I’ve joined a couple of ADD support groups, but the local IRL one folded, and the online one tends to be a little less… intellectually rigorous than I prefer. I’d rather discuss this stuff with fellow dopers.
I’ll start with a survey:
SDMB name?
Are you interested in this support group?
Have occasional threads here or use another venue for discussions.
If another venue, what is your preferred form (email, online forum). Suggestions?
Well that depends. This forum would be useful since I log in a few times a day. But it doesn’t matter that much. I’m online for one reason or another most of the time. Sometimes its just work, other times I’m looking for something interesting, or finding a recipe, or just learning. That’s the great part of the internet, it’s endless. Yesterday I started out looking for something in particular and ended up looking at pictures of classic cars. Some of them were really good pictures, but others were crap. Why do people just post a grainy, out of focus, low contrast picture of anything. Do they have any idea what it looks like when you see it on some page? The amount of crap out there is unbelievable. I used to be able to use a search engine and find something. But now the first three pages are full of references to a video game of the same name, and the rest are filled with the same reference copied into different sites that just scavenge for topics with bots. By the time I find what I’m looking for, I have to go do something else like go to the store and get some food for dinner, or take the dog to the vet, where I’ll have to sit around waiting, and with him trying to check out every other animal in the place it would be impossible to use my phone to get online. Not like that damn thing ever works right anyway. I want my old phone, it flipped open and made phone calls. After all that technological development they ought to be able to make it easy to do that, but no, i have to select the phone app and tap on the screen, or somehow slide open the keyboard and hope the accelerometer figures out the orientation, and that i don’t hit something on the screen that takes me to another app.
I’ve never considered a support group before. The idea is interesting.
I haven’t been present much for a few years. I was part of the exodus to LJ.
Again, fan of the LiveJournal. With a cursory search I only see one ADD/ADHD support group over there, and it’s averaging about a post a month.
37
Know about it diagnosed with it or know about it heard about it? I’d heard about ADD for years. I thought it was mostly a kid thing. About four years ago (after years of being misdiagnosed with depression) I had a bf who had been diagnosed as a teen. After my billionth crying fit wondering what the hell was wrong with me he asked, “Did you ever think you might have ADD? Because you look exactly like I used to.” Soon after that I went to a medical group who put me with both a shrink and a therapist, and they quickly confirmed his suspicions. My life has done nothing but improve ever since.
My shrink went non-traditional and put me on Wellbutrin. We went through four dosages (150mg/day 200mg/day 400mg/day 150 mg twice/day) before we settled on 300mgXl/day with Adderall as needed. I have an excellent job which allows me to work from home on my own time, so I usually only use the Adderall for homework. I also spent two years with my therapist learning coping mechanisms and tricks.
I was diagnosed when I was 11. I haven’t been medicated since I was 12. I’m interested in trying Adderall but would have to do it illegally. General discussion thread would be nice and I’m not a member of a support group anywhere else.
Well, this is timely. My diagnosis of ADHD-PI was official as of yesterday, and I will start on 20mg Adderall-XR (generic version) as soon as I get around to filling the prescription. I’m 47. I’m on the Dope several times a day, so an occasional thread here works for me. Great idea Zyada
On-line forum if possible. I’ve seen some of those places (mailing lists?) where threads descend down the page, and you have to open up each post individually, and it’s hard to follow/know which direction to click to follow the conversation, and…and…