I can make a distinction between when I know I'm ADD and when I know I'm depressed. When I get depressed my mood is just really low, I get more quiet than normal, and I have zero energy. When I don't take my Adderall, I can't stay on one thing and wind up starting a hundred different projects at once and often lose track of where I am. I have a ton of energy in those cases and I become annoying to people around me.

My psychiatrist did give me Prozac for the depression, but he said "If it makes you hyper, you'll know it's not working. Let me know and we'll try something else." And sure enough, it did just that. I took Zoloft before but that just made my depression so much worse.

Sometimes I think my psychiatrist doesn't know what to do with me because I've been seeing him for almost 13 years.