[aaronsmack]

Living with ADHD unmedicated is extremely difficult for me. I’ve tried stimulant meds in the past, and I can’t handle their side effects, specifically the headaches, which I’ve never been able to circumvent no matter what I do. Now I’m waiting for Strattera to kick in. I started a week ago so I have one or two more weeks to go.

When unmedicated, I feel very lethargic. Nothing sounds interesting or exciting to me. There are lots of things I could do or even need to do, but getting myself to do them takes tremendous effort, if it even happens at all. I just want to sleep or zone out on TV or the internet. It’s tempting to look at porn, too. Life just feels blah, and it has nothing to do with depression. I know depression well, and although my ADHD was mistakenly diagnosed as depression for many, many years, this isn’t it.

I just thought I’d put this out there in the hopes that maybe some of you understand how I feel. Sometimes I feel so alone in this life. No one I know in my life understands how I feel or what it’s like.