I truly envy you. I've never been able to work out how to deal with my ADD, and it does effect my day-to-day life, i.e. lack of sleep, forgetting to eat, forgetting appointments, etc.
I don't forget appointments, and my problem from sleep comes from clinical insomnia (According to the doctors I deal with, I have one of the worst documented cases). I get hospitalized several times a year due to not being able to sleep for long periods of time, or lacking large amounts of sleep (I average maybe 4-5 hours sleep for a week if I'm lucky).
Forgetting to eat is mostly because I don't pay attention to it, and I just don't get hungry, and usually have to force myself to eat something.
He does well now, but it's been a very long road to get here. He's diagnosed with ADHD (and mannn does he ever get H if we miss his meds!), Asperger Syndrome, OCD, sensory processing disorder, and severe anxiety disorder. He's been through 4 psychiatrists and loads of meds. We finally found a psychiatrist who knows what he's doing, and he has him on meds that are doing wonders for him. I'm very pleased.
Yep I'm ok. I'm on meds for panic/anxiety disorder which also treat the ADD and OCD. However, the Post-It Notes people owe me stock in their company. I practically keep them in business.
I had a huge problem finding a decent psychiatrist when I was younger; my school basically coerced my parents to either get me into therapy (As well as putting me into special ed classes), or they would remove me from the school district and force me to do home schooling, which wasn't an option due to my family being busy.
The first one I had put me on a lot of meds, and spent more time sucking up to my dad, and talking down to my mom (She was against putting me on meds, as my dad had been on large dosages of Ritalin in high school, and she saw how he was basically like mindless), and paid little attention to me.
The second one just put me on meds, and if there were still problems said I was skipping them.
The last one I had was actually an old therapist from my elementary school who I had gotten along with, and she worked out most of my problems and helped me by figuring out methods for dealing with them. A lot of dealing with it consisted of taking up martial arts, being physically active during my free time, and finding things that'll keep me focused, as well as noticing when I start to misbehave, and how to deal with any issues that came up.
Because of also having OCD, and I have anxiety disorder (I can't stand to be late to anything, I usually come an hour early, and I've never missed an appointment for anything), I spent most of middle school and high school seeing her till she retired. I still talk to her sometimes now, and she's been seeing my brother as a favor to me, because he's about as bad as I was when I was younger.
Oh, and just to clear it up, I have ADHD, but the H part doesn't bother me as much due to being able to control it now.
I think we've taken this thread waaaaaaayyyyyyyy off topic, lol.
Feel free to start another one for us if you'd like.
I was thinking about that; "How messed up are you!"
