@icetigris replied to your post “@spacehussy replied to your post “Well, we finally got the insurance...”
I just got my ADHD diagnosis and Adderall XR a couple of months ago. Nobody thought anything was wrong with me until everything festered into depression. I was on meds for anxiety and depression for YEARS, which didn't treat the underlying problem. Wasn't till I saw ADHD bingo and similar posts on this hell site that I was like hm...maybe I have this...
After going on Adderall, I’ve found that my anxiety has mostly vanished because it was due to not being able to get shit done. The only exception is when I have coffee in addition to the Adderall, and then I’m down for a Bad Time.  Â
Apparently my psychiatrist had been circling around the idea for a few months, but wanted to wait until he was relatively sure before we added another diagnosis and a new medication to the mix, particularly since I didn’t do well at ALL when we tried anti-anxiety medications.
And then I had a session where I spent a lot of time talking about how I always feel like I’m perpetually spinning my wheels and getting nothing done whatsoever and feeling like I can’t focus and always stalling out on projects and being so painfully aware of deadlines but procrastinating anyway and then freaking out about the procrastinating, and once I wound down he was like, “hey, can you fill this questionnaire out for me real quick?” and...BOY HOWDY, DO I EVER MEET CRITERIA.
I have a feeling I’m similar to you in that a lot of my anxiety centers around problems created by the ADHD, so hopefully the Adderall helps with that. Honestly, I’m a little more worried about how it might affect my sleep. My general mental health correlates pretty strongly to the overall quality of my sleep, and I tend to go downhill fast when my sleep isn’t decent. Or, you know, enough.
