I'm a mom of 3 girls ages 2, 6, and 17....I was just diag. a month ago and I'm confused because I've been battling depression and anxiety for over 6 years now. Then my therapist has this Ah Ha! Moment next thing you know I'm being tested and assessed and bingo this is it.

The funny thing is that I've always joked and said I am, because I have my oldest daughter who is ADHD but I never finished her testing or ever put her on any meds. At the time I assisted in her classroom a lot and saw that 1/3 of the kids were on Adhd meds, this is 2-3rd grade elementary. I said oh! no! Not my baby.....she's doing great and we've always recognized her LD and ADHD so I feel she done very well with handling it so far.

My thing is that I was beginning to think I was Bipolar so I went to the Dr. to figure it all out then went back into counseling and this is me an ADDer, I feel sad but also feel relieved that it's treatable, but damn I wonder what things would've been different had I known sooner. I'm focused on getting better mentally right now so please any advice I'd greatly appreciate or stories, and what about meds. does else on here have to take depression meds along with ADHD meds?....I feel alone and sad this never goes away, and it took things getting worse to figure this out. Now how do I begin to put me back together-----HELP ME fellow ADDers PLEASE

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