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Jul 13, 2006, 06:28 PM
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When I first started getting treatment for how I was feeling - zip concentration, losing things, not able to concentrate even on work, I thought maybe it was ADD, but my Dr. said it sounded like depression (also felt like in a black hole, sad and was isolating myself from the world). She put me on an SSRI and it totally cleared all of my concentration problems - so does that mean it was depression and not ADD?
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Jul 13, 2006, 06:32 PM
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I think that's a question for your doctor. Depression symptoms can mimic ADD. If you take the depression quiz, a lot of the questions ask about memory, concentration, and decision making. My Pdoc also told me that chronic insomnia can cause a lot of the same problems as ADD. If your depression causes loss of sleep, then you're probably going to have the concentration and memory problems that come along with it.
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Jul 13, 2006, 06:47 PM
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Yes, I was definately not sleeping, and still am sleeping so-so but the anti-dep's have helped with that. It's amazing how completely my concentration problems disappeared.
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