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Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon
Treat the depression and anxiety and then reevaluate the adhd.
More or less you just have to evaluate the frequency of the symptoms and if they persist through you're life outside of depression/anxiety episodes.
If you have really bad anxiety then learn coping skills to deal with anxiety before taking stimulants. If I take stimulants and am really stressed for whatever reason it just makes the anxiety 10000 times worse. *__*!!
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I don't really have episodes of anxiety. It's just constant. I don't remember a time where I wasn't anxious.
I want to help this because I think it's making my anxiety worse because I tend to procrastinate, and then maybe hand stuff late and I HATE late, so this is a pretty big issue.
BUT I know and understand that stimulants tend to increase anxiety unless the anxiety is secondary to AD/HD, then it would be fine.
Thanks for the response
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Social anxiety disorder, GAD, OCD, and panic attacks
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