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Originally Posted by Xaldin
Anxiety/Depression tend to go hand-in-hand with ADD/ADHD. Although A & D tend to be in flux while ADD/ADHD is constant(At least that's how it is for me, I was diagnosed when I was about 12 and been on and off medication since). I'm currently on 3 medications for all 3 disorders. However it's probably something I would not recommend to put that many medications on as some one as young as your daughter, especially since she's right at puberty age. I'm currently 23 and it took quite a bit of time for my body to outgrow the side effects for the combination I'm using.
Going through school with this disorder can be challenging. Not just with the focusing/concentration, but not many people clearly understand it and tend to mislabel or misjudge it. Sadly, there are some people who just put it off as laziness... which is nothing further from the truth.
I'll stop myself from rambling too much... Is there anything else you want to know?
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Hi Xaldin,
My daughter is already on too much medicine. If the meds were truly helping, that would be one thing. But I don't think the combination she's on right now is all that effective.
It's interesting that you mention struggles in school and also laziness. My daughter deals with both of these issues. In school she can barely maintain passing grades. She hates school and it probably has a lot to do with always feeling "lost" there. As far as the laziness goes, I can see where to someone she might appear to be lazy. But I've never looked at it that way. I think of lazy as being like a couch potato. But with her it's more like she has a really heavy, invisible blanket holding her down, making every movement extra strenuous and tiring. So for her immobility is preferable to most anything else. Does that make sense?
I really appreciate your honest reply. And I do have a question for you... Having gone through this yourself, and looking back to when you were an adolescent, are there any suggestions you can make to me for how to help my daughter manage her ADHD?
Thank you so much!
Phela
