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Originally Posted by Hazel Glitter
I have been reading several of the posts in this section and can relate completely. However, when I talked to my doctor she said I was depressed and prescribed me medication for that. Are the symptoms the same for depression and ADD/ADHD or can you have both at the same time?
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Yes, you can definitely have both. Wellbutrin is a medication that is prescribed for both depression and ADHD so it might be a good starting point if you have both. Is that the anti-depressant that your doctor prescribed? Is this your general doctor who is doing the diagnosing and prescribing? Sometimes a GP doesn't have the expertise to prescribe for someone with ADHD
and depression, or they don't have the diagnostic skills to tease apart what you have. So seeing a specialist with experience in diagnosing ADHD might be helpful (if the doc you are seeing is not a specialist).