Afraid Of My Own Highs More Than The Terrible Lows

[Sally sue]

So I've always been adhd, the T tried to have me tested but they said my startle reflects was so high, they couldn't get a valid reading...I kept jumping up and down in my seat and was startled by new images on the screen so I just pushed the button for everything ha!

Anyway, I'm getting so into this forum that I'm getting really hyper and excited (in a happy way), that I'm fighting not plunging into depression because it feels like something is wrong with me...does that make sense? I think since this whole ptsd thing started I'm trying so hard to control myself that any emotions are now dangerous and bad...does anybody else get this? Also, when I was a child everyone shhh me and and told me to calm down, like it was dispicable :(

 

[Sally sue]

AND I'm finding it so hard to focus on anything but this, so I'm struggling to get anything done! AND I want to look at this site through my iPhone everywhere I go! Oh my gosh! I'm a junkie!!!

 

[The Albatross]

Sally Sue, I have ADD/ADHD and PTSD. I had the benefit of being treated for a year and a half by the author of a nationally acclaimed book by Dr. Peter T. Oas, Curing ADD/ADHD in Children (worth a google and it might be at your library). There are others of us who have both ADD/ADHD and PTSD here on the forum. I think there is even a poll on it somewhere.

The take away from the book and treatment was that it is not up to the world to accommodate me, it is up to me to endeavor to find and learn new ways to cope with the world. His treatment was med free. I am lucky to have had the experience.

So far as the title for your post, the high startle response can be tamed with self management, coping tools, and slow timed exposures. Honest.