Thanks everyone. Chaotic, I'm glad that you got the med increases you needed. Hopefully you can stay well for a very long time into the future. And SunAngel, thanks for sharing your story. You've been through a lot, but you are always here to help the rest of us. And Seaswept, that is funny about the correlation between ADHD and being taught near an airport. I definitely can see how the noise might lead to more ADHD symptoms. I've heard that allowing children to watch TV before they are 2 yrs old also increases the risk.

I've had ADHD symptoms for as long as I can remember; they far outdate the mood symptoms. This is why I believe that it may be a separate issue, as a mood disorder alone can also often wreak havoc on attention. I could write a PhD dissertation on procrastination (but will do it later), I take twice as long as everyone else to do things like shower and brush my teeth because I am in my own little world. I can't do most sports because I can't focus on a single goal, like getting a ball through a hoop, for longer than 3 seconds.

When I was small, I had homework that involved looking words up in the dictionary and writing down their meanings. I read the dictionary for hours because actually starting on the assignment was too painful.

It is (and always has been) difficult for me to attend to subtle social cues, and to take care of subtle details of my appearance. For example, my socks often do not match.

And I am the most disorganized person you have ever met. My friends would "clean" my room for me when I was little. (I hated that. I couldn't find where anything was with their ridiculous organizational system for weeks).

So, yeah. I probably have ADD in addition to bipolar. People are very reluctant to diagnose it in college kids, however. They are all afraid that we are just after amphetamines. So annoying...

And also, there is virtually no information about co-morbid ADHD and bipolar d/o in adults available. I've searched and searched. Grr..