AdHd and Depression

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Comment by Susan on January 3, 2009 at 10:24pm

Melinda,

Thanks for your reply. I've always had problems with following thru on things, as far back as I can remember. I've been to the point more than once in my life where nothing mattered and I could have cared less about everything, including life. I have found myself very bored lately, as I teach and have been off for the past 2 weeks. Usually I am in the holiday spirit, and even more so with two young children, however, this year I could have cared less. I wanted to be in the spirit, but I just didn't feel it. Like I said I looked forward to activites that we were going to do and when it came time to do them, the interest had diminished.
as far as energy is concerned, I don't have much, never have. I can't say meds have helped much in that category, with the exception of no longer wanting to sleep all day. I totally understand what your saying about not caring enough to take care of yourself, it is a very sad state to be in. I've been there before and thankfully got out of that place.
Sleep has been pretty elusive for me since my kids were born. I haven't slept through the night since my daughter, who is 3 1/2 was born. It's not worry or anything related to the depression, it just that my kids don't sleep thru the night. I even bring them in to our bed in the hopes of getting more sleep, that is part of the problem. Putting the kids aside, I've never had a problem with falling asleep, but do have a problem staying asleep. In the early '90's, I have a major clinical depressive episode and took Trazadone to help. It's funny that you mention the self talk. This is one thing I've been wanting to work on for years. I had a therapist tell me once that if she talked to herself the way I talk to myself, she'd hate herself, too! I know that this is in relation to the ADD which was diagnosed spring of '08. All of these years, I've done an excellent job at beating myself up and telling myself what a loser I was for not being able to complete things/do a better job/handle more than I can, etc.... I am hopeful that the meds will help in a lot of the issues I'm having. Thanks again for your reply and take care!

Comment by Melinda on January 3, 2009 at 9:50pm

To Susan:

Oh, dear. How I can relate to you. But at least you're finding things to care about, even if only initially. That's saying a lot. From what I've been able to tell, people with ADD typically have trouble following through a job or project to completion. Why this is, I'm not sure. It may be a function of several things. We seem to need to have "interesting" things to do, and boredom too often rears its ugly head. Boredom, I've found, is a trigger for depression for me. It's also a major source of stress, believe it or not! Some people claim that their motivation is affected when depressed. So you're definitely not alone. Do you run out of energy? You don't say, but this could definitely affect a person's enthusiasm. If you ever suffer from fatigue as a side effect of depression, that would explain it or part of it. As for me, I used to not care about myself enough to do the things I needed to be doing for myself. Isn't that sad? But now, I'm beginning to care, and that helps with the mundane things, too. Hang in there. Your meds should help with this at some point, I would think. You don't say how you're sleeping, but this can be a problem with ADD/ADHD, too. I know how it feels to not care about anything. Isn't it awful? But as I said, at least you care initially. How can you keep that feeling? Maybe one way would be to visualize the outcome after the job is completed and imagine how good you'd feel. I'm working on visualization and positive self-talk more, and they seem to help. How do you talk to yourself? Like a cheerleader, or are you self-critical? Well, I hope these suggestions help. Don't give up.

Melinda P.

Comment by Melinda on November 22, 2008 at 11:49pm

Hi,

I'm brand new to the group and hope to be a source of encouragement to others suffering from ADD/depression. My own life has been pretty blah lately, although I hope to see an improvement soon. I suspect SAD is in part responsible--does anyone else out there seem to suffer from this? I've been in a real tail spin, and I'd also be very interested in hearing about how you get things done when depressed, the strategies you use, etc. There's a book called "Getting It Done When You're Depressed," but I haven't read it yet. Thanks for your comments.

Melinda

Comment by Kelly47 on November 16, 2008 at 8:06pm

Hi,
Well. I'm back . I had a hellish couple of months. Med changes almost did me in. It's my fault because stopped everything. Crashed totally. But I'm back on the prozac and ritalin. What a nightmare. I sure can make myself nutty sometimes.

Kelly

Comment by Hzjewl on November 1, 2008 at 8:38pm

I think the ADD probably leads to the depression because it's that feeling of being out of step with everyone else or not living up to your potential that makes us constantly ask "What's wrong with me?" Since I got my diagnosis, I don't feel so bad about myself anymore, because I just can't help the way I am. Like the title of the book I just started reading says "I'm not lazy, stupid or crazy" and that's a really good feeling.

Comment by Hzjewl on October 11, 2008 at 9:37pm

Hello, I've known about my depession longer than my ADD but not long enough to save some relationships. There's only going foward now.

Comment by Heidi on September 10, 2008 at 10:46am

What a day!
I asked my husband a question about something today and got the response that I had already asked him it and that I should know the answer. Frustration set in because I honestly don't remember him telling me. After the fact I started feeling crappy again and couldn't stop bawling because I feel dysfunctional.
I can't get my house in order, I can't remember things people tell me, and to top it off I'm overweight. So depression hit me hard today....hopefully tomorrow will be better (being optimistic). =o)

Comment by Genny on July 28, 2008 at 1:24am

Hello every one How is everyone doing?

Comment by Kelly47 on July 22, 2008 at 5:59pm

I feel so much better being on a low dose of prozac. I'm ashamed to say I was a real wench last week at work. I get mean off of it during the two weeks before my period. Being 47 and things are changing for me, sorry guys, with my cycles I guess it's just best to stay on it all the time. I'm on 10 mgs. Low low dose. I'm not big on having to take meds, for anything so I stick to the lowest possible.

Hugs
Kelly

Comment by Kelly47 on July 18, 2008 at 10:00pm

Hi everyone,
Hope all is well. I started back on my prozac. Is anyone else on that? Has anyone gained weight? I did the first time around. I'm just keeping my eyes open this time, not so much my mouth :(

But it helps a lot. I was coming home from work and crashing around 6ish and sleeping until the next day. Ithought at first I was just crashing after the ritalin. But I was also feeling really blue and crying a lot. There are things in my life to be depressed about,but not to that point. I don't think.

Kelly

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