
Mar 16, 2010, 01:28 AM
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Member Since: Mar 2010
Location: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Posts: 8
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Originally Posted by HTCool
Hello everyone,
I am a 19 year old male diagnosed with ADHD, and I have a problem with lying. Since I was younger I would lie about both large things and the smallest things all because I just didn't think about what was going to come out of my mouth before I said it. I would just blurt out lies for no real reason at all. As I'm older now, I still live with my parents, and I havent told a lie in nearly 5 months since I have found the right dosage of the proper medication. The problem I am having is that these lies keep coming back to haunt me. Things I had forgotten I lied about, come back, and it devastates my family every time. And at this point I just dont remember what I was lying about in the past, I cannot recall them, I think I just put them out of my mind. I always had this deep fear of disappointing my parents, and it caused me to eventually have more problems, the fear and stress of covering up things at school was making me depressed, and it took a long time to get my parents trust back. So now here I am with my parents unable to trust me again because of something that happened 5 months ago, and I didnt even remember I told it. I feel like an honest person now, but I am completely unsure of how to deal with my family, and put this behind me. This stress is starting to make me depressed again, and they think I am lying about being depressed to get out of being in trouble. I don't know if my lying was associated with the ADHD or something else, but I desperately need to get this under control.
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First of you you need to be proud about not telling a lie for 5 months. that is good work. I too had a problem with getting into situations and lieing or stealing to get out of them. I did this. I sat down in the park on a blanket and stack of paper and a pen. I thought about everyone i hurt, lied to, stole from, harmed. i wrote it all down . and i made ammens to those people. It was a sorry here, and $20 bucks there but slowly i made it throught the list and as i did it got better and better. If you go to them first then they wont come to you and you can get healing from your add, oh and get on some medication. I just starting taking one today, its really my first day its called dextroamphetamine and i dont know much about it ill keep you posted tho if ya like
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