Adderall Miracle Drug for Anxiety, Depression

I deal with SEVERE clinical depression & social anxiety & some generalized anxiety. One dr. thinks I'm bipolar. My psychiatrist is not convinced I am bipolar II (mixed), because it is hard to distinguish from unipolar severe depression. Most of bp II is depression without the highs. You have more agitation, but this symptom is also with regular depression, so the jury is out on that. On adderall, my dr. does not hesitate to prescribe ANYTHING if it will help the depressive symptoms. He has had me on 4 different meds at once to try to help me. It is crucial that you find a (psychiatrist) who is open-minded and will LISTEN. You should never feel like you have to knock the dr over the head pleaing your case. That is not fair to you or your mental health. I think the key is finding a good doctor, and one that specializes in Psychiatric disorders, definately not a regular MD. They don't know enough about the disease or the meds used to treat depression, anxiety. Hope this helps. I wouldn't look at adderall as giving you a high. If it helps you function better in your daily activities and with work and relationships then it is well worth it. Who cares if it has a bad rap..? Again, hope this helps.

I completely understand your position, have been told I was bipolar depressed anxiety disorder many times, after my old doc was pressing me to take lithium and a crash to the darkest place I have ever been from cymbalta I went to a new doc and requested to be tested for ADHD. I went to a psychologist and to a long test and found I am I fact ADHD .... This disorder is very good at disguising it self as depression and anxiety because it can cause it! Started taking adderall and low and behold I am human again!!! Never been so happy to fail a test! Good luck !

Have you had problems sleeping? If so, what have you done to dealwith this?

You sound just like me I to have severe PTSD and A.D.D. I am also getting the run around by my Dr. Everytime I need my adderall refilled. Its seems strange to me that everytime I need my refill she is out of the office and all the other DR.S REFUSE TO REFILL IT! I've also had snobby Dr.s that just plain don't believe in adult A.D.D. I KNOW I HAVE IT! For the first time in my life I'm able to hold down a job and actually enjoy and take pride in my work. I believe in myself and I am able to set goals. Before it I was a train wreck. I couldn't focus on one single task, I would get frustrated easily and give up. I felt numb and always tired I needed to constantly take naps. I would snap easily and yell at everybody and my kids. Heres what I have to say to Drs about their disbelief, what else do you got for me what can you do to help me? Anti depressents make me more depressed and they just worsen my lack of focus and fatigue! You got another plan I'm willing to try anything. Why would you condemn something that has improved my quality of life for 12 years now.

I can relate. I have PTSD, anxiety disorder and major depression, and my previous psychiatrist put me on celexa, ativan and abilify. I stopped taking the celexa and the ability because I was miserable and I did not see any improvements, but I stayed with Welbutrin and I took that for about a year. Recently, my psychiatrist left and a new one came in her place. I previously pleaded with my psychiatrist to help me, because I couldn't focus, I had school and I was literally falling apart, but she did not prescribe adderall. The new psychiatrist is a miracle worker. I explained the symptoms and my concerns ( I study Psychology) and she prescribed a low dose adderall and lowered the welbutrin. Once I started taking the adderall my life improved dramatically. I used to have anxiety attacks that lasted for days and I learned to live with that excruciating pain. I was living a dull and painful life, but I was alive, so that was all that mattered. Now after 3 weeks of adderall I feel excellent. I don't have anxiety anymore. My sex life has improved. I am feeling normal and functional. Adderall does not make me high, and it I don't have an addictive personality, so I suppose this is a good thing. If something can alleviate the pain of panic and anxiety, people need to ask for it, regardless of what the dr. Thinks. I wasted a year of my life with that dreadful psychiatrist and I wish I could have benefited from this medication earlier, my life would be so much better, but I am happy now too.

That's horrible if you have a seizure you can sue your doc for malpractice.

I was suffering from moderate to sever anxiety and depression and within 1 hour adderal relievedy symptoms. I'm not sure I would want to take the medication on a daily basis but I do know that at least I had one day where I could actually function . I worry about taking any medication that could lead to addiction , but at least today I felt my situation wasn't hopeless

I'm a disabled Veteran with severe PTSD anxiety, depression and adult ADHD as a side effect of the above. A couple of years ago I was prescribed Adderall XR and it completely changed my life. With the plethora of drugs I'm on it worked almost immediately and completely changed my ability to function! So yes it's a miracle drug

I know what some are going through im having a very hard time with medication that deal with anti depression I have suggested the fact of Adderall but was hesitant on that but my stomach doctor said Adderall said its better then wellbutrin for digestive problems a due to the fact of

I am I the same situation. Once I walk out the door, if I'm not medicated I have severe attacks. I have been trying to purchase adderol or Xanax from an online pharmacy. Have you ever tried that? The hard part of it all is that nobody knows how much I struggle. I struggle to try to show that I'm not struggling!! People ask me how I look so great and nobody knows...do you know how to get any relief I'd do anything. I dont t have a dr or insurance - that's why I want to try online pharma. Keep me posted, your story is my story.

Once I walk out the door, if I'm not medicated I have severe attacks. I have been trying to purchase adderol or Xanax from an online pharmacy. Have you ever tried that? The hard part of it all is that nobody knows how much I struggle. I struggle to try to show that I'm not struggling!! People ask me how I look so great and nobody knows...do you know how to get any relief I'd do anything. I dont t have a dr or insurance - that's why I want to try online pharma. ;-(

i just started takeing adderall xr with wellbutrin and topamax and i see a big difference and i live withn anxiety ,attacks ,ptsd ,and part deaf and was abused very bad as a child and now have my own so see life in different ways i dont feel high i feel a little better it seems i did start seeing a trauma counceler at a women shelter .also . but my brain does not race and im not stuttering and crying so bad like i was .

I'm 53 and have been on stimulant meds for ADHD ONLY ( nothing else pharma-psychoactive in any way, at any time, for any reason, now / during / before this treatment ) since July 2006. Considering the effects are so predictable & pretty much universal, I think I'm quite qualified to tell you what it's all about. It WILL be a MAJOR trade off, no getting around it. Along with the CONSEQUENCES of life with untreated ADHD comes a certain amount of what I call "situational" depression. Not the "typical" variety of a mysterious origin that just gradually comes over you, unshakable - but a natural reaction to the many, many problems you've always gotten yourself into because the unfocused impulsiveness, eventually you realize it's just going to continue to pile up because you can't see how you're creating the next disaster until it's too late. Learning from experience doesn't seem to apply, but not because you're too stupid to. You EMBODY frustration, with whatever you happen to be feeling at any time, it's there too. The longer life goes on this way the more depressing it gets. To us, "if it's not one thing it's another" translates as "if it's not a million things at once, it's 5 million more"...  SO, starting w/ concerta once daily ( 12-hour very smooth-acting methylphenidate ) at the lowest practical dose ( 36 mg ), and going up a little at a time to find the proper level, it worked wonders for a while but became ineffective and was gradually increased. Again, the higher dose would eventually not work and need to be increased, and again, etc. - standard fare for stimulants, so I began to see the process as someone addicted to street drugs would as they too need more and more to achieve a similar result ( Doctors will often say it's not true addiction at this level & context, but just the result of the brain's preference for clarity - but if you can no longer function without something, what's the difference? ) Haven taken it every single day for such a long time, I couldn't really remember how I used to feel, and got used to the FUNCTIONAL medicated way of being, so it was hard to consider the possibility of quitting altogether to find out. Any disastrous consequences of quitting at work or with my marriage, FINALLY quite smooth, were easy to imagine however. After about 2 years this large daily requirement ( 90 mg ) became too much, instead of calmly focusing I was speedily focusing and could feel the tension stressing the body in definite unhealthy ways. I was able to compromise and get by on a lower dose ( 72 mg ) for about a year without the excess stimulation but when it too quit working had to try something else this time, I'd pretty much taken the methylphenidate as far as it could go, for me. So it's been adderall every day since, also gradually increased, and "stabilized" at the highest recommended dose for my weight, 45 mg twice daily, adjusted to 30 mg 3 times daily. Probably sounds excessive, speed-freakish to a street drug person - but when you're used to 90 mg every day, it's NORMAL for you. Normal until you decide to change anything, that is. Cutting back is no longer an option at this stage, the body insists on having its usual requirement, and the brain follows suit. Every time I tried to quit the inevitable, uniquely horrendous SHEER PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION no amount of sleep can begin to alter ( combined, inexplicably, with a constant nagging jittery anxiety seething at the surface 24/7 ) - how about "a dead horse w/ it's hoof in a light socket" - soon convinced me to try again later- WHENEVER THAT IS. I made it to 12 days off once, and the drained hopelessness would seem to finally lighten up around day 8 or so, in little spurts here and there, only to come plowing me down again, with a vengeance, soon after thinking it was "behind me now". So it's a trade off - you are definitely an improved person in many ways from the adderall, as those close to you will point out when you can no longer see it for yourself, but it becomes an integral part of your well being to a degree I doubt in other types of meds. As I'm popping that pill 3 times every day I'm wondering to myself, for a few seconds every time, how things would be without it ( minus the withdrawals ) - and as dumb as it might sound, I don't know. I do know I'm a full-fledged, legitimized, medically approved speed freak. *BY THE WAY - the thing that HAS TO BE left un-pondered, ignored by the doctor and yourself when you begin the treatment is: "for how long? forever, until my dying day? or until I have 30 days ( supposedly the duration of withdrawal, some say ) to be OK with zero productivity, and OK w/ impulsive, unfocused meandering through life afterwards? Then what?" A day or so after starting back, as the energy levels return to what is now "normal" and the quivering tension calms down again, I can see how great it might work for depression alone. I think that withdrawal exhaustion is very similar to the major depression type, and imagine being able to get past it would go a long way towards seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, the absence of which keeps the patient from ever making any real progress. Don't take it lightly. This stuff probably will help you, but the more it does, the more it will also become a seemingly permanent part of you. Try your best to be absolutely sure the trade-off will be worth it.  

I was a candate for EST electric shock treatments and my Dr tried Adderall as a last effort apparently after he asked me what I had eaten that morning,I just said coffee and glass of milk. I had been going through medication after medication for for over 2 years to treat my Major Depressive disorder nothing could help me, I was prescribed Adderall 35 mg 2x a day wellbutrin 50mg a day ,valium 20 mg at pm and gabapenten for headaches' I took these for seven years,I actually was living life,then when the time came to get my refills ,I had already ran out and hadn't had any Adderall for four days. I had a hard time getting to the dr ,it was over 100 miles cuz I broke down on the freeway so I called the dr office to tell him I am broken down ,and sometimes things just happen I told him and he said,it seems to only happen to you. I hung up on him.its been several years he still refuses to answere my calls so iam without any medication and my life sucks,and I don't even care.

I feel the same way about ADD medications. It has dramatically improve the quality of my life and everything that I'm involved with. My financial situation has been terrible so after consistently taking Adderall since October 2013, I ran out and couldn't pay $85 to see my doc for refills so I've been out since Dec 10th. I got the flu five days after being off of them and can't get better fast enough =/ I have a hard time focusing, absent minded and majorly scatter brained. Hopefully within the next week, I will be able to go see my doctor...