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Originally Posted by Caretaker Leo
May I ask a question?
If you were diagnosed bipolar this past November - why are they prescribing meds for ADHD? That doesn't make sense to me. My son was diagnosed ADHD when he was very young. The meds helped some - but the alcohol and drug addictions that came later should have been a signal to his doctors that something wasn't right.
He now has the correct diagnoses of bipolar - and the meds he takes are completely different than those for ADHD. He no longer self-medicates with alcohol or drugs because he is on the right meds for his diagnoses.
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Because I'm lucky enough to have both bipolar disorder and ADHD.
I was dx'd with ADHD as an adult, over 10 years ago. They confirmed the ADHD dx after I started treatment for bipolar with a computer-based test that backed up multiple independent clinical interviews.
I stopped taking the ADHD meds in February on the advice of a pdoc who wanted to rule them out as a cause of mania. But without the ADHD meds (which do
not make me manic), the self-medicating got a lot worse, I wasn't able to work for a couple months because I couldn't function well enough, etc, etc, etc.
The stimulants make all the difference in the world for me, and I don't use as much when I'm on them. Most important to me, I don't use when I'm working because I don't feel like I need to.