Nankin · New reply April 19, 2012
  • Discussion in Questions · 1 reply
  • My son has add and can not seem to stay in school. He is impulsive, doesn't do what he is suppose to do and now the school district wants to put him in a lock school facility. I feel this type of setting ...

Help!!!!

candylckhrt
  • By candylckhrt · New reply April 16, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with ADD/ADHD · 1 reply
  • My son is on Guanfacine for ADHD. It makes him very drowsy with each increase of the medicine which I understand the doctor said it would. It gets better once he has taken the dosage regularly for awhile ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Howard Luks, MD

John2
  • By John2 · New reply April 15, 2012
  • Journal · 59 replies
  • Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

My Crazy Day.

Sandyzk12
  • By Sandyzk12 · New reply April 12, 2012
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Went to work. Came home. Walked. Was caught on camera here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1A63Lie V8&list=UUQW1CM9y5BlJEMdYhUtZ0ZA&index=1 &feature=plcp ...

New to this site, new to these diagnosis

dramateach
  • By dramateach · New reply April 11, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with ADD/ADHD · 13 replies
  • Hi, I just found this site after doing a google search for severe mood dysregulation. My 7 year old, after 3 years of trying to understand his emotional roller coaster, was recently diagnosed with ADHD ...

Isn't The Kama Sutra a great way to work out?

Sandyzk12
  • By Sandyzk12 · New reply April 10, 2012
  • Journal · 30 replies
  • After the combined shocks of all those nasty cardiac procedures, stents and not knowing whether I would wake up whilst in hospital/s - a look back at what the HELL happened to me and to most of you, too ...

"A Long and Healthy .... Life" -- is what YOU make of it!

Sandyzk12
  • By Sandyzk12 · New reply April 9, 2012
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • I guess that over the past 6 months I have been replaced by a slightly larger clone of me - a tired, impatient, moody De Niro (a la Taxi Driver). Not good. I am CERTAIN that this is 1. Normal (WTF) 2 ...

Neu-beCALM'd

HyperTwitch
  • By HyperTwitch · New reply April 7, 2012
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • has anybody heard of or tried this? im at my wits end here, i had a bad expereince with adderal and vowed never to take medication. but i heard this is all natural and im going to go insane if something ...

Howdy!

deducit
  • By deducit · Posted April 3, 2012
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • to everyone who knows deducit i thought i would journal and tell you i am taking a break to get me in order...the diabetes t1 and sps and thyroid disease and osteoporosis is abit more than i can handle ...

"Whose balls are these?" - something to make you smile. I hope.

Sandyzk12
  • By Sandyzk12 · New reply April 3, 2012
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Each morning as my alarm goes off LOUDLY at 5am I check the day and date. I am famous for appearing on the job on weekends and holidays or even found fully dressed headed toward my hospital on days OFF ...

Waiting for a miracle? Read on!

Sandyzk12
  • By Sandyzk12 · New reply April 2, 2012
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • As we are so near to Easter and Pesach (Passover) here is a little story related by my dad year after year. During the worst flood ever,a pious man had to climb up onto his roof to keep dry and safe ...

Feeling hopeless with my ADHD girlfriend

ky92
  • By ky92 · New reply April 1, 2012
  • Discussion in Adult ADD · 12 replies
  • Hi, I am new to here, and i would like to share my story and ask for any opinions... (apologize for any grammatical mistakes I may make, English is not my first language) Here is my story. I met my girlfriend ...

How To Get Help For Adult ADHD

fred7777
  • By fred7777 · New reply March 31, 2012
  • Discussion in Questions · 4 replies
  • I am 47 years old. I believe i have Adult ADHD. My mind is always racing, my thoughts are racing. I have to work on several things at a time. I am very unorganized. My work is affected. I am not sure ...

Vyvance

mandybouchette
  • By mandybouchette · New reply March 31, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with ADD/ADHD · 9 replies
  • My son is 13. We have tried several different types of meds. He has ADHD. He had been on Concerta for over 2 years and I think his little body just became immune to it. Now we are trying Vyvance. I had ...

understanding

kimberly630
  • By kimberly630 · New reply March 25, 2012
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • I feel blessed to have been thru enuf to bare empathy I am thankful right now for my trials as they have Shaped who I am today. But not the unspeakable ones, Never those. I desire to be understood by ...

can this show on an eeg

verysadexwife
  • By verysadexwife · New reply March 24, 2012
  • Discussion in Raising a child with ADD/ADHD · 3 replies
  • my son had two seizers when he was two, one medication until the age 4 had a clear eeg then stopped meds due to doc saying he outgrew it. well he is now 13, has trouble concentrating especially in school ...

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