[placidfury]

I just took those little quizzes on the home page for fun, and got a 73 on depression and 90 on adhd.. I have been so crazy lately but never for 2 seconds thought I might have adhd..but now after reading about it and taking the quiz, im beginning to think that this is what has been wrong with me all this time. I have every single symptom of adhd. Recently my dad died and the day after his funeral all i could do was sleep. My brother was here from dallas and my room was a mess, my car was trashed, it was all i could do to keep it together to go to the funeral. He called me lazy and was telling my mom she needed to get me out of the house. I have been living here the last 5 months helping her take care of daddy. the only way I have been able to help her was because I was taking loritab for degenerative bone loss disease and back/neck pain. this gave me some energy, but i am so forgetful and i just feel so insane sometimes. I cant keep up with anything, ...going to work and feeding my dogs, were the only things i could make myself do. My brother doesnt believe in people having brains that are wired different, he doesnt believe in clinical depression. he thinks that if someone is depressed that they just change jobs or move or ....i dont know...how do you make someone understand that when you have an illness like this you cant help it sometimes. I have an appointment with the mental health cooperative here in my town next week, I hope they will help me.

[esmeo]

I am taking some new steps toward a new life, I think I have adhd and anxiety too. I am new here as well, so maybe we can talk around some of the things we will try for a different future, i do feel that my major issue, is adhd, because it does make things much more harder to me, and feels from my issues the one I have less control about it.