My Christmas wish for everyone that has ever thought, been diagnosed as or has dealt with the misery of being not only labeled something else and treated for it- the wrong condition is that they have the help they deserve and by the most qualified people their families, they themselves or that just happen to come across their name by chance in some way on this world wide web.
My problem is with the whole process and the people that fall through the holes in the diagnosis and treatment of this miserable, depressing and sometimes debilitating condition that many people pass off as addiction.
You know what addiction to a medication that is supposed to help you function as you once did is in fact to most of us and I'm saying this to because I beleive in free speech and if you will notice in my posts I've tried to lighten up on individuals that at one time or another have entered my life and tried to help in their own way because I hold no grudges against anyone that has done as stated above only maybe in a way that may have been taken as unhealthy for me and anyone that may have the same condition in it's many different stages or seemingly odd way of presenting itself depending on so many factors in a person's genetics, upbringing the values they hold dear and the values they may disagree with in the eye's of the person they are dealing with at the time though slight in nature those differences may really be in Values.
Values have to be discussed. Upbringing which gives us a foundation for our values and the genetic values we may or may not share.
Just the very meaning of values in the English language or for that matter a slight variation in one's definition of a word used in a dictionary can alter one person's opinion of another and affect their life dramatically on top of the conditions they may have suffered with for a life time until someone made them look in ward and it the condition becomes worse because they start to feel out of place but you can recover from that for the most part but the main thing we all have to have is consistant medication that we can depend on to benifit us in making our lives better for the longest period of time each day so we can string those days together and make a life again for ourselves!
what I just I said is for the Adult that is ADHD, ADD as well as depressed that it has ruined part of their life, the person that once dealt with the issue successfully and now finds themselves without that ability because of their mistakes, illegal ways of dealing with self-medicating or legal ways of dealing with self-medication that to most of us that know the truth about the condition and it's related issues as we grow older and attitudes shift one way or another begin to look at life from a different perspective but the duration, quality and availability of treatment options we are fully aware of and having been able to make some determination on own prior to that treatment are of the utmost importance to most of us because we are not stupid.
Your children are not stupid and our teenagers are not stupid in fact I for one have seen poor individuals in a much a less favorable condition both medically, mentally and with few options that they can determine own their own and the it my friends makes them appear less intelligent but don't count on it!
In fact you would be surprised if you had never been around such people what they in fact are aware of but have little knowledge on how to save their lives and count on professionals that I for one have hoped would be open to the fact that they indeed the patient they were dealing with at the time was capable of having a much better quality of life than at present at that particular time.
You may ask if you are ADHD and depressed how could you notice such things? What about the fact you claim different medications have different effects on a person that are not explained to you by the doctor and not because the doctor is not intelligent but because of other limitations that may exist- many limitations exist my friends and the lack of communication exists between even the most intelligent of human beings and once you fear another's actions you may accept them but wouldn't that lead to depression? What about those that either give up and go back to a street that can be unforgiving or those that simply fall into a deeper state of depression?
Lift those people up my freinds and my faith and most likely yours whatever it may be will be fullfilled in some way not for your well-being but for the well-being of someone else!
Where was I originally in this post?
that's right the purpose of this post is to say something to those that don't understand what it means to take a medication and expect it to have duration, effectiveness and not leaving you feeling like your out of time!
your out of time when your medication let's you down in your pursuit of a better life for you and your family because someone- no offense intended at the FDA tells 308,000,000 citizens of at least this country that generic medications are all the same thing which means they have same duration, effectiveness and don't leave you feeling out of time! the time part can then be seen as an excuse by some or just a plain old addiction by other's because when your medication leaves you feeling out of time like you just fell off a cliff without a parachute that you reach for another dose when you know the original name brand may not do that or because someone trying to prove us poor souls and I'll myself just want our lives back and they can only be put back together by the right people with the right heart and some cold hard cash unfortunately in this country and if you think I'm not telling the truth God I hope you get to the point in your life where you have to make decisions based on what someone thinks or how much cash is my insurance going to cost this year and since it could mean the difference in having the same doctor or it could mean having to start the miserable process all over again of finding a doctor that has taken the time and effort to evolve their diagnosis and their opinion of your intentions based on several years of treatment to that you having to see another doctor that may or may not even have the same opinions going in to your treatment and screw things up so bad you wind up back at square one!
Square one in my case was when my over the counter remedy was ruled a threat to my heart and health and taken off the market or made almost the most miserable experience other than just letting the symptoms I was only slightly aware of when I began taking it over the counter years ago become much less of a problem and I quit asking myself. "What is your talent in this life Clifton"?
It's over the counter use also stopped most of if not all of my experimenting with substances that most all of us have experimented with some out of thrill seeking and in my opinion of free speech, searching for that answer and suffering some depression at not having fullfilled my dreams. I am the one that takes the chance on Free Speech my freinds so I hope to God in heaven someone get's some good out of what I say and I do accomplish removing some of the obstacles that we all face as ADHD, ADD or just to top it off being depressed as Hell at the whole situation.
Anyway if you have made it this far in reading what I have had to say and you have the good fortune of finding the perfect or as near perfect patient to physician relationship- be totally honest about what you can!
That's straight talk in the real world and if they ask you how one medication performs vs another make sure you explain in detail without fear of retribution what it is you are trying to accomplish and if they don't seem to get it they aren't the right one and if they do you'll know it this free speech world of ours!
Until help someone but keep in mind they may not be the person you thought and I mean in simple ways but at the time they may be very similiar and not want you to know it or admit it themselves for whatever reason!
Tomorrow we celebrate Christ's Birth! tonight our children are waiting on Santa Claus so go figure on the whole deal and lift someone's spirit no matter what condition they may or may not have based on your opinions, observations or beleifs and go light on them if they let you down because they really don't want to and for God's sakes somebody have the guts to turn in the medications to the FDA that make life miserable and have the guts to tell the FDA which one's don't make life better for eveyone around you even you!
Make sure you tell the FDA by name - brand, maker and make sure you tell the truth because out here there are children and grandchildren depending on you to do just that!
Somebody let me know if anyone else has the guts of a Michael J. Fox, Ty Pennington or someone else that may be willing to talk straight in some book somewhere on the positives of something regarding a medication and not some person that ignores a condition they may have that is either so slight in it's effect on their lives that they choose to deride the rest of us that have managed to get by for many years only to be human and need a little encouragement after being told they are crazy, an addict or just plain wrong about themselves if that person is afraid of going public or just bad off enough to need duration, consistance and the time so they don't feel like an addict when they aren't!
God Bless Lindsay Lohan out there in Re-hab for calling 911 although I don't know the details of the situation that made her take that action and until I do know I will side on the side of I hear you girl! I don't even know her complete story nor do I know Tiger's but I for God's sake and anyone they suppossedly have hurt no offense but I feel there pain because I using my freedom of speech and hopefully you will if you disagree by normal means and not by fire bombing my house will accept my theory that maybe me and let's see- Paris hilton might just not be addicted to our Shire product and if we differ in opinion that's fine but at least we might agree history of our lives tells a different picture than what we might think, assume or know that other's in our lives may feel, think and act on that may in fact devastate our lives and hopefully we won't devastate your's by simply living!
God bless, Peace, Love and Knowledge- when I can sit and read and not just write from memory!
-Floyd C. Wooley
Again Let me that I wish you all a safe, merry, fullfilled and fantasic New Year!
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