Whoops, I misunderstood. I thought you wanted to see more support and discussion here (on PC) on ADHD.

I'm sorry, I was making a joke. Obviously, it fell flat. Forget I said it--wasn't meant to be an attack.

Yes, I feel that way about many diagnoses and labels. Don't make assumptions that I single out this view for ADHD. In many cases, I believe in treating the symptoms (or in some instances, going beneath the symptoms and treating the causes) rather than getting hung up in the diagnosis. This is not a novel view, although I realize it is not universal. I am content to let there be a diversity of viewpoints on the value of diagnoses/labels. Plus, I am a very questioning person, so of course I would question the way I am. Questioning, IMO, is not a bad thing.

No, I don't. I have never received a diagnosis/label (for these symptoms) nor asked for one. I am not hung up on that sort of thing. To me, if the treatment helps, that's what counts. I'm not questioning any diagnostic accuracy. You seem to be trying to put a lot of words in my mouth, and I'm not sure why.

My PNP prescribes meds for some of my ADHD-like symptoms but nothing else.

No. Do you? Your questions seem strange to me, Simcha, again, as if you are trying to attribute beliefs to me that are not mine.

Wellbutrin is frequently prescribed off label for ADHD-like symptoms (so this was not just my PNP pulling a random prescription out of a hat). If it helps, then great. If it doesn't, there are other things to try. Since I have a lot of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, I know that prescribing off label is VERY common, and not just for psychoactive drugs. All sorts of drugs. It has to do with the drug approval process. It would be way too time consuming and expensive to go back and do major clinical trials for each new indication. If you think drugs are expensive now, just watch if there had to be major trials for each new indication once a drug was approved. No one would be able to afford meds! My PNP proposed several strategies when we first began seeing each other, and Wellbutrin was what we agreed to try first (as well as behavioral modifications). Why are you so threatened by that? You don't know my particular symptoms, so how could you judge that Wellbutrin was not a good fit? Some people like to sit passively in their doctor's office, say or question nothing, and blindly do whatever the doc recommends, but I am not like that. I prefer the team approach to medical care, and both my GP and PNP have the same philosophy (or I probably wouldn't be with them). I really appreciate that my PNP considers my input and what am I looking for when making her treatment recommendations, as well as looking at my whole person. I appreciate that just because she sees some ADHD-like symptoms in me, she doesn't automatically put me in the "ADHD" column of a table, read across to the "treatment" column and automatically prescribe Ritalin (or whatever). I have a friend whose son has ADHD and unfortunately, his doctor followed this one size fits all Ritalin approach to ADHD treatment. It did not work well for this boy, and there was no follow-up or discussion of alternatives (they got medical treatment through an HMO). He barely managed to graduate high school recently and now is struggling at his halftime job in a fast food restaurant. He will not consider treatment alternatives because of his bad experience with Ritalin and the doctor's attitude. I encouraged my friend to get her son in to see someone like my PNP, who looks at the whole person and who is experienced at prescribing more of a diversity of meds, but her son is now dead set against any meds, and my friend is reluctant to go outside her HMO for better care.

If you feel that way, then by all means get your diagnosis for yourself. Not all of us are hung up on that type of thing. I seek help for my problems and symptoms, not a slew of labels to append after my name. My treatments are helping me, and isn't that what's important? You be your way. I'll be mine.

Hey, I believe that too. Yay, common ground!

I have started a number of threads in the ADHD forum. I post a thread when I have a novel topic I want to discuss or get feedback on. A number of people start threads here, Simcha, you haven't been the only one by any means. Your responses to my post feel hostile to me, so now I'm not sure I would want to start any threads here anyway. I might get more of the same sort of response from you. It really feels like you are trying to deliberately misunderstand my post and attribute all sorts of things to me that I never said or meant. It feels like you "have it in for me."