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Originally Posted by fern46
You were manic a few months back. You were experiencing rapid speech and your thoughts were jumbled. You were unable to concentrate at work and got behind on your assignments. You had a ton of ideas and tasks that you wanted to pursue, but you couldn't focus. You were displaying very risky driving behavior and at one point you weren't eating because you didn't have food and were afraid to shop. Several of us recognized the symptoms as manic and encouraged you to get help. I believe your therapist also agreed the behavior was manic.
You have also had several bouts with paranoia and delusions. I am not diagnosing you, but all of these behaviors are not caused by your meds and they are symptomatic of something other than ADHD. I am glad the anxiety has lessened today. That is great, but you need to experience true stability for a period of months and perhaps even years before you could know one way or the other. For example, I've been med free and stable since September, but I'm still not in the clear.
Think on this a bit more Blue. Go back through your post history if you need to see it.  |
I've read that people with ADHD oftentimes have rapid speech and racing/jumbled thoughts. Same with wanting to do lots of things at once, which is basically due to a combination of ADHD distractibility and racing thoughts. I think I was, for once, not depressed, and that my depression was masking the ADHD symptoms.
I also think the "paranoia"/"delusions" are, in actuality, an anxiety that's like a runaway train. You know how some people see shadow figures out of the corners of their eyes or darting across the room? Doctors consider that anxiety rather than psychosis. (Just an example.) I think worrying about things excessively isn't normal by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think anxiety can make you experience some weird sh_t sometimes, if that makes sense.