My Struggle With ADD - Vyvanse

My Struggle With ADD - Vyvanse

Now I thought since the people on this site tend to be parents, and a lot of you have kids with ADD. So, I am opening this thread because I have ADD, and a lot of times it is hard to admit the problems and understand it. But I did get depressed a lot. This is because I am very Ill-motivated, and easily distracted. I struggled in school, not because I failed to understand, but because I either wouldn't do assignments or I'd never finish them. So it has never really been easy because even whenever I tried motivating myself. Yah, I can get a few things done, with careless mistakes. And sometimes whenever I did do something by forced motivation. A lot of times when it came up for review and judgement. My teachers would show me the mistakes I made and would point out how simple of a mistake it was. And at home, it was often referred to as "Half-assing" So, it did usually make me depressed that I was so Boastful in my mind about it but then was defeated.

But, I just tried a new ADD medication today, and this is the first that I've tried since I had a bad reaction about 8 years ago. But the effects are wearing off, but it works extremely well. It is called Vyvanse, and if you were wondering, it is a Stimulant, but it is from the makers of Adderall. They made a new medication that they claim shows improvement in ADD symptoms in a week. I actually got my entire life back together in just one day. But alas the effects are wearing off and I am starting to feel once again unmotivated, lazy and easily distracted. This accompanied by cluttered thoughts. And that long post I did today about Taxes was while I was on it. So here is my analysis of this drug.

I am taking two Advance Placement classes, I have two online classes. Along with the other four regular classes. Now the reason for all of this is simple. I have stumbled over every obstacle in high school, then I just decided to crawl through them. So, I am behind. Now, the Online classes are to make up credits I've missed. And the Advanced Placement classes were originally there to help boost my GPA. I signed up for those classes because one of my peers, who has actually been more of a mentor to me, told me that You can get more on to your weighted GPA with Advanced Placement Classes than Honors. So I took it. And for about a week into school I had the motivation for them. Now shortly after that, we started fighting, and I lost the only thing Motivating me to do anything with myself.

So after Being depressed for a while because no matter how hard I tried I couldn't keep my attention nor motivation. And it can make you really mad to not be able to control yourself. Now, I have had ways of remembering things thanks to my History teacher. He was honestly a mess. THe only teacher I have ever heard openly Cuss, and he was extremely funny. His Comical antics actually helped me to study and pay attention when information was presented to me. Basically I was using Immaturity to be Mature. Now, with Ap classes and math classes alike, you can't really have any Immaturity with because of how in-depth the material is. So that didn't help much. Also I was getting behind in my online courses. But since I've been on this today I have actually worried about my school work. I did 8 assignments on my online class but then I had to stop because I needed a book... But I have to go now, I will try to post something a little more Constructive next time I'm on.