Well its gonna be hard to make this short but im gonna try........ Acording to my mother I was WAYYYYYYY ADD when I was young but in the late 70's earlie 80's there wasn't much for ADD/ADHD so I kept a healthy diet and stayed verry active. When I was 25 I kinda lost it, well really lost it........ The state was taking 90 percent of what I made at work for 1 of my 3 kids and I had to support myself, dissabled wife and other 2 kids on the last 10 percent (apx. $4000 a year........ ( this problem has been fixed thank god ). But for 5 years prior to being "commited" age 20: I had to change jobs up to 10 times a year to make it by; and for another 5 years after until the state of AZ finaly heard my plea to help/stop........... Anyways I got treatment for "bi-polar dissorder" for 3 years after I was commited for a short time, with many medication coctails that did nothing but make me more crazy. So for the past 2+ years I have been medication free, which has worked out much better than when I was on medication. My symptoms, well in my oppinion were mis-diagnosed. Now with that said I have started working on my own business which means stress ect. and of course with the added stress the symptoms have come back......... (not half as bad as they were) but still its hard to concentrate, focus on one thing, racing thoughts, insomnia and many others. So I decided to "self-medicate" I've been taking adderol xd at 15-20mg for about a month just durring the weekdays and WOW what a difference borderline life changing............ I can multi-task, no racing thoughts, reduced stress due to being able to function normaly, able to spend more quality time with the kids without everything being "annoying" ect.. Now my problem now is getting a "valid prescription" I am running out of one I was able to obtain. I have no insurance, but was seeking treatment through the state who provided my medication befor (Value Options, now Magellan); but im afraid they wont prescribe it for me because of my previous diagnosis, leaving the program 3 years ago and it's gonna be a huge hastle to get "back in the system". ANY ADVISE? Sorry so long but I actualy left out alot to make it easier reading. Thanks......