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ADD/ADHD Support Groups

 

When you try and try to keep you mind focused on the task at hand but you keep getting distracted by e-mails and instant messages and stupid websites like this one and hey did you see that episode of CSI where the main suspect was Dr. Benway?

 

 

 

The ADD/ADHD Fora on About.com Not exclusively about the kids! This is a good place for adults with ADD as well as the parents/caregivers of children to come for tips about coping, techniques and strategies for getting through daily life, and meds.

 

ADD Forums - a fairly active forum that leans towards adults with ADD, although there are discussions focused on parents as well.  Treatments, coping techniques, life management skills and other issues are covered.  Includes areas for associated & comorbid conditions. 

 

The Amen Clinic - The forum is heavy on discussion of ADD/ADHD issues for adults and children.  Moderated by actual health-care professionals who know what the hell they are doing.

 

Adult ADD/ADHD - Not a lot of activity here, but at least it's geared towards adults.  Most of the discussion is about the meds.  Strattera is a particularly popular topic.

 

tribe.net has a fairly active adult ADD tribe.  There's no public URL, so just search for ADD under the health & wellness category.

 

ADHD Message Boards Parent-oriented forum dealing with coaching techniques, reviewing the gazillion books out there, offering support and, of course, talking about all them meds.  For some weird reason there's an entire board on St. John's Wort.

 

The Open Directory Guide to ADD/ADHD Support Groups These are mostly about kids, kids, kids.  Look at the structure of the link - child and adolescent disorders.  Just try being an adult with ADD symptoms.  It's sink or swim in this society.

 

 

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If you know of any good adult-oriented ADD/ADHD support groups / fora / chat rooms where you don't have to register just to take a look (but I'm fine with guests not being able to post or otherwise participate, just being able to look around is my only criterion), send me an e-mail to jerod23 at gmail dot com and I'll check them out.  Even if you're starting your own let me know.  There's no guarantee I'll list it, but you never know.  English language is not a requirement. 

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If you still have unanswered questions about this or other medications, including which one is, or combination of meds are the best for you, your best bet is to ask on Crazy Meds Talk.  Better yet, if you want to let the world know how they worked out for you and want to help out others in their quest for the correct meds, join the party.
If you  want to discuss your issues, I suggest checking out one of the various support groups online.  
Otherwise, if you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or  need to let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23 at gmail dot com  Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail these days.  The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is going to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one.  You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the like.  Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the domain name, and not the IP address.  So I've been blacklisted because of the actions of others.  Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the "crazy" and/or "meds."  Or your question about a particular medication will set off spam flags.  So the e-mail just wouldn't go through regardless.  Sorry.

  

Hey, did you find this page all by itself through Google or some other search engine? Great! But to really appreciate the entire site, you need to start here.

 

 

Created Monday, November 29, 2004

Last updated Friday, March 04, 2011

 

 

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