Adhd and anxiety
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Our 8 year old son has recently been diagnosed with Asperger and ADHD. Currently he is taking 10 mg of Adderall XRT (the dose was lowered from 15 mg). Ever since he is on this medication he is showing increased signs of anxiety regarding food safety and some OCD traits (increased hand washing). His anxieties about his food possibly being poisoned are really affecting our home life and cause him true anguish. Is it possible that the medication is causing this dramatic increase in anxiety?
After a period of time the xan no longer helped with my anxiety at all! And the fact of just knowing my anxiety was going to flare up at any point and my anti anxiety meds weren't gna help gave me even worse anxiety! He finally switch me to Valium five mg twice a day as needed and ambien for an as needed basis too and honestly I haven't felt this good and solid n years.
t know if you have ADHD and thats why you posted here or if you are wondering about it. You certainly have some of the symptoms.
First, you mentioned anger. Check out this link for some anger management techniques - http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/5249.html
Then you might want to go to the top of the page and check out their link on ADHD symptoms. If you feel like you have a lot of the symptoms.
Your family doctor is not the best for helping you with this. You need to see a psychiatrist for a diagnosis, and they are most knowlegable when it comes to these types of medications. Then see what type of psychologist he recommends. You're not on a medication specifically for ADD/ADHD. Ziac is for high blood pressure and I doubt you have this at 20! Do you know why it was given to you? Imitrex is for migraines, do you get migraine headaches?
My 10 year old son has ADHD inattentive type and anxiety. We are just starting to treat the anxiety now. He took celexa and I didn't see a difference in his anxiety. We weaned him off of it and took a 2 week hiatus from antidepressants and just gave him his focalin. We now switched him to concerta (lasts longer than focalin)...and added Prozac. Teacher really likes the results at school. However...evenings are hectic. He becomes very silly and immature.
I think I am a adder,and got dysthemia,I know add/adhd and dysthemia just one year ago,but it make me relief.
I read a lot about add/adhd and other mental diorder information on web,i think there are some comorbidity of adhd,dysthemia is one of them, Am I right? Is there any book mentioned the treatment of add comorbidity?
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I am a chinese, sorry for my english, mybe it is not clear for you to understand.
Withdrawal symptoms can occur from standard dosages and also after short-term use, and can range from insomnia and anxiety to more serious symptoms, including seizures and psychosis. Withdrawal symptoms can sometimes resemble pre-existing conditions and be misdiagnosed. Diazepam may produce less intense withdrawal symptoms due to its long elimination half-life.
s anxiety? Often anxiety can mimic the behaviours of ADD/ADHD and it is not unusual for a child with anxiety to be misdiagnosed with one or both of these issues. Our child was diagnosed with severe anxiety (and this diagnosis is correct) and then later, it was thought that she also suffered from ADD/ADHD (she was so hyper and active and unable to concentrate and learn or behave appropriately - this diagnosis was wrong).
It is going into anxity attacks and panic attacks I also have bipolar, adhd and Ptsd. On CARBEMAZAPINE for bipolar and dextroamphtemine for adhd I need to stop the anxiety as fast as possible but don't want a lot of side affects and I do want the calm to par a while. Please advise me can't get ahold of psychiatrist til Monday.
When I was 16 I was diagnosed with add and prescribed adderall. I was diagnosed by taking some long and expensive test. When I took adderall it made my anxiety worse and I felt like I had smoked crack. I tried taking it several times with the same outcome each time. I barely squeezed through high school and have continued to live with it ever since. I am now trying to get a college degree and I am having extreme difficulties.
Ritalin is another stimulant that works on dopamine uptake and causes a hyper effect, again calming to ADHD. My theory is, the benzo is usually an anti anxiety med that is causing anxiety due to the ADHD, like it causes mania in me, opposite effect. The combo he is taking is a similar feeling to pure heroine, so there is the central issue I see. Your son has to deal with his addiction, then ADHD. I am a recovering methadone addict.
s not just depression she diagnosed me with adult adhd depressive mood disorder ocd and anxiety and this was when i was 22 or 23 and i was going great until i fell pregnant unexpectadly with twins after the birth in april of 2007 the medication wasn't working and i have had a pretty traumatic yr so far and have recently had a breakdown I am now taking lithium and will start taking my adhd meds in a month or two.
I would say the feeling of not wanting to do things or get up may be associated with depression. I have irritable bowel syndrom and alot of stomach acid problems. It can go hand in hand with depression and anxiety. I am not very social either I don't know why really maybe it is because of the depression. It seems like to me I am more social when I am manic.
But, since I am also the CL for the ADHD forum, I am also very intune in anxiety in kids. Anxiety is a very strong co-disorder of ADHD and usually caused by the ADHD. So I am wondering how he is doing in school?
But, no matter how it is caused - this link will help you help him.....https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/how-to-stop-anxiety-panic/?
Of course, not positive on that - but anxiety is a very strong co-disorder of adhd. And, I feel it is even stronger in adult undiagnosed adhd. So if you are now treating the possible cause of your anxiety - then that is good. And, I have seen this reported many times with adults. And yes, if you do not have adhd, amphetamines should scare you. But, there is a lot of bad press as they don't seem to understand the difference between the brain differences (and thus the need) for them.
She has sensory issues with ADHD and a big dose of anxiety as well. So, when we gave her dexadrine in SMALL (2.5mg) doses she fell asleep but would get very emotional. We tried several other stimulants and the worst was the daytrana patch....she started screaming and tantruming within a half hour and it got UGLY.....VERY OCD and ANXIOUS and ANGRY. So, right now she is not being treated for her adhd because we are treating her with abilfy for mood swings and now buspar for the anxiety.
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