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Old Mar 28, 2004, 11:34 AM
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Hi RENEANNA, I don't have ADD or ADHD but I know a lot about the illness. If you are having problems coping, there are things you need to keep in mind.
1) You are not the illness, you have the illness.
2) Having an illness like ADHD is not what defins how you are or what you do.
3) At the end of the day, all the choices you make are made by you and not your illness. Your in control and you have to take control back if you don't have it not letting ADHD run your life.
4) Meds do help but you are aware of the choices you make in life so self awareness and control of who you are and what you do is half the battle.

Just a fue tips, hope thay help. I'm bipolar and it is a strugle each and every day but unlike in the past, I refuse to let my illness run my life.

Take care, cocoa :-))