Hi.

I was diagnosed with it when i was 4yr and was tested and they said i was adhd afterwards. Though my parents disputed it, and pretty much kept it all from staying with me as a school kid (Even tho schools quite often would bring it up in meetings, and would back up when she (one of my parents) blew her cap everytime).
I never really saw that I was really. But then I didn't know really what it was.

Then, a little less than a year ago (I'm 23yr now) i was having extreme sleepies, and unable to stay awake longer than 3 hours a day and was prescribed dexedrine. Which helped with many more things than just my sleepies. It was like it opened up a door and made me a person.. one that I could be in control of. I also wasn't depressed anymore (odd i know.. but .. it's true). I was able to organise and keep focused on things. Also my insomnia that comes due to a mind that wont turn off (insomnia has been a life long problem up until the cymbalta knocked me out - the extreme bouts of sleepies were caused by this -. And while i was on the adhd meds I could lay down, and actually go to sleep. When I woke up I felt rest. ) Then i started getting forgetful and couldn't finish sentences without forgetting what i was saying, so he changed me to Vyvyanse which i was on until recently. and I'm finding out just how adhd i really am. and how much if only my parents allowed me to be treated as a kid and growing up, I would have been so much better. I would have probably never tried to kill myself, I would of never had sib'd (Because the sib was due to my anxious feelings all coming out in one big bout and it was an impulse that could not be stoped beforehand.) I hear therapy for adhd is a must too, but my therapist is stucked on always bring up the bpd of things.