Passionate ADHD and Me

When people have a lot to say about nothing they know nothing about ... Warning this is a very personal and strongly opinionated article - I tell it how I see it and how I experienced it within the past 41 years!! How many times have I heard people voice their opinion on ADHD or the medication for it, when in reality they actually don't have a clue... Its become just as ridiculous and over marketed (incorrectly) as the so-called weight loss programmes out there! In the coming weeks I will be voicing and telling ADHD as it is - WHY because I know, I have lived, suffered and triumphed it every day for the past 41 years. Ritalin, its habit forming? - I wish it was, but then why would my mother, family members, friends, teachers and the like have had to remind me over and over again to take your pills (when my mother wasn't around to give them to me). For the past 5 years or so, I have changed to Concerta and Neucon only because you drink it once and I don...

The Teasing… “Drug addict, stupid, weirdo, mommy's little girl” … I can fill up an entire page with the names I was called all through primary and even into High School. When I was diagnosed there was only Ritalin, and in my case it only lasted 3 hours – you see the next dose had to start working almost immediately otherwise I dipped to such an extent that it took a while for me to balance out – so I was “safe” on my medication if I drank it every 3 hours. For this reason, I had to have 1-2 doses at school – especially once I reached High School. And even though most of the time I drank it when and where nobody could see there was always someone who did or someone who somehow knew and the name calling and the teasing came with it. I am 1.85 metres tall – was always considered the tallest in my class, I also have dark blue eyes and had ash blonde hair as a school pupil. So obviously my skin was also fare and I could not tan etc like some of the other kids – I was the scapegoat – the...